Blind Resume (Part 1)

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It's that time of year again, time for Blind Resume. Excluding weekends, I'll do a couple of these per day (1 morning, 1 afternoon) through the next couple weeks.

The rules are simple. I'll provide the resumes of 3 bubble teams & in each scenario you're the Selection Committee and you can only choose 1 of the 3 for inclusion in the NCAA Tournament. You have to trust me that the teams are not considered locks for the NCAA Tournament.

I will not list the team's RPI but will provide some of the basic things that I look at when selecting the 37 at-large teams. You have about 3 hours to submit your selection here. I will disclose the teams at approximately 11 a.m.

Which 1 of these 3 would you select if you only had 1 spot left for your NCAA Tournament field?

Team A
Record: 19-9
Strength of Schedule (SOS): 88
Nonconference SOS: 76
Road/Neutral Record: 7-6
Record vs. RPI Top 50: 1-3
Record vs. RPI Top 100: 5-8
Bad Losses (RPI 101+): 1
Best 3 Wins by RPI: @ #29, @ #66, #76 (total = 171)

Team B
Record: 16-10
Strength of Schedule (SOS): 49
Nonconference SOS: 90
Road/Neutral Record: 5-6
Record vs. RPI Top 50: 3-4
Record vs. RPI Top 100: 7-7
Bad Losses (RPI 101+): 3
Best 3 Wins by RPI: @ #16, #22, #37 (total = 75)

Team C
Record: 19-8
Strength of Schedule (SOS): 52
Nonconference SOS: 186
Road/Neutral Record: 5-6
Record vs. RPI Top 50: 2-4
Record vs. RPI Top 100: 3-6
Bad Losses (RPI 101+): 2
Best 3 Wins by RPI: #6, #49, #51 (total = 106)

Full disclosure: Of the 3 teams listed above, 2 are currently in my Field of 68. I only ask that if you think you've figured how who these teams are, please do not post the team(s) name, as that could influence people's selection.
 

Sorry for the tangent SS, but I always hear the discussion about good wins and bad losses when discussing tournament resumes. Philosophically, I feel like that should be irrelevant. If I were to look at two teams with identical schedules who finished with identical records, those teams should be tied in every respect. I don't think that if one team pulled off some big upsets but then lost to some schools a little worse than them, they should have a leg up over the school with the same number of wins against the same schedule who beat the teams below them and lost to the teams above them.

Also, I definitely take team C. They have a better record and stronger schedule than Team A, so in my book that makes them strictly superior to A. Team C also has three more wins than Team B despite an only marginally easier schedule (52 vs. 49).
 

Tangents are allowed. I enjoy hearing how other folks interpret the same information I'm looking at.
 







I'm not thrilled by any of them, but I guess I'd go with C.
 



Counting my selection (I would choose B), we finished with 4 votes for C, 3 votes for B and 1 vote for A.

C = Iowa State
B = Dayton
A = Arizona

I chose B (Dayton) because they have the most top-50 wins, the most top-100 wins, they've played more top-100 opponents (and with a better winning % than the others), and it's best win was on the road. Interestingly, my most recent Field of 68 has Dayton as one of my "last 4 in", with Iowa State more locked into the field (read: "safer").
 


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