Temple is making Kansas look fairly ordinary right now...up 50-33 on the Jayhawks at the under 12 2nd half timeout. Game is being played at the Wells Fargo Center instead of on campus at Temple.
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Temple is making Kansas look fairly ordinary right now...up 50-33 on the Jayhawks at the under 12 2nd half timeout. Game is being played at the Wells Fargo Center instead of on campus at Temple.
Bill Self is letting his Kansas team absorb the butt-kicking that Temple is administering...Owls were up 30 before Kansas hit a 3 to make it 77-50.
Final...Temple 77, Kansas 52
Court is stormed in Philadelphia.
Temple has Jesse Morgan, Jaylen Bond, and Devin Coleman back now. All three were OUT for their game against us. This Temple team that beat KU was completely different from the Temple team we lost to.
Last edited by Dawg06; 12-23-2014 at 01:19 AM.
Still looks better on our resume.Originally Posted by Dawg06
Temple is now an RPI Top 50 loss for Tech as the Owls are #34 today. Kansas is still #2 in RPI even after last night.
Syracuse is only at #76 in RPI today. American is the only other Top 250 RPI team Tech has played so far at #83. That is why Tech has a 217 RPI with a 346 SOS (out of 351).
North Carolina State's RPI is at #66.
Sorta but not really. It makes our resume/RPI look a little nicer on the surface, but the selection committee looks deeper than that. They know those Temple players were out the first part of their season and that we didn't play the Temple team that beat Kansas.
Tech is NOT gonna get an at-large bid to the Dance. Not this year, and probably not ever again. We've only gotten one in our entire history! Well, let me clarify this...if the Dance is expanded to 128 teams, then yeah, we'll be in the running. But not at 68 teams. Okay, unless we have a decent OOC and run the table. But, usually that's not even good enough. Have to have at least back to back great seasons, just to be a known commodity heading into the 2nd year. And then, have to beat some "somebodies" to get noticed. Every year there are BASKETBALL schools, I'm talking schools known for their MBB programs, that have an RPI of less than 60, have a good record, say 22-25 wins, and get left out of the Dance. Hell! recently a school had an RPI of something like 30, had a couple of nice signature wins, a record of 20-9, or something like that. Was a bubble team, mentioned every time there was talk of the bubble teams, and they did not dance. Dickie V. went ballistic! Jay Bilas was okay with it because the school in question did not belong to the ACC...or one of those other so-called Power Conferences. Chit happens...
WIN THE AUTO-BID if you want to Dance.
Yea but I'm thinking more in terms of perception. It's hard enough to get fans to show up, it's a little easier when you can say, "Yea, we lost to some pretty good teams." I agree as far as the committee goes, but the auto-bid is our only shot anyway.
Southern Miss with an RPI of 33, couple of years ago.
Tech lost to EVERY quality team on the schedule. Maybe this is why he did not schedule more. Hard to maintain the illusion of improvement, get raises, and a job at a bigger school going 10-20.
I drank the Kool-Aid
Well then we aren't aiming high enough.
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