As I said that is a travesty
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Possible path has us playing #11, #16, #6, #3, #2 and #1. Let’s have a miracle year with one of toughest paths ever
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With a Net rating of 90 I would not expect much higher than a 14 seed. We lost too many games early on. People may forget we started off the season 1-4 with a 56 point loss to Chapel Hill. We had to dig ourselves out of a huge hole. If we had won a few more games early on our OOC schedule was strong enough that we could have gotten an at-large bid if we lost in the finals. It took some time for our new players to gel.
Rutgers was awarded an 11 seed in the men’s tournament as an at large with a 77 NET.
Do not feed me this 
about NET ratings and seedings. First off, as I have said repeatedly, the NET is a bogus statistic. It is RPI 3.0. RPI 1.0 had a 75% weight against opponents record without taking into account how many home games those opponents played to achieve that winning %. Therefore it HEAVILY favored “power” conferences who played almost all of their non conference games at home or in very friendly “neutral” sites. Eventually, someone finally put a stop to that crap by adjusting the formula, I’m calling it RPI 2.0, with a home vs road factor that made the formula a lot more fair and honest. Low and behold within a year or so of that the MVC has 4 or 5 teams in the RPI top 50 and one year, CUSA even got 5 bids. Can’t have that… The next season after that the talking points went out to downplay RPI, until ultimately it was scrapped entirely. Always to the benefit of getting mediocre to bad power conference teams into the tournament, over 25+ win non power teams, even when the so called power schools couldn’t even go .500 in their own leagues.
The NET is just RPI 3.0… a little more subtle, but just as biased, and this year it rewarded horribly unworthy sub .500 in their own leagues teams like Michigan with NCAA bids over teams like North Texas. And the NET was used as justification.
It’s all bullcrap. It’s about money and power. The power leagues hated those years in the mid aughts when they had to share at large bids and revenue with the non power leagues. Never again. They will manipulate the conversation any way they can to avoid that.
This also includes seeding and matchups in the tournament. They love to pair up non power teams in early rounds to quickly exit 50% of them. And when they do match them up with a power program, it’s usually a huge seeding disparity with the power league team playing locally to ensure a home environment. Basically they stack the deck as much as they can against the non power teams.
In this case, our Lady Niners, who WON THEIR DAMN LEAGUE AND THEIR CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT are rewarded with a trip to freaking Bloomington to play Indiana on their literal home floor. What a crock of .
Indiana finished FIFTH in the Big 10 regular season and did not win their conference tournament either - Iowa did. Yet they get a freaking home game in round 1?
The Lady 49ers deserved a lot better than the screw job they got. And it pisses me off to watch our own fans fall for the talking points that the power schools put out there to justify this treatment. You’re all a lot smarter than that. Don’t fall for it.
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Perfectly stated
Amen !!!
Say what you want about the NET, but like it or not its today’s measuing stick. It has flaws but its a step in the right direction.
On the mens side Lunardi disagrees. Lol
“I am almost ready to pronounce the days of insufferable major conference bias to be at an end. Wyoming out-pointed Texas A&M for the final at-large spot this year, and Wichita State did the same to Louisville last season. If memory serves, Belmont was the last at-large selection in the pre-pandemic 2019 tournament. This is good for both the health of the sport overall and interest in the early rounds. It is also supported by overwhelming data that the teams I’ve taken to calling “middling” majors generally perform very poorly.”
NICE!!!
Do not mean to derail. Carry-on…
Counterpoint to Lunardi:
All but one of those are so called power conference schools (Creighton is Big East).
Also:
https://twitter.com/KyleRowland/status/1503137448754307083
It’s still just as effing broken as ever.
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All we have to do is win one and we become the 3 seed !
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“Deleware” ? Observer has no spell check.
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In store purchases only! WTF.
I bought one online when they first became available. Don’t know why they changed it to in-store purchase only
Four teams out of CUSA made the WNIT field, for whatever that’s worth (probably not much)
MTSU, La Tech, UNT, Old Dominion.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cdrummond97/status/1504529406060019722?cxt=HHwWlICypcDhlOEpAAAA
Meanwhile, from the Big O:
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From the Bloomington newspaper:
I’m hoping for a huge upset, but I’m afraid this will not be pretty for us.
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Six huge upsets
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