Miami drops 95 on Clemson…
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Our win against Miami is going to end up being a Quad 1 win by March. Even so, all we have to do is keep winning and none of the nail biting will be necessary. If we take care of business in the SEC, we're earning a 1 seed.
I also think we can look beyond metrics to see that when our opponents beat other good teams, it tells us our team stacks up well against other great teams. Miami will be ranked again (not even sure they should have dropped out in the first place), and it means they probably are TRULY a top25 team that we beat.
They are 11-2 but both losses were huge blowouts. Miami is definitely a good team though and probably worthy of being top 25.
I don't see us losing another home game. Just worried about on the road, with our defense, and Freshman. Shots don't fall, and we panic. I can definitely see this team losing multiple road games. Only thing that worries me.
Draft Kings said they were ranked 24th when I put 25 on them to cover.
Can’t believe they fell out of the T25 so fast. Only two losses and it was us and Colorado. They were still in the rankings after the CU loss, won two more games, then oddly fell out of the rankings. Kinda weird.
And won tonight without arguably their best player (Wooga Poplar)- great win for them.
Net ranking fuzzy math, Miami goes from 53 to 40, but UK goes from 22 to 24. Not sure how that’s possible, the Mia I bump would presumably help UK. At least it’s now a Quad 1 win!
I’m sick of the NET. It makes no effing sense.
After the UNCW loss I heard Matt Jones say there is no shot of UK getting a 1 seed. I know it is unlikely to happen but if they ran the table and went into the tournament 32-2 there is no way they aren't a 1 seed.
Matt Jones is wrong. He says a lot of good things but he's not the best when it comes to predicting tournament seeds. We don't even have to run the table on the SEC to get a one seed. I think we could go 16-2, win the SEC tournament, and we can still get a one seed. I think people are underestimating how much college basketball is going to cannibalize itself this year in conference.
It's not a quad 1 win yet. They have to be in the top 30 in the NET. We played them at home. They need to jump 10 more spots for that to happen.
I’m not so bullish on that. The acc sucks. Clemson was untested. I bet they miss or barely make it as a last 4 in team. And define “taking care of business”. What is that? 1 loss 2, 3 losses? The reality is we are probably a 5 loss conference team. And a 4/5 seed at best. Unless we blow through conference play with maybe 1 reg season loss I don’t see a 1 seed in play for us.
This team isn’t doing that. And no MJ is dead on. I mean even you’re admitting it because losing 2 conference games will be difficult hell losing only 4 would be a feat. This team hasn’t turned some corner. There are still serious struggles defensively and the SEC is a man’s league with home cooking every where we go.
We can lose 2-3 more games and be in the running for a 1 this year. Purdue may end up with 3 losses because the Big 10 seems down. Every other conference winner should finish with a minimum of 4-6 losses. The SEC is loaded and varied this year which can only make our team stronger.
