OT Suddenly the Georgetown loss looks like a good loss

[GardenStateHoosier]

Georgetown destroys the 4th ranked team in the country.

E Wash, is tied for first in the Big Sky.

We led Louisville in the 2nd half, before falling apart.

We played MSU even in the 2nd half

We are the BEST four-loss team in America!! A couple bad bounces from 2 losses and a Top10 ranking.

Believe in Crean!!!

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Settle Down...

Despite being in first place, EWU's RPI has gone from 40 to 60 since the conference season started. The Big Sky is that bad. That loss will look worse and worse on our resume each week.

Georgetown has played an extremely tough schedule, and if they string a few more good wins together, and avoid any bad losses, they will have a strong resume, but they are still 3-5 against top-50 teams. It's not as bad of a loss as EWU, but calling it a "good" loss is a stretch.

We have a chance to make a statement now. Our next three games are:

Home against Kenpom #16, RPI #13, with an 8-2 top-100 record. A chance to get a resume-defining win.
Away against Kenpom #22, RPI #57, supposedly good team, but with crappy tourney resume. Not saying we should expect a win as guaranteed, but if we are a legit team, we should have a chance here.
Away against Kenpom #72, RPI #99, a team hard to figure out, tournament-quality in the top half of the resume (4-4 top-100), but not so much on the bottom half (2-3 vs. 101-200). Before the season, I had this pegged as a loss, but I think it's a game we need to win. And I don't think it's crazy to think we will.

Everyone is looking at 1-2 being acceptable, 2-1 being great. I don't agree. I think we need to expect 2-1 these next three games, with a strong eye toward winning all three. If we only win 1, or worse, none, then any talk about "We could be top ten!" will be exposed as wishful thinking.

It's certainly possible we're the best four-loss team in the country. But we haven't played enough good teams to make that claim. UNC, Texas, Baylor, Ok. State, Iowa, Seton Hall and others all have at least 4 losses, and many of them have much more impressive resumes than we do.

goat

 

[IU40IU]

a good loss?

What the heck is a good loss? In my book, there is no such thing. An L is an L. Can you take away good things from a loss? Sure. But the loss itself is never "good".

 

[GardenStateHoosier]

Jeez ... can't even engage in some fun hyperbole

Say something negative ... and I get shouted down .... or, worse, banned for a while

Say something positive ... and I get a novel.

I'm tellin ya ... can't win around here.

They even have hotter cheerleaders. We're doomed!!

 

[GardenStateHoosier]

You apparently never watch Selection Sunday

They talk about "good" vs "bad" losses on a team's resume ALL the time.

I'm not gonna try to 'splain it to you, Lucy.

 

[IU40IU]

Completely understand "bad" losses

And yes they discuss "bad" losses. But "good" losses..hmmmmmm. Now if you put in the context of losses vs. top ranked/high RPI/strength of schedule, etc....then yea, I can kinda see your point. But to just flat out say it was a good loss....I disagree.

I can hear it now...."Now Georgetown beat IU. That was a good loss for IU. A very good loss for them and with that good loss they are in."

That how you see it going down Ethel?

 

[IU Scott]

When they say it was a good loss


means that the loss will not be counted against a team as much as a bad loss when it comes to the selection process. also the original posters is being a little sarcastic because he has been very critical of Crean.

 

[IU40IU]

I know

I'm just messing around because I'm bored and he called me Lucy.

 

[SRIV94]

Re: Settle Down...

Originally posted by TheOriginalHappyGoat:
Despite being in first place, EWU's RPI has gone from 40 to 60 since the conference season started. The Big Sky is that bad. That loss will look worse and worse on our resume each week.

This x100. And not to mention EWU's loss to Sam Houston State.

Put it this way--EWU will have played three top-100 teams this entire season prior to the NCAAs, going 1-2. We're the 1. I'm happy to see we've rebounded from it and beaten some good teams to make up for it. But I'm not happy that it took losing to them for us to learn from it.

 

[GardenStateHoosier]

Ethel???

That's pretty funny.

 

[Moops]

Oh, Yeah !!!

*breaks through brick wall*

 

[SRIV94]

Don't look, Ethel!

But it was too late--she had already been mooned.

 

[VanHoosier]

I believe the one that applies here is...

She done got a free shot....

 

[Raul Duke]

This game was on Indy radio last night & John Thompson was

highly entertaining. It was like watching a game with your potty mouthed grandfather.

 

[SRIV94]

I thought of that, but like the "mooned" line better. Sue me. *

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[BassLake]

Who suggested "We will be Top Ten"?

I'm a big fan of this team and its coach, but for anyone to suggest this crew could make the Top Ten in the country is just foolish. And, if anybody did post that, I missed it.