I hope the committee doesn’t use that as an excuse…
by pmoose (2022-11-25 04:24:31)

In reply to: I wonder when L Hamilton last had a 1-5 college team...  posted by Scoop80


…come selection time. They certainly did last year, putting us as the 2nd place ACC team in the play-in game (our OOC performance certainly didn’t help). The ACC teams that got into the tourney last year performed very well - at least played to their seed. Va. Tech lost their opening game, but they were rightly an 11 seed losing to a 6 seed. ND, Miami, and UNC beat better seeds (Miami and UNC doing it multiple times). Duke could be argued to have not played to their seed, never having beat a better seed as they were a 2 seed, but lost to UNC in the Final Four. Hard to argue making the Final Four isn’t playing to your seed, even if you don’t face a better seed.

Luckily, so far ND hasn’t dug themselves a hole in OOC play. Our team now has a chance to make our OOC performance help our resume. A win today will definitely help. A loss wouldn’t be a killer, but we will need to win some tougher games coming up through December. Of the next 9 games, there is only 1 game agains a team that isn’t in the KenPom top 150. Including the game today, we have 4 games agains teams above 100 in KenPom. A winning record from now through end of year will be serviceable. 3 losses or fewer would put us in excellent position going into the bulk of conference play.