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Big Sky Conference tiebreaker likely to hinder Bears

weberwildcat

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complaining about hosting and montana's rpi and it might not even matter for them if they lose. :thumbdown:

an article and interview you would never see rahe be a part of with so much basketball left to play. its an interesting and odd article.

thoughts?
 
Yes, I think the UNC coach came across as a cry baby. I loved how the loss against WSU and Scotty B's 3 still causes them pain. I also like how our football team caused them some serious pain with a 4 over time loss.
A blow out loss is much less painful than a very close loss (remember the Big Sky championship game last year?).
For example, Olympians who win a bronze medal are much happier and satisfied than silver medal winners. The Bronze winners felt happy just to win a medal and are satisfied that they were among the top performers. The Silver winners will stew over the loss :stir: - rehearsing every aspect of the event in their mind trying to figure out where they went wrong and lost the gold. They focus on how they lost the gold medal and not on the fact that they won a medal. My guess is that UNC is like the Silver Medalist - ticked that they came so close, but still can't win. :doh:

My guess is that UNC has learned to hate WSU and the way we put the dagger in their heart.

Mazel-tov! :-D
 
Whenever I need a good laugh I read that article. I couldn't believe how unprofessional and assine BJ sounded. Wow!! Its part of the bylaws, deal with it. Every team knows that there is a remote possibility of the conference being decided by RPI (I do agree with BJ that its kinda a mystery how a teams RPI is decided, but thats something you post anonymously on a fans forum). Whats a better way of deciding a tiebreak if option 1 and option 2 are null and void?
 
It's really NOT a mystery how teams develop better RPIs. It may be a mystery as to what the precise algorithms are, but it certainly shouldn't be a mystery how you strengthen your RPI. You play a strong nonconference schedule against good teams and win some games, particularly on the road.

UNC fulfilled the first priority; they played a pretty good nonconf schedule. The problem is, they didn't beat anyone. They only won 2 DI nonconference games. A simple comparison shows why UM's RPI is better than UNC's:

Montana's best win: UCLA (RPI 47)

UNC's best win: Wyoming (213)


Montana's worst loss: Nevada (147)

UNC's worst loss: LA-Monroe (329)


In fact, UM had 4 nonconferenes wins against teams with better RPIs than UNC's best win, and Montana did not have any bad losses.

Frankly, if BJ has any difficulties understanding why Montana's RPI is better than UNC's, he probably should not be coaching DI basketball.
 
everettgriz said:
It's really NOT a mystery how teams develop better RPIs. It may be a mystery as to what the precise algorithms are, but it certainly shouldn't be a mystery how you strengthen your RPI. You play a strong nonconference schedule against good teams and win some games, particularly on the road.

UNC fulfilled the first priority; they played a pretty good nonconf schedule. The problem is, they didn't beat anyone. They only won 2 DI nonconference games. A simple comparison shows why UM's RPI is better than UNC's:

Montana's best win: UCLA (RPI 47)

UNC's best win: Wyoming (213)


Montana's worst loss: Nevada (147)

UNC's worst loss: LA-Monroe (329)


In fact, UM had 4 nonconferenes wins against teams with better RPIs than UNC's best win, and Montana did not have any bad losses.

Frankly, if BJ has any difficulties understanding why Montana's RPI is better than UNC's, he probably should not be coaching DI basketball.
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what he said. :+1:
 
His argument does make some sense though. Almost would be more fair to skip the rpi section and go straight tot he coin flip. personally i think they should have a one-game play off and call it good.
 
pattenjr said:
His argument does make some sense though. Almost would be more fair to skip the rpi section and go straight tot he coin flip. personally i think they should have a one-game play off and call it good.
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You wank...You'd rather have a one game playoff over the conference tourny?
 
pattenjr said:
no you idiot. just to break the tie-breaker between first place. geesh. ya sodding wank wank
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Yeah, there's a great idea. Make your top two teams in the conference wear themselves out playing an extra game right before the conference tournament.... :thumbdown: (not to mention the bitching that would inevitably take place about where that game is held....) :roll:

The entire idea around using the RPI as a tie-break is that it rewards and protects the "best" team in the conference. It rewards teams for scheduling tough and having a successful non-conference schedule. I'd much rather those games mean something as opposed to letting a silver dollar decide who hosts. And that said, this is the first time RPI has ever come into play, so it's not as if it is a frequent situation.
 
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