GumbyDamnit! wrote:I'm a hoops purist so I would hate to abandon the Big 5. No question teams like St. Joe's and Temple benefit these days while Nova is a perennial Top 10 program. But what's the difference between playing Penn and playing Columbia or Lafayette OOC? Each are RPI cupcakes (hate to break it to Dayton fans who just saw Penn come in and beat them). So recognize that the Big 5 games (mostly) will be opportunities to work younger players in, and continue to look for yearly one-offs against teams like Gonzaga, ND, UVA and Kanasas. No need to abandon tradition just for the sake of it IMO.
Depending on how you look at it- the 1 big thing is 1-2 of the games are on the road.
positives with that is if you win the game- it adds 1.4 wins to your RPI. And with the new rules this year- Temple will be almost a lock to be a tier 1 game(they'd need to finish sub .500 looking at it to NOT be a top 75 team). St Joe's could easily finish with an RPI better than 135 which would make that game a tier 2 game. Just looking- this year for instance both home games should finish as tier 3 games. 1 road game tier 1 game. Other one will be between 2 or 3. You could do a lot worse than that.
negative with that is it's 1-2 of your road games.