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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Shockers

« on: February 23, 2014, 09:54:39 AM »

past tourney performance should have no bearing on current tourney seeding.  what you earn/do in this season should be the only thing evaluated.

Of course.   I was responding to the thought that the cumulative effect of playing weak teams in the regular season doesn't prepare a team for the NCAA tournament.   There are facts on both sides of that, so I am not sure you can draw a firm conclusion. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Shockers

« on: February 23, 2014, 09:24:34 AM »

i could be wrong but i don't think most people look at the strength of schedule thing in a way that i think is most important.  at this point in the season, the biggest issue w/ SoS is the cumulative effect (or lack thereof) that playing shitty teams all season has on a team, not the singular event of playing a shitty team on a random tuesday night.  the opposite is true of those teams playing in tougher conferences.  i know it's obvious but i'm not sure people really consider it a whole lot when having these discussions.

Seems like there are examples on both sides of that - #2 Missouri losing in the 2nd round and of course KU losing in the 2nd or 3rd round after playing in the Big 12.

The biggest difference b/t WSU's schedule last year and this year, is not playing Creighton 3x.  Three games against Creighton, who lost their 2nd NCAA game, will make all of the difference?

Florida Gulf Coast last year smoking #2 Georgetown after playing in the Atlantic Sun.