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This certainly doesn't benefit us, but I dont think that this benefits any of the other teams vying for an at-large. This benefits nobody but UMass.
Without bogging into too much detail- you can bet that St Louis will play VCU and Richmond. You can probably assume between VCU and St Louis that at least one of them plays Davidson. We also play Davidson. It's easy to see that all of these teams playing each other is going to cause some beating up among the top teams, Inevitably winning percentages will be lowered somewhere, and teams who are clearly more deserving of a higher seed than UMass wont get it.
I truly cannot understand the rationale up moving things UP a week. The A10 has been hit harder than any other multi-bid conference by delays and pauses. I'm truly dumbfounded that the league's response is to give everyone less time to make up for that. As others have said, we and all of the other teams need games. If we lose to Davidson, how do we overcome it? By beating some like St Louis, yes, but also just racking up wins.
The A10 seems to be thinking the top teams in the league beating each other up wont matter, because that's what happens in the power conferences, too. No bad losses and plenty of marquee wins, and raises everyone's NET. That's all well and good, but in the A10 that's only going to work if the top teams also have all of the wins of beating up the shitty teams to go along with it. You need to pad your winning percentage to show that you are part of the upper eschelon of the A10 and you're that much better than the rest of the leaugue.
Without that, you get a bunch of records that will be watered down and take bids away. The committee isn't going to take the time to breakdown the nuances of the imbalanced interconference SOS. They're going to see a team that lost X number of A10 games, and cross them off their list.
Without bogging into too much detail- you can bet that St Louis will play VCU and Richmond. You can probably assume between VCU and St Louis that at least one of them plays Davidson. We also play Davidson. It's easy to see that all of these teams playing each other is going to cause some beating up among the top teams, Inevitably winning percentages will be lowered somewhere, and teams who are clearly more deserving of a higher seed than UMass wont get it.
I truly cannot understand the rationale up moving things UP a week. The A10 has been hit harder than any other multi-bid conference by delays and pauses. I'm truly dumbfounded that the league's response is to give everyone less time to make up for that. As others have said, we and all of the other teams need games. If we lose to Davidson, how do we overcome it? By beating some like St Louis, yes, but also just racking up wins.
The A10 seems to be thinking the top teams in the league beating each other up wont matter, because that's what happens in the power conferences, too. No bad losses and plenty of marquee wins, and raises everyone's NET. That's all well and good, but in the A10 that's only going to work if the top teams also have all of the wins of beating up the shitty teams to go along with it. You need to pad your winning percentage to show that you are part of the upper eschelon of the A10 and you're that much better than the rest of the leaugue.
Without that, you get a bunch of records that will be watered down and take bids away. The committee isn't going to take the time to breakdown the nuances of the imbalanced interconference SOS. They're going to see a team that lost X number of A10 games, and cross them off their list.
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