Scheduling a d2 school that doesn't count towards your rpi is actually better than scheduling a horrible d1 school in a lot of cases...plays a team 270-330 does nothing to help a team's rpi, and significantly brings down a teams' strength of schedule. Beating a d2 school doesn't help you make the NIT or NCAA, but it also doesn't hurt your strength of schedule or RPI.
I don't mean to sound like a smart a** or anything but if what you say is true than I wonder why we don't play more d2 schools. It seems like we have at least 3 or 4 games every year against (for lack of a better term) "teams we should beat". If RPI is what really counts in getting to post season play why even schedule a team that has a reputation of a bad RPI.
Even though this team is only D-2, i'm worried because they play almost all guards in a very weird offense (nothing but back cuts). I'm hoping our guys can adjust to something so different than what they're used to!
I don't mean to sound like a smart a** or anything but if what you say is true than I wonder why we don't play more d2 schools. It seems like we have at least 3 or 4 games every year against (for lack of a better term) "teams we should beat". If RPI is what really counts in getting to post season play why even schedule a team that has a reputation of a bad RPI.
No prob...what I say is true. It's a catch 22. You want games you know you'll win so you can build confidence and (or) build up on the win total. The problem with wins over lousy d1 teams is that they don't help (and can hurt) your rpi...the problem with scheduling a lot of d2 opponents that don't hurt your rpi or strength of schedule is that the wins don't count in the criteria the selection committe uses.
last D2 school i remember playing was morningside and they almost beat us because all they did was shoot threes and make them it would be scary if this is the same type of team
last D2 school i remember playing was morningside and they almost beat us because all they did was shoot threes and make them it would be scary if this is the same type of team
I remember that game. Didn't it go to overtime? I was freakin out!!
I Was kinda worried until i checked out there schedule and seen they've beatin nobodies and then realized that there head coach was an assitant underneath Alford for 5 years @ Iowa so he has retained Coaching knowledge from Steve Alford awesome
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