rec.sport.basketball.college

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>> Non-Memphis teams against Sagarin top 50 competition: 0-36. The highest rated
>> conference to go oh-fer against the top 50 is the #22 (of 32) Big Sky. The funny
>> part is that a lot of conferences that do have wins against top 50 teams did it
>> with far less tries than 36.
>
> Point well made, but it would be better made if you looked at only non-
> conference games against the top 50. 17 of those 36 losses are to
> other CUSA teams. 0-19 isn't great either, but that's the statistic
> that you should use to compare with other conferences. Just curious..
> how is the ACC (minus Duke and UNC) doing against the top 50 in non-
> conference games?

15-40 for non-Duke/UNC, but it is somewhat telling we have to remove
two teams to warrant a comparison.

Oddly, for all the talk of every major conference being down this year,
the Sagarin ratings look about what I remember to be typical for the
Big 6.

> How is the SEC (minus UT) doing in similar games? I
> doubt they're anything close to 0-19, but I also doubt that they are
> living up to their usual standards. Again.. I'm just curious, I'm not
> trying to insult the mighty ACC.

You don't have to. Sagarin dropped us to #3.

>> In other news, the ACC is considering changing its basketball scheduling so that
>> all teams play home-and-aways with each other. The thought is that FSU is going
>> to be facing a post season ban anyway, and the Ivy League has made a hoops-only
>> offer to Virginia. The ACC will be asking FSU to find some other league, and
>> depending on how well the ACC bottom feeders do, FSU and UVA can win spots back
>> by either having a higher Sagarin rating, or by winning their conference regular
>> season, or by winning an NCAA tournament game (the thought being that winning a
>> conference tournament could be a fluke). The ACC may add in an NIT championship
>> for qualifying to return, but a few schools are currently objecting to that one.
>>
>
> Could this be the year that we see three ACC teams in the Big Apple
> Final 4?

Could be -- the ACC has plenty of schools with basketball tradition,
a winning record, and won't be in the NCAAs.

--Tedward