The Holy Land of Hoops

Marquette site posted this. Looks like they added women's soccer (which they had 6 appearances) because they sponsor that sport and not softball/baseball which I think are more important. Interesting nonetheless.

Seton Hall - ZERO? ouch.

Seton Hall would have some numbers if baseball was included.
PC I'm pretty sure has at least 3 men's soccer bids instead of 2 shown... plus a men's ice hockey bid (Frozen 8)...
Nice graphics and good topic.

Why is 08-09 the starting point?maybe I'm wrong but don't most people do things like this in gaps of 3, 5, 10 etc? 6 just seems a bit odd. Not saying it was purposely skewed for MU but just kinda random.

MUBoxer wrote:Why is 08-09 the starting point?maybe I'm wrong but don't most people do things like this in gaps of 3, 5, 10 etc? 6 just seems a bit odd. Not saying it was purposely skewed for MU but just kinda random.

It may be 6 because that's how long NCAA units run in basketball at least(not sure about the other sports).....

It would have made more sense if that wasn't the case to have done it from the 2005-06 season(the 1st year of the new Big East setup when we went to 16).

MUBoxer wrote:Why is 08-09 the starting point?maybe I'm wrong but don't most people do things like this in gaps of 3, 5, 10 etc? 6 just seems a bit odd. Not saying it was purposely skewed for MU but just kinda random.

Yea, this is definitely skewed. I always hate when stats are cherry picked, I see it all the time in Baseball. "Well Todd Frazier is hitting 400 on every other Thursday away game." or "Todd Frazier is hitting 400 since June 26" while his real average is 200 or something.

DudeAnon wrote:

MUBoxer wrote:Why is 08-09 the starting point?maybe I'm wrong but don't most people do things like this in gaps of 3, 5, 10 etc? 6 just seems a bit odd. Not saying it was purposely skewed for MU but just kinda random.

Yea, this is definitely skewed. I always hate when stats are cherry picked, I see it all the time in Baseball. "Well Todd Frazier is hitting 400 on every other Thursday away game." or "Todd Frazier is hitting 400 since June 26" while his real average is 200 or something.

I think the hitting 400 every other Thursday isn't really valid- really random- but someone hitting 400 since June 26 is a lot more valid. (btw, Frazier is batting 261 since June 26!) Sometimes folks figure things out- and from that point on, they are a different player. I see it coaching youth basketball all the time. Just all of a sudden they have this a ha moment and then never look back.

billyjack wrote:Seton Hall would have some numbers if baseball was included.
PC I'm pretty sure has at least 3 men's soccer bids instead of 2 shown... plus a men's ice hockey bid (Frozen 8)...
Nice graphics and good topic.

Creighton would get a nice additional bump if baseball was included too.

DudeAnon wrote:

MUBoxer wrote:Why is 08-09 the starting point?maybe I'm wrong but don't most people do things like this in gaps of 3, 5, 10 etc? 6 just seems a bit odd. Not saying it was purposely skewed for MU but just kinda random.

Yea, this is definitely skewed. I always hate when stats are cherry picked, I see it all the time in Baseball. "Well Todd Frazier is hitting 400 on every other Thursday away game." or "Todd Frazier is hitting 400 since June 26" while his real average is 200 or something.

Well DUH. Marquette produced it so of course they're going to choose the dates that best benefit their graphic.

I don't get the relevancy of this graphic at all. Seems to me that Marquette simply cherry picked the sports that would pad it's stats. If I were to put a similar graphic depiction for Villanova, off the top of my head I would include football, basketball, lacrosse and also try to get some credit for our men's and women's track and cross country teams. Am I missing something?