Will be fun to see how hard the committee ignores these rankings. Or at least how they "interpret" them.

flying_scotsman2.0 wrote:Will be fun to see how hard the committee ignores these rankings. Or at least how they "interpret" them.

That's my thought, they've said they reserve the right to change the metrics behind the rankings.

Wouldn't surprise me if they find a way to tweak it so they get the results they want.

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Fresno moves up to 75 and improved our profile greatly. We gain a Q1 win and get rid of a Q3 loss. We need Fresno to stay 75 or better.


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February 18th, 2019, 7:17 pm

Fresno moves up to 75 and improved our profile greatly. We gain a Q1 win and get rid of a Q3 loss. We need Fresno to stay 75 or better.


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On the other hand, it would be good to finish ahead of them, all alone in second place.

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Fresno moves up to 75 and improved our profile greatly. We gain a Q1 win and get rid of a Q3 loss. We need Fresno to stay 75 or better.


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And there is BYU who is now a spot behind Fresno at 76.

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February 18th, 2019, 9:06 pm

scotlandog wrote: ↑

February 18th, 2019, 7:17 pm

Fresno moves up to 75 and improved our profile greatly. We gain a Q1 win and get rid of a Q3 loss. We need Fresno to stay 75 or better.


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And there is BYU who is now a spot behind Fresno at 76.

So, if BYU moves up one spot, that Q2 loss at BYU becomes a Q1 loss, and the Q1 record goes from 2-2 to 2-3. Is that a good thing for USU’s resume?

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Blitz79 wrote: ↑

February 18th, 2019, 9:06 pm

scotlandog wrote: ↑

February 18th, 2019, 7:17 pm

Fresno moves up to 75 and improved our profile greatly. We gain a Q1 win and get rid of a Q3 loss. We need Fresno to stay 75 or better.


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And there is BYU who is now a spot behind Fresno at 76.

So, if BYU moves up one spot, that Q2 loss at BYU becomes a Q1 loss, and the Q1 record goes from 2-2 to 2-3. Is that a good thing for USU’s resume?

Better than having a loss on the Q2 segment.


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Dropped from 34 to 36 after last night. The Fresno loss was probably what hurt us, right?

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Dropped from 34 to 36 after last night. The Fresno loss was probably what hurt us, right?

Yep, probably the combo losses by Fresno St and Nevada. UNR also fell 11 spots to #22

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jpswensen wrote: ↑

February 21st, 2019, 9:59 am

Dropped from 34 to 36 after last night. The Fresno loss was probably what hurt us, right?

Yep, probably the combo losses by Fresno St and Nevada. UNR also fell 11 spots to #22

Both of those losses by Fresno & Nevada really hurt us IMO. Fresno was our best road win and the conference needed Nevada to be ranked higher.

Boise, SDSU, and Air Force really hurt this conference by their poor showing in Non-conference play. They're all better teams now than they were earlier in the year.

We are #36 in the Net Rankings

Our NET ranking will only matter in regards to NIT seeding unless we are able to do no worse than 3-1in our remaining games. We should be able to handle BSU away and I feel we can beat SDS in the Spectrum. We can afford to lose to Nevada, but we could upset them. If SDS can do it, we can do it.

Amazingly the game that scares me the most is CSU on the road. It will be senionr night in Ft. Collins. CSU has under-performed all year. Carvacho is a load and is averaging 16.0 ppg and 13.2 rpg. He offsets Queta requiring our other players to step up — including Miller.

I will breathe a sigh of relief if we get out of Ft. Collins with a win.

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February 21st, 2019, 10:28 am

jpswensen wrote: ↑

February 21st, 2019, 9:59 am

Dropped from 34 to 36 after last night. The Fresno loss was probably what hurt us, right?

Yep, probably the combo losses by Fresno St and Nevada. UNR also fell 11 spots to #22

I think it was mainly playing a home game against a team with a solidly losing record. Also, maybe Texas and Ole Miss (who didn’t play) were just slightly behind the Aggies before passing them up last night.

The Nevada/SDSU and FSU/AFA games should have had a negligible effect, and uncertain in terms of being a positive or negative factor. The Aggies have played the winning teams of those games a total of three times and the losing teams a total of three times. It was a wash.

Watch this week for the Aggies to move up back to about 34 by Saturday. A road win at BSU and then a home win against SDSU and the passage of just over a week while some other teams lose will get the Aggies up to about 30 going into the Nevada game on March 2.

Nevada dropped from 11 to 22 after the SDSU loss. They have a reasonably difficult schedule the rest of the way, with home games against FSU and UNLV in the next week. If they somehow lose one of those games and USU wins the next two, the Aggies and Nevada will be tied in the loss column in the MWC standings when they play each other, and the NET ratings will also be very close.

Nevada also has to play SDSU at home in March.

Nevada will absolutely take apart UNLV in Reno and will also handily beat FSU. If we were to somehow split oour two regular season games with Nevada and tie them for 1st place, they have the tie-breaker (2 FSU wins) that would determine the #1 seed in the MWC tourney.

Aggies up to #29