Malik Thomas shot 1-10 from the floor including 1-6 from deep. He got beat up a little bit out there, including that cylinder call where he ate an elbow. But still: his energy and activity made him a positive contributor on both ends of the floor even though his shot wasnât falling.
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Malik Thomas played better vs Vandy and Villanova.
Rider> Villanova? 
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Excited about GrĂźnloh. Will help a lot this year but doesnât appear close to strong enough for NBA. I think we get 2 years with him.
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He was getting to the rim and looked like a better athlete than I expected. Iâm still pretty bullish on him, not too concerned. Sometimes the shots just donât fall. If he made 1-2 more 3s it would have been a total non event.
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Heâs much skinnier than I realized.
I swear to God, if I read that a player is out due to a stabbing, Iâm going to question the practice of keeping actual freaking swords in the locker room during postgame celebrations.
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Team already seems really close. Great sign considering we have an almost entirely new roster. I also think weâre doing a good job with the Proving Grounds and other content to help the casual fans get to know these guys. Itâs a fun group
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Regardless of how long Ridder and co are at UVA, I am thankful to each and every one of them for choosing to spend this junction of their career as a Wahoo.
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Conversely, if we want to improve our high school recruiting pitch, we should be actively telling 17-year-old kids that we will let them play with kickass sabres in the locker room if they play well.
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Itâs even better than that, Chance played starter minutes last night.
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Caption contest for that pic. Iâm going with:
âSword fight in the Menâs locker roomâ
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Or it does because it affects your actual offensive and defensive efficiency metricsâŚ. What it seems all other coaches have known
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Same reaction here. I was like âWhat a great pic of those guys having fun⌠wait, is that a real F**âin sword in his hand?â Heâs got that scary Braveheart look on his face.
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Canât wait for AI to take over announcing on these lower profile games. Pay a few bucks and use the voice print of a famous announcer. Will be much better.
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Nova gave BYU a battle last night in Vegas.
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âBrick killed a guyâ
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Hereâs generally how WAB is calculated: Breaking down the NCAA Division I Menâs and Womenâs Basketball Committeesâ selection criteria - NCAA.org
Wins Against Bubble â A new metric being used by the committee in 2024-25, Wins Against Bubble calculates the expected winning percentage for an average bubble team in each game of a teamâs schedule and then subtracts that total from the teamâs actual number of wins. For example, if an average bubble team was expected to win 19 games against Team Aâs schedule, but Team A won 20, it would have a +1.0 WAB rating. Itâs the amount of wins you have minus the amount of wins an average bubble team would expect to have versus your schedule.
A teamâs own actual offensive and defensive efficiency metrics is not in the equation. A teamâs opponentsâ offensive and defensive efficiency metrics are (this is how you figure out the probability of a bubble-level team winning against each team on your schedule).
Efficiency metrics are on the team sheet, but again, itâs really not clear how the selection committee is weighing them against resume metrics like WAB.
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Yeah those metrics arenât calculating our efficiencies but NET is. They can say its a sorting tool all they want, but it definitely matters and it definitely incentivizes running up the score through winding your efficiencies up against bad teams.
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I would say margin, or really NET ranking, has more of an impact on tournament seeding. Just my read on it, no hard data to back it up. Getting in the tourney is more about resume, who you beat/lost to without much if any consideration of your own ranking. But once you get into seeding, I tend to believe teams with inflated rankings due to early season beatdowns get rewarded to an extent. Iowa State in recent years has gotten it down to an artform.
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