Honest questions, because I am curious - Let's imagine the Gophs win at NW and finish 10-10. Which you seem to have establish meets your criteria for inclusion in the NCAAT. Conference record is basically all that matters, need to take teams in order of conference finish, I think I'm basically...
You might be correct! But, ironically, its only because both of you are actually wrong
Turns out D1 as a whole is currently shooting 71.4% from the FT line, which would be 3rd best all time and only 0.3% off the record. Each of the last two seasons have seen a 71.7% FT average.
This season is...
Depending on which all-encompassing advanced metric (BPM, Torvik's PRPG, etc) you perfer, he rates as something like the 7th or 8th best player on either of those teams. Maaaybe a weaker or less balanced team like Miami.
This just reads like massive mid-major bias
Think they were closer to 300 in the preseason. For whatever its worth, if you filter out the preseason prediction component Torvik has St. Thomas ranked 65th (tops in the Summit) so far this season and the Gophers 130th. Extremely small sample size of course, no Battle, etc. etc. but St. Thomas...
Or to put it another way, they won a game in the tournament last year. And they return everybody. Dixon has done a pretty decent job considering how bad TCU was a decade ago
I feel like the sentiment, generally speaking, is not driven primarily by injuries but by this:
Last title for city with all 4 major pro sports:
LA 2020
DC 2019
Boston 2018
SF 2018
Philly 2017
Chicago 2016
Denver 2015
Miami 2013
NYC 2011
Dallas 2011
Detroit 2008
Phoenix 2001
MSP 1991
Last...
You probably wouldn't have the answer but I'm kinda curious about this. There are parts of Omaha that aren't great, but they aren't the downtown area. Not that a city's carjackings are high on a recruit's list of concerns obviously...