As it turns out

Cougar Basketball
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Our nonconference basketball schedule did not suck as bad as we thought.

Pomeroy ranks it 263.

Believe it or not, this is a vast improvement. The last six years, Pomeroy has ranked our nonconference schedule:

333
347
335
347
307
333

Specifically, the following teams are as good or better than their preseason rankings:

9-3 George Mason - ranked 123 by Pomeroy
9-5 South Dakota - 196
8-4 Vermont - 104
8-2 LSU - 91
9-1 Arkansas 44
7-4 Rhode Island 41
4-4 Harvard 157

As a result of some gaudy W-L records, the RPI says our SOS to date is 108.

So it looks like we’ve gamed the system this year. We’ve fooled the RPI into thinking we’ve played a tougher schedule than we did.

FINALLY!

Other schools make gaming the RPI an art form. We’ve been amateur hour for years.

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Need to beat Harvard, handily. Go Coogs…

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Wow, playing in and winning that tournament was a surprising boon for us. Never expected George Mason to be 9-3; they haven’t lost since playing us and have victories over Northern Iowa, Penn State, and Penn :astonished:

Win the last 2 OOC games and then have a conference season like last year and I think we get in.

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Well, we can’t go one and done in the conference tourney, and we can’t lose USF or simlar team, but yeah, if we can finish up the OOC with 2 wins and have a similar showing in conference, save the two aforementioned losses, I think we’re in.