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This is literally the worst college basketball forum I’ve been on. I’m sorry I came back. Holy shit. Please delete my account. I’m not arguing with tone deaf morons.

1) Toledo is one of our Q1 wins. 2) The coach of this team cares, so yes, apparently it is a big deal. 3) What do you think efficiency rankings are based on? Who you play and how you perform are interrelated. 4) Yes, that’s exactly how the system works. Metrics are much more forgiving when playing better teams.

Which, again, is the point? A team like NIU requires a larger margin of victory to become a positive than Toledo would have.

We moved up 4 spots in Kenpom today playing Akron. We might move up a fifth depending on the game’s left tonight.

1) Obviously. 2) That’s you. You’re not the committee which has traditionally favored mediocre majors over mid-majors. The coach of the team has spoken at length about the need to have good NET, Kenpom, and Sagarin metrics for seeding. 3) We were talking about Toledo. They were a Q1 team. NIU, the other team we’re discussing in context, is Q3. A slim BUFFALO win against them is probably a drop in Buffalo’s metrics. We’re not talking about a loss. 4) This Buffalo team is good. However, metrics are going to play a role in seeding whether you like it or not. With potential mid-major bias of the committee, we should be aiming to put our best resume forward, including having the best metrics we can.

A victory against NIU is worse for the metrics, something that Nate Oats cares about, than Toledo. Even beating NIU within 10-12 points would probably be a negative. We’d have to hammer them to not drop.

The key is going to be the financials/buyout amount. Any word on the details? EDIT: per wgrz.com University at Buffalo announced Thursday afternoon that the college has signed the men's basketball coach to a 5-year extension with an annual salary of $837,000 which includes a base salary of $612,000 and $225,000 to be raised through philanthropic gifts designated to the men's basketball program.

I’m not too worried about Akron, even if we come out flat. The only team that seems to have had our number a bit is Bowling Green. I’m weary of potentially facing them.

Teamrankings is almost dead last when it comes to their prediction accuracy per The Bracket Project.

Alright, I guess I should be thrilled with four minutes of good ball against mediocre competition. Enjoy your dead board with ten members. I’m out.

If UB is the team we all hope, a top-25 team, they have no business looking as sloppy as they have for about four games straight now. Kent State is 146 in Kenpom. Good MAC school or not, Buffalo is supposed to be on another level than a team like Kent State (and multiple levels from NIU, etc.) And they should be, because you watch the games, and you can see long stretches of sloppy and lazy play from Buffalo. It’s not “tough.” Play like a team that would be ranked #14 because right now, they aren’t.

Lunardi isn’t worth much. He’s one of the least accurate bracketologists over the past five years.

You guys still want to downplay the downright sloppy ball UB’s been playing the past two weeks? This team is out of sync.

This feels like a Huskies upset to me. Hopefully UB comes out and plays a complete game, not one of their patented slow start, build a big lead, and then let the other team hang around and chip away at it type games.

This is way too close for comfort against what might be the worst team in the MAC. We drop this game and we’re going to be punished severely come rankings time.