Last year Texas A&M clearly did enough with their conference tournament performance to get a bid and didn’t. Oklahoma could have made that same argument.
Conference tournament performance is unevenly evaluated year to year. Sometimes it means a lot sometimes very little. Recently it has been considered less.
Let’s bounce UNC so that they can melt down about Hubie and Bacot can get back to his acting career
For example Clemson would easily be a tournament team if not for injuries all year … PJ Hall was pulled from a game early in the year because he was still in a minute restriction and they lost their 8 point lead and the game in the last 4 minutes
Uva would’ve won the acc outright if Reece Beekman hadn’t have gotten hurt.
Especially if Kadin Shedrick hadn’t of _______________.
I feel like I’m watching a Pentagon Press Conference every time the Kadin question is asked to CTB or JW, issue is danced around and we will never know
Who signed off on the Kadin Memo?
Who? The person you speak of does not exist. Next question.
George F. Kennan, a/k/a Mr. X, who penned the memo, “The Sources of Kadin’s Conduct.”
Kenpom likes Duke
https://twitter.com/kenpomeroy/status/1632553582452170752?s=46&t=w-r2LOtOYPHtZ8vkKXqgZg
But hey
I was wondering what the odds were of meeting UNC vs BC vs Louisville. 86.5%, 11.8%, 1.8%
Question for the community - perhaps we should do a poll or new thread after the season. Tate/Titus did this a few years ago. Where is the Virginia Basketball brand now? I have to admit, this is one of the hardest things to understand on a national scale. I’m biased and we’re all in a bubble of course. Is Virginia basketball “rehabilitated” or etc. etc. Where are we as a program?
I would guess today. Last year it came out on March 7, which was the Monday of the week of the conference tournament.
FWIW, if you just used regularized adjusted plus-minus from Hoop Explorer, filtering out the guys who haven’t played more than 50% of possessions, to fill out a ballot, it would be in order:
1st team:
Tyree Appleby (WF)
Norchad Omier (UM)
Kyle Filipowski (DU)
Armando Bacot (UNC)
Reece Beekman (UVA)
2nd team:
Ja’Von Franklin (GT)
RJ Davis (UNC)
Isaiah Wong (UM)
Kihei Clark (UVA)
Jordan Miller (UM)
All-Defense (warning - things about to get weird):
Ben Vander Plas (UVA)
Kyle Filipowski (DU)
Makai Ashton-Langford (BC)
Armaan Franklin (UVA)
Reece Beekman (UVA)
POY: Appleby
DPOY: Vander Plas
ROY: Filipowski
I don’t think that would be my ballot, but it’s kinda interesting.
Data here: https://hoop-explorer.com/PlayerLeaderboard?gender=Men&tier=All&year=2022%2F23&
The Duke hype machine is in full force. Jeff Goodman is now slobbing Scheyer’s knob.
This is why the average college hoops fan hates Duke.
A year that hasn’t lived up to lofty expectations means simply that there must have been some Kourageous Koaching.™️
Why can’t anyone admit that Duke is not as good as Goodman and others thought they’d be, but they’re starting to put it together at the right time?
https://twitter.com/goodmanhoops/status/1632591922370846720?s=46&t=sFIMhbl4OaRLzZnNRjy_hg
If you wanted to more explicitly factor in total impact by weighting the plus-minus stat by number of possessions played, you get a slightly different list:
1st team:
Tyree Appleby (WF)
Norchad Omier (UM)
RJ Davis (UNC)
Kyle Filipowski (DU)
Jarkel Joiner (NCSU)
2nd team:
Reece Beekman (UVA)
Armando Bacot (UNC)
Isaiah Wong (UM)
Jordan Miller (UM)
Kihei Clark (UVA)
Defensive team has the same 5, but BVP slots in at #3 behind Flip and Ashton-Langford.
I think the advanced stats say Jarkel but eye test says Terquavion. My personal first team includes DJ Burns, too. I enjoyed watching his highlights leading up to our game.
