Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Deserving or Not Deserving?

We did this with baseball's Cy Young Awards back in November, and now we will apply it to College Basketball.

Which team is most worthy of a bid in the NCAA Tournament:
  • Team A: 13-5 record, 4-2 in conference, 3-5 vs RPI Top 100, Strength of Schedule(SoS) Rank: 26, RPI 29, Conference RPI: 3
  • Team B: 15-4 record, 9-1 in conference, 4-2 vs RPI Top 100, SoS Rank: 79, RPI 20, Conference RPI: 6
  • Team C: 14-4 record, 6-0 in conference, 6-3 vs RPI Top 100, SoS Rank: 53, RPI 32, Conference RPI: 2
  • Team D: 16-1 record, 5-0 in conference, 5-1 vs RPI Top 100, SoS Rank: 245, RPI 44, Conference RPI: 9
  • Team E: 13-6 record, 5-4 in conference, 3-4 vs RPI Top 100, SoS Rank: 140, RPI 100, Conference RPI: 7
  • Team F: 16-6 record, 9-2 in conference, 4-4 vs RPI Top 100, SoS Rank: 103, RPI 45, Conference RPI: 10

Which of these teams is most deserving of an at-large berth? And isn't harder to determine who is in and who is out with the school names removed? To me, all but Team E should receive at-large selections, and Team D gets by only becuase of their outstanding record vs the top 100

The teams:
Team A: Maryland
Team B: Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Team C: West Virginia
Team D: George Washington
Team E: Southern California
Team F: UNC-Wilmington

Unoffiicial RPI from: http://kenpom.com/rpi.php

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