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Texas vs KU, Big XII Tourney Title Game- today at 5pm, ESPN

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4 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

yep.  there isn't a team out there i'm afraid of.  doesn't mean we'd beat everyone, but no one scares me.

All the same...rather not see Purdue again...

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4 hours ago, TexPx said:

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He looks more broken up than the Jayhawk faithful.  Twat waffle and wannabe.

2 hours ago, Ignatius said:

All the talk about us having a superior bench was probably still understated; outscored them 20-3…

and that is with our 6th man starting.

43 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

All the same...rather not see Purdue again...

Why they are much worse this year without Ivey and their backup center that killed us. Not to mention the Euro wing that was a good 3-point shooter.

6 hours ago, Halohal said:

Soon...

 

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underrated post but show me the 3rd weekend first

hell show me the 2nd weekend then i'm bogarting

6 hours ago, Herpa Derpa said:

With Texas right behind and 2/3 head to head. I'm sorry, at this point, you give KU a #1 seed, then a  #2 seed Texas is bullshit and an insult.

gird your loins

6 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Yeah, I mean if they're the #1 overall seed, and we just blasted them twice in 8 days and our overall resume is literally just as good as theirs, we have to be a 1.

gird your loins

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Love to hear that from Brock with SirJabari nodding his head 

That institutional memory is a great upside to letting guys stay for 7-8 years 😄

All the same...rather not see Purdue again...

Edey is a guy I would love to have on our team
8 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

and that is with our 6th man starting.

Why they are much worse this year without Ivey and their backup center that killed us. Not to mention the Euro wing that was a good 3-point shooter.

They’re still a good team from deep and have an elite big man. We’ve struggled against both types of teams separately 

10 minutes ago, Js1 said:

They’re still a good team from deep and have an elite big man. We’ve struggled against both types of teams separately 

I think the key to him is fronting with a guy ready to step in on the back side as soon as the ball is thrown up in the air to kind of get underneath him, and then conversely crashing down with a little guy with active hands when you don’t front him. 
he puts the ball on the deck a lot. Other than that yeah- good luck and hope he misses. 
he’s on ugly son of a bitch though, I tell you what. 

10 hours ago, Porterhouse said:

Well they’re getting the #1 overall seed and should. 

Sweet hot take, bruh.

Gtfo

Edited by MissingInAction

I realize it's a season-long deal, but Kansas was considered the #1 overall seed a week ago, and then lost two games to Texas by a combined 35 points. How is that not enough to move them off that spot. 

7 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I realize it's a season-long deal, but Kansas was considered the #1 overall seed a week ago, and then lost two games to Texas by a combined 35 points. How is that not enough to move them off that spot. 

17 Q1 wins is insane. 3 more than the next highest. #2 SOS and #19 non-conference SOS. They played a tough out of conference schedule and the Big 12. Won the #1 NET conference regular season

Conference tournaments don’t really move the needle that much for the top seeds 

They are deserving. The end. The resume is still better than Houston (a bad loss, few Q1 wins and terrible SOS), Bama (12 Q1 wins and won the #3 NET conference) and Purdue/UCLA/Texas. 

MAYBE Bama jumps them if they win the SECT, with the #1 SOS and #1 non-conf SOS and a 13th Q1 win against aggy. 

Edited by Js1

1 hour ago, texastroubadour said:

Should? Uh no

Yes

14 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Sweet hot take, bruh.

Gtfo

Ok

5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

17 Q1 wins is insane. 3 more than the next highest. #2 SOS and #19 non-conference SOS. They played a tough out of conference schedule and the Big 12. Won the #1 NET conference regular season

Conference tournaments don’t really move the needle that much for the top seeds 

They are deserving. The end. The resume is still better than Houston (a bad loss, few Q1 wins and terrible SOS), Bama (12 Q1 wins and won the #3 NET conference) and Purdue/UCLA/Texas. 

This. It’s like the ding dongs above don’t follow the sport. They were always locked into overall 1 and we were locked into a 2 before this conference tourney started. 

3 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:

Yes

Ok

This. It’s like the ding dongs above don’t follow the sport. They were always locked into overall 1 and we were locked into a 2 before this conference tourney started. 

NET is supposedly the end all, be all, or just about. 17 Q1 wins on your resume, from the #1 NET conference, is going to get you the top seed, with a top 20 NCSOS to boot.

The NET argument is why we aren’t a 1, with 14 Q1 wins, but our NCSOS was 147th. That’s why. Bama was #1, Purdue 59, KU 19, Houston 21 and UCLA 39.

We played creighton, Gonzaga, Tennessee, and Illinois. Beat 2 of them and should have beaten another. That’s a good top of non-con I’d think. Need to look at bama and Kansas I guess to see how theirs was constructed.  Is the difference more quality opponents, or fewer in the >200 group?  I doubt there’s much difference for a top 10 team in playing the #90 team vs #290 in terms of results but it makes a huge difference in that NCSOS metric. Especially if there’s multiple occurrences on the schedule. 
 

so that brings up the question of does the committee look beyond the number and parse the noncon schedule?  Or just compare numbers and that’s the measurement?

Texas played 7 Q4 teams

Alabama and KU only played 3 each

We throw those bones to in-state opponents and ended up playing 192 UTEP, 357 Houston Christian, 259 UTRGV, 203 Rice and 303 TAMC

Doesn't make sense that NCSOS is talked about more than SOS. Are we comparing full season performance or not? 

Would be so on brand for Texas to get the 1 seed and lose to a 16. Some of y’all would prob still be trying to keep RT since “the players love him!!!!!!!”

Just now, Loop 1604 said:

Would be so on brand for Texas to get the 1 seed and lose to a 16. Some of y’all would prob still be trying to keep RT since “the players love him!!!!!!!”

Jesus dude. 

Only one coach has ever done that and he’s apparently high on the list- because of what he did the year  after. 

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14 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Doesn't make sense that NCSOS is talked about more than SOS. Are we comparing full season performance or not? 

Most important

  • Games by quadrant, listing results and upcoming games
  • Records by quadrant, away and neutral
  • Non-Conference Strength of Schedule (SOS)
  • Overall SOS
  • Overall road and neutral records
  • Non-Division I losses

Some value

  • Average NET win and loss
  • Overall record
  • Non-Conference record, road record

Not nothing, but not very important

  • NET and other computer rankings
  • Overall home records, non-conference and by quadrant
  • Game scoring margins

Not criteria

  • Conference records and standings
  • AP Top 25, Coaches Poll
  • Tournament history
12 minutes ago, Loop 1604 said:

Would be so on brand for Texas to get the 1 seed and lose to a 16. Some of y’all would prob still be trying to keep RT since “the players love him!!!!!!!”

Will you just shut the fuck up? Good lord. Everybody already knows your opinion 

The only school where it is on brand to lose to a 16 is Virginia.

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

NET is supposedly the end all, be all, or just about. 17 Q1 wins on your resume, from the #1 NET conference, is going to get you the top seed, with a top 20 NCSOS to boot.

The NET argument is why we aren’t a 1, with 14 Q1 wins, but our NCSOS was 147th. That’s why. Bama was #1, Purdue 59, KU 19, Houston 21 and UCLA 39.

They also played without Self and their star defender. The committee is unlikely to punish them for this loss. They might not get the #1 overall seed though.

It seems like this year there may be 6 teams with 1 seed resumes, depending on which metrics you value above others. With ku being the best across the board still, and Texas being one of the outsiders still. 
 

and nobody lost early in their conference tourney to lose position. 

Edited by Pato del Muerto

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

NET is supposedly the end all, be all, or just about. 17 Q1 wins on your resume, from the #1 NET conference, is going to get you the top seed, with a top 20 NCSOS to boot.

The NET argument is why we aren’t a 1, with 14 Q1 wins, but our NCSOS was 147th. That’s why. Bama was #1, Purdue 59, KU 19, Houston 21 and UCLA 39.

This was my lone critique of Beard while he was here. He played garbage nonconference schedules and had a history of doing so prior to coming here. He literally made up a tournament out of whole cloth (Leon Black) where we didnt play any team rated higher than the mid 200s. When I made this argument before posters made the seemingly reasonable point of there being no difference between teams ranked in the 150s and those in the 250s. My answer to that is if that's the case then why damage your resume for tourney seeding placements by playing teams that wholly destroy said resume. If there's no difference then between them then replace those 250s and 300s with 100s and 150s and get a more favorable seeding as a result. 

15 hours ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

Fuck KU and fuck Corby Davidson. Helluva win, love how far this team has come this season.

 

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

We played creighton, Gonzaga, Tennessee, and Illinois. Beat 2 of them and should have beaten another. That’s a good top of non-con I’d think. Need to look at bama and Kansas I guess to see how theirs was constructed.  Is the difference more quality opponents, or fewer in the >200 group?  I doubt there’s much difference for a top 10 team in playing the #90 team vs #290 in terms of results but it makes a huge difference in that NCSOS metric. Especially if there’s multiple occurrences on the schedule. 
 

so that brings up the question of does the committee look beyond the number and parse the noncon schedule?  Or just compare numbers and that’s the measurement?

Yeah, if we had beat Illinois and Tech, I think we are a #1. The problem going forward is to stop playing 3-5 games against 300+ Net teams in the OOC, and maybe play at least 1 road OOC game before conference play starts. Beard's scheduling strategy bit us in the ass this year. The biggest difference is we will likely get matched with the strongest #3 seed.

That makes no sense, unless they think Alabama is going to be the #4-1 seed. It's much more likely Purdue is.

16 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Yeah, if we had beat Illinois and Tech, I think we are a #1. The problem going forward is to stop playing 3-5 games against 300+ Net teams in the OOC, and maybe play at least 1 road OOC game before conference play starts. Beard's scheduling strategy bit us in the ass this year. The biggest difference is we will likely get matched with the strongest #3 seed.

Or better yet, play in a preseason holiday tournament. Typically you get 1 or 2 teams in the 75 to 100 range and then a team in the top 40 range and then if you make the finals you typically get a team in the top 15 to top 10 range. Add in 3 or 4more top 75 teams and then even it out with some 150s to 175s and 1 or 2 200s and 300s and voila your noncon will be guaranteed to be in the top 25 easily. 

Edited by Catdaddyhorn

I guess I didn't realize that there are seeds within the seeds.  We are projected to be a 2 seed, but the #5 overall seed.  Does that mean that we are supposed to be matched up against the worst 15 seed?  Sorry if I don't understand, thanks to anybody who can asplain.

12 hours ago, Scholz said:

I’d just like to add a big fuck you to the KC crowd that booed us the entire tournament. Hope you’re all pissed off right now. Eat a big dick.

this x1000

posted before and will post again

after corn ralph and tigger left there was zero reason to keep the hoops tournament in kc every year

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it would be nice if sark could deliver a deep probe on the way out

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stupidest thing dallas ever did was implode reunion

the year we had both tournaments in downtown dallas at the same time was epic

12 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Or better yet, play in a preseason holiday tournament. Typically you get 1 or 2 teams in the 75 to 100 range and then a team in the top 40 range and then if you make the finals you typically get a team in the top 15 to top 10 range. Add in 3 or 4more top 75 teams and then even it out with some 150s to 175s and 1 or 2 200s and 300s and voila your noncon will be guaranteed to be in the top 25 easily. 

This. They’re fun too 

3 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

I guess I didn't realize that there are seeds within the seeds.  We are projected to be a 2 seed, but the #5 overall seed.  Does that mean that we are supposed to be matched up against the worst 15 seed?  Sorry if I don't understand, thanks to anybody who can asplain.

Not necessarily the worst 15 seed, but for sure we will be in the overall bracket of the worst #1 seed if we are the best #2 seed. I don't think they worry too much about matching the worst 15 seed with the best 2 seed. Their major concern is location of games and not matching up conferences mates too early within the same bracket.. 

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Most important

  • Games by quadrant, listing results and upcoming games
  • Records by quadrant, away and neutral
  • Non-Conference Strength of Schedule (SOS)
  • Overall SOS
  • Overall road and neutral records
  • Non-Division I losses

Some value

  • Average NET win and loss
  • Overall record
  • Non-Conference record, road record

Not nothing, but not very important

  • NET and other computer rankings
  • Overall home records, non-conference and by quadrant
  • Game scoring margins

Not criteria

  • Conference records and standings
  • AP Top 25, Coaches Poll
  • Tournament history

I'm not arguing that it's not a major consideration. I'm arguing that it's stupid that it's a major consideration on par with overall strength of schedule. If you are considering NCSOS and SOS equally then you are penalizing teams from tough conferences. 

7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

I'm not arguing that it's not a major consideration. I'm arguing that it's stupid that it's a major consideration on par with overall strength of schedule. If you are considering NCSOS and SOS equally then you are penalizing teams from tough conferences. 

I think it's a relic of the past. This current view of analyzing college sports in a parochial manner where we compare overall conference strengths is relatively new and truly stems from SECization of college sports. Back in the day when college basketball was more prominent the NCAA looked to reward schools that sought a lot of good intersectional matchups and gave the networks great TV inventory.  Now that college sports have devolved down into dick measuring contests between conferences we don't value these noncon matchups as much. 

Edited by Catdaddyhorn

No kidding. If an overall SOS is similar, why does it matter from where in the schedule the strength comes?

texas v kansas I see how it can be a differentiator- but it should show up in the full sos there. But why should it be a big deal with Texas vs bama or Houston where the conference sos is so much different?

15 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Not necessarily the worst 15 seed, but for sure we will be in the overall bracket of the worst #1 seed if we are the best #2 seed. I don't think they worry too much about matching the worst 15 seed with the best 2 seed. Their major concern is location of games and not matching up conferences mates too early within the same bracket.. 

I think they only consider the S curve for the Top 4 seeds, and then fill in the bracket based on travel. They also try to avoid putting teams from the same conference in the same bracket among the top 4 seeds.

Edited by HtownHorn

2 hours ago, Loop 1604 said:

Would be so on brand for Texas to get the 1 seed and lose to a 16. Some of y’all would prob still be trying to keep RT since “the players love him!!!!!!!”

Aggy!

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3 hours ago, Loop 1604 said:

Would be so on brand for Texas to get the 1 seed and lose to a 16. Some of y’all would prob still be trying to keep RT since “the players love him!!!!!!!”

Don’t know how I missed begging this.  

Cross posting in several places in case some are interested. 

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