Xavier4036 wrote:Remember a short 3 weeks ago, Stever was on this HUGE winning percentage kick, as in your conference's winning percentage is the only thing that matters regardless of opponent or SOS. This was mostly because the first few weeks, the AAC played cupcakes and won a lot of those games.
The Big East is now on pace for it's best OOC winning percentage since 1988-89 and shockingly, the OOC winning percentage argument is nowhere to be found from Stever
Big East is on pace to finish at 100-24. Sounds great. Last year the conference went 97-29. So +4 games from last year....
AAC is on pace to finish at 102-46.. Last year the conference went 85-50. So 17 more wins and 4 fewer losses. Some of that obviously is Wichita, but even removing them and their projected 10-2 they'd be at 92-44. Or +6.5 games better than last season.
And yeah, winning percentage does matter. The biggest part of RPI is your opponents record. Which is why even with Georgtown's putrid OOC schedule, they're not going to be this RPI bomb for the Big East....
Really it's better for both the Big East and AAC. Both are appreciately stronger this season in OOC play. But what's strange about it is that it could lead to more bids(maybe more than double) for the AAC, while Big East gets fewer bids(but much stronger bids).
I mean- look at todays RPI forecast
Nova 2.5
Xavier 7.9
Seton Hall 17.7
Creighton 32.9
St John's 43.7
Providence 51.7
Butler 58.2
Marquette 91.7
Georgetown 135.5
DePaul 178.1.
Big East would get off of that probably a 1,2,4 or 5, 8 or 9, and then a 10 or 11 or PIG spot. Remember last year BE had 1,4,6,9,10,11,11(PIG).
It goes to the age old question- which one is better- depth or better seeds. I personally take the better seeds every single time.