lichoya68
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
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Post by lichoya68 on Mar 20, 2019 10:55:53 GMT -5
First, I take issue with DFW's newest post on the front page: "How did St. John's get to the NCAA while Georgetown is in the NIT? Start with strength of schedule." Georgetown's non-conference SOS? 248. warrennolan.com/basketball/2019/schedule/GeorgetownSt. John's? Not much better - 216. warrennolan.com/basketball/2019/schedule/Saint-JohnsSt. John's simply won more games, not in Big East, but overall 21 to our 19, including better Quadrant 1 victories: Villanova, 2x Marquette, and a nice OOC neutral court win over VCU. Do we need to upgrade our OOC schedule further? Yes. Ewing made a slight improvement from Year 1 to Year 2, and I imagine he'll make a similar improvement in Year 2 to 3. He still has some work to do - while the MSG tournament in November is great, there's no guarantee we face Duke, and there's a chance we play Cal, which could be like playing a mid to low major team: warrennolan.com/basketball/2019/schedule/California@ SMU will be OK, but since there's no Syracuse game planned, we definitely have some work to do on the OOC schedule for 2019-20. However, at the end of the day, we have to win more games. That is the difference. HMM What was the comparative SOS overall not just ooc hmmmmmm and we were 9-9 they were 8-10 and we split just wondering here
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Filo
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Post by Filo on Mar 20, 2019 15:52:39 GMT -5
Part of the problem with these assumptions is that just because we lost to SMU and LMU does not mean that we would have automatically lost had we played better teams. Our Big East schedule proves that wrong - we were capable of getting killed by DePaul but also beat Villanova and Marquette. Our guys have always had a tendency to play up to competition. Had we scheduled multiple top 100 opponents, might we have won some of them? Unclear, but when Syracuse is basically the only top 50 team you play, there’s no chance of getting that good win. The other assumption that’s problematic is saying this year’s team wasn’t good enough for a tougher schedule. Yes, one could maybe say that now in March but when you set the schedule each year, you have to make assumptions about how good the team is. In my mind, the schedule should always be good enough to allow a solid Big East team a good chance at the tournament with a 9-9 type record. I don't agree with that last part. 4 freshman coming in, and we were all hoping they would be contributing but we had no idea - probably James was the best to be an immediate impact player given the need at point guard, but who knew. There were question marks everywhere. Jagan and Kaleb improved and really hit their roles mid-season. but they were certainly not expected to be big-time contributors coming into the season. Jamorko has always been a question mark but there was hope that he would make a leap in his sophomore year. Etc. etc. As I said in a different thread, it didn't matter if the team failed to make the tournament because they had a weak schedule or because they had a tough schedule but lost to all the tough teams - the result was the same. Expectations are higher for next year so hopefully the OOC schedule will be tougher.
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