Originally Posted by
dawg80
Why do some of you worry about Sagarin rankings, SOS, and all of that? It doesn't matter. Tech is not getting an at-large berth. We can play a crappy schedule and rack up some meaningless wins, we could play Duke, and other top 50 ranked schools....and get pasted...so, yeah, our ranking will go up some, simply getting clobbered, but then we'll be 0-fer in OOC and won't get a sniff from the committee.
Play a couple of good opponents, like a Wichita State, some weaker "P5s", and others like SFA, and use those games to improve and get ready for the conference regular season. Then use the conference regular season as a spring board for the conference tourney. Learn other teams' strengths/weaknesses while not revealing much of ours...even if that means we lose a few along the way because of it, then surprise everyone in the conference tourney. In other words, everything about the regular season should be geared to peaking for the conference tourney.