I believe Indiana State was only 1-4 against quad 1 teams. A bad record and not playing enough quad 1s. Play a few more and get more than 1 win will help a lot.
Indiana State got hosed
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I’m pretty confident that the Sycamores could score more than 14 points in a half unlike Virginia just did. Also amazing that during the game they mentioned that UVA has been beat by 20+ points 6 times this year including losing to VaTech by 34.
Including a brutal scoreless stretch spanning the time after Virginia made two FT's with 9:20 left in the first half until 16:37 to play in the contest. The drought included 19 consecutive missed shots and covered 13:53 of game time and 59 minutes of real time, which included a 20-minute halftime.
Yikes.......but it really helps the under.
You obviously haven't talked to Ken palm.
to me they pass the eye test, UVA or msu doesn't, msu gets credit or tough scheduling but they lost 10 of 13 games vs tough opponents, you gotta win some not just play them
Bump. Didn't want to start a news ISU thread on the Purdue board, but so pumped for this team and pulling for them to win the NIT Thursday! Congrats Sycamores! It's been a great week in the state of Indiana so far!
I saw a tweet last night that said that Seton Hall making the final proved that they should have been in the NCAA Tournament. No it doesn't. It just proves that they're a good team and they're playing well right now. Same for ISU. Rooting for them, but you can't make that conclusion.
Ironically I was on Seton Hall's campus the day they were playing their quarterfinal game last Wednesday. The people there were really pumped about it.
Yep. Invites are resume based and both had suspect resumes. I could have seen them getting in over Virginia but nothing that has happened since validates that or disputes it.
Now, I'm a believer personally that it was a good thing that they got rid of the last 10 metric, but...... I think they should weight the latter part of the season more heavily when seeding teams. Candidly, if they did this, there was a viable argument that Purdue shouldn't have had a 1 seed last year.
Over the 5 weeks leading into the tournament (including our BTT run), Purdue was just 18th in efficiency margin. Gonzaga (1), Texas (5), Arizona (8), UCLA (9) and Marquette (10) were all playing better than us.
I think the committee lets some of that late season bias into the conversation unconsciously enough that they don't need it over-weighted by making it an objective part of the discussion.
agree with you on seeding, ZZ.....and absolutely thought Purdue probably should have been a #2-seed. Texas probably that #1-seed in the East and Arizona in the Midwest with Purdue in the South (2nd weekend, Louisville). Of coures, one could argue (no wait - ponder) would this year then have played out the way it did........
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ISU belonged in the tourney, they had 1 bad week while 2 starters were out, cost them a bid. MSU belonged, VA was crap and they showed it, anyway, might be a good thing for them, a NIT final might be better than a play in game if they’d have lost, I don’t think they would have though.
I think Avila is huge for ISU. Great quickness, shooting touch is great, has fun with the game. I think he's going to lead ISU to the NIT title. Question is, with all the recruits coming in and players coming back, who would like to see him playing in Mackey for the Boilers next year>
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They hosed themselves tonight with turnovers. I though they had it with the late 7 point lead, but the couldn't buy a bucket in the end.
They sure screwed the pooch tonight. Seven point lead with 1:51 to go, and the first thing that happens is Avila comes down and shoots a 3. Why in the Sam Hell do teams do that when they need to run the clock and then go inside to get fouled.
I'm sure ISU would love to have the last 2:00 back. That was some very poor clock management there and terrible decision making on shots. They would have been better off just holding the ball for 30 seconds each time and taking a shot clock violation.
Agree. ISU likely gave the game away with poor decisions in last 2 minutes. Milk clock, go inside get fouled, likely wins game.
Yeah the one Avila took with I think 1:30 left was really bad. I felt bad for them but not for my wallet.
If they had milked the clock every possession, hit one more basket...even a two...they would have won the game. But they've played that way all year.
Oh well, the coach is headed to St. Louis and reported to be taking four of those players with him. Mediocracy will reign again in Sin City.
