TV Ted coming up for the buzzer beating...........



no call

3/7/2013 8:51:14 PM

Snaer needs to pump fake Harris into the air and get a foul call

3/7/2013 8:51:40 PM

Refs giving this one to UVA

3/7/2013 8:51:44 PM

OH HELL YES

3/7/2013 8:52:44 PM

i thought the refs werent supposed to call fouls this late in ACC games?

3/7/2013 8:52:57 PM

Joe Harris 3 ftw

3/7/2013 8:53:09 PM

Snaered

3/7/2013 8:53:12 PM

what a beast

make your FTs

3/7/2013 8:53:13 PM

look the fuck out for Joe Harris after this FT

3/7/2013 8:53:15 PM

still too much time

3/7/2013 8:53:45 PM

Haistily made sign

3/7/2013 8:54:07 PM

Yeah he read my post

3/7/2013 8:54:30 PM

LOL

3/7/2013 8:55:13 PM

3/7/2013 8:55:14 PM

3/7/2013 8:55:15 PM

Yes. Fuck yes

3/7/2013 8:55:21 PM

WHOOOO now we get to fuck this up ourselves

3/7/2013 8:55:24 PM

WIN AND WE'RE IN!

3/7/2013 8:55:28 PM

Sweet play by your ACC POY Joe Harris!

3/7/2013 8:55:35 PM

snaer'd

3/7/2013 8:55:39 PM

FUCK YES!

3/7/2013 8:55:42 PM

Good good. Update the scenarios.

3/7/2013 8:55:46 PM

Quote :

"WHOOOO now we get to fuck this up ourselves"

sad but true

3/7/2013 8:56:33 PM

Now here's hoping we don't get Snaer'd

3/7/2013 8:56:36 PM

Quote :

"WHOOOO now we get to fuck this up ourselves "

word

3/7/2013 8:56:55 PM

There's no way we lose in Tallahassee

[Edited on March 7, 2013 at 8:59 PM. Reason : ]

3/7/2013 8:57:17 PM

w00t

go pack! the tourney starts this weekend, win and we're into the quarters!

3/7/2013 8:57:24 PM

and that puts UVA back on the bubble, ACC might be a 4 bid league this year

3/7/2013 8:59:53 PM

that bursts their bubble, too many bad losses

3/7/2013 9:00:47 PM

how is UVA on the bubble? their kenpom is top-20, they're a very good team

3/7/2013 9:00:51 PM

They showed a graphic of all UVA's bad losses. There was like 10. How in the fuck were they even in consideration.

3/7/2013 9:01:35 PM

Thanks Snaer.

I hope we get the 3 seed. I ain't skurred of Duke.

3/7/2013 9:02:32 PM

Kenpom loves "defensive" teams. UVA playing ball like its 1937 qualifies as good defense apparently.

3/7/2013 9:02:56 PM

but kenpom!

3/7/2013 9:03:00 PM

I want the highest seed possible but I'd prefer to get matched up in the same side as Miami over Duke/UNC

3/7/2013 9:03:56 PM

I know you're just trolling with Kenpom, but this was even before their loss:

Quote :

"Virginia [20-9 (10-6), RPI: 62, SOS: 132] The Cavaliers have one of the greatest -- and by "greatest," I mean "most bemusing" -- NCAA tournament profiles of all time. The past seven days are a perfect example why. Last Thursday, UVa got the win of its season, an impressive wire-to-wire 73-68 performance against Duke. And three days later -- of course -- the Cavaliers lost at Boston College. That dynamic is why UVa's nitty-gritty page is so lopsided. There's a series of great wins over Duke, UNC, NC State and at Wisconsin; there are also losses to Georgia Tech, BC, Wake Forest, Clemson, Delaware, George Mason and Old Dominion. It was easier to write some of the bad losses off as injury-riddled, early-season slip-ups, but it's harder to do so after BC. And that whole truckload of ugly makes wins in Virginia's final two games -- at Florida State and against Maryland -- musts. "

3/7/2013 9:04:19 PM

looks like the weatherman needs to tweak his formula for the 10th straight season

3/7/2013 9:05:53 PM

i've read that the lowest rpi + kenpom rankings makes for a good ncaa field predictor

3/7/2013 9:06:15 PM

Quote :

"Imagine being a mediocre team and be near unwatchable."

you say that as if that's never happened to us

[Edited on March 7, 2013 at 9:29 PM. Reason : maybe that was the joke]

3/7/2013 9:28:24 PM

whats really funny about Virginia being 15th in the nation in kenpom going into today (with a 20-0 record) is that pomeroy had him ranked as a better team than Georgetown

bubble team > #1 seed

5th in the ACC > 1st in the Big East

[Edited on March 7, 2013 at 9:39 PM. Reason : .]

3/7/2013 9:39:12 PM

Virginia will do well in the NIT

3/7/2013 9:57:26 PM

haha i meant 20-9 not 20-0

3/7/2013 10:16:34 PM

I do like how face lumped Virginia in with the "great" ACC teams like Duke, Miami and UNC just a week ago and said we don't measure up.

I know the value of advanced statistics, but you also have to use your brain sometimes. Virginia is a team that can frustrate any team in the nation in to a close game. They are also a team that can, and has, frustrated their own fanbase in to figuring out how they fuck they lost 7 games against TERRIBLE teams.

But they have to be NIT favorites.

[Edited on March 7, 2013 at 10:21 PM. Reason : i also see wisconsin is on pace for 30 tonight]

3/7/2013 10:20:10 PM

theyll probably lose in the first round of the NIT to jacksonville state

3/7/2013 10:43:25 PM

Looks like Kentucky is headed for the NIT.

3/7/2013 10:49:19 PM

Kentucky is the new VPI

3/7/2013 10:55:05 PM

Everyone on UK hates Harrow.

3/7/2013 11:02:38 PM

I calculated the ranking I talked about a few posts up (credit to http://basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2053 )

This method (according to the guy who came up with it) is as good (and better than most) "bracketology experts". These are the rankings from games through Wednesday. 40-60 are generally "on the bubble". If no automatic bids came from crappy conferences you could just pick the top 68, but obviously that isn't right. Somewhere around 50 is a good line to draw. So according to this method Virginia is solidly in (as is Kentucky).


Team RPI KP Combined
1 Duke 1 5 6
2 Louisville 3 3 6
3 FL 6 1 7
4 Kansas 5 6 11
5 Indiana 10 2 12
6 Gonzaga 9 4 13
7 Miami 4 13 17
8 Mich St 7 11 18
9 Michigan 8 12 20
10 Ohio State 15 9 24
11 Syracuse 16 10 26
12 New Mexico 2 25 27
13 Georgetown 12 18 30
14 Marquette 11 24 35
15 Arizona 14 23 37
16 Minnesota 20 17 37
17 VCU 24 14 38
18 Colorado St 17 22 39
19 Pittsburgh 35 7 42
20 UNLV 13 30 43
21 N. Carolina 18 26 44
22 Ok State 30 16 46
23 Missouri 29 19 48
24 Wisconsin 40 8 48
25 Mid Tenn 23 27 50
26 Creighton 33 21 54
27 K State 21 36 57
28 SD State 31 28 59
29 Memphis 19 41 60
30 NC State 26 35 61
31 Saint Louis 32 29 61
32 Belmont 22 40 62
33 Oklahoma 25 44 69
34 Saint Marys 36 36 72
35 Wichita St 39 34 73
36 Notre Dame 43 32 75
37 Colorado 28 48 76
38 Illinois 34 43 77
39 Virginia 63 15 78
40 La Salle 38 45 83
41 Cincinnati 45 38 83
42 UCLA 37 49 86
43 Oregon 47 39 86
44 Kentucky 53 33 86
45 Butler 27 60 87
46 Iowa State 51 37 88
47 Boise State 44 50 94
48 UConn 46 52 98
49 Villanova 52 47 99
50 S Miss 42 59 101
51 Akron 48 54 102
52 California 50 55 105
53 Stanford 59 46 105
54 Ole Miss 57 51 108
55 Iowa 78 31 109
56 Bucknell 54 57 111
57 Louis. Tech 49 64 113
58 Denver 71 42 113
59 Temple 41 73 114
60 Baylor 67 53 120

3/8/2013 12:07:31 AM

Men. That is just the average of RPI and Kenpom.

The selection committee doesn't use Pomeroy's rankings. They look at record, quality wins, bad losses, last 10 games and RPI. If the team had a major injury during a losing streak, they factor that in as well.

UVA and Kentucky are both on the outside looking in.

3/8/2013 1:54:16 AM

^^Only 2 of the top 50 aren't in Lunardi's latest bracket (Kentucky & S Miss are both on his last 4 out)

3/8/2013 3:11:39 AM