Author Topic: kenpom 30, no tourney (Read 41512 times)

sys · « **Reply #176 on:** January 23, 2017, 10:21:21 PM »

well, well, well. guess who's 2-6 and number 27th in the world?

sys · « **Reply #177 on:** January 23, 2017, 10:21:57 PM »

it's mr. osu the cows!

Trim · « **Reply #178 on:** January 23, 2017, 10:30:12 PM »

sys, any chance the hangover from saturday has subsided and you can share some positive thoughts on the kp30ntcats' outlook?

sys · « **Reply #179 on:** January 23, 2017, 10:36:22 PM »

m-n's site gives them about a 25% chance of finishing 8-10 or worse. no mathing, just guessing, i'd cut that in half for missing the tourney and staying below 30, so somewhere around 12.5%.

it's not zero.

Trim · « **Reply #180 on:** January 23, 2017, 10:45:00 PM »

Quote from: sys on January 23, 2017, 10:36:22 PM

it's not zero.

sys · « **Reply #181 on:** January 24, 2017, 11:30:42 PM »

it helps. not enough, but it helps. 27th, 9-9 predicto. looking up at our overlords, the cows.

Tobias · « **Reply #182 on:** January 25, 2017, 11:46:14 AM »

pretty sexy tail on this thing rn

25 isu
26 frank
27 oscar
28 cows

sys · « **Reply #183 on:** January 25, 2017, 11:50:05 AM »

tenn is at 42 too, somehow. those sec teams don't have a chance, though.

kso_FAN · « **Reply #184 on:** January 25, 2017, 11:56:07 AM »

Quote from: sys on January 25, 2017, 11:50:05 AM

tenn is at 42 too, somehow. those sec teams don't have a chance, though.

Yeah.

http://www.fanragsports.com/cbb/sec-still-acting-like-a-mid-major/

Skipper44 · « **Reply #185 on:** January 25, 2017, 12:07:09 PM »

Quote from: sys on January 25, 2017, 11:50:05 AM

tenn is at 42 too, somehow. those sec teams don't have a chance, though.

no round robin + no home court advantage are too much for tons of money + good to great local recruiting to overcome I guess. I will admit the prep school culture might have hurt SEC and BE schools the most.

sys · « **Reply #186 on:** January 25, 2017, 12:34:28 PM »

actually, maybe they do have a chance. not as good a chance as big 12 teams, but with the unbalanced schedules in the sec, you have to look at each team. dumbstick (41st) prolly has the best schedule. lotta pressure to run up the score in those home games against sub kp 50 teams though.

Cire · « **Reply #187 on:** January 25, 2017, 12:37:52 PM »

I say we barely beat Tenn, and then Barely lose to TCU at home.

Trim · « **Reply #188 on:** January 30, 2017, 11:53:48 AM »

This is gut-check time, no? Need to bomb the crap out of TCU and then immediately string together 3 close losses. That would get us close so we can let one of these kp30ntcats be a hero at the end.

sys · « **Reply #189 on:** January 30, 2017, 12:10:34 PM »

Quote from: Trim on January 30, 2017, 11:53:48 AM

This is gut-check time, no? Need to bomb the crap out of TCU and then immediately string together 3 close losses. That would get us close so we can let one of these kp30ntcats be a hero at the end.

that would be ideal. these are the games that separate the pretenders from the contenders.

pretty big game for the cows tonight as well. you'd like to see them run up the score, but those fuckers are already at 2-6, 22nd. they can throw it in cruise control, honestly.

sys · « **Reply #190 on:** January 30, 2017, 10:55:46 PM »

why does a kenpom 22nd team go 2-6? it's because of games like this. the cows didn't want to go get a two point win in norman tonight, but you can't win every game by 20 and you can't lose every game by one. it's a long season and sometimes the ball doesn't bounce your way. smart teams build a cushion when the cushion building's easy.

cows stay at 22nd, 3-6, predicto stays at 8-10.

Ptolemy · « **Reply #191 on:** January 30, 2017, 11:22:02 PM »

Quote from: sys on January 30, 2017, 10:55:46 PM

why does a kenpom 22nd team go 2-6? it's because of games like this. the cows didn't want to go get a two point win in norman tonight, but you can't win every game by 20 and you can't lose every game by one. it's a long season and sometimes the ball doesn't bounce your way. smart teams build a cushion when the cushion building's easy.

cows stay at 22nd, 3-6, predicto stays at 8-10.

Why do you people enjoy scrambling for the scraps? Where's your pride?

KState basketball used to be a proud, accomplished program that eschewed scraps for glory. We went to the NCAA tournament every year. We went deep some years.

What has happened to you people?

sys · « **Reply #192 on:** January 30, 2017, 11:44:13 PM »

i'm quite proud, ptolemy, if that's what you're getting at.

Tobias · « **Reply #193 on:** January 30, 2017, 11:44:58 PM »

i think you forgot to @kstatembb?

Trim · « **Reply #194 on:** January 31, 2017, 04:33:07 PM »

https://twitter.com/DScottFritchen/status/826536944108703746

kso_FAN · « **Reply #195 on:** January 31, 2017, 04:35:07 PM »

Quote from: Trim on January 31, 2017, 04:33:07 PM

https://twitter.com/DScottFritchen/status/826536944108703746

I'd guess it probably is.

pissclams · « **Reply #196 on:** January 31, 2017, 04:42:25 PM »

well it's pretty great that he used the term "dominate"

mocat · « **Reply #197 on:** January 31, 2017, 04:45:57 PM »

xavier sneed: amazing in every way

Trim · « **Reply #198 on:** January 31, 2017, 05:29:50 PM »

When it gets deeper into what I like to call gut-check time, it'll be good to update the caption to that pic w/Sneed describing other IMPORTANT things they need to do to achieve kp30nt.

sys · « **Reply #199 on:** January 31, 2017, 05:39:04 PM »

i appreciate his enthusiasm, but they need a one point loss more. they've got to steal a loss somewhere, and i'd rather they do it sooner rather than later.