Alright, I've made my peace. We have shown flashes but just needed to do more. Not even being in the first four out helps me accept it. I'm turning the page to the NIT because even that has been a foreign experience for us. Either our players have a sense of chagrined determination or deflated resentment. I'm guessing the former and we'll see in a couple of days.
ACC teams having some success in the tournament will mean that much more respect for Wake when Wake beats them next season.
Alright, I've made my peace. We have shown flashes but just needed to do more. Not even being in the first four out helps me accept it. I'm turning the page to the NIT because even that has been a foreign experience for us. Either our players have a sense of chagrined determination or deflated resentment. I'm guessing the former and we'll see in a couple of days.
ACC teams having some success in the tournament will mean that much more respect for Wake when Wake beats them next season.
I think all matters is the ACC performing well OOC next year, don't give two shits about our rivals having success in the NCAAT. Example 1: Big Televen.I hate them all too, but not sure it helps for them all to flame out in the first round.
No it won’t. Oregon State made a run in the tourney last year and our win over them didn’t mean shit. However ACC teams do in the tourney will have no bearing on how they are perceived next year. ACC teams (including us) need to schedule and beat decent to good OOC teams. That is how the conference will get more respect.
If you are surprised by this - with 350th OOC schedule and shit all over ourselves against Clemson without their two best players and then against an absolutely pitiful BC squad (not to mention the tourney champ is an 11 seed) - you need a reality check. Worlds better than we have been but still a blip on the radar. Long way to go.
how does this mean advanced stats don't work? Yeah your conference has to perform well out of conference. That is how it works. If they don't it means your conference will get less teams. How is this a bad thing. Did you watch the tourneys this week? Iowa would crush MiamiI don't think the advanced stats work. Essentially the number of bids a conference gets is locked in by January. After that all the changes happen in conference but a conference can't improve overall as any team improving hurts another team in the conference.
We knew we didn’t have enough win. We just thought we would win an ACC Tournament game
how does this mean advanced stats don't work? Yeah your conference has to perform well out of conference. That is how it works. If they don't it means your conference will get less teams. How is this a bad thing. Did you watch the tourneys this week? Iowa would crush Miami
And? What's your point? Advanced stats or not the only way to make your conference look good is to win out of conference games. The ACC did not this year and deserves what it got. What were we against the a 10? 2 and 9 or something?Because conference strength is locked in by January. No one plays out of conference games after that.
NIT{ NO INTEREST TOURNEY} IS FOR LOSERS--- WAKE IS NOT--DECLINE NIT
Forbes beating his chest about a 30 win season (this ain’t ETSU) 3 weeks ago was a horrible move.