will contribute. Boom.

[Edited on February 8, 2013 at 3:05 PM. Reason : 112]

2/8/2013 3:05:32 PM

Quote :

"Yep, because 2 losses by a combined 4 points with your starting point guard injured and then losing AT Duke, which has been a regular pattern over those 20 years, is ENTIRELY the coach's fault."

Quit trotting out the tired line about "x losses by y points" We were also 4 points from losing to Clempson, 5 points from losing to worthless last-place Boston College, and 2 points from losing to fucking UNC-ASHEVILLE. Oh, and we just got stomped by Duke, allowing 10 fucking 3pters in a half. Are you going to include that in your analysis? Get out of here with that bullcrap

2/8/2013 3:52:01 PM

I didn't say it was excusable, just saying it can't all be blamed on coaching.

And if anyone thought we were going to sweep Duke this season, they were completely delusional.

2/8/2013 4:50:20 PM

I don't think that we will miss the tourney at this point. I think that we will either sputter to the finish line and suck a la UVA last year, or we will finish strong and go far a la Arizona and UConn a few years back

2/9/2013 12:54:02 PM

^this

2/9/2013 12:59:51 PM

So you're saying we'll either play well and win games or play poorly and lose them? Interesting analysis

[Edited on February 9, 2013 at 1:52 PM. Reason : we'll be in the tourney]

2/9/2013 1:52:09 PM

Our BPI is still #17. Our SOS is 3. Thats counting every game. Maybe we aren't as bad as I thought.

2/9/2013 3:48:56 PM

We gave the best two-loss team in the country one of their losses, and lost to Miami, playing like a top-3 team right now by one point without our best player. Of course we're not that bad, we'll be in the tournament just fine.

2/9/2013 3:53:00 PM

IF motha fuckin Shane Larkin starts to take away any of Zo's shine I'll be pissed. They didn't even have a head to head match up cuz Zo was injured.

[Edited on February 9, 2013 at 4:02 PM. Reason : s]

2/9/2013 4:02:31 PM

Quote :

"and lost to Miami, playing like a top-3 team right now by one point without our best player."

On a tip in at the buzzer with a decent lead to close out the game.

2/9/2013 4:20:13 PM

It would help a lot if there was someone, anyone to replace Vandy.

2/9/2013 4:23:30 PM

Anyone hear Miami's head coach larranaga give a shout out to kenpom?

Said he mostly just checks the site for scouting or something

2/9/2013 6:38:16 PM

curse you and your stats, face...curse you

2/9/2013 6:39:04 PM

Larranaga
Brad Stevens
Mike Krzyzewski
Sean Miller
Buzz Williams

2/9/2013 6:40:07 PM

1 of them has won national championships

and 3 of his 4 titles came before kenpom

2/9/2013 6:46:21 PM

^ that's one of the worst trolling attempts ive ever seen you make.

2/9/2013 6:49:53 PM

let me put that last post in terms you can understand

80% of the coaches skokiaan listed haven't won a national title

75% of Coach K's national titles came before kenpom's formula

do Billy Donovan, Roy Williams and Jim Calhoun use kenpom? if so i'll be impressed

2/9/2013 6:51:13 PM

I think the trolling is due to the fact that being great doesn't require winning a national championships. For instance, Butler making two national championships in a row is quite a feat but doesn't show up as a national championship. Its like using a really large grid size/ small sample size.

2/9/2013 7:52:54 PM

after how we've played recently I think it's time to face reality and admit michaelangeZo isn't our #1 stunna

if we lost big rich howelleanardo for any period of time we'd be much worse

2/9/2013 7:55:33 PM

i agree howell is our best player. I think that's been clear all year.

And i think we can all agree the dropoff from zo to lewis isn't nearly as significant as the drop off from howell to vandy, so howell would be a more devastating loss than zo

2/9/2013 8:08:04 PM

we'd also be a top 15 team if we traded leslie for brown.

maybe lost to duke but beat maryland and virginia

[Edited on February 9, 2013 at 8:12 PM. Reason : k]

2/9/2013 8:11:22 PM

imagine how many titles K would have if kenpom came up with his formula 20 years earlier

i wonder what Butler's Intimidate the Refs with F bombs rating is, or maybe their Blocking Fouls Drawn as Charges metric

2/9/2013 8:14:17 PM

im guessing you meant miami rather than maryland.

I definitely think we would have beaten UVA with Zo healthy and leslie out instead. Not so sure with miami, leslie gave them a lot of problems and lewis played pretty well that game. That one is debateable, but i'm going to go with no.

2/9/2013 8:15:38 PM

if i would've looked up Brett Favre's parental postmortem passer rating i wouldn't have lost that $100 betting on the raiders 10 years ago

2/9/2013 8:19:28 PM

Zotac wouldnt have let Miami come back late but it is a good question if he wouldve gotten us up in the first place given that he has different strengths and that some other guys stepped up. I think it's still a close game either way.

2/9/2013 8:43:29 PM

i meant maryland not miami. just take leslie out of that game completely and we win.

2/10/2013 12:44:50 AM

I doubt we win with 4 players.

2/10/2013 12:55:00 AM

MY TEAM IS ON THE FLOOR

2/10/2013 1:44:48 AM

in that purgatory they call a gym

2/10/2013 2:22:14 AM

The algorithms were right 2 months ago

2/10/2013 2:50:15 PM

Told you guys we were a bubble team. seriously eat a dick for all the bullshit i had to put up with the past two months from you guys

2/10/2013 2:58:23 PM

Algorithms also called Miami and UVA above us in the ACC

2/10/2013 3:00:09 PM

^fuck you

^^fuck you

^^^^^you're cool

^^^^and fuck you, i'm outta here

2/10/2013 3:08:00 PM

Can't complain. The same thing that happened to us on every road game, we reversed today. Finishing it off by 1 possession on a last second play.

Like i said before, if we can just pull off a dubya for all our remaining home games, put up a good showing at UNC, and hopefully pull something out of our asses @GT, and @FSU (both terrible teams as of late), we should still be able to save a 9/10 seed in the NCAAT

2/10/2013 3:15:05 PM

We might actually be #25 come tomorrow, win the next two easy ones at home and we're easily back in the top 20 by the time we head down to Chapel Hill

2/10/2013 3:23:20 PM

yep that was a HUGE win, we should be able to get in the tourney now with that one. Our schedule lightens up thankfully, just can't afford to blow any of these easy ones.

And we really need to beat UNC again for the love of god

2/10/2013 3:23:29 PM

Need to win a couple more in order to get back in the rankings.

2/10/2013 3:25:01 PM

New Mexico, Creighton, Cincy, Oregon, and Texas A&M all with losses to unranked teams and Ole Miss got blownout, that's 6 of the 12 teams ahead of us, I think we might get #25

2/10/2013 3:29:53 PM

Michigan and Kansas also lost to unranked teams

[Edited on February 10, 2013 at 3:47 PM. Reason : Oh, you meant directly ahead of us]

2/10/2013 3:45:45 PM

we will drop because we went 1-1 this week.

2/10/2013 3:47:05 PM

Kansas lost three in a row to unranked teams

2/10/2013 3:48:43 PM

Quote :

"And we really need to beat UNC again for the love of god"

Yea we are half game back of them in acc standings. Odds are great that we finish higher than them given remaining schedules. If we win @UNC its practically a lock

2/10/2013 3:52:54 PM

Our schedule is easier than UVA and UNC so if we take care of business, still could take 3rd.

UVA goes to UNC, Miami, FSU and has Duke at home. UNC has Duke twice, us, @Clemson, @Maryland.

2/10/2013 4:17:23 PM

staats no longer with the team.

2/10/2013 4:32:00 PM

Did he drink n drive more?

2/10/2013 4:40:16 PM

2/10/2013 4:46:36 PM

#17 rpi. Keep winning. Last thing this team needs is a 5 seed to mess with them mentally.

2/10/2013 4:47:40 PM

Were gonna be top 25 on kenpom after today (Horay for our turrible defensive rating).

2/10/2013 6:06:34 PM

even if we win out, I don't think that we will be ranked

2/10/2013 7:21:51 PM

Has any team ever lost this many players for ridiculous reasons before?!

We've now lost

CJW, Alex Johnson, Raymond, Harris, TDT, Painter, and Battle. Did I miss anyone?

If Lorenzo/CJL had gone pro last year we potentially could have lost 9 guys.

2/10/2013 8:05:14 PM