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Has Mountain West Been a 1-Bid Conference in Past 3 years?
- Thread starter PlayerRep
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IdaGriz01
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If by “multiple” you mean two, I can agree. But I’m not seeing more than Nevada and Utah State with a chance. The USU win at Fresno State helps them a lot, but they still have two tough road games to get by. Conversely, Fresno’s loss at home is probably a deal-breaker for them.dbackjon said:
But beyond those two, I’m not seeing much. By the rankings:
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NET SOS RPI BPI
Nevada (21-1) 14 98 12 18
Utah State (17-5) 37 121 46 48
Fresno State (15-6) 84 174 110 65
SDSU (12-9) 155 195 159 127
BSU (9-12) 149 135 187 131IdaGriz01 said:
Two is most likely. If say Fresno beat Utah State in the finals to claim the auto-bid, Nevada is in securely at this point. Utah State would be bubble, and depend as much on how other bubble teams do from and then.
But they are in position to do so. Big Sky is one bid regardless.
Sooooo, 3 full pages in we've concluded that the MWC is a vastly superior conference to the bsc in every shape, form, and manner.
Well okay, then.
Well okay, then.
IdaGriz01
Well-known member
My thoughts exactly. Utah State must keep winning and hope some of the other bubble sitters don't.dbackjon said:
But Utah State also has some challenges. There next game is at SDSU. The Aztecs were 7-4 at home in their OOC schedule and they have not lost a conference game at home. The other teams on the USU schedule are not as tough as SDSU, but they cannot be overlooked.
EverettGriz said:
Where has it been concluded that the MW is a vastly superior conference? It's been pretty so-so in the last 4 years. The only bright spot is Nevada this year.
If it's so vastly superior, why did you say that UM would have gotten in the tourney from the MW last year and would again this year? You are speaking out of both sides of your mouth.
dbackjon said:
Who cares? It is highly unlikely that the MW will get more than one bid, unless Nevada gets upset in the conference tourney. Feel free to show all the brackets that select 2 teams from the MW.
I assume you are an NAU fan. When is NAU going to start qb club or something similar? Heard they didn't even have that. You may want to focus on your school's inadequacies instead pf spending so much time spouting off about the M.
PlayerRep said:
Getting defensive now I see. NAU is what it is, not the primary school for the state, a teachers college that has turned into a very good University. But without professional schools like Law, Medicine etc.
Spouting off about the M? Mountain? Didn't see anything bad about Montana.
Oh well, continue to stick your head in the sand.
dbackjon said:
Forget it, db. You're wasting your time. This is just pr saying clueless pr shit. Next he'll try to divert to a different subject altogether. It's what he does when he's proven wrong (e.g. 98% of his posts).
PlayerRep said:
HAHAHAHAAH!!! Right on cue! You're nothing if not fully predictable.
dbackjon said:
Today's rankings (NET) - NCAA no longer uses RPI:
Nevada 12
Utah State 46
Montana 99
Fresno State 110
https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/rpi-ranking/rpi-rating-by-team
IdaGriz01
Well-known member
More NCAA bullshit … since they won’t tell any outsider how they calculate the NET numbers to determine a ranking. That makes it harder to compare mathematically because we don’t know the actual values, we only know the rank number.Bjorn Bjornstein said:
For the RPI, rank #100 (the Griz rank as of this moment at RealTimeRPI) is 0.5437 while #90 is 0.5477 … a difference of only 4 in the third decimal point. We don’t know, but it’s likely that comparable numbers also show up in the NET calculation. So small differences in the actual calculated number can lead to (apparently) big differences in the ranking.
Just so you know, there is a 91% correlation (using the term loosely) between the NET rank and the RPI rank. That is considered “very highly correlated” in stat-talk. Put another way, if you know the RPI rank, the NET rank will most likely be within 20-30 of that number ... in a list that has 353 teams.
(MATH ALERT: The spreadsheet R-Squared value for these two variables is 0.9079.)
EverettGriz said:
Actually, you are right on cue. A post with absolutely zero substance. Showing once again your absolute lack of knowledge about basketball and football, as well as Griz athletics. Missed you at the football event today. Been texting with Bobby tonight. How about you?
