As others have said… a W is a W. Cant complain about a 3 pt at home win over the 115th ranked team. The NET cares.
Spiders aren't in consideration for an at large because they lost too many early games. NET wouldn't be a problem had they won half of those games. Please note that we are ahead of Loyola in NET as bad as we are.
Yes should have won a couple of the early games but I disagree NET isnt now the determining factor. If NET were now in the high 50’s UR would be squarely in the discussion.
True, if we keep winning like we are doing then it won’t matter, we have the tie breaker!
Actualy, at Bonnie then Dayton at home, before at Davidson.
I brought them because they have the trap game with the Bonnies.Actualy, at Bonnie then Dayton at home, before at Davidson.
The shocker is they may be underdogs in all three.
Still surprised Davidson is predicted to be the 10 seed, but expected to beat Loyola in the regular season.
You missed my point. NET is the determining factor and it's higher than we would like because we lost early games we shouldn't have. It's too late at this point to have major movement with NET. Just keep winning and make it less of a factor. Win out and it's not a factor at all whether we win by 1 or 21.
Re: your response to fatherspider-
Teams have been having major movement with NET pretty often. We know the formula is to win handily against weak competition. Fact the the Bonnies have a better NET than UR at .500 in league is laughable but still relevant. Its not like they had a great OOC either but the NET views them as the stronger team.
I dunno. Following up on my earlier point. I'd think (or maybe hope) that if we run the table rest of regular season & get to tourney finals w/out winning it, then we would get serious consideration.
I hope you are right but I really think that this high of a NET makes it very easy for the committee to eliminate Spiders in favor of a 17-14 BE or B10 team with a NET of 39. The disparity in NET is too great imo.
The new NIT rules don't even guarantee a bid to the conference regular season winner, in favor of bad teams in the Big 10 with favorable Net ratings. We might not even make the post season.
I was talking about the NIT.
www.ncaa.org
I was talking about the NIT.
"For the 2024 NIT, conference regular-season champions that do not win their conference tournament or are not otherwise selected to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship will not receive an automatic bid to the NIT."
"Instead, the NIT will guarantee two teams (based on the NET rankings) from each of six conferences (Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern). The top two teams in the NET rankings not qualifying for the NCAA men's basketball tournament from each conference, regardless of win-loss record, will be selected. Additionally, the 12 teams automatically selected will be guaranteed the opportunity to host a game in the first round of the NIT. "
NIT announces changes to tournament selection format - NCAA.org
The NIT Board of Managers has announced changes for the 2024 National Invitation Tournament that impact how teams qualify.
Please explain. Maybe if you are a P6 school, but not for the A10 schools that would otherwise make the post season.
Agreed. This year has been fun but we need to close. We endured a long decade and spent $13 million on Mooney with nothing to show for it. Two years ago was a good step forward, and this year would be another toward making up for that mess.
Its curious that this new NIT rule makes the 12 Auto selections based on NET only. There could be teams with losing records getting invited. NET is laughable.
