Selection Sunday with reactions

WTSooner said:
I've said for WEEKS that I don't care about the losses.

There are no Q4 teams in the tourney, so I do I care if a team lost to them? This is a single elimination tournament. To advance/win a NC, you have to be able to beat really good teams on neutral sites. Regular season neutral site and road success is a pretty good barometer of that. FAU, and most of the bubble teams we're up against, have done better at that. And it doesn't have to be a quantity issue. More Q1 games should have given OU a chance to have more Q1 wins. We don't. Q1 winning percentage. Look at that. That is telling. So FAU has played down to their opponents some this year. They had more opportunities to do so. Same argument with OU football losing as favorites too often. When you are the favorite in literally every game you play except sometimes the RRR game, of course you are going to lose some games you were favored to win, unless you never lose.

But back to the point, FAU's neutral/away game success, against NCAA Tournament level teams, is why they belong above us.
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Per WTSooner's selection parameters (NET) Away-Neutral site games only. (wasn't sure if I should remove all the bad losses to help or not)

OU's top 5 wins Away and Neutral only:

Q1 - 37 Cincy (A)
Q2 - 62 Iowa
Q1 - 71 TCU (A)
Q2 - 88 USC
Q3 - 115 Arkansas

FAUs top 5 wins Away and Neutral only:

Q1 - 4 Arizona
Q1 - 45 Texas A&M
Q2 - 60 Virginia Tech
Q2 - 68 Butler
Q2 - 79 North Texas (A)

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OU avg rank top5 wins: 74.6
FAU avg rank top5 wins: 51.2

OU avg rank A/N all wins: 82.67 (6)
FAU avg rank A/N all wins: 108.25 (12)

OU avg rank A/N all games: 51.35 (14)
FAU avg rank A/N all games: 111.53 (19)

To show I am not just a monster but definitely a complete stat-whore monster. If you slice it this in depth, yes FAU has a better avg top 5 win on ONLY away and neutral site games. However, FAU also had more opportunities in that set of 19 v 14 played. When you take the entirety, FAU has a much easier A/N site schedule by far...meaning their losses are much more apparent as well. (But in this scenario we ignore losses and/or home losses and only focus on the Arizona win, then yes, FAU is better based on that top category)

My issue with this is, picking on small subset to focus on and not the entirety of it all. Heck, I would accept they are a top offensive efficiency metric team compared to OU, bc that much is true. But to ignore beating good teams bc it is a home win, is silly. (Especially with regions and close to site games)

I will say though, that when it comes to SOS for another team, you completely ignore it/don't care. Unless it is OU, then it's is the end all be all OOC, which are all Q4 and don't matter anyway.
 
The vibe is Dayton or bust. It has been a precipitous fall. I'm going to hop on the Peloton and ride away my angst during the show.
Here's hoping for a bid and yearning for the days of hoping to play the first two games close to home.

I will say this: the NET is made/constructed for teams like us. The NET has the back of mediocre teams from the best conferences.
 
Been out camping. Got alittle service. Looks like things are worse off than when I went off grid lol.
 
TEvans4Three said:
I will say though, that when it comes to SOS for another team, you completely ignore it/don't care. Unless it is OU, then it's is the end all be all OOC, which are all Q4 and don't matter anyway.
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We played one less Q4 game than a team that played in the depleted American Athletic Conference.

That's a problem.
 
Sooner04 said:
The vibe is Dayton or bust. It has been a precipitous fall. I'm going to hop on the Peloton and ride away my angst during the show.
Here's hoping for a bid and yearning for the days of hoping to play the first two games close to home.

I will say this: the NET is made/constructed for teams like us. The NET has the back of mediocre teams from the best conferences.
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When is the last time a team went from top 10 to not even making the tournament?
 
WTSooner said:
We played one less Q4 game than a team that played in the depleted American Athletic Conference.

That's a problem.
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Splitting hairs here

Fau 18 games vs q3/q4
OU 11 games vs q3/q4

I think we could have had a few games in the 100-200 instead of 300+. Will agree there
 
Just noticed…what the heck is reaction score and what are the points?
 
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