In a year where almost everything has gone right for our men’s basketball team and I’m excited about March:
1. We currently sit at #18 in the nation. A bad week and we could be unranked…it won’t be easy but I see us winning at least one of two.
2. Our NET ranking is 47. So much disrespect here. There are bubble teams and teams that flat out suck on the road way ahead of us.
Which brings me to my last point. Anyone that has watched this team play knows this is an ncaa tournament team even though we’re barely in the top 20 and our metrics like NET are below average.
This is why I’m behind an expanded college football playoff. We struggle for national respect. We can win a ton of games and be on the bubble while other programs can be mediocre and still have a shot. If we had Villanova, Wake Forest, Utah or Colorados resume our butt would be headed to the NIT in an instant. And you can say it’s tradition, but outside of Villanova those other 3 don’t have much more tradition than we do if at all.
To be fair we’ve been ranked as high as 11 and I suspect we will be around 15 on Monday. We have a shot to win the conference. But of the 5 teams that still have a shot to win the sec regular season title, we are still the lowest ranked which kinda proves my point.
Win anyway and I love this team, but I am tired of the national disrespect in regards to net ranking especially. To quote Coach Paris “respect us or pay the price!”
1. We currently sit at #18 in the nation. A bad week and we could be unranked…it won’t be easy but I see us winning at least one of two.
2. Our NET ranking is 47. So much disrespect here. There are bubble teams and teams that flat out suck on the road way ahead of us.
Which brings me to my last point. Anyone that has watched this team play knows this is an ncaa tournament team even though we’re barely in the top 20 and our metrics like NET are below average.
This is why I’m behind an expanded college football playoff. We struggle for national respect. We can win a ton of games and be on the bubble while other programs can be mediocre and still have a shot. If we had Villanova, Wake Forest, Utah or Colorados resume our butt would be headed to the NIT in an instant. And you can say it’s tradition, but outside of Villanova those other 3 don’t have much more tradition than we do if at all.
To be fair we’ve been ranked as high as 11 and I suspect we will be around 15 on Monday. We have a shot to win the conference. But of the 5 teams that still have a shot to win the sec regular season title, we are still the lowest ranked which kinda proves my point.
Win anyway and I love this team, but I am tired of the national disrespect in regards to net ranking especially. To quote Coach Paris “respect us or pay the price!”