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Post by midnightblue on Oct 20, 2019 15:27:41 GMT -5
The Cardiac Cougs (7-0 AAC) are defying all odds with this magical run -- trying to rally themselves into the NCAA Tournament at-large picture. Houston takes the 4th set against Cincinnati and for the EIGHTH time in 10 matches, Houston will be playing five-sets! Houston has won 6 of the previous 7 five-setters. Putting the Dominicans to shame.
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Post by trojansc on Oct 20, 2019 15:31:41 GMT -5
The Cardiac Cougs (7-0 AAC) are defying all odds with this magical run -- trying to rally themselves into the NCAA Tournament at-large picture. Houston takes the 4th set against Cincinnati and for the EIGHTH time in 10 matches, Houston will be playing five-sets! Houston has won 6 of the previous 7 five-setters. Putting the Dominicans to shame. It actually isn't a bad comparison. Houston has a very good libero (Karbo) and they have really good attacking options. They are out of system a lot, resulting in a ton of misconnections. Houston's block also was excellent. It looks like the run is finally over. 13-9 Cincinnati leads in the 5th
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Post by jwvolley on Oct 20, 2019 15:34:01 GMT -5
Putting the Dominicans to shame. It actually isn't a bad comparison. Houston has a very good libero (Karbo) and they have really good attacking options. They are out of system a lot, resulting in a ton of misconnections. It looks like the run is finally over. 13-9 Cincinnati leads in the 5th Thompson had 86 attempts..
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Post by trojansc on Oct 20, 2019 15:35:06 GMT -5
15-9 Cincinnati takes it over Houston in 5. Exciting match. Houston definitely has to be proud of themselves, they've been way in over their heads. They were definitely overmatched but did some good things to keep themselves in the match. Houston's RS Kendall Haywood was a top-blocking MB last year, so having her matched up against Jordan Thompson gave Houston opportunities to slow her down and block her quite a few times.
Thompson finished with 37 kills on 18 errors, 86 swings. Mallon had 24 kills, 9 errors, 48 swings.
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Post by dunninla3 on Oct 20, 2019 16:02:25 GMT -5
Oregon loses a game today I thought they needed to finish 9-4 and make the tourney. Long odds now.
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Post by bluepenquin on Oct 22, 2019 14:50:41 GMT -5
Rice's RPI Futures was #7 going into the week. If their current RPI is 15 - then it is likely that their RPI will improve in the coming weeks. I thought that initially, but didn't they drop from #9 a couple weeks ago to 15? Why would they keep going up if the rest of their schedule is not RPI friendly? Just curious. This is the fundamental reason why one should be looking at RPI Futures instead of actual RPI. Rice just went through a horrible RPI part of their schedule this last week with Southern Miss and Middle Tennessee. Those two teams have a combined projected adjusted w/l% of .230. The remaining schedule for Rice is actually pretty good - projected opponent w/l% of .599. Rice has a 14 game conference season. 1st 7 matches already completed against opponents with and expected average w/l% of .486. The last 7 opponents is .599. Add to this that only Western Kentucky has a better than 12% chance of beating Rice - and that match is at home for Rice.
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Post by bayarea on Oct 22, 2019 15:53:24 GMT -5
Interesting that you have BYU as the WCC champion and San Diego with an at-large bid, when San Diego just beat BYU in Provo... you are assuming that was a fluke and BYU will finish on top? I'm kind of 50-50 right now, and San Diego is on a 13 match win streak.
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Post by trojansc on Oct 22, 2019 16:20:07 GMT -5
Interesting that you have BYU as the WCC champion and San Diego with an at-large bid, when San Diego just beat BYU in Provo... you are assuming that was a fluke and BYU will finish on top? I'm kind of 50-50 right now, and San Diego is on a 13 match win streak. This has not been updated. There’s an update in progress, and that has San Diego as the AQ and BYU as the at-large. It is pretty 50-50 to me, and I gave USD the edge because they won on the road.
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Post by bluepenquin on Oct 22, 2019 16:54:21 GMT -5
Interesting that you have BYU as the WCC champion and San Diego with an at-large bid, when San Diego just beat BYU in Provo... you are assuming that was a fluke and BYU will finish on top? I'm kind of 50-50 right now, and San Diego is on a 13 match win streak. Pablo currently has this as: San Diego wins outright - 67.5% BYU wins outright - 14.9% Ends in a tie - 17.6%
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Post by gbuttah on Oct 24, 2019 13:21:57 GMT -5
Can someone tell me what the W-L (overall & conference) criteria is to be eligible for the tourney?
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Post by n00b on Oct 24, 2019 13:24:24 GMT -5
Can someone tell me what the W-L (overall & conference) criteria is to be eligible for the tourney? Win at least 50% of your matches (overall)
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Post by trollhunter on Oct 24, 2019 13:36:30 GMT -5
Can someone tell me what the W-L (overall & conference) criteria is to be eligible for the tourney? Win at least 50% of your matches (overall) Or win your conference tournament (no minimum W-L record needed for this)
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Post by aardvark on Oct 25, 2019 19:53:58 GMT -5
(4) Guaranteed multi-bid conferences. ACC (Champion: Pittsburgh) At-Large: Louisville, Notre Dame, Florida State [/div][/font]Teams that didn't make the cut but are being monitored closely for an at-large bid: ACC: North Carolina, Miami-FL[/div][/quote] I have no issue with the four teams from the ACC you guessed would make the field. However, the two teams you said should be watched seems ill-informed. BC and GT are above both UNC and Miami in the ACC standings. And that was not counting tonight's games, which includes a GT sweep of FSU. GT is now 13-7 with 9 matches left. One is at Pitt. If GT loses that one and wins the others (a tall order, but the way they are playing, surely doable), then they end the season at 21-8. BC is in even a better position, with a current overall record of 15-6.
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Post by trojansc on Oct 25, 2019 20:01:52 GMT -5
I have no issue with the four teams from the ACC you guessed would make the field. However, the two teams you said should be watched seems ill-informed. BC and GT are above both UNC and Miami in the ACC standings. And that was not counting tonight's games, which includes a GT sweep of FSU. GT is now 13-7 with 9 matches left. One is at Pitt. If GT loses that one and wins the others (a tall order, but the way they are playing, surely doable), then they end the season at 21-8. BC is in even a better position, with a current overall record of 15-6. If you think Boston College is in a good position, you need to learn more about RPI and how NCAA selections are made. The best historical evidence of this is when the committee took 5th-place Loyola Marymount over 2nd-place Pacific in the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Pacific beat LMU twice, and finished 2nd in the WCC. They weren't selected, but 5th-place LMU was. Why? RPINorth Carolina and Georgia Tech could both go on tears and potentially make the tournament, but it's pretty unlikely. Boston College has the WORST strength-of-schedule (236) in the ACC. They have very little potential to seriously improve their RPI, which is 100+ right now. Since the time this original post was published (which was over a week ago) Georgia Tech has passed Miami-FL. Here are the current RPI rankings 68 North Carolina 91 Georgia Tech 107 Miami-FL 108 Boston College
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Oct 25, 2019 20:04:53 GMT -5
aardvark This is based off of RPI futures, which puts North Carolina much ahead of Boston College and GT. (BEfore tonight GT didn't have anything of note on it's resume, and trojan can't update this minute by minute). UNC is the only of the four with a top 50 strength of schedule, which is why they will be ahead of the other squads in RPI despite losing more matches. Record isn't everything, Boston College hasn't played many teams of note. UNC and BC will play on Sunday though, so we'll see who takes the pole position in the race for ACC bubble squad.
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