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This is how I explained it to my 5 year old.azgreg wrote:[tweet]https://media.tenor.com/images/b801459c ... /tenor.gif[/tweet]Chicat wrote:We got swept and our Net rating went up.
The algorithm used to calculate the net rankings takes many things into account to come up with a non predictive rating that the committee can use to "seed" teams. However there seems to be some predictive analytics quality to it.
Since the to games we lost were to teams that were decently regarded in the net and they were away games and they were not blow outs they did not count against us, and with the vast amount of other highly rated teams losing this weekend to inferior teams at home in some cases, it made our relative position in the metric appear to rise compared to the rest of the population.
Arizona State might have the most surprisingly anemic history in men's basketball of any program that you might think is better than it is.
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U.P. Zona Fan wrote:This is how I explained it to my 5 year old.azgreg wrote:[tweet]https://media.tenor.com/images/b801459c ... /tenor.gif[/tweet]Chicat wrote:We got swept and our Net rating went up.
The algorithm used to calculate the net rankings takes many things into account to come up with a non predictive rating that the committee can use to "seed" teams. However there seems to be some predictive analytics quality to it.
Since the to games we lost were to teams that were decently regarded in the net and they were away games and they were not blow outs they did not count against us, and with the vast amount of other highly rated teams losing this weekend to inferior teams at home in some cases, it made our relative position in the metric appear to rise compared to the rest of the population.
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Ha , that's what my five year old said too!azgreg wrote:U.P. Zona Fan wrote:This is how I explained it to my 5 year old.azgreg wrote:[tweet]https://media.tenor.com/images/b801459c ... /tenor.gif[/tweet]Chicat wrote:We got swept and our Net rating went up.
The algorithm used to calculate the net rankings takes many things into account to come up with a non predictive rating that the committee can use to "seed" teams. However there seems to be some predictive analytics quality to it.
Since the to games we lost were to teams that were decently regarded in the net and they were away games and they were not blow outs they did not count against us, and with the vast amount of other highly rated teams losing this weekend to inferior teams at home in some cases, it made our relative position in the metric appear to rise compared to the rest of the population.
Arizona State might have the most surprisingly anemic history in men's basketball of any program that you might think is better than it is.
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Chevy was great - Arizona needs to rebound and win two at home.
if they do a middling seed is likely
if they do a middling seed is likely
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If we don't sweep the Washington schools at home I'm done wasting my time watching this team play this year.97cats wrote:Chevy was great - Arizona needs to rebound and win two at home.
if they do a middling seed is likely
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ive felt your pain this year, my man - im gonna ask ya to hang in there with me.Alieberman wrote:If we don't sweep the Washington schools at home I'm done wasting my time watching this team play this year.
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The cats are going to sweep this weekendAlieberman wrote:If we don't sweep the Washington schools at home I'm done wasting my time watching this team play this year.97cats wrote:Chevy was great - Arizona needs to rebound and win two at home.
if they do a middling seed is likely
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yip.97cats wrote:ive felt your pain this year, my man - im gonna ask ya to hang in there with me.Alieberman wrote:If we don't sweep the Washington schools at home I'm done wasting my time watching this team play this year.
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I'm as confident that we'll go 2-0 this week as I was that we wouldn't last week.
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I'm out. This team sucks. Miller has lost it. Losing on Senior night.... again.97cats wrote:ive felt your pain this year, my man - im gonna ask ya to hang in there with me.Alieberman wrote:If we don't sweep the Washington schools at home I'm done wasting my time watching this team play this year.
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To the last place team in the conference. Figured I'd point that out as well.Alieberman wrote:I'm out. This team sucks. Miller has lost it. Losing on Senior night.... again.97cats wrote:ive felt your pain this year, my man - im gonna ask ya to hang in there with me.Alieberman wrote:If we don't sweep the Washington schools at home I'm done wasting my time watching this team play this year.
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I would be ok with this bracket, https://bracketville.wordpress.com/bracketology/" target="_blank
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Ditto.Irish27 wrote:I would be ok with this bracket, https://bracketville.wordpress.com/bracketology/" target="_blank
Only #1 seed to stay away from is Kansas. Although I really don't think it matters at this point. This team is what they are...and it isn't very good.
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It’s possible I’m losing it, but I relish the possibility of facing a #1 seed in the second round, provided we can get out of the first (lol!). For all its warts, this team has actually performed well against Gonzaga, Baylor and Oregon. Maybe the pressure and high-stakes of facing a top seed is what this team needs to light a fire under its ass and play good basketball for two halves. Or maybe I’m still just sipping the Kool-Aid.
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No fans at either men's or women's tournament. Holy shit.
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SabinoDrifter wrote:No fans at either men's or women's tournament. Holy shit.
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So stupid. So the audio will be commentators and squeaky shoes for 2 hours?
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Wow, I applaud your fandom. Can't get past the flaming dumpster in my view.Beachcat97 wrote:It’s possible I’m losing it, but I relish the possibility of facing a #1 seed in the second round, provided we can get out of the first (lol!). For all its warts, this team has actually performed well against Gonzaga, Baylor and Oregon. Maybe the pressure and high-stakes of facing a top seed is what this team needs to light a fire under its ass and play good basketball for two halves. Or maybe I’m still just sipping the Kool-Aid.
Btw, that's piss with red dye number five, not Kool-aid. But keep on drinkin..
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Not sure how preventing disease spread is stupidJefe wrote:So stupid. So the audio will be commentators and squeaky shoes for 2 hours?
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.
i'll just go with fuck asu.
i'll just go with fuck asu.
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What I don't understand is why we're talking about "empty arenas." Why waste arenas on games with no fans? Why not put those NCAA tournament floors inside high-end, modern gyms? And why not take advantage of the absence of noise by letting us hear the voices of players and coaches and officials? It could actually be an interesting TV experience.Jefe wrote:So stupid. So the audio will be commentators and squeaky shoes for 2 hours?
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This will be interesting. Some if not most players at this level play better in front of a fired up crowd. It's going to take a strong mental game to play their best now.
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This is a really good idea, and I wish they'd do this instead. It'd really get people talking and maybe encourage less commentating in the future.Longhorned wrote:What I don't understand is why we're talking about "empty arenas." Why waste arenas on games with no fans? Why not put those NCAA tournament floors inside high-end, modern gyms? And why not take advantage of the absence of noise by letting us hear the voices of players and coaches and officials? It could actually be an interesting TV experience.Jefe wrote:So stupid. So the audio will be commentators and squeaky shoes for 2 hours?
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Are the crowds ever fired up in these tourney games? Attendance is pretty low in the open rounds. In the Final Four, the crowd is largely neutral, and the distance of the fans from the courts sucks all the energy out of our TV's.azgreg wrote:This will be interesting. Some if not most players at this level play better in front of a fired up crowd. It's going to take a strong mental game to play their best now.
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Longhorned wrote:What I don't understand is why we're talking about "empty arenas." Why waste arenas on games with no fans? Why not put those NCAA tournament floors inside high-end, modern gyms? And why not take advantage of the absence of noise by letting us hear the voices of players and coaches and officials? It could actually be an interesting TV experience.Jefe wrote:So stupid. So the audio will be commentators and squeaky shoes for 2 hours?
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Actually, most first week games only bring in the crowd when an upset starts happening.... That's been my experience when I've been in the arena....Longhorned wrote:Are the crowds ever fired up in these tourney games? Attendance is pretty low in the open rounds. In the Final Four, the crowd is largely neutral, and the distance of the fans from the courts sucks all the energy out of our TV's.azgreg wrote:This will be interesting. Some if not most players at this level play better in front of a fired up crowd. It's going to take a strong mental game to play their best now.
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Actually... this could be great for our Cats. These games are going to feel like practices and we always hear about how well we play / shoot in practice.azgreg wrote:This will be interesting. Some if not most players at this level play better in front of a fired up crowd. It's going to take a strong mental game to play their best now.
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Too bad barcello is at BYU. Hope we don't play them.
Arizona State might have the most surprisingly anemic history in men's basketball of any program that you might think is better than it is.
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U.P. Zona Fan wrote:Too bad barcello is at BYU. Hope we don't play them.
He looked exactly like he did at UA in the game against Saint Mary’s
No mistakes, nothing of note, non factor on both sides of the ball except now he plays a ton of minutes. 4 year borderline role player
Back to the topic: Scheer mentioned early in the season that Mannion plays much better in big hyped up games, so if that’s the case, I’m worried what a dead arena will do to his already roller coaster game
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49% from 3 on the year.eoe wrote:U.P. Zona Fan wrote:Too bad barcello is at BYU. Hope we don't play them.
He looked exactly like he did at UA in the game against Saint Mary’s
No mistakes, nothing of note, non factor on both sides of the ball except now he plays a ton of minutes. 4 year borderline role player
Back to the topic: Scheer mentioned early in the season that Mannion plays much better in big hyped up games, so if that’s the case, I’m worried what a dead arena will do to his already roller coaster game
Arizona State might have the most surprisingly anemic history in men's basketball of any program that you might think is better than it is.
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NBA suspended their season after a player tested positive for the covid 19
Wonder what the next step is for the NCAA
Wonder what the next step is for the NCAA
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NCAA tourney has 68 teams. Much bigger. 2019-2020 is over.U.P. Zona Fan wrote:NBA suspended their season after a player tested positive for the covid 19
Wonder what the next step is for the NCAA
Arizona finally won its last tourney game of the year. We're champions!
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Well there's the ending no one saw coming.Longhorned wrote:Arizona finally won its last tourney game of the year. We're champions!
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There aren’t enough tests in enough places to test every kid, coach, and ref. Right now, tests are really only being done on people who exhibit severe symptoms AND traveled from an area where there is a severe outbreak or came into contact with someone who has it.U.P. Zona Fan wrote:NBA suspended their season after a player tested positive for the covid 19
Wonder what the next step is for the NCAA
So, can you put all those people together not knowing if one, five, ten, or fifty of them have it?
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If the tourney gets canceled, Piece of Meat should post the game times and game threads for every game Arizona is in for a virtual tourney. Of course, we should do 1997. Everyone can gather at the designated time in the game thread and watch every game unfold.
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Seriously they should just cancel it all at this point.Chicat wrote:There aren’t enough tests in enough places to test every kid, coach, and ref. Right now, tests are really only being done on people who exhibit severe symptoms AND traveled from an area where there is a severe outbreak or came into contact with someone who has it.U.P. Zona Fan wrote:NBA suspended their season after a player tested positive for the covid 19
Wonder what the next step is for the NCAA
So, can you put all those people together not knowing if one, five, ten, or fifty of them have it?
alrightLonghorned wrote:If the tourney gets canceled, Piece of Meat should post the game times and game threads for every game Arizona is in for a virtual tourney. Of course, we should do 1997. Everyone can gather at the designated time in the game thread and watch every game unfold.
It's long past time to bring this back to the court, let's do it with a small update:
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Can't wait for the Selection Show on Sunday!
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Alieberman wrote:Can't wait for the Selection Show on Sunday!
Has Lunardi been laid off yet?
How will he pay for his toupees?
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I'm gonna laugh so hard when the NCAA tries to "postpone" the tourney for "amateurs".
Cancel the season already, and this Creighton vs. St. Johns game, the final game of the season, is for the natty.
Cancel the season already, and this Creighton vs. St. Johns game, the final game of the season, is for the natty.
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I kinda wish they would release the seedings online, just so we know what we would've been seeded and who we could've played.
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Those will not be accurate as they would want to seed to reduce travel anyway.AZCatGirl wrote:I kinda wish they would release the seedings online, just so we know what we would've been seeded and who we could've played.
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and there it is.
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yeah the acc came out and cancelled everythingMerkin wrote:and there it is.
https://kentuckysportsradio.com/basketb ... ournament/" target="_blank
without the acc, there's no ncaa tourney
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Can a team of computer engineers quickly create virtual reality headsets with body sensors guiding the motion of inanimate dummies? So that every player will be alone on the court with nine dummies, and a video feed from a neutral perspective will be broadcast on TV? Just asking.
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Well, it’s nice to know Duke is the first team officially out of the NCAA tourney.Merkin wrote:and there it is.
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lmfaozonagrad wrote:Well, it’s nice to know Duke is the first team officially out of the NCAA tourney.Merkin wrote:and there it is.
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zonagrad wrote:Well, it’s nice to know Duke is the first team officially out of the NCAA tourney.Merkin wrote:and there it is.
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Well, finally official
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Officially over. Not postponed. Finished.