41st in NET Rankings
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It's am obviously flawed metric. Our resume is as good as anyone in the country but we can't get into the top 35 of the NET. If we end the season on a couple game skid we'll be at risk of not making the tourney as insane as that is. We play Vandy at home Saturday so we'll drop out the top 50 for sure. All it will take is a couple losses down the stretch and we'll be at 75 before we know it.
I don't really have concerns about the tournament. We should be in at this point unless we collapse at the end of the season. The NET often doesn't make sense.
The ESPN bracketologists have us as a 6 seed before last night's game, so I'm pretty comfortable with that. Even if we drop a couple of games we shouldn't down the stretch, I don't think we have anything to worry about, barring a complete meltdown.
But the NET is confounding. In its power rankings that came out before yesterday's game, ESPN noted that we were 7-2 in Quad 1 and Quad 2 wins, the 3rd highest win percentage in that category among teams with at least 5 wins. By the NET's own indicated criteria, we would seem to be a top 25 team.
But the NET is confounding. In its power rankings that came out before yesterday's game, ESPN noted that we were 7-2 in Quad 1 and Quad 2 wins, the 3rd highest win percentage in that category among teams with at least 5 wins. By the NET's own indicated criteria, we would seem to be a top 25 team.
So the end of season SEC schedule for SC is pretty challenging, @Aub, UT, @OM etc, but even if we lost 3-4 of the final 8 we should be in without a doubt. 24-25 win total with wins over UT and UK already, even IF we finish the last 8 games 5-3 or 4-4 at worse. Otherwise the committee is leaving out a likely 24-7 or 25-6 power 5 team, worse case imo. I’m not gonna sweat it, this team is deserving and will make it.
NET and KenPom are about efficiency. We were efficient in the first half but not in the second half. Overall it was a bad efficiency night. That's why we dropped.
Meanwhile Clemson is at 31? So they value efficiency over winning? Sounds like a great formula to me.
What has the rest of their season looked like? Is it that flawed that a single win will save your season?
Florida is also ahead of us. Make it make sense. I’m not even claiming that down the stretch we will be better than either of those teams, but based on the overall body of work for the entire season to this point make it make sense.
