re: 2017-18 Alabama Basketball Season Thread: 20-16 (10-11)

BYU down 9 to Gonzaga at the half

If we ever get probation, we better at least have gotten a final four out of the ordeal

I understand completely. I'm pretty damn pissed right now. If they fired him tomorrow, I'd celebrate like we just won the championship. I have lost all faith in our coach.

St Mary's can't move to a better conference. No one is taking a non football school in Cali of 4000 that has no reputation.

They also can't schedule like a P5. No one wants to pay a top 25 caliber team no one has heard of to beat them in their own house. No one is giving St Mary's a home and home. It's the Boise St football problem

You Bama fans don't realize how good you have it as not only a flagship University but a nationally recognized brand.

Not every school has the luxury of having other schools want to play them like y'all

frick Syracuse!! I hate them, always have. Boeheim is the biggest whiner in basketball. He’s the Stan White of basketball coaches. Bastard whines his way into the tourney every year.

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Rhode Island isn't historically good

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I agree they're not historically good, but let's not pretend basketball schedules are made years in advance like football schedules are. If St. Mary's turned down Rhode Island (since there really isn't much concrete out there that they did) it probably would have been done sometime this past offseason, when URI was expected to have a very strong team this year. Agree with your Nevada point 100%.

I want Sexton to really come alive on Thursday. I know he already plays at a high level, but if we're going to lose, let's at least see Sexton put on like a 35-point performance so we can actually watch some decent basketball.

Maybe we'll get luck and actually win.

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St Mary's can't move to a better conference. No one is taking a non football school in Cali of 4000 that has no reputation.

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I wasn't saying they could. I'm saying that that is one of two things mid-majors could and have done to get better chances at a bid. The other part is a better Non-Conference schedule.

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They also can't schedule like a P5. No one wants to pay a top 25 caliber team no one has heard of to beat them in their own house. No one is giving St Mary's a home and home. It's the Boise St football problem

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No one has heard of? C'mon, man. They're not really any more unknown than any of the other at-large quality mid-majors and most of those teams typically try and schedule good matchups OOC. There are several coaches that like playing teams like St. Mary's because they give RPI boosts. Grant regularly scheduled some of the best mid-majors at home. We played Rhode Island this year. We played Dayton and Valparaiso last year. We played Dayton and Wichita State the year prior. Opportunities are there, they're just not taking them.

Non-Conference scheduling in football is way different than in basketball. For the most part, most football teams look to schedule 1 good team in their non-conference schedule (because losses mean one hell of a lot more in football). This obviously reduces Boise State's chances of landing a big name matchup. They have to convince schools to schedule them instead of a P5 school.

You mentioned before that we shouldn't punish St. Mary's for not scheduling and losing to better teams, but should they really be rewarded for beating up on terrible teams (and losing to a few of them as well)? The best team they scheduled OOC was UGA and they lost at a neutral site. They have a neutral loss to RPI 173. They have a loss to RPI 137, which is hilariously the 3rd or 4th hardest game they had on their conference schedule.

The Gonzaga win is nice, but that's the only win of note other than the BYU games which are decent wins made less appealing by the fact that they were bitch slapped by those same teams later in the year.