Side note: Screw the metrics. It was always us. (Best in the SEC)

Trying so hard not to spike the ball here . . . won't mention any names.

 

I mean, Kenpom does have us as the better team...

 

Well played Tilly !
Did not drink a sip during the game but I’m on my 3 rd Elysian Space Dust . Yes I feel really really good right now now .

 

I was NOT happy when Auburn got the #1 seed in the south.

For one, it was not fair. For another, I was IN Atlanta that weekend (by coincidence).

They had lost 3-of-4 to end the season, and we had beaten them by 9 in Auburn.

 

Gotham, UF OWNS the State of Alabama!

 

It's not a "metrics" thing. The committee evaluates the resume as a whole, without respect to when you win the games. We got downgraded for our weak non-conference schedule. They got upgraded for their tough non-conference schedule, which they were successful against. But we have been the better team for two months, and it really hasn't been close. It's been us, Duke, and Houston, and the metrics have reflected that.

 

I'll spare the quote feature, which provides some interesting results for "metrics" and say that the committee was FOS. They failed to acknowledge the best wins in college basketball and the Gators gave evidence to that today.

 

I guess we kinda do

 

Tilly you are on fire tonight. My hat is off to your posts

 

Excellent post ! Even though u hate me !

 

Enjoying a sweet water Hazy IPA as we speak

 

Wasn’t just us. They were considered better than Duke and Houston, too. And the Q1-2 win record is just one part of the resume metric equation, alongside the predictive metrics. What they don’t do is take into account head-to-head wins or when wins occurred. They reward teams for the resume over the whole season. But they aren’t saying a higher seeded team is necessarily better or more likely to win. Our resume metrics were categorically worse than theirs, and our predictive metrics were roughly equivalent. It would be essentially impossible to seed teams based upon the eye test or comparing who had the better wins. Too darn many teams, too insanely subjective.

In any event, we did what we needed to do on the court and deserve to be in this game.

 

Oh man they are really awesome. Am I too old to be drinking IPAs? 72

 

Damn boys I am really really happy on a Saturday night

 

Nope. Perfect age. I’d take an IPA or sour over anything.

 

I hate Dook

 

Anti Christ