BYU's loss to Boise

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Arch, do you have any clue what the winning percentage is for home games in college basketball, particularly for top 100 RPI teams? It's astronomical.

It's significantly in favor of the home team.

Yet if BYU is to win a Tourney game it must be capable of winning games at Boise.

So, unfortunately, we don't appear capable of winning a Tourney game.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by Archaea

It's significantly in favor of the home team.

Yet if BYU is to win a Tourney game it must be capable of winning games at Boise.

So, unfortunately, we don't appear capable of winning a Tourney game.

Archaea, you are an idiot. Don't you know anything about basketball. The WAC is solid this year. According to Sagarin, there are 16 conferences worse than the WAC!!!

   1  PACIFIC-10              =  83.61      83.46  (  1)     10
   2  BIG 12                  =  81.86      82.40  (  3)     12
   3  ATLANTIC COAST          =  81.42      82.64  (  2)     12
   4  BIG EAST                =  81.24      81.01  (  4)     16
   5  BIG TEN                 =  80.08      80.27  (  5)     11
   6  SOUTHEASTERN            =  79.47      80.08  (  6)     12
   7  MOUNTAIN WEST           =  77.52      77.17  (  9)      9
   8  MISSOURI VALLEY         =  77.22      77.48  (  7)     10
   9  ATLANTIC 10             =  77.00      77.20  (  8)     14
  10  HORIZON                 =  75.42      75.47  ( 10)     10
  11  CONFERENCE USA          =  74.87      74.93  ( 11)     12
  12  MID-AMERICAN            =  73.94      73.85  ( 12)     12
  13  WEST COAST              =  73.33      73.81  ( 13)      8
  14  SOUTHERN                =  72.20      71.38  ( 17)     11
  15  BIG WEST                =  72.02      71.88  ( 14)      9
  16  WESTERN ATHLETIC        =  71.91      71.30  ( 18)      9
  17  COLONIAL                =  71.58      71.78  ( 15)     12
  18  SUN BELT                =  71.36      71.47  ( 16)     13
  19  SUMMIT LEAGUE           =  70.29      70.85  ( 19)     10
  20  METRO ATLANTIC          =  70.16      70.46  ( 20)     10
  21  PATRIOT                 =  69.45      69.91  ( 21)      8
  22  BIG SKY                 =  69.30      69.03  ( 23)      9
  23  SOUTHLAND               =  68.74      69.53  ( 22)     12
  24  BIG SOUTH               =  68.45      68.80  ( 24)      8
  25  NORTHEAST               =  67.54      67.41  ( 25)     11
  26  IVY LEAGUE              =  67.02      67.41  ( 26)      8
  27  AMERICA EAST            =  66.41      66.67  ( 27)      9
  28  ATLANTIC SUN            =  66.10      65.64  ( 28)     12
  29  OHIO VALLEY             =  64.97      64.79  ( 29)     11
  30  MID-EASTERN             =  64.00      64.45  ( 30)     12
  31  INDEPENDENTS            =  61.85      61.60  ( 31)      9
  32  SOUTHWESTERN            =  60.00      60.31  ( 32)     10

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by Archaea

It's significantly in favor of the home team.

Yet if BYU is to win a Tourney game it must be capable of winning games at Boise.

So, unfortunately, we don't appear capable of winning a Tourney game.

We could find you hundreds of data points over the last ten years of teams that won a tourney game that had a loss as bad as the Boise game. Obviously losing to Boise does not eliminate your chances to win a tourney game.

But...we better start playing a lot better if we want to put ourselves in a position to win a tourney game.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by jay santos

We could find you hundreds of data points over the last ten years of teams that won a tourney game that had a loss as bad as the Boise game. Obviously losing to Boise does not eliminate your chances to win a tourney game.

But...we better start playing a lot better if we want to put ourselves in a position to win a tourney game.

Yes but most of those teams come from BCS conferences. We don't have that luxury and we're looking like an 11 seed and a one and done again.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Archaea, you are an idiot. Don't you know anything about basketball. The WAC is solid this year. According to Sagarin, there are 16 conferences worse than the WAC!!!

It's too bad we don't play the entire conference.