BirdmanBB wrote:For the committee to give bids to UAB and VCU (who I like) and a 14 seed to ISUb, it must say volumes of what they think about the missouri valley.
In a year when college basketball is down overall, we blew it bigtime.
I think next year CU could be a potential top 25 team. If that happens to be the case, we might be able to squeeze an extra bid in next season.
To be fair, ISU had an abysmal non-conference. They lost at Wyoming (RPI 264), at Loyola (IL) (RPI 197), at Ball State (RPI 167), and vs. Eastern Kentucky (RPI 261). I'd think pretty low of a team that I didn't follow closely enough to know that they completely reinvented their team in conference play too. Without those four losses, ISU probably has an RPI at or near 50, IMO.
UAB, regardless of everything else, had several wins against 50-100 RPI competition simply because Conf USA did much better outside of their conference schedule. ISU didn't...zero wins vs. 50-100 RPI competition outside the conference. WSU and MSU were the only two other teams in the Valley with RPI's in the sub 100 range. They would have had to go 14-4 or better to avoid a bad loss in conference as far as the computer figures it.
Could you think anything different if you didn't watch the games?
