šŸ€ Outside the ACC - January 2024

The team said the dismissal was due to ā€œconduct unbecoming of a Monarch,ā€ and added it would have no further comment at this time.

I hate to perpetuate rumors, but I heard he failed to disinherit the first Duke of Westphalia, as is required under Salic law. Can’t let a Monarch get away with that.

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Glad he was only dismissed from the team… history shows Monarchs normally getting schwacked for this.

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He tried to levy a new tax without calling in the Estates General.

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Having followed Travis Perry’s recruitment, I still chuckle when I see kids with their ā€œ1,000 points scoredā€ achievements (Which is an incredible feat by the way)

https://twitter.com/AdamFinkelstein/status/1752144243571745108

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Good game going on between Houston and Texas.

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Headed to OT.

Rooting for Houston in this, Texas is squarely on the bubble just like us.

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I swear every time I look another bubble team is playing a highly ranked team at home, while we only get 1 such opportunity all season

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This game is ugly but entertaining.

Did Kadin just throw that guy on the ground? And before that did he throw a nasty hip check? Where was this version?

Yeah, he seems to be trying to play very physical but in an awkward manner.

Knecht is the best player I’ve watched this season. On a separate note, incredible season for South Carolina.

I gotta watch him. My favorite that I have watched this year is Marquettes PG. Man he is so good

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Elmarko Jackson can’t miss form 3. :joy:

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quick glance shows the last time he hit a 3 was december

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ESPN actually showed something interesting during halftime of the Kansas game. The non-conference strength of schedule for almost all of the Big 12 teams is embarrassingly weak. The conference basically gamed the system by blowing out terrible teams to inflate their metrics. That was new to me but you basketball obsessed lunatics on here probably have known about this since Thanksgiving.

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I knew some of the newbies were playing weak noncons. BYU and Houston. I didn’t realize how bad Iowa State’s noncon was. Kansas and Baylor played good teams.

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I looked up the old RPI rankings out of curiosity…the Big 12 has 3 teams in the top 30 there vs 8 in the NET. RPI doesn’t take into account scoring margin. Not advocating for it or anything, it’s even worse overall. Too much weight on strength of schedule, you drop just for playing a bad team. But there needs to be adjustment to the NET to devalue scoring margin. It’s basically just a different flavor of Kenpom.

https://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/rpi/

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I’ve beat this drum before, but I think Wins-Above-Bubble is the best solution: Parcells defined: Why UNC Greensboro belongs in the NCAA Tournament | sethburn

WAB: Wins-Above-Bubble. The amount of wins you have minus the amount of wins an average bubble team would expect vs. your schedule

The article also has a succinct explanation of how ā€œbestā€ and ā€œbest resumeā€ get conflated a bunch in the discussions:

The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has something of a dual mandate. They are tasked with selecting the best 36 at-large teams in the country, and seeding the 68 qualifiers. They are also asked to select basis on the best resumes, or ā€œbodies of work.ā€ If we are going by wins and losses, these are two separate things.

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That Memphis loss might end up being Q2, they have totally fallen off lately. Down 11 to 7-13 Rice at halftime at home

Should we be rooting for Florida or Kentucky?