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This is the perfect analogous situation. Bellarmine is in the Atlantic Sun conference (pretty much the same level as the Summit), and has been reasonably competitive against some big dogs over the years. If Louisville loses a game to them one year, what exactly is the consequence? Good for David...

As always, thanks for the work you do. There are a lot of ways to sort this, of course. You've chosen to do this on % of games against top 122. You also give the combined rankings of the opponents, so that could probably be another easy sort. It occurs to me that the NCAA uses Quads. The...

In hoops, the coach and his staff do have way more to do with scheduling. The AD probably has reins on mandating a certain number of home games, when they can be played to not interfere with other sports, and a budget for how much can be spent on these buy games - possibly has some final...

What you haven't said is that the NC schedule would be ranked dead last - at least so far. Current last place (of only 31 teams) is at a NET average of 234.9. This seems familiar somehow...

Thought this was gonna be a thread on the first guys off the bench....

Mostly I agree, but... Guys who aren't in the rotation will leave - that's pretty much a given. Guys who see that you're shopping for a transfer who plays your role will leave. Guys who demonstrate some value will bolt for more money elsewhere. The realistic strategy is to try to keep a core 3...

There's a level between "loading up the NC schedule with tough opponents" and mostly avoiding them altogether. It is in every P5's interest to schedule tough because if you're hoping to make the tourney, you can't get a resume-building win if it's not on your schedule. Going 1-3 against 4...

I stand corrected. The teams in the Gophers' bracket are not exactly resume "scalps" (surefire tourney teams), but they're not Cal Baptist either. The schedule is still quite pitiful.

Same old cowardly scheduling. The Mizzou game was “owed” and the Acrisure tournament previously scheduled. At least he didn’t back out of it. USF in SoDak is the marquee scheduling coup of this regime. Not impressed. If the last slot is another cupcake, nothing has changed.

I think putting yourself out there is commendable, of course, so kudos for that. With all the roster turmoil for almost every team, the confidence interval is so much wider than it used to be.

The more impressive thing about this schedule to me is there's only one real cupcake (the fightin' Gottliebs). NC State is another quality opponent if you count P5s, but is outside the top 122, too.

Lather, rinse, repeat. Someday it'll happen. But that's a program that everyone says this same thing literally every year. Tonje was nobody noteworthy. Before that, Storr was nobody noteworthy.

This is oh-so-correct. There was a last-season B10 preview from a Hoosiers perspective I revisited recently, and there were some big misses. For example, the Wisconsin preview talked about replacing Hepburn with Freitag and barely mentioned John Tonje at all. Not picking on the Indiana guy -...

Personnel does matter, but even the best college basketball mid-rangers still shoot those at a lower make percentage than the average for close 2s. Purdue was high-volume mid-range and had some of the best make percentages, but TKR and Loyer were still only around 50% (Braden Smith was much...

I tried to look up the ratio of close 2s/far 2s/3s (both offense and defense) for CSU vs. MN, but it's more work than I have time for today. This would give you a clue about both offense and defensive style, as well as whether analytics is understood and incorporated. The simplistic idea is to...