Rose, BYU and bad conference losses
I think BYU is going to be better next year, but one thing I really hope to see is the elimination of bad losses. We tend to forget that the bad loss phenomenon with Rose's teams is actually a very recent thing and was not at all characteristic of his teams in the MWC. If we can get back to just taking care of business against these teams it will make a huge difference in terms of catching up to Gonzaga in first place and with other things like NCAA tournament seeding. 2012 is the first year we were in the WCC. Here are Rose's bad regular season conferences losses by year (defined as a loss to a team outside the top 100) with our D1 W/L record noted. Ranking is rpi.
2006 (19-8) NIT 1st round
at #162 Utah
2007 (24-8) NCAA 1st round
at #106 CSU
2008 (27-7) NCAA 1st round
none
2009 (24-7) NCAA 1st round
none
2010 (28-5) NCAA 2nd round
none
2011 (29-4) NCAA sweet 16
none
2012 (23-8) NCAA win in first four, loss in first round
at #117 LMU
2013 (20-11) NIT semifinals
at #165 USD
vs. #167 USF
2014 (22-11) NCAA first round
at #179 LMU
at #159 Pepperdine
at #178 Portland
at #133 Pacific
2015 (20-8) NCAA first four
vs. #148 Pepperdine
at #146 USD
at #148 Pepperdine
Last edited by BlueK; 03-31-2015 at 07:16 PM.
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