Paint Touches

Mike Rice, Rutgers Head Coach Opening Statement “Thirty-one fast break points is a new one for us. For the opponents, DJO and Crowder were tremendous. Cadougan and the whole team were tremendous on the break. If you can’t stop somebody from putting their head down and scoring lay-ups, you’re not going to be very successful. […]

Positives (based on top 12 teams in Paint Touches Feb. 19 bracket (bit.ly/yrKM90): Road/neutral games: MU (9-4), Michigan State (5-5), Ohio State (5-4), Michigan (5-7), Georgetown (6-4) Non conference SOS: MU (98), Missouri (277), Michigan (196), Ohio State (94) Worst loss: MU (at LSU, RPI: 61), Georgetown (at Pittsburgh, RPI: 80), Michigan (at Iowa, RPI: […]

February 19 Bracket

Conference breakdown

February 16 Bracket

Positives Strength of schedule (32) and non conference SOS (104): is better than, or comparable to, Missouri (SOS: 85, NCSS: 261), Kentucky (SOS: 67, NCSS: 96) and Ohio State (SOS: 31, NCSS: 125). Conference SOS (46) is higher than Syracuse (58), Duke (60), North Carolina (64) and Kentucky (79). Non conference RPI (16) is higher […]

February 12 Bracketology

We will now have two brackets per week (Sunday and Thursday) until the end of the conference tournament season.

Conference breakdown

Big East: 8

Big Ten: 8

ACC: 6

SEC: 5

Big 12: 5

Mountain West: 4

Atlantic 10: 3

West Coast: 3

Conference USA: 2

Missouri Valley: 2

Pac 12: 2

Last Four In

Colorado State

Purdue

Xavier

BYU

First Four Out

Seton Hall

Alabama

VCU

Northern Iowa

Next Four Out

Wyoming

Arkansas

UCF

Texas

Additions (case for, case against)

BYU

▪   Non conference SOS: 51

▪   10-2 in last 12 games

▪   8-3 in road/neutral games

▪   Loss at Utah State (RPI: 147), at home against Loyola Marymount (RPI: 111)

Valparaiso new Horizon league representative

Michigan State now the AQ for Big 10 due to head-to-head tiebreaker

Subtractions (case against, case for)

Alabama

▪   Loss at South Carolina (RPI: 171)

▪   6-6 in road/neutral games

▪   Lost five of last eight games

▪   Non conference RPI: 24

▪   SOS: 28

▪   Have only played five games against RPI sub-150

Published by: Michael LoCicero (@michaellocicero) and Michael Wottreng (@MWottreng)