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[DrummerDee]

#1 toughest schedule in the NCAA?
I just heard the announcer on the TN game say this about TN. She said this is why teams have scored 60+ against them all season.
Funny. Score is 41-30 at the end of the 3rd.

 

[SCNCHuskie]

I heard that also, but wasn’t interested enough to look it up. However, since you brought it up here is the 2023 updated strength of schedule (I believe).

 

[DrummerDee]

I heard that also, but wasn’t interested enough to look it up. However, since you brought it up here is the 2023 updated strength of schedule (I believe).

Oh, I didn't have to look it up. Carolyn Peck makes my ears bleed. If I had to listen to that boring announcing I'd never have the volume up. The Indiana game was even worse.

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[Mdoggie]

Tennessee is NOT good. They play absolutely NO team basketball.

 

[hoopsnloops32]

Never listen to Caroline Peck.

 

[Bone Dog]

TN floundered early. But they were not playing cupcakes either.

 

[Boreifs]

SOS is number five on Massey, so Peck wasn’t far off. She was once an assistant there before she won her title at Purdue; I’ll give her some latitude.

 

[Forego]

My first thought was maybe we should have scheduled ourselves to strengthen our strength of schedule. Then I realized that one of us would end up losing and that could lower our power rating.

 

[mbr33ct]

SOS does not appear to matter for the NET...just look at LSU's lofty #158 SOS but #3 NET. Wins and losses appears to matter for the NET...no matter who you play.

 

[Geew1992]

Tennessee is NOT good. They play absolutely NO team basketball.

nope........... it's dribble dribble until the shot clock runs down, then shoot. And hope for the offensive rebound

 

[JellyBean]

#1 toughest schedule in the NCAA?
I just heard the announcer on the TN game say this about TN. She said this is why teams have scored 60+ against them all season.
Funny. Score is 41-30 at the end of the 3rd.

My reaction when I hear folks say a team has "#1 toughest schedule in the NCAA" ....

 

[bballnut90]

TN floundered early. But they were not playing cupcakes either.

Their losses were to:
Stanford: currently #2
Ohio State-currently #3
Indiana-currently #6
UCLA-currently #8
Virginia Tech-currently #13
Gonzaga-currently #20

Against unranked foes they're 13-0. Considering how much better they've played overall since the early flurry of losses, I think they're probably in the top 15-20 range, especially with Rickea Jackson back playing at a high level. They're not a top 5 team like preseason predictions but they're a dangerous squad that's improving as the season unfolds.

 

[VA Huskie]

Their losses were to:
Stanford: currently #2
Ohio State-currently #3
Indiana-currently #6
UCLA-currently #8
Virginia Tech-currently #13
Gonzaga-currently #20

Against unranked foes they're 13-0. Considering how much better they've played overall since the early flurry of losses, I think they're probably in the top 15-20 range, especially with Rickea Jackson back playing at a high level. They're not a top 5 team like preseason predictions but they're a dangerous squad that's improving as the season unfolds.

The disconnect with the Vols is that they were preseason top 5… and therefore we’re expected to beat many of the teams they lost to. I agree that they seem to be improving, but they certainly are hard to watch from a flow (or non flow) standpoint.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

SOS does not appear to matter for the NET...just look at LSU's lofty #158 SOS but #3 NET. Wins and losses appears to matter for the NET...no matter who you play.

Margin of victory, efficiency, and overall record are going to outrun a now middling SOS, which is improving.

 

[Bone Dog]

NET reflects indirectly (and imperfectly) a sort of SoS factor in that the NET ratings of opponents is included. But no independent SoS factor is included. This means the NET will tend to be quite inaccurate early on, to the extent that the NET of opponents will not really measure much. But later in the season, it will tend to seem more reasonable. One hopes that by the end of February it has become much more precise. Perhaps the chief distinction to be made between NET and RPI is that RPI is more reasonable early in the season because it includes an independent SoS factor. Of course, SoS measures are also crude in the early season, which is why they aren't used as a ranking tool in the same way.