TCU and WVU have a couple of home games vs the top 6 left and they’re the most likely bubble teams but with how things are going idk if they can steal one to be able to get the charity bid lol
Youre always gonna have some bad teams at the bottom.
Ideally its teams that dont care about hoops much
Utah, Arizona St, Colorado
Kansas St & Cincinnati do care. But are stuck in mediocrity
Josh Schertz for Cincinnati. Would be a great hire.
I was a Tang believer going into last yr. What a fall off. Hes Penny Hardaway 2.0. Honestly worse, cause at least Penny’s teams guard. Kansas St has had (2) players stop playing for unknown reasons. Had same team drama last yr. Theyre stuck with Tang.
(Mobi Ikegwuruka & Elias Rapieque)
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The predictive sites I always take with a grain of salt. Torvik has BYU & Tech rated way too low in my opinion. You can’t tell me Vanderbilt, Purdue, Michigan state should be rated higher than them
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Thinking both will be ousted after this season.
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lol. Setting the narrative early.
SEC with 10 teams
Big Ten with 10 teams
ACC with 9 teams
Big 12 with 7 teams
And yet here is the winning % for those four leagues in out of conference games versus teams projected in the field by multiple bid leagues…
55% Big 12
41% Big 10
33% ACC
29% SEC
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The Big 12 is so top heavy. The Top 6 teams are outstanding. After that there is a drop off.
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Big Ten is also very top heavy and has more bottom feeders.
SEC isn’t top heavy. In fact, the team currently leading the league is 0-2 vs UCF and Oklahoma State and the combined margin of defeat is almost 40.
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It’s straight up brand selection… WVU & UCF brands just don’t compete with Bama/UT…
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The key we are told in football is to have lots of top teams like the SEC.
The key in hoops is to have everyone be mid like the SEC. Apparently.
I already know what they’ll say. The top of our league is good. Look at the high seeds! But this is about cash. Each bid is worth about $2m.
So the league with a sub 30% record versus good teams would earn $6m more. Redonk.
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in terms of maxing out bids having no S/A tier teams is definitely better but come tournament time the B12/B10 should have at least double the S16 teams than the SEC/ACC
Updated KP [NET]
1 AZ [NET:1] 9-0 2-0 3-0 7-0
6 ISU [NET:7] 5-1 5-1 1-0 7-0
7 UH [NET: 11] 4-2 4-0 4-0 5-0
14 KU [NET: 15] 3-5 7-0 1-0 4-0
15 BYU [NET: 12] 4-3 4-0 4-0 5-0
17 TT [NET:17] 5-4 3-0 4-0 4-0
44 UCF [NET: 39] 2-4 3-0 5-0 5-0
49 TCU [NET: 44] 3-4 2-1 1-1 7-1
52 BU [NET: 59] 2-6 2-2 0-0 6-0
58 WVU [NET:67] 1-5 1-2 3-0 8-0
59 Cinc [NET:78] 1-7 0-2 3-0 6-1
68 OSU [NET:73] 0-4 5-2 2-0 7-0
81 Colo [NET:82] 0-3 3-4 5-0 4-1
83 ASU [NET:87] 2-5 2-2 3-1 4-1
88 KSU[NET:89] Jerome Tang
112 UU [NET:115] 0-6 2-3 2-1 5-1
Here’s the problem @HWSCoog . Glad we could help Cincinnati tho 
Not saying there isn’t a bias, of course there is! But there’s no one to blame for the bolded other than what they see in the mirror.
EDIT: Tang is 1-6 2-3 2-1 5-0 in case anyone really wanted to know
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True but look at the bottom of the Big Ten.
88 Minnesota
109 Oregon
129 Penn State
159 Maryland
168 Rutgers
TCU’s loss to New Orleans is killing them.
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its definitely hurting them but they aren’t in that bad of a shape considering 19-12 with a split vs us and iowa state probably gets them in without much fuss
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If Baylor didnt lose those quad twos and managed just 1 more Q1 win, their quad record word be essentially identical to Kansas.
But then we gotta zoom in and look at signature wins and metrics etc, of course, to truly compare. But I’d think they’d be firmly in the field right now at least
UCF is a great example. Generally speaking, if you take care of business quad 2 and lower…quad 1 opportunities cant really hurt your bubble, as long as you get a couple… you’re dancing
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baylor would be in if you flip those Q2 losses but they’d be even seeded lower than ucf
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Tall order but i agree 100%.
That USED to happen consistently in this league. This year, idk. This is the biggest evidence of the hollowed out middle IMO.
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