Tee4three Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 When ub beats Michigan it is gonna get even tougher to schedule P6 schools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squire17 Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 When UB beats Michigan, it can get choosy. But until then it should schedule tough opponents whenever possible even if they are all on the road. Show some confidence that you are a competitor. Beating Daemen at home doesn’t cut it. Schedule the toughest teams possible every year, even if you’ve got to go on the road. Every year. Show that you will mix it up. The MAC just doesn’t cut it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBulls99 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 12 hours ago, squire17 said: Who was the AD when Oats was the coach? Check out how he did it. Even go back to when Reggie was coach. Michigan we got because of Manuel. Bona is recurring. No idea about WK…is Bearden in their employ? But that’s it? Are you kidding me? Your’e satisfied with that? What a joke. Who said satisfied? I think the home schedule especially is bad. I don’t like it. But you literally said they’re not trying. They are. Those are two different things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 1 hour ago, DaBulls99 said: Who said satisfied? I think the home schedule especially is bad. I don’t like it. But you literally said they’re not trying. They are. Those are two different things. I agree that the home schedule is disappointing. However, from an overall perspective, this schedule is a challenging schedule. At a minimum, it prepares us well for the MAC and at its best, it could put us in position to be considered for an at large (this outcome will be very difficult - see below comparison of this year to 2018-19 to see what it will take this year) 2018-19 2021-22 If UB plays St. Louis, they will have two quad 1 games and 7 quad 2 games. This compares to 3 quad 1 and 6 quad 2. Both have 9 quad 1/2 games. This year we have more quad 4 games due to bottom 5 teams being so weak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 You don’t get at large bid or consideration by just playing Q1/2 games. You gotta win them. For UB to even sniff an at large we gotta pretty much win every non conference game except for Michigan (although a win there goes a looong way). Then not lose more than 3 conference games and make the conference title game. Tough ask. I think for the most part the schedule is good. I just really hate the two glorified exhibition games. Would rather play a Q4 home game or go on the road and play a tough Q1/2 game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 2 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said: You don’t get at large bid or consideration by just playing Q1/2 games. You gotta win them. For UB to even sniff an at large we gotta pretty much win every non conference game except for Michigan (although a win there goes a looong way). Then not lose more than 3 conference games and make the conference title game. Tough ask. I think for the most part the schedule is good. I just really hate the two glorified exhibition games. Would rather play a Q4 home game or go on the road and play a tough Q1/2 game. Of course you need to win. If this team does as expected, 3-6 in quad 1 / 2 games...they will be ranked around 80 and would have to win MAC to get into tournament. To get a sense at what an at large bid would take, I looked at the profile of Indiana (#30). This resume would imply UB would need to go 1 -1 against St. Bonaventure / Michigan. Then they would likely need to go 5-2 in quad 2 games and 18-2 rest of games. This is a very tall order and I am not personally expecting it. However, I do feel the schedule pushes the team and will prepare them well for MAC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullBoy Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Everyone here is making it seem like this team turned down a bunch of road opportunities to play these non-DI games. I don't believe that is the case. The P5 schools don't buy teams like Buffalo because they know there is a chance they could lose them.. A $75K check and a loss isn't a good look when they can go ahead and play CMU or WMU instead and get the win. As for the home game scenario, it again I think one comes down to money. A D-I Q4 game probably costs UB about $50k to bring them in. They can bring a non-D1 in for $5K. And again a home win over a Q4 probably drops you about 15 spots in the NET rankings...The non-D1 doesn't factor in to the NET. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabulls Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 I don’t mind playing an exhibition game before heading to Michigan, let’s the team try plays out and also let’s some of the new guys get playing time. Even though they’re a d2 opponent, winning the game gives them confidence heading to the next game. I’m not a fan of playing Fisher or point park, I’d rather see them play a good MAAC school like Iona or Siena. Overall it is a tough schedule but I’d like to see more quality home games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Anyone hear any info about yesterday's scrimmage with Colgate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 2 hours ago, BullBoy said: Everyone here is making it seem like this team turned down a bunch of road opportunities to play these non-DI games. I don't believe that is the case. The P5 schools don't buy teams like Buffalo because they know there is a chance they could lose them.. A $75K check and a loss isn't a good look when they can go ahead and play CMU or WMU instead and get the win. As for the home game scenario, it again I think one comes down to money. A D-I Q4 game probably costs UB about $50k to bring them in. They can bring a non-D1 in for $5K. And again a home win over a Q4 probably drops you about 15 spots in the NET rankings...The non-D1 doesn't factor in to the NET. I would like to know from any insider here what other schedule options may have been in play? I don’t believe there wasn’t any D-1 school we could’ve played. Now to your point about the net…should we care? We most likely aren’t gonna be in at large consideration. Win the MAC tourney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tee4three Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, DooleyBull06 said: I would like to know from any insider here what other schedule options may have been in play? I don’t believe there wasn’t any D-1 school we could’ve played. Now to your point about the net…should we care? We most likely aren’t gonna be in at large consideration. Win the MAC tourney. A good out of conference schedule and good offensive/defensive metrics plus 4 or less losses in conference would do exactly that There are years where with a weak bubble they could sneak in Edited October 24, 2021 by Tee4three Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 19 hours ago, Tee4three said: A good out of conference schedule and good offensive/defensive metrics plus 4 or less losses in conference would do exactly that There are years where with a weak bubble they could sneak in Four or less conference wins has to be paired with a stellar OOC record/results. Need some big wins OOC if you have losses or need to run the table against weak OOC teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tee4three Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 2 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said: Four or less conference wins has to be paired with a stellar OOC record/results. Need some big wins OOC if you have losses or need to run the table against weak OOC teams. Using just quads as references Quad 1: 0-2 quad 2: 2-1 Quad 3: 8-2 Quad 4: 13-1 Say the quad 3 and 4 losses are mac teams. Getting to and losing the mac championship game puts that team in the conversation for an at large. They can sneak in based on their metrics and how they looked against the q1 opponents Its a resume that at least gets your logo on the bubble watch Biggest issue to me is I'm not sure we have enough quad 2 games. Could really use a mac team to step up or a team like uc irvine to take off. Better yet western kentucky to play to their usual standards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Tee4three said: Using just quads as references Quad 1: 0-2 quad 2: 2-1 Quad 3: 8-2 Quad 4: 13-1 Say the quad 3 and 4 losses are mac teams. Getting to and losing the mac championship game puts that team in the conversation for an at large. They can sneak in based on their metrics and how they looked against the q1 opponents Its a resume that at least gets your logo on the bubble watch Biggest issue to me is I'm not sure we have enough quad 2 games. Could really use a mac team to step up or a team like uc irvine to take off. Better yet western kentucky to play to their usual standards That’s not getting you on the bubble https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2019/net-nitty-team That was worse that NM State for instance and they were below the at last play in game despite winning their conference and the conference tournament. They already weren’t getting in. They couldn’t afford a quad 4 loss and not winning their conference tournament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) 48 minutes ago, dutchcountry7 said: That’s not getting you on the bubble https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2019/net-nitty-team That was worse that NM State for instance and they were below the at last play in game despite winning their conference and the conference tournament. They already weren’t getting in. They couldn’t afford a quad 4 loss and not winning their conference tournament. Here is my take on it - first I have tried to identify potential quad 1 / quad 2 games using rankings from Massey, Barttorvik and Kenpom. I may have the wrong formulas, but this resulted in the following games as quad 1 / quad 2 in our schedule: I used the approach to split quad 3/ quad 4 as well. I then pulled bt projections for Indiana (whom they rank 30) and UCF (rank 40). I debated leaving off my #40 estimate - as I think we will have to do better 22 or 23 wins. I could be wrong, but I think the floor for an at large would be 23 wins. Edited October 26, 2021 by DocCas86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tee4three Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 2 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said: That’s not getting you on the bubble https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2019/net-nitty-team That was worse that NM State for instance and they were below the at last play in game despite winning their conference and the conference tournament. They already weren’t getting in. They couldn’t afford a quad 4 loss and not winning their conference tournament. You are underestimating what good metrics will do for a team. Which buffalo will have (they have had since oats) New Mexico in offense and defense efficiency they were 134 offense and 184 defense while buffalo last year was 97 offense and 64 defense (per kenpom) not to include top 5 rebounding team in the nation So while new mexico had the q1 and q2 they didn't put up good efficiency numbers which with each year is becoming increasingly important. I agree with you a quad 4 loss will make it very difficult but that resume with good metrics will be a bubble team. Its how ub got an at large NIT bid last year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 2 hours ago, DocCas86 said: Here is my take on it - first I have tried to identify potential quad 1 / quad 2 games using rankings from Massey, Barttorvik and Kenpom. I may have the wrong formulas, but this resulted in the following games as quad 1 / quad 2 in our schedule: I used the approach to split quad 3/ quad 4 as well. I then pulled bt projections for Indiana (whom they rank 30) and UCF (rank 40). I debated leaving off my #40 estimate - as I think we will have to do better 22 or 23 wins. I could be wrong, but I think the floor for an at large would be 23 wins. The projection said 0-2 vs quad 1 and you’ve now changed it to 1-1 to try to get the data to the conclusion you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 13 minutes ago, Tee4three said: You are underestimating what good metrics will do for a team. Which buffalo will have (they have had since oats) New Mexico in offense and defense efficiency they were 134 offense and 184 defense while buffalo last year was 97 offense and 64 defense (per kenpom) not to include top 5 rebounding team in the nation So while new mexico had the q1 and q2 they didn't put up good efficiency numbers which with each year is becoming increasingly important. I agree with you a quad 4 loss will make it very difficult but that resume with good metrics will be a bubble team. Its how ub got an at large NIT bid last year You need the wins. Metrics don’t get you in without some notable wins. when a .500 Cuse gets in and they point to metrics it is because Cuse also has a few wins against top teams to go with their quad three losses. You’re not getting an at large without a marquee win. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynBull Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 6 hours ago, Tee4three said: You are underestimating what good metrics will do for a team. Which buffalo will have (they have had since oats) New Mexico in offense and defense efficiency they were 134 offense and 184 defense while buffalo last year was 97 offense and 64 defense (per kenpom) not to include top 5 rebounding team in the nation So while new mexico had the q1 and q2 they didn't put up good efficiency numbers which with each year is becoming increasingly important. I agree with you a quad 4 loss will make it very difficult but that resume with good metrics will be a bubble team. Its how ub got an at large NIT bid last year That and many teams saying that they would not play in the NIT last year, like St. John's and Duke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 6 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said: The projection said 0-2 vs quad 1 and you’ve now changed it to 1-1 to try to get the data to the conclusion you want. I am not saying this will happen. I am trying to illustrate a potential way the team could be ranked 30-40 and be considered a potential at large team. I was using projections for Indiana and UCF as a guide to show what record it would take. For example, splitting games with Michigan and St. Bonaventure would be what a team ranked 30 might be expected to do since Indiana is expected to win 3 out of 8 (round to 50% for us due to only 2 games). I suppose there are scenarios where we go 0-2 in those games and still are considered for at large, but it becomes less likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueblue32 Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 1 hour ago, BrooklynBull said: That and many teams saying that they would not play in the NIT last year, like St. John's and Duke. NIT field was half the size that it usually is. They would’ve been in in a normal year regardless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 1 hour ago, trueblue32 said: NIT field was half the size that it usually is. They would’ve been in in a normal year regardless That isn’t certain. The field was half the size but they didn’t award NIT auto-bids last year. If you win the regular season conference championship you earn a bid to the NIT. A lot of teams would have normally taken bids to the NIT even though they weren’t good enough to earn at at-large bid to the NIT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 9 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said: You need the wins. Metrics don’t get you in without some notable wins. when a .500 Cuse gets in and they point to metrics it is because Cuse also has a few wins against top teams to go with their quad three losses. You’re not getting an at large without a marquee win. My post agrees with the bolded part of your post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueblue32 Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 Saint Louis’ best player 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 15 minutes ago, trueblue32 said: Saint Louis’ best player That really hurts - bt roster cast estimates St Louis rank drops from 68 to 116. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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