If MAC Tourney started today...

[kreed5120]

2 minutes ago, tolbob said:

 

Our seed would be lower.  Our RPI would have been higher with a win at Kent (it certainly would not have ben lower).

 

Yep, as I made mention in another thread, the reason our RPI improved is because our OOC SOS greatly improved over the weekend. Since February 18th, Akron OOC opponents are 12-4. This includes Iona getting an RPI top 50 win over Monmouth.

 

Of note our RPI may have improved over the weekend, but our Kenpom fell from ~65 to 77.

[BirdZip]

4 hours ago, skip-zip said:

 

You may not have caught what I posted in another thread this morning.

 

Our RPI actually moved UP after this weekend. 

I saw it.  It was irrelevant.  I feel relatively confident that our RPI would not be worse had we won. 

[BirdZip]

4 hours ago, Captain Kangaroo said:

Because our seed would be lower? Or because losing games means we aren't playing good basketball? Or both?

The point I was making was related to the difference in seed.  There's still a few weeks to right the ship.  Regardless of how we're playing, I'd rather face a 5 seed than a 3.

[skip-zip]

tolbob.....Kreed already pointed something out in another thread.  Sorry missed it, but a number of teams that we've beaten won games over the last few days, which has helped us actually elevate our national standing.

 

The point is, there's a lot of other factors that will go into our final seeding, including how others are performing.  Assuming that a loss by a particular team will automatically result in a lower seeding 3 weeks from now is just not true.  There's a lot of factors at play here. 

[GJGood]

43 minutes ago, BirdZip said:

The point I was making was related to the difference in seed.  There's still a few weeks to right the ship.  Regardless of how we're playing, I'd rather face a 5 seed than a 3.

 

I agree that in most cases I'd rather face a 5 seed than a 1 thru 4. The NCAA has stated that it tries to "protect" top 4 seeds in the tourney. This is why we played Gonzaga in Portland and Notre Dame in Chicago in the past. Playing a 5 seed, however, means they probably will have no geographic advantage and neutral crowds generally pull for the underdog.

 

I don't worry too much about any differences between 13, 14, and even 15 seeds. At that point it is more about how you match up style-wise with your opponent than it is about how good each possible opponent might be. They are all going to be pretty darn good.

 

For what its worth, I still think the best draw Akron ever got in its NCAA tournament appearances was Notre Dame and that was a 2 vs.15 matchup.