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85th in the net will be more than enough for the NIT.
What does Parquet bring to next year's team? He'd just be taking minutes from Ruffin and Nique. A good basketball program is built on role players moving through the system and not overstaying.
Intuition. A major conference team with some star power and good story lines isn't going to be left out of the NIT with 20 wins. CU's NET will be at least around 85 if they win 20, and higher if they win more. There are 100 teams that make NCAA (68) or NIT (32). Even with some unexpected small conference entries who don't win their conference tournament but end up in the NIT with a lower NET, that leaves plenty of room for a 20-win major conference team with a NET of 85 to make the NIT.
that's what I thought I heard as well. but VT has been moving around the 30's for over a month now and isn't even making the "first four out" in any of the projected brackets I've seen.
ACC sucking isn’t helping either.
I understood that should already be accounted for in both the NET ranking and in the classification of VT's games into the various quads
Notre Dame is currently 2nd and 57 in Net. Crazy.
Coach Montgomery was doing the Buffs game last night. He talked about one of the things that drives coaches crazy with the selection committee is that they don't even look at or care about where you finished in your conference standings.
The part I don't like is when 2 teams have similar overall resumes, but they take the team that did more early in the season over the team that improved over the course of the year & finished higher in the conference standings.
It's a balance. Body of work is definitely important. But I think that how a team is performing in Feb/Mar is more relevant to who should be in the national title tourney than how they performed in Nov/Dec. I don't give equal weight but I know the committee does.
They probably don't then because that would would make too much sense.
Only when you root for a team that has been underperforming down the stretch.
Counterpoint: **** Bailer
It hurt. Also really hurt to lose to S Illinois. Would have been much better for our resume (if not my mental health) to go 2-1 in the Paradise Jam with wins over S Illinois & Northeastern + a loss to CSU instead of 2-1 via beating Duquesne & Brown + a loss to S Illinois.
If what you’re saying happens, they’re firmly on the bubble.
