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Define elite team. Notre Dame is pretty damn good. But if you're talking about the top 8-10 or so teams in the country, how many teams have beaten one of them since mid-January?
This was more about commiserating with a fellow ACC fan about why we both have a vague sense of skepticism about Louisville than about talent evaluation or wagering advice. Still, thanks for your always valuable insight.
I wasn't capping Louisville. I was attempting to explain why someone who watches a lot of the same games as me had a subjective impression of the team that was similar to mine. You're arguing a different subject then what was being discussed.
I'm not arguing a different subject than what is being discussed. You are attempting to support your "vague sense of skepticism" with an arbitrary and meaningless cutoff.
Not really arbitrary and meaningless- I chose one month as an approximation of "recent" games, and KenPom Top 25 opponents as an approximation of "big" games. These seemed perfectly fine in this context since I was merely trying to ID the source of a subjective impression, not objectively analyze all relevant data. I obviously wasn't trying to manipulate the cutoffs to underscore my point; otherwise I wouldn't have chosen "KenPom Top 25 teams" when Louisville's best win over the last month was a home game against the 25th ranked team. I didn't try to attach any objective meaning to it.
Why would anyone ever clump together a group of games without considering the actual matchups? Recent win/loss records against a certain subgroup of teams is completely meaningless.
63 (or 65) tournament games is a pretty small sample size. There are more D1 games every couple of days during the season. I doubt you'd be able to get any statistical inference that could be used in any meaningful way to predict tournament outcomes.Scoresman said:
It's not so small a small sample size when you go back several years and look at the data.
For as good as Collins is on offense, he's just as bad on defense.This is Wake's 33rd game of the year. They've been practicing since October. How can they be so inept on defense
Not sure but that's how they played on D all year.This is Wake's 33rd game of the year. They've been practicing since October. How can they be so inept on defense
There have been rumors around these neck of the woods about a month ago that Frank Martin would be on Indiana's list as a possible replacement.
would probably make knight happy.In The Zone said:
I just have a hard time not going chalk this year. I feel like the #1 and #2 seeds this year seem to be much better than the field. The #3 seeds could make a run to the Final Four, but I don't really see anyone from outside the top 3 seeds not getting to the Final Four. Just seems like those teams are stronger than the rest this season.
Reportedly a seven year contract at Mizzou. He'll need much of that to turn around a program that went 8-46 in conference during Kim Anderson's tenure.
I guess money talks but Missouri's move to the SEC has been really damaging to their basketball and football programs. Frank Haith didn't help much either.
