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Comments on: Play ‘Em https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/ The Independent Voice of Notre Dame Athletics Tue, 01 May 2018 13:43:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Indiana Irish https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21015 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:22:25 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21015 After losing 4 straight to Butler, the Irish dropped them from our schedule. If we really wanted to improve SOS, we’d resume that series first. There is a plaque in hinkle Fieldhouse commemorating a Butler hoops win over the Irish in the 1920s. I’d love some payback, if we could beat them regularly!

]]> By: PC https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21014 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:52:03 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21014 So glad VJ and Steve didnt go out like that… we survived playing about as poorly as possible. As long as we break the press we should get a ton of good looks from 3. This is a game for VJ to score 20+.
Let’s go Irish!

]]> By: T.J. Gillen https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21013 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 03:59:14 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21013 And by the way, imo, we got a damn good draw this year, and a clearer path to the elite 8 than the past 2 years. Gonzaga is the least proven team of the top seeds, but let’s get past west va first

]]> By: T.J. Gillen https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21012 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 03:48:12 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21012 Couldn’t agree more with PB, nd’s acc schedule is more than enough and the fact that we didn’t fare better than unc and duke this year, in a season that had everyone, everywhere getting knocked around speaks to why we are a 5 seed. Look what happened to iu playing a tough non conf schedule, early wins, mid season injuries, nit invitation and out after 1 game. Notre dame basketball hasn’t been in a better place since the days of digger tripuka, woolridge and paxson. The difference is that Brey is getting consistent results that are above average with players that are not going to the next level. Want a higher seed, get better players, but frankly, I’m happy with where the program is.

]]> By: PC https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21010 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:18:00 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21010 If Brey doesn’t want to schedule “up” then he could so something else to assist with their RPI and SOS. Stop playing 8 games against the bottom of the bottom with RPIs in the 200-290 range. There is no need to play so many of those games. While there isn’t an exact science to scheduling the lower echelon teams they typically know who is consistently awful and brings no value.

]]> By: PB https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21009 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:04:29 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21009 I’m not opposed to scheduling better/more non-conference competition, but I think our seeding this year sits directly with us going 0-5 against Nova, Purdue, UNC, and Duke(x2). If we even go 2-3 in those, we have better signature wins than U of L (at home) and FSU(x2) which aren’t as sexy.

]]> By: Receiver Pick https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21008 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:54:18 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21008 In reply to Mike Coffey.

FSU non-conference was weaker than ours and we beat them twice. No need to schedule ISU, there s no RPI bump there!!!!

]]> By: Dr. Boone https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21006 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:39:00 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21006 Opponents’ opponents theory

]]> By: Mike Coffey https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21005 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:52:10 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21005 In reply to Dr. Boone.

I disagree. Games against teams like them increase the SOS value, which improves poll calculations in ND’s favor.

]]> By: Dr. Boone https://dev.ndnation.com/play-em/#comment-21004 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:36:04 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5998#comment-21004 Isn’t that the reason we are a 5 seed? Beating them won’t help us at all. The committee wants power 5 games.

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