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[stinger78]

Sure. What it proves is they were better top to bottom at that time. Maybe ACC teams were slow getting out of the block, and the conference was not strong at the bottom this season. To think that any conference could go 14-deep with NCAAT teams is beyond absurd.

The NCAAT counts in the final determination, too, and they had a 50% dump of teams first day. Better than ACC this year? Sure. Behemoth conference? Not so much.

 

[stinger78]

Getting all ranked in the top 25 very early with lots of (laudable) OOC wins cranked up the circular bias through the SOS factor of the rankings.

 

[spdrama]

Nah, there's no coming back from it.


Wait, is he suggesting that collective whuppin wasn't indicative of anything? Sheesh.

I don't care what the individual matchups were, if one group goes 2-14 vs another, that speaks volumes.

Yeah, but that was just a snapshot in time. ACC was slow out of the gate. They wouldn’t dare challenge us at the end of the season when we’d all be so much better & they’d all be so much worse. And they kept rotating in better players. And the matchups weren’t fair. We used all bad teams and they used better teams. Definitely rigged those effen cheaters.

 

[forensicbuzz]

Thats is total crap and you know it. When 2 conferences play 16 games head-to-head and one conference wins 14 of the games it clearly shows that conference is superior. Duke and Clemson won their games, so the ACC's top 2 teams won. The other 14 lost! Of those 14 losses only 3 were within 10 points. The SEC flat out stomped the ACC in the head-to-head challenge last season. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

But keep on believing the games didn't prove anything! You know better than that. It's fine to despise the SEC for many things. This is one where they earned what they got on the courts!

I agree about an aggregate of games, but the one challenge doesn't prove anything. Individual teams playing multiple games against another conference is relevant. A challenge of single games isn't really as relevant. It's 1 data point that isn't necessarily reliable.

 

[kg01]

Getting all ranked in the top 25 very early with lots of (laudable) OOC wins cranked up the circular bias through the SOS factor of the rankings.

Ngl tho, there's some truth here.

They had some good teams but not all of them were as great as the contiued rankings suggested.

Yeah, but that was just a snapshot in time. ACC was slow out of the gate. They wouldn’t dare challenge us at the end of the season when we’d all be so much better & they’d all be so much worse. And they kept rotating in better players. And the matchups weren’t fair. We used all bad teams and they used better teams. Definitely rigged those effen cheaters.

Get em, sp. F them cheaters.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

I agree about an aggregate of games, but the one challenge doesn't prove anything. Individual teams playing multiple games against another conference is relevant. A challenge of single games isn't really as relevant. It's 1 data point that isn't necessarily reliable.

Well, from a purely statistical point of view, as in a random chance kind of way (think flipping a coin heads or tails) you are actually correct. It’s one data point that doesn’t prove anything.

BUT BOY DOES IT EVER LOOK SUSPICIOUS!

 

[spdrama]

Well, from a purely statistical point of view, as in a random chance kind of way (think flipping a coin heads or tails) you are actually correct. It’s one data point that doesn’t prove anything.

BUT BOY DOES IT EVER LOOK SUSPICIOUS!

They were only able to beat us with Georgia & Oklahoma. Wouldn’t dare let Fla, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arkansas, or Tennessee play us.

 

[I fan 45]

They were only able to beat us with Georgia & Oklahoma. Wouldn’t dare let Fla, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arkansas, or Tennessee play us.

 

[reckrider]

One hundred student-athletes are among the Georgia Tech students that will walk across the stage this weekend as a part of the Institute’s Spring 2025 commencement ceremonies at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field and McCamish Pavilion.

Men’s Basketball
Ryan Mutombo (M.S. – management)
Emmer Nichols (economics and international affairs)
Kowacie Reeves (history, technology and society)

Women’s Basketball
Kayla Blackshear (business administration)
Tonie Morgan (business administration)

 

[Northeast Stinger]

They were only able to beat us with Georgia & Oklahoma. Wouldn’t dare let Fla, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arkansas, or Tennessee play us.

You so rarely troll, but, when you do…

 

[Root4GT]

I agree about an aggregate of games, but the one challenge doesn't prove anything. Individual teams playing multiple games against another conference is relevant. A challenge of single games isn't really as relevant. It's 1 data point that isn't necessarily reliable.

So, for the regular season the SEC vs the ACC basketball teams the results were 30-4 in favor of the SEC. Is that a "Data Point" or does that actually mean something in your world?

 

[spdrama]

You so rarely troll, but, when you do…

I’m not quite that hairy, but you nailed the swagger

 

[forensicbuzz]

So, for the regular season the SEC vs the ACC basketball teams the results were 30-4 in favor of the SEC. Is that a "Data Point" or does that actually mean something in your world?

That's good data. Just stop referring to the 14-2 as meaningful. 30-4 is meaningful. I never disputed that.

 

[kg01]

In case anyone was still worried or wondering, the Grizzlies did indeed retain their interim coach who's now their fulltime HC.

No idea why any of us yall were worried CDS would go there.

 

[Root4GT]

That's good data. Just stop referring to the 14-2 as meaningful. 30-4 is meaningful. I never disputed that.

14-2 is meaningful. 16-2 in other games is more meaningful. 30-4 is the most meaningful.

The ACC as a Conference needs to step it up in OOC play next year or there will be a huge disparity in Conference teams making the NCAAT again next season.

 

[Techwood Relict]

I’m not quite that hairy, but you nailed the swagger

Got it

 

[forensicbuzz]

14-2 is meaningful. 16-2 in other games is more meaningful. 30-4 is the most meaningful.

The ACC as a Conference needs to step it up in OOC play next year or there will be a huge disparity in Conference teams making the NCAAT again next season.

It's okay. We don't have to agree. But, tout the 30-4, not the 14-2, when you're making your argument.

 

[Peacone36]

These rationalizations are both sad and laughable.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

These rationalizations are both sad and laughable.

Nope. You have to choose one or the other or you can’t play.

 

[spdrama]

Nope. You have to choose one or the other or you can’t play.

He does not. That rule has changed. Ambivalence was once considered a symptom of schizophrenia, but that has been debunked.