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Korver leads the team in Offensive Rating, effective FG% and True Shooting %. He has a role, and he excels at that role.
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So that's what happened to Roberto Hernandez.
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I'm not even sure where to put this...but this is the best thing ever: Sports posters of the '80s
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The Clippers beat Dallas on a last-second Billups 3...when down one. Still, the Lakers 9-1 at home and the Clippers are 7-1 at home, with the only team to beat either being the Bulls.
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This is why I think "bad losses" is a rather overrated factor. Who cares? At least for the teams not at the top of the bracket, every NCAA tournament game is against a good team (though, obviously, the tournament has been partially watered-down, but still). Showing an ability to beat good teams should be the most important factor. I think that's largely a different issue all together. Best wins give a measure of how good a team can be at their best. Bad losses give a measure of how bad a team can be at their worst. Both are valid considerations for at-large worth. Of course, how applicable a bad loss or two in Vegas six months before tournament selection is to a team's at-large worth is a separate discussion...
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If this statement is backed up with anything (I would assume it is because you usually have good support for your statements) that would pretty much diffuse the importance of road wins. I would assume that good teams win on the road more often because they are good rather then road wins make a good team though that's just a guess. I remembered something about it last week from KP, but it was from his twitter referencing this story. Basically, in terms of predicting game outcomes, it's far more important who you play than where you play them. The general point difference against an opponent between a home game and a road game is a little under 7 points (so 3.5 between home and neutral), which is, for example, less than the expected point difference between Ohio State (1) and UNLV (15) as an opponent.
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Plus, road wins aren't predictive at all in terms of quality of the team. Every NCAA tournament game is on a neutral site, not in an opponent's home gym. Plus, they beat Memphis, UCLA and Oakland on neutral floors.
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Cubs announce LED board and patio in RF bleachers for 2012
bukie replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Which would be completely new and different for the Raiders!
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Toccoa Falls, it may be time to just take Western Carolina off the schedule.
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Viable reasons to dislike the Ravens: - Dislike Ray Lewis - Still not over the move from Cleveland - Prefer pretty offensive football - The Brian Billick/Tony Siragusa announcing combo makes you want to throw things at the TV - Petty dislike of Edgar Allen Poe - Unnatural hatred of the color purple
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When you're good and playing them at home. Michigan still hasn't proven much to me. If beating a top 10 team doesn't prove much, you've set the bar a little high. Rankings mean absolutely NOTHING.....why is that so hard for people, especially college bball fans, to understand? Beating a good team at home is a decent win, nothing more. Polls mean nothing. Ratings mean something, and beating a great team at home is a great win. You're being patently absurd here if beating a top 10 rated team at home is merely decent, because then nobody has a good win. EDIT: Wait, I was wrong, Indiana is the only consensus top 10 team that has a non-road loss, so congrats Minnesota! You have the only good win in college basketball this year!
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When you're good and playing them at home. Michigan still hasn't proven much to me. If beating a top 10 team doesn't prove much, you've set the bar a little high.
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Those really vary wildly, though, from a 2 seed to a 9 seed. As for Palm, as much as he is a smug d-bag about it (which appears to be a prereq for a sports journalist at CBSSports.com), he is right that the RPI is the only statistic measure that has any meaning for the actual committee.
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Yeah, all of a sudden, not going to Breslin seems like a sweet deal.
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Is it still ok for me to know that it's based on current status and not end of year and still think it's funny Illinois is a 2 seed and Big Ten champ?
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I almost did a spit take: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
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The NBA West is just plain bad on the road so far this year. Only the Thunder have more road wins than the Nets.
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No, their software is still all run off RPI, at least as of last March. They may not look at a team's RPI specifically, but all the results are based off opponent RPI (I think they also still look at RPI). If anything, instead of overusing RPI they're just being completely subjective (see: VCU, UTEP, Utah State) and putting in teams they think should get a chance just because.
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What were the others? Memphis (RPI: 28) on a neutral court, Minnesota (38), Northwestern (25), Wisconsin (46), and now Michigan State (6). Also since they were talked about above, the great Iowa State (51). RPI is stupid but the selection committee thinks its important. No they really don't. Everything they get is based on RPI, like record vs top 50, record vs top 100, bad losses, it's all based off a team's RPI. The committee uses it a lot more than they should, since it's the only statistical basis they actually use aside from road/neutral record.
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Re: What would you deal Garza for?
bukie replied to toonsterwu's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Not sure how losing Victor Martinez is going to make the Tigers more desperate for Garza. I think he'd make a lousy DH. -
Cubs announce LED board and patio in RF bleachers for 2012
bukie replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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That's not really a good comp. The A-10 is typically a much stronger league than any of these other conferences like the Colonial or the Horizon. When you typically get 3-4 teams in every year, the conference/team gets a lot more clout when they run through it like St. Joe's did that year. The A-10, Colonial, and Horizon are each much better conferences than the Ohio Valley. Murray State is the only team in the Ohio Valley that's in the top 200 of the RPI (Tennessee Tech is #180 KenPom). Any loss for Murray State from here on out, aside from the Bracket Busters game, will be a bad loss.
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sarcasm? Are they even a tourny team? RPI 51, only top 100 win was at home against Texas (next best was #103 Iowa). Losses to Drake, Michigan, Northern Iowa, Missouri, Kansas. Plenty of time to build a tournament resume in a solid league, but they're certainly not there yet.
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And here's an accompanying "unveiling" video:
