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Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament
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Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 7:53 AM
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That is just stupid. How can you make the tournament with a losing record in your conference? The SUC should get 8-9 teams in. The ACC should get 6 teams in. Wins and losses matter. This NET ranking system doesn’t seem to take losses into account. It only takes into account the perceived rank of who you play. A loss against a perceived good team is as good as a win. Idiotic…

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The ACC and SEC challenge

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Mar 14, 2025, 7:54 AM
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Didn’t make things better for the ACC since only Duke and us won.

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Re: The ACC and SEC challenge

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:26 AM
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Hey GaTiger, who do we play tonight? That's right, Louisville who won yesterday. Come on.

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Re: The ACC and SEC challenge

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:40 AM
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Louisville is already in Valley Coot. I think GaTiger is referencing teams that could have made a splash in the tourney and earned their way in.

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Valley Coot

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Mar 14, 2025, 9:44 AM [ in reply to Re: The ACC and SEC challenge ]
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Are you clueless or something?

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Re: The ACC and SEC challenge

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Mar 14, 2025, 11:22 AM [ in reply to Re: The ACC and SEC challenge ]
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Valley Boy said:

Hey GaTiger, who do we play tonight? That's right, Louisville who won yesterday. Come on.





What does that have to do with the ACC/SEC challenge?
I am regularly shocked that you can find the internet.

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Re: The ACC and SEC challenge

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:45 AM [ in reply to The ACC and SEC challenge ]
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That didn’t help, but it was one early season game. The ACC is not horrible, and the SUC is not almighty. The truth is somewhere in between.
Go Tigers!!! Win the ACC!!!

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Just like every season

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Mar 14, 2025, 9:45 AM
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The SEC will get exposed once again in the NCAAT.

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 7:56 AM
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They are still going of their flash in a pan out of conference wins in November and December. I can't wait to see half of them get bounced first weekend .

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:24 AM
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No doubt , this NET RANKING is idiotic... Also all these basic NET rankings formulations are basically human error rankings, ..it's based off of people making a opinion or guess at a group of teams playing another group of teams that is thought to be better then another group of teams. Then they say here is your NET ranking teams, which is basic opinions not facts that one conference is so much better then said other conference, it's a opinion again!
They say because it's a formation of this so called NET teams , then it makes it true. No it doesn't, it's being said that so called ranking makes it better because a group said it was better, (a formed opinion). You can do this type of formulation on any type of sport analogy, you are just using a algorithm based off a formulation of basic guess work. There is no strong case for this type of formulation, it's all opinion based. But they got people thinking it's a NET ALGORITHM, when in actuality it's just another formed opinion of the ranking system...

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I dont disagree about SEC, but there are not 6 ACC tournament worthy teams

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:31 AM
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ACC has 4 teams tops, with the 4th team being UNC as they outlasted SMU and wake in ACCT and have played better to close the season. Consider this, between us and wake/UNC/SMU there was a 5 game drop off. That is a pretty significant gap in talent. None of these teams had a resume building victory. Also, UNCs late season win streak hasnt exactly come against the top of the conference with the exception of the victory yesterday against wake.

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Re: I dont disagree about SEC, but there are not 6 ACC tournament worthy teams

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:51 AM
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Good discussion, but any team with a 6-12 record in their conference shouldn’t even be sniffing the NCAA Tournament… the NIT is made for the teams who can’t win enough games.

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agreed, just dont think the ACC deserves a claim

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:56 AM
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on any of those spots. Lots of other bubble teams more deserving.

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Re: I dont disagree about SEC, but there are not 6 ACC tournament worthy teams


Mar 14, 2025, 12:31 PM [ in reply to Re: I dont disagree about SEC, but there are not 6 ACC tournament worthy teams ]
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Pig® said:

any team with a 6-12 record in their conference shouldn’t even be sniffing the NCAA Tournament.


Well, if they are 13-0 vs Non-Conf teams, including 2-0 against ACC (#2 Louisville & #8 GT), plus neutral site wins over ranked Michigan and Arizona, then they'll get consideration. Not a lock, but certainly considered.

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SMU has 23 wins and won 13 ACC games.

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Mar 14, 2025, 6:08 PM [ in reply to I dont disagree about SEC, but there are not 6 ACC tournament worthy teams ]
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That should have them in but due to the perceived weakness of the ACC they won’t make it. Sort of like us two years ago.

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Re: SMU has 23 wins and won 13 ACC games.

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Mar 14, 2025, 6:44 PM
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SMU has 0 quad 1 wins and only 6 quad 2 wins. There is not another P5 team in the top 100 of the NET with 0 q1 wins.

They simply don’t have the resume.

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Re: SMU has 23 wins and won 13 ACC games.


Mar 14, 2025, 6:44 PM [ in reply to SMU has 23 wins and won 13 ACC games. ]
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SMU has 0 quad 1 wins and only 6 quad 2 wins. There is not another P5 team in the top 100 of the NET with 0 q1 wins.

They simply don’t have the resume.

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:14 PM [ in reply to SMU has 23 wins and won 13 ACC games. ]
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When you beat horrible teams, then you don’t deserve.

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Re: SMU has 23 wins and won 13 ACC games.

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:48 PM [ in reply to SMU has 23 wins and won 13 ACC games. ]
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Exactly the same thing.

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 9:20 AM
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SEC and B1G ruined all major sports, the ones that make money.

I’m already watching less college sports because of it. I won’t stop watching Clemson, but the rest can go scratch.

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 9:43 AM
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I bet no more than 4 make the Sweet 16

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 AM
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It's ridiculous, but it is what it is

I imagine the SEC will once again, like they do so often, underwhelm in the NCAAT

From what I've seen, Vandy, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Texas are not tournament teams. Or at least, not anymore so than SMU, Wake, UNC, Stanford

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 10:33 AM
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It's hard to talk crap about OU given that they went undefeated in non conference play that included wins over the 2 seed in the ACC and the 3 seeds from both the Big 12 and Big 10.

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Its also hard to talk when the last place team in SEC beat ACC #3 seed

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Mar 14, 2025, 11:20 AM
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rivalry, fluke or not

it happened

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And coots still dont make it***

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If so, what does that say about the credibility of college basketball and the

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Mar 14, 2025, 10:28 AM
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tournament these days.

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NET is a predictive metric


Mar 14, 2025, 10:38 AM
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It cares about how you play and who you play much more than actual W/L record.

For example, going on the road to Duke and losing by 2 pts would increase pretty much any teams NET or KP rating because losing by 2 at Duke would be outperforming expectations.

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Re: NET is a predictive metric

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Mar 14, 2025, 2:24 PM
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It's not predictive.

But, why wouldn't losing by 2 on the road to the best team in the country be a potential good thing? Of course winning is better, but that result might indicate that you should be the #2 team in the country.

It's one of the things I've always disliked about tendencies in sports rankings. You can lose a close game to #1 and fall in the rankings...barely getting beat by the best doesn't mean you are worse than you were perceived to be before the game.

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Maybe not technically


Mar 14, 2025, 6:05 PM
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I've heard basketball journalists refer to it as such, and it does tend to track closely to KenPom. I think the biggest difference is that KenPom seems to place more weight on the efficiencies and NET has a bit more weight on schedule strength. Last week Duke had, by far, the highest rating I've ever seen on KenPom (+39.5), but still trailed Auburn in NET due to the weaker schedule. At any rate, it's a helluva lot different than something like the old RPI.

And i agree with everything else you said.

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Every game the SEC plays now is perceived as good thing for their rating

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Mar 14, 2025, 7:35 PM [ in reply to Re: NET is a predictive metric ]
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Regardless of outcome. It’s a self-licking ice cream cone

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Re: NET is a predictive metric

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:53 PM [ in reply to Re: NET is a predictive metric ]
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I don’t agree with moral victories.

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament


Mar 14, 2025, 2:10 PM
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nah sadly the SEC is really good this year. they deserve to get around 13-14 teams and the acc should probably get 5 max

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 2:24 PM
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13-14 is blatantly absurd.

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament


Mar 14, 2025, 2:27 PM
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I quit watching the NCAA Tournament years ago. Too boring with every brother, uncles, cousins, half brothers, neighbors and everyone else in it. 24 teams is plenty.

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Mar 14, 2025, 2:29 PM
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There have been at least 64 teams in the tournament for 40 years. And it's widely regarded as one of the most exciting sports events every year. The first weekend is always amazing.

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Mar 14, 2025, 2:39 PM
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Heck, they're so bad now at manufacturing eligible teams if you can't make it, outright, into the tourney there is a 'play-in' game to get included. It would have benefitted me but I don't like the three point shot nor the shot clock. They've done this to get the x-box generation interested. Hurry up and down the court and throw up a lot of shots to mimic video games. They'll get bored if they don't do this.....and let a few walking calls go if they can take three or four steps to dunk the ball. Oh, how exciting! Not.

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament


Mar 14, 2025, 3:27 PM
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Then you haven't watched basketball in a long time. The three point line and shot clock have also been around for 40 years.

BTW - that's long before the xbox existed. It has nothing to do with that generation of spectators.

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Yep. There have only been two perfect sporting events during my lifetime


Mar 14, 2025, 6:11 PM [ in reply to Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament ]
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The 64 team NCAA basketball tournament and the 32 team World Cup.

Sadly, both are about to be ruined by expansion. The World Cup is already going to 48 teams next year, and i think it's only a matter of time before the NCAA tournament expands again and ruins their perfect format. Right now the First Four in Dayton feels kind of like it's own little tournament, but once they get to 76 teams or whatever they're currently talking about, they will probably have to blow up the entire 1st round and have byes and such. Ugh.

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 2:45 PM
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The SEC only has a .500 win pct in conference play as well. No way they should get that many teams in with that kind of record.

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Mar 14, 2025, 3:27 PM
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Isn't it crazy how every conference somehow has the exact same in-conference win %?

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Texas is 19-15 and 6-12 in the SEC and some people think they are in.

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Mar 14, 2025, 6:07 PM
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I agree with you, that is nuts. At some point winning needs to matter, not just playing a “tough schedule.”

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Re: Theyre saying up to 14 SUC teams will make the NCAA Tournament

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Mar 14, 2025, 6:54 PM
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Don’t care much about the other teams as long as our name is called

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6 ACC teams? Wow. Only 3 have a pulse.


Mar 14, 2025, 8:12 PM
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Maybe too many SEC, but none from the ACC deserve, other than the 3.

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Mar 14, 2025, 8:50 PM
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Agree

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they figured out how to fudge hoops

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Mar 14, 2025, 9:15 PM
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like they ultimately have done with football

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