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Posted by Green-Bean (Member # 13551) on 01-29-2015, 07:14 AM:

I KNOW WE BEAT EM EARLY, BUT THEY WILL BE A DANGEROUS TEAM, IN THE TOURNEY, SELF KNOWS HOW TO DEVELOP HIS PLAYERS. IMO.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2015/1/28/7922527/kansas-jayhawks-kentucky-wildcats-rpi-strength-of-schedule

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 01-29-2015, 10:00 AM:

G-B, Not a lot to argue with there but I sure would like our chances if we get to play Kansas in the tournament.

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 01-29-2015, 10:08 AM:

I personally think the Big 12 is a highly overrated conference which is why Kansas are getting such a strong RPI. We have beaten two top ten teams that are presently top ten, Kansas and Louisville and this RPI is really a distorted figure. Texas are flaming out, West Virginia are very beatable as is Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. I don't consider their conference much stronger than the SEC, if at all.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 01-29-2015, 10:23 AM:

Both Arkansas and LSU are 16-4 teams and Georgia and Texas A&M are 14-5 teams. There is no doubt the conference isn't real strong except for the Cats but other than the Atlantic Coast the SEC is as good as any conference.

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 01-29-2015, 02:13 PM:

I'm not sure the ACC is any better than the SEC or any other conference.

What I have seen, which is very little of other college basketball teams, all of the conferences are about equal this year. I am beginning to believe that there are two dominant teams this year in College Basketball: UK and Arizona. When the season started I thought there were several, but I don't think that is the case now. I haven't watched Virginia play a minute of basketball so maybe they deserve consideration as a dominant team as well, but my gut tells me they can not compete with UK and Arizona.

SCWC would probably be able to give the best opinion on this though because I know he still watches a lot of college games.

[ 01-29-2015, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Trey Ball ]

Posted by Green-Bean (Member # 13551) on 01-29-2015, 04:53 PM:

YEAH TREY, SCWC WOULD KNOW, HE IS ONE OF THE MOST ASTUTE, POSTERS ON THE BOARD, HE KNOWS HIS BASKETBALL, VERY SMART MAN.

Posted by boomdaddy (Member # 2644) on 01-30-2015, 02:19 PM:

When Kentucky is in a lean year, I sweat over rankings and strength of schedule. When Kentucky is having a dominant season, I don't care about rankings. I always want as many of the SEC teams to make the tourney as possible and for them to do well.

As we saw last season, a team that barely makes it into the tourney, can win the whole thing. Anybody can win, if they get hot at tourney time. UConn was a 7th seed in the tourney. That means that there were at least 24 other teams that the selection committee thought were better than them and they went into the tourney with 8 losses.