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SEC Basketball - Overall Conference Strength
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:10 am
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:10 am
Overall Conference RPI
2016 - 0.5496 (6th)
2015 - 0.5505 (6th)
2014 - 0.5516 (7th)
2013 - 0.5380 (9th)
2012 - 0.5629 (4th)
2011 - 0.5524 (6th)
2010 - 0.5580 (4th)
2016 - 0.5496 (6th)
2015 - 0.5505 (6th)
2014 - 0.5516 (7th)
2013 - 0.5380 (9th)
2012 - 0.5629 (4th)
2011 - 0.5524 (6th)
2010 - 0.5580 (4th)
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Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:16 am to SummerOfGeorge
Been pretty bad for a while
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:16 am to SummerOfGeorge
All I see is improvement from 2013 
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:19 am to rockiee
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All I see is improvement from 2013
Glass half full!
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:23 am to SummerOfGeorge
Doesn't really matter ... committee members don't really care. The metric changes every year. It's the biggest bunch of bullshite, trying to figure out wtf the standards are, from season to season.
Best thing to do is just win ... and bad losses are worse than good wins. There is no balance in what the NCAA selection process has become.
The SEC gets a bad rap in men's basketball. Warranted or not.
Best thing to do is just win ... and bad losses are worse than good wins. There is no balance in what the NCAA selection process has become.
The SEC gets a bad rap in men's basketball. Warranted or not.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:25 am to scrooster
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Doesn't really matter ... committee members don't really care. The metric changes every year. It's the biggest bunch of bullshite, trying to figure out wtf the standards are, from season to season.
It probably helps when you play some good teams in OOC
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:26 am to scrooster
Scrooster while I don't disagree with you Strength of Schedule has always been a HUGE factor on who gets in and who is out. It screwed us many a years. If you want to be a tourney team schedule like one. Don t pint to strength of Record, whatever the hell that is, to back you up.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:43 am to MsState of mind
But didn't Carolina schedule against some pretty good programs that just happened tank this year? Not sure when they made the contracts but normally DePaul, Memphis and St. Johns are pretty good at basketball.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:47 am to SummerOfGeorge
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2013 - 0.5380 (9th)
Man, that was bad.
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2016 - 0.5496 (6th)
2015 - 0.5505 (6th)
2014 - 0.5516 (7th)
And we're continuing to get a little worse each year since we got slightly better in 2014.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:48 am to scrooster
What the frick is strength of record? Strength of schedule adjusted for wins/losses?
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:50 am to MsState of mind
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Scrooster while I don't disagree with you Strength of Schedule has always been a HUGE factor on who gets in and who is out. It screwed us many a years. If you want to be a tourney team schedule like one. Don t pint to strength of Record, whatever the hell that is, to back you up.
When Martin scheduled the teams ... it was a solid schedule, as already mentioned above.
The graphic I posted was directly from ESPN based upon criterion quoted and provided by the selection committee who they had just interviewed, (the chairman of the committee) ... something they used, in their process, when making their decisions. It is not an arbitrary rating.
ETA: Additionally, SCAR also beat, head-to-head, three of those teams in the right column that were selected by the committee.
This is what has caused many of the pundits, beat writers, et al., to question the process. This year was the worst ever in terms of no rhyme or reason.
South Carolina's schedule was not nearly as "weak" as others who were selected, with lesser records and lesser achievements.
The only explanation is disrespect for the SEC.
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Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:56 am to SummerOfGeorge
It's a shame we can't pull out weight and help the conference out like we were supposed to when we joined.
Hopefully we get our shite together soon.
Hopefully we get our shite together soon.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:57 am to scrooster
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The only explanation is disrespect for the SEC.
You act like that isn't warranted. SEC basketball is a joke.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:58 am to thefloydian
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What the frick is strength of record? Strength of schedule adjusted for wins/losses?
I do not know exactly ... but yes, it would seem to be as you might guess. It was difficult to discern.
The numbers were provided to ESPN by the selection committee as something the selection committee used to determine their selections. And when confronted on the numbers above, the committee chairman stumbled and bumbled and never answered the obvious question.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:58 am to SummerOfGeorge
Thank goodness the conference has Kentucky and A&M to keep the conference afloat.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 9:59 am to scrooster
Strength of Record is supposed to be a metric that ranks you based on your wins and losses, giving higher value to beating good teams, lower to beating bad teams, etc. It seems to the untrained eye a lot like RPI.
It's the same metric they used in football a lot.
It's the same metric they used in football a lot.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:00 am to rebelrouser
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DePaul, Memphis and St. Johns
They could have easily scheduled some more teams in case something like this happened. It really isn't that hard.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:00 am to SummerOfGeorge
It really is embarrassing.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:02 am to thefloydian
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You act like that isn't warranted. SEC basketball is a joke.
I'm not acting like anything ... I'm stating, without a hint of fricking doubt, that it shouldn't matter what fricktards think of the SEC as a conference. It obviously doesn't when it comes to other conferences ... so why should it when it comes to the SEC?
Each team, if what everyone is saying is correct, is judged solely on it's own individual accomplishments.
SCAR did enough to qualify - yet, admittedly, they also screwed themselves with the bad losses towards the end. No one is denying that. As far as the continued claim that the rest of the schedule had an adverse affect on what happened ... it's bullshite.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 10:02 am to TexasAg13
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Thank goodness the conference has Kentucky and A&M to keep the conference afloat.
You only had a winning SEC record 2 of those years.
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