(12-16-2022 08:33 AM)82hawk Wrote:  

(12-16-2022 05:34 AM)70shawk Wrote:  

(12-15-2022 04:37 PM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote:  

(12-15-2022 03:44 PM)82hawk Wrote:  Lost to Presbytarian? Man, I sure hope the dregs of the CAA go winless against the top 4 in conference play this year, they are awful!

One can hope. But it never happens.

A team like Elon that lives and dies by the 3 is always good for an upset or 2 on a hot-shooting night.

Just look at all the troubles we've had playing in their house over the years, even in seasons where we've been quite good. They cost us NIT bids in both year 1 of the Keatts era and last season under Siddle.

These tournament committees look for any reason they can to exclude mid majors in favor of "bubble" teams with so-so records from the P5. The NET rankings seem basically designed to create a mathematical system to codify what they want to do anyway - very few chances for mids to get Quad I wins and many chances to get Quad 4 (ie "bad" ) losses.

At the moment (stressing at the moment) Charleston (NET rating 57) and UNCW (NET rating 70) are the only two teams within sniffing distance of an at-large NCAA bid. But would have to run the table from here to the end of the season, with only maybe a loss or two to the very best CAA teams to do it.

UNCW needs to find a way to get beatable P5's on the OOC scheudle. GT, Wake, Boston College, etc. UConn would have been one of those teams a few years ago, we just happened to catch them when they have a national championship potential team and UNC is always going to be a tough out with a roster of blue chippers. We are moving in the right direction with our OOC scheduling to get a shot at some big wins needed to get the at large bids.