Given whatever end-of-season efficiency ratings you want to use, Iād love to see the odds of Miami-Ohio having gone undefeated. If they had a 70% chance to win in each game, it would be ~0.002% for the 31-game parlay
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And yet, based on resume, they should not get an at-large bid. Four wins over D2 opponents, didnāt play a P4 team, and didnāt play a single Q1 or Q2 opponent.
Nice they went undefeated, but auto bid only. They will lose in the first round of the tournament, and probably badly.
But it is a good story.
Bruce very fired up by your post
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Miami might be in the bracket as an at-large in a WABsolutist system. #30 right now, and a tourney final loss to Akron would drop them maybe 5-8 spots, depending on what happens around them.
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2 schools that pull from stuffy rich kids who think they are too good for the big state schools and too much of a bro for XU
J-Crew U vs. The Country Club Boys.
Neither appreciate LaRosaās pizza
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I think everyone except the city of Auburn, Alabama would rather watch Miami go against a high major in a 6/11 matchup than have to watch Auburn potentially lose a 16th or 17th game if they got in.
I get the Miami resume isnāt fantastic but hard to get Q1/Q2 games when high majors are ducking you on the schedule cause they know youāre good with a former high major coach.
Give me the what-if of ācould Miami do damage if they get a shotā every time over a undeserving bubble team.
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Yeah, I donāt even care if Miami-Ohio loses in the first round by 15 (which is the likely outcome), I still would like to see them get in and get their shot at somebody. Hopefully they win the conference tourney and remove all doubt, then finish the year 34-1.
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Iām a full Miami OH stan after watching that game. Refs were dogging them. Crowd was nuts. They held it together just enough.
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Yeah let em in. Itās an entertainment product, and theyāll be more entertaining than Auburn or whoever. Neither is making any noise to contend for the thing, so give the undefeated potential frauds the nod. Iām pretty sure theyāll lose first round, but itāll be more watched and fun than that Auburn game would be I bet.
Also screw the Pearl family.
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All of their resume metrics are safely within the tournament field. Invent your own computer model and get it approved by the NCAA if youāre mad about it. Until then they are getting in, and probably avoiding Dayton.
(Also they have played/won a Q2 game vs Akron)
I am not mad, but you appear to be. Itās an opinion, and I have no desire to make up a computer model. I honestly donāt give a shit what the commitee does with them, but they literally havenāt beat anyone at all. Thatās it.
Edit: Wow. One Q2 win. I am so impressed. I think itās awesome they went undefeated; very difficult, obviously. But letās not pretend they wouldnāt have gotten smoked if they had played a remotely decent high-major team.
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I donāt think thatās what literally means
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2+2=5 is an opinion, too, I suppose.
Their resume metrics (what the team sheets lists as RES) are squarely tourney worthy. Their efficiency metrics are not. The modern trend is to favor the former.
For all the āI sure am glad we didnāt hire Shakaā talk (and for the record I still am), this Marquette team has gotten way better over the course of the year. Granted they couldnāt have gotten worse.
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Belinda, heck, even Bruce is on board after last night!
https://x.com/TNTSportsUS/status/2030325151179399642?s=20
Lmfao Hurley getting himself tossed arguing there shouldāve been a jump ball when a jump ball wouldāve been Maquette ball anyways. (Also now Marquette gets the ball back in addition to free throws)
Thank you for the grammar lesson. My education is in a real subject ā math.
Itās kind of odd that you are so invested in this. All I said was that it is my OPINION that they should only make the tournament via auto bid. Iām not sure what the problem is with that.
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Okay.
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