Seemingly never ending Iowa MBB thread (still going.....)

[NoCreativity]

But Texas would be favored against Iowa. Sagarin and KenPom both have Texas better than Iowa so how is it possible Iowa is average but Texas is "pathetic"?

I already told you I look at RPI, I dont care how many points a team scores per possession or how fast they pass the ball around.

 

[CyTwins]

Omg dude, are we seriously having this conversation on a hypothetical on who would win between Iowa and Texas if they played in New York? This is out of control.

Now you keep dodging the question, how is a team like Texas who is considered better than Iowa by KenPom, Vegas and Sagarin "pathetic" but Iowa is average?

 

[jcyclonee]

Nope, not at all, the Big East isnt a Power 5 conference, yet they are ranked 3rd in RPI, you have to take stuff like that into consideration also.

Just because a team plays in a Power 5 conference doesnt mean they are better than other teams that play in conferences not deemed "Power 5", this isnt football.

OK. For basketball, it should probably be a Power 6. That makes it more comparable.

Edit: @GTO already made my point and much more eloquently and understandably.

 

[NoCreativity]

You do stats for a living???!?! Whoa boy... I really hope that isn't true.

Damn right I do.

 

[Cyballzz]

Damn right I do.

Low bar I guess.

 

[CyTwins]

I already told you I look at RPI, I dont care how many points a team scores per possession or how fast they pass the ball around.

So you think Minnesota is better than UCLA, Wisconsin and West Virginia?

 

[jcyclonee]

Why is an RPI ranking the only metric or stat ever taken into account when arguing whether someone is good, average, bad, or whatever?

I don't think ranking everybody in comparison to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a very good idea.

 

[NoCreativity]

Now you keep dodging the question, how is a team like Texas who is considered better than Iowa by KenPom, Vegas and Sagarin "pathetic" but Iowa is average?

I just told you dude, I dont care about that crap, there is a reason the selection committee uses RPI and seeds accordingly. I want to know who youve played and who youve beaten, I honestly dont care how fast you score or some other dumb metric like that.

 

[SportsFan10]

And you're somewhat literate. He's right, you know......the correct expression is "I couldn't care less".

I agree that is the correct expression. But, tons of people everywhere use "I could care less" to mean "I don't care"

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I think it is funny as hell when people hate one another based solely on their allegiance to a college's athletic program. I don't hate the cyclones. Some of their fans are dicks, but some of Iowa's fans are as well. People who get their panties in a wad over all of this need to probably sit down for some quality introspection.

I have tons of Iowa fans, so I don't hate a person for being an Iowa fan. What I do hate is having obscenities and random **** thrown at me by grown *** adults when I go to the Iowa State game at historic Kinnick stadium. So yeah, **** Iowa.

 

[Bigman38]

So take Big12, SEC, Big10, Pac12, ACC, BigEast, and (maybe) the AAC. How many schools is that and where would Iowa rank in there?

This.

Technically if you ignore the huge gulf in talent and resources between the Power conferences and the rest of college basketball Iowa is average. But defining that as your measure of average means Iowa is really bad.

 

[CyTwins]

I just told you dude, I dont care about that crap, there is a reason the selection committee uses RPI and seeds accordingly. I want to know who youve played and who youve beaten, I honestly dont care how fast you score or some other dumb metric like that.

So you think Minnesota is better than UCLA, Wisconsin and West Virginia?

 

[GTO]

Iowa's RPI is 108. Only Rutgers has a worse RPI in the Big Ten.

 

[SCyclone]

I shouldn't admit this on here but Iowa is my second favorite college team (at least until my daughter starts attending the U of M). It also doesn't mean that I'm not going to mock Iowa any chance I can get.

More importantly, what do Iowa fans know about knowledge?

My daughter graduated from Michigan in 2008!

 

[Bigman38]

I just told you dude, I dont care about that crap, there is a reason the selection committee uses RPI and seeds accordingly. I want to know who youve played and who youve beaten, I honestly dont care how fast you score or some other dumb metric like that.

I posted a 538 article in the bubble watch thread about the NCAA moving away from RPI because of it's old and much less accurate than other ranking systems.

 

[CyTwins]

Iowa's RPI is 108. Only Rutgers has a worse RPI in the Big Ten.

So Jeremy says the Big Ten is bad, Iowa is the second worst team in the Big Ten but they are average? Lol you can't make this stuff up

 

[GTO]

I agree that is the correct expression. But, tons of people everywhere use "I could care less" to mean "I don't care"

Are you STILL talking about this? Just admit you f'ed up and move on.

 

[CyTwins]

OK I changed my mind, the dumbest thing I've heard now is Jeremy saying Minnesota is better than UCLA, Wisconsin and West Virginia

 

[Cyballzz]

So you think Minnesota is better than UCLA, Wisconsin and West Virginia?

Saint Mary's would mop the floor with all those bums as well.

 

[CyTwins]

Are you STILL talking about this? Just admit you f'ed up and move on.

Even a fifth grader would know to move on after they messed up like that