(12-06-2022 02:42 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(12-06-2022 02:36 PM)82hawk Wrote:  

(12-06-2022 11:34 AM)solohawks Wrote:  Ultimately a fair way to assess is if the additions will cause the CAA NCAA representative to have a lower seed than they would have had if no expansion had occurred. Also, you will need to factor in the travel cost savings somehow.

Seeding is based upon the ranking of the school in the tournament, not the conference. Losses to the bad teams in the CA could certainly affect each schools ranking, but I can't see how the ranking of the conference would affect seeding.

As you said, if your conference but your not, then your NET ranking will be negatively impacted, thus lowering your seed, especially if you have a bad loss.

So while the ranking of a conference doesn't necessarily mean much, playing the schools in a low ranking conference will drag you down and could hurt your seeding. Once we start conference play, see Charleston's NET drop.

Sam Houston State is another example. Right now they are #7. They will drop too once they start WAC play.

Disagree. You think a (for example only) a Winthrop team with no losses or one loss on the season would get a #1 or a #2 seed? Or perhaps, they’d look at their schedule, who they beat and be like… “Nah, those wins are against weak competition.”

C’mon man.


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