needs more lute olson imo.

as a KU fan I hope so too so we can beat them by the 20 we were supposed to

Ivy is no cakewalk this year. Harvard and Jeremy Lin have almost matched Cornell. I assume that losing two out of three to Harvard means no at-large bid?

Harvard would have the best team in the Ivies *by far* if not for Cornell, but they do not have the team Cornell has (this is not the homer in me talking, I have watched numerous Harvard games this year, including BC and Georgetown).

Nevertheless, if they split and both finish 13-1, I can easily see the loser of the playoff getting an at large, assuming of course that Cornell does not lose to either South Dakota or Clarkson (before they start the Ivies).

Harvard is coached by Tommy Amaker though. That's gonna catch up to them at some point.

Tommy Amaker has done a pretty good job at Harvard so far.

Lin is a hell of a basketball player and gave us a lot of trouble last year at Harvard. I think we would have had a shot at an at-large if we had held on last night (LOL refs). The loser of the Ivy might still have a shot if the league ends up in a tie and is determined by a one game playoff.

It's pretty easy to simulate, since neither Harvard nor Cornell has had any significant injuries this year.

Harvard's has a good rating in my numbers, with a fairly flat strength regression (meaning they don't play significantly better or worse against good or bad teams, and experience dropoffs as a big fave that are almost exactly normal)

Cornell's rating is about a point and a half lower than Harvard's but they have a very, very slight uptick against good teams. Too early to tell if that's just variance though. Also, I haven't plugged in yesterday's games yet, so I suspent that the KU game will be a substantial boost, maybe even 2 points or so to their rating.

Also, their HCA's are both exactly identical, so that's a wash.

Anyway, to make a long story short, they're almost identical at this point in the season, and both games will be flips

yes, but he was terrible at Seton Hall and even worse at Michigan. I'm going with history here.

was he really that bad at Seton Hall? He was there 97-98 to 2000-01... 3 NITs and a sweet 16... not like Seton Hall had a strong lead in or has done much since he left

2008-2009 Statistics (17-15 overall, 7-11 B.E.)

2007-2008 Statistics (17-15 overall, 7-11 B.E.)

2006-2007 Statistics (13-16 overall, 4-12 B.E.)

2005-2006 Statistics (18-12 overall, 9-7 B.E.) - NCAA First Round

2004-2005 Statistics (12-16 overall, 4-12 B.E.)

2003-2004 Statistics (21-10 overall, 10-6 B.E.) - NCAA Second Round

2002-2003 Statistics (17-13 overall, 10-6 B.E.) - NIT First Round

2001-2002 Statistics (12-18 overall, 5-11 B.E.)

2000-2001 Statistics (16-15 overall, 5-11 B.E.) - NIT First Round

1999-2000 Statistics (22-10 overall, 10-6 B.E.) - NCAA Sweet 16

1998-1999 Statistics (15-15 overall, 8-10 B.E.) - NIT First Round

1997-1998 Statistics (15-15 overall, 9-9 B.E.) - NIT First Round

1996-1997 Statistics (10-18 overall, 5-13 B.E.)

1995-1996 Statistics (13-15 overall, 7-11 B.E.)
*Game vs. Purdue forfeited to Seton Hall due to use of ineligible player

1994-1995 Statistics (16-14 overall, 7-11 B.E.) - NIT First Round

1993-1994 Statistics (17-13 overall, 8-10 B.E.) - NCAA First Round

I don't think he was overly bad at Michigan, they were 1 Big Ten game away from NCAA probably 3 different seasons, a bit unlucky and not a great in game coach but Michigan wasn't some powerhouse at the point he came in and they probably won't be that special in the future.... a bubble NIT team right now

maybe terrible is a stretch, but he spent 10 years in BCS conferences and made the NCAA tournament once. That's a pretty bad resume imo.

Not necessarily defending him but didnt scUM have sanction issues while he was there?

I'm still in the 'hes an overrrated coach' boat though.

Hard to call him overrated when the consensus is that he sucks.

Good point, ignore my post. He sucks.

Tennessee has booted Tyler Smith off the team. wow

we'll see ya. we'll see ya later

he gone.

I don't know about you guys but I have plans to do nothing but watch basketball (and a little football) all day tomorrow:

UCONN @ Georgetown - 11:00 a.m. ESPN
Purdue at Wisconsin - 12:30 p.m. BTN
Colorado @ Texas - 12:45 p.m. ESPNF
Kansas State @ Missouri - 1:00 p.m. ESPN2
Duke at Georgia Tech - 1:00 p.m. ESPN
Marquette @ Villanova - 1:00 p.m. ESPNF
Creighton @ Wichita State - 1:05 p.m. ESPNU
Georgia @ Kentucky - 3:00 p.m. ESPNF
Nebraska @ Texas A&M - 3:00 p.m. ESPNF
Jets at Bengals - 3:30 p.m. NBC
Oklahoma @ Baylor - 5:00 p.m. ESPNF
Wake Forest @ Miami - 5:00 p.m. ESPNF
Cincinnati @ Seton Hall - 5:00 p.m. ESPNF
Eagles at Cowboys - 7:00 p.m. NBC
West Virginia @ Notre Dame - 7:00 p.m. ESPNU
Texas Tech @ Oklahoma State - 7:00 p.m. ESPNF
Gonzaga @ Portland - 9:00 p.m. ESPNU

*All times CST

we play dook tomorrow? pretty early, might wake up to go to the 2nd half if its close

D Favors is decent, but Scheyer is the best in the country, devils cover in Atl today

cool story bro

Georgia/UK will be more competitive than the Jets game imo. Watch that instead.

The best what? Hes not a better player than wall. Duke should win easily unless they go like 2-30 from deep since the only thing tech is good at is inside defense which duke will shoot right over.

scheyer has been other worldly this year

that said

wall>>>>>scheyer

so many games today followed by KU @ Tenn tomorrow. why does espn full court have women's games? ugh