This is not a vent board or any other kind of therapy. Before you hit the POST button, ask yourself if your contribution will add to the level of discussion going on.

Important notes on articles:

• Please do not copy entire articles into your post; rather, provide links to them.. We are now links-only for ALL Internet publications. If only a small portion of the article pertains to your post, Fair Use allows you to copy those one or two paragraphs, provided you cite the author's name and the publication for which he writes. Otherwise, put a link in the HTTP Link box.
• Even if you're copying a reference to an article, provide a link to the page from which the article came. We're trying to cut down on duplicate topics, and the posting process will check the link to your article to see if it's already being discussed on this board. At the very least, you'll save yourself some grief on the boards.
• If your first reaction after reading the article you're going to share is the author is uninformed / stupid / a jerk / all of the above, it's not worth sharing with anyone. Not every article needs to be discussed. The more the hair-pulling articles are discussed (e.g. ESPN Page 2), the more the authors will write hair-pulling articles.

Post being replied to

I hope the committee doesn’t use that as an excuse… by pmoose

…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.