re: UVA scores 14 points in the first half against Colorado State.

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OU beat more ranked teams and had zero quad 2-4

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You were 4-12 in quad 1. That’s not good enough. And your team made a habit of choking down the stretch

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mind you we had 3 starters injured for last 8 games

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Nobody else had injuries? Oklahoma was the only team in the country to have players banged up after 30+ games?

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I’d rather watch the goggled center from Indiana State

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I agree.

Obviously their schedule was worse than just about anybody in the Top 50, but Kenpom has them at #43 (vs. #73 for Virginia).

And really the ACC wasn't that much better anyway — they only got four other teams in.

Indiana State is also #28 in the NET.

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NET has been a very odd metric this year

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Yeah, I think it's been a really difficult year for metrics in general.

There is very little statistical data that will support winning by 20 and then turning around and losing by 20, which seemed to happen a lot this season (around the country).

I really don't know why that was the case IRL, but I think that much of a significant swing is just really hard for an algorithm to compensate for, since it's mostly attempting to smooth data, or fit it to a curve for prediction purposes.

i love it when they lose

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Nobody else had injuries? Oklahoma was the only team in the country to have players banged up after 30+ games?

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no not many if any teams had 3 starters injured at once . Think OU was like 14-6 before the injuries …. We are not playing a sec schedule. We played in the big 12 …. Alittle different level of teams . We played around 10 ranked teams this year including 2 ooc. The level of the teams we played your going to take more losses that’s just the way it is. Our sor was like 28th which is plenty good enough to get in . The big 12 is rough . Kansas lost 2 starters .

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UVA scores 14 points in the first half against Colorado State.

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UVA has one of the worst offense in the country and play at one of the slowest paces in the country also. But don’t act like you’re surprised that Virginia made it over a mid major. March Madness is all about money, and that’s all the NCAA cares about.

Indiana State is the first team ever to have a NET ranking in the top 30 to be left out.

Expand on this for me

Thanks.

I just saw your post in pio’s game thread.

Unbelievable.

11 turnovers
7 fouls
5 buckets

at the half

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A basket every four minutes isn’t even middle school ball

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only down 11 now
13 pts already in 2nd half
Dayton pulled it off earlier..
my only loss so far

March Madness is awesome..