Re: New NET ranking

viztiz® said:

We dropped 9 places due to that game How do you drop 9 places for a quad 2 loss this late in the season? By getting hammered by a team by a bigger margin than anyone else that season that wasn’t a quad 4 team. Brad himself claimed to have unlocked the mysteries of the NET and complain about how they were gamed by other schools. The announcers talked about it. Then he let BC abuse his team. We’re now 35 in NET. We’ve been left out at 35 RPI. We’ve been left out at 45 NET.

For all the talk that we are a lock, Big Game Brad has found a way to open the door for an Armageddon scenario. The presumption that Clemson was a lock was based on the tremendous gap between our NET ranking and the next best team in the conference. Even as we lost games in the first half of the conference schedule that gap persisted. A 26 NET (where we were yesterday) was safely in. But 35, with 3 days of basketball left to play, is not the same category.

We now have UVA at 52, Clemson at 35, Wake Forest at 36, and PItt at 45. If UVA blows out BC, Pitt/Wake play a close one, and Pitt wins out to grab an ACC title, Clemson will likely have the lowest NET ranking of the 5 at large ACC possibilities. The ACC may get 5. Most brackets project 4. It isn’t getting 6. It’s remote, but only Brad’s total failures as a coach have allowed the scenario to exist. Best Wake - done. Beat BC - done.

Excellent points. I hope we get in and win 6 games but unless Brad gets in and makes the second weekend (which I think is a 10% chance), he needs to be dismissed. Not making the tournament might finally shut up the loyalists who sing his praises

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Re: it's not just about the NET ranking, it's about the NET quad wins and losses

Mar 14, 2024, 12:52 PM

You either not grasping my point or being argumentative. You are trying to speak in absolutes “they’re NOT …”, “that’s not how it works AT ALL”.

Again. I said it was remote. You’re acting like it’s impossible. Literally set in stone. You’re throwing quad records. Pitt is 8-8 in quad 1&2. With the chance improve to a better position than Clemson in both NET and quad 1&2 wins and you’re acting like our position is intractable. They’re not even considered on the bubble. Wake is 9-11 but 1-7 in q1 but considered significantly more likely to make it in. Virginia is 9-9. They all have a chance to improve their NET and their q1&2 wins. Once they all get close enough to one another they will inevitably be compared to each other. No, the committee isn’t going to look at ACC standings and say pick 4 or 5. All the multibid league, of which 7 are projected to have 3 or more, have several teams at the lower end of making it in that can still make dynamic moves. We moved 9 spots from a single game. Jerry Palm has us a 7 now and he has consistently been one of the most generous all season. That leaves about 15 at large spots between Clemson and the bubble. With 4 full days of basketball left and virtually everyone of those teams still playing quality matchups the chances are infinitely higher than zero that Clemson could slip out of this thing. I’m not betting on it. I don’t expect it. But I knew we weren’t making it last year and a considerable number of people think we were screwed and that it was inexplicable. Anybody that watches this knew we weren’t making it. And I’m just saying that are chance of missing this year is now non-zero.