SMU losses are not “bad” losses that is part of their higher ranking. FAU is getting the benefit of beating Arizona, coupled with what was a “good” loss to Illinois and beating Texas A&M.
Personally I think the NET is more flawed than the RPI was. I look at what the RPI would be for teams and it fits more what I see in how teams are performing.
Mid Major’s figured out how to make the RPI work for them and the NCAA got tired of calls of bullshit when they’d leave out mid major programs with sub 30 RPIs.
So they created the NET to stack the deck against mid majors even more.
Especially the revised RPI, which removed the home bias, which heavily benefitted the “P5” programs before that, which is why they scrapped the entire system. When they had fixed the formula, too many Mid Major teams earned at large bids (deservedly so).
Cannot have that.
See also: NIT changes.
Bingo - and that’s why you continue to see the Sankey crusade to eliminate auto bids for any non power conference.
Come on UTSA and Rice!
The UAB beat down by rice helps.
The NET also has the built in bias of where each team is even slotted at the start of the season. If you start off at #1, then even with our same schedule and record, you’d still be way up there in the NET ranking, probably still top 25. If we’d have started at #200, with our same schedule and record, we’d still be way down there, probably at 150.
clt says fau had a dunk of the year over smu tonite
https://x.com/barstoolsports/status/1760827381407732083?s=20
Honestly, not super surprising.
At the same time though, I have no doubts that the sec, b10, etc teams are doing the same or more.
UNC CHeat is laughing.
The NCAA has become a bully organization. They pick on the little guys. They know the SEC, BIG, etc. would punch them in the mouth. So, they pick on a smaller one that cannot hire a bunch of lawyers to defend them.
Let the pro teams start their own league and remove the student requirements. The rest of us will play college ball. There would be much less of a need to bend the rules just to keep up.
UNC did the same thing for decades with no real consequences, just championships.
It’s been going on for years but has gotten worse in the last decade. The NCAA slaps the SEC, B1G and ACC schools on the wrist for murder and gives the rest a life sentence for illegal parking. I know what is happening in college sports is awful right now and not fair. In the long run it may be for the best. Just tear it all down and start over with real enforcement and let schools that want to play COLLEGE amateur sports play it and the other 30 play professional paid sports.
FWIW, at this point, looks like the investigation was initiated by Memphis as a pre-emptive move. In addition, the focus is apparently only on Dandridge for now.
https://twitter.com/HitmenHoops/status/1761251559084536271
Of course, with Hardaway’s previous run-ins with the NCAA during his tenure with the Tigers, definitely not a good thing.
Rice beats ECU 70-52
UTSA beats UNT 64-62 (played at UNT)
