re: Dan Wolken: if Kirby doesn't win the East in 17, he's a clown

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What has been UGA's finish in the conference over the last four years, I wonder?

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You're confusing conference record with actual "placement" which is determined as far as the country and the tournament selection committee are concerned as RPI.

2 of the last 3/4 seasons have been a bit of an anomaly in that only 3 SEC schools were selected to the tournament, however, on average, the top 4 schools from the SEC go most years.

I'm going to assume you weren't referring to this season, as we'd be 6th in RPI at present.

We were 4th in RPI from the SEC last year, and thus the case was made that we should have been in, but at the same time we didn't have quality wins to point to. Unsurprisingly, we've had more of the same this year... even with some of the tough losses down the stretch, you don't have much of a resume to point to and make the case that we could win a tournament game again this year.

Obviously we made the tournament in 2015, so let's go back to 2014. 72nd in RPI... behind Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and LSU...
2013... 143, behind a lot of teams...

So in the last 4 years we've finished top 4 in RPI 2x and made the tournament one of those. And in the other 2, 7th or worse. With this year a likely 6th. This is not the same as consistently being a top 4 team in the conference.