Great Season

[GMUgemini]

I promise I have it on good authority from someone I reconnected with that’s in the know. I promised I wouldn’t give details as it would out them but I feel pretty good about the info. I do hope it’s wrong and an overreaction from the players

Brian is on the collective board and is fairly transparent about it (he was about Okojie last season anyway). If they’re chasing NIL money he will probably let us know.

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

I hope that Chris and Kathy can sprinkle enough chocolate sprinkles on top of the money from the House settlement to keep Hanes here. Let’s be real. Those 2 are our Mike Repole.

 

[jruby]

With Sec getting 14 it guarantees the NIT will be a joke with LSU and SC getting the 2 auto bids. Why did they ruin the NIT?

So annoying.

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

With Sec getting 14 it guarantees the NIT will be a joke with LSU and SC getting the 2 auto bids. Why did they ruin the NIT?

So annoying.

Not necessarily. They might not want it. Rutgers said no.

 

[jruby]

Not necessarily. They might not want it. Rutgers said no.

It’s free money and league may force them to take the game since those are only 2 options. Either way it’s going to be a lot of horrendous power schools.

Going to be a lot of awful basketball until the later rounds.

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

It’s free money and league may force them to take the game since those are only 2 options. Either way it’s going to be a lot of horrendous power schools.

Going to be a lot of awful basketball until the later rounds.

So the SEC is more dictatorial than the B10?

 

[Masonman]

With Sec getting 14 it guarantees the NIT will be a joke with LSU and SC getting the 2 auto bids. Why did they ruin the NIT?

So annoying.

I think they ruined everything. I am no "formula expert" but I think vcu would have been left out if they lost. This NET and QUAD stuff sucks. It lets the big boys sniff around in their own conferences and be rewarded for not taking on any challenges. 14 SEC bids?

 

[GMUgemini]

I think they ruined everything. I am no "formula expert" but I think vcu would have been left out if they lost. This NET and QUAD stuff sucks. It lets the big boys sniff around in their own conferences and be rewarded for not taking on any challenges. 14 SEC bids?

Agreed. vcu should have at least a 9 seed.

 

[jruby]

I think they ruined everything. I am no "formula expert" but I think vcu would have been left out if they lost. This NET and QUAD stuff sucks. It lets the big boys sniff around in their own conferences and be rewarded for not taking on any challenges. 14 SEC bids?

The sec 100% ruined college sports specifically basketball. I wish the sec and big 10 would just leave already.

 

[Pablo]

https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/public-s3/files/2025-02/NIT%20101.pdf

 

[GMUYoda]

https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/public-s3/files/2025-02/NIT%20101.pdf

This tells me that Dayton gets the exempt bid from our conference first. Then us

 

[GMUYoda]

With Sec getting 14 it guarantees the NIT will be a joke with LSU and SC getting the 2 auto bids. Why did they ruin the NIT?

So annoying.

Wake Forest and South Carolina have said no to the NIT per reports

As well as Indiana

 

[ProfessorCFK]

This tells me that Dayton gets the exempt bid from our conference first. Then us

College basketball has become a joke.

 

[GMUYoda]

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Dayton has a higher score than us as of this morning

https://omnirankings.com/mcb/Macro/NIT%20Selection.htm

This says Dayton is the auto bid and Mason and St. Joe's and Loyola are at large

 

[GMUgemini]

This tells me that Dayton gets the exempt bid from our conference first. Then us

I would assume we’d be an automatic bid team. Conference regular season champion. I’m not sure what our ridiculous KNIT score would be but I’m sure our metrics are good enough for it.

 

[GMUYoda]

I would assume we’d be an automatic bid team. Conference regular season champion. I’m not sure what our ridiculous KNIT score would be but I’m sure our metrics are good enough for it.

2025 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings

Dayton is 74 and Mason 78.

I dunno, it's confusing lol

This what I read about NIT choosing its teams online

"There will be 16 “exempt” teams, with four spots taken up by the top two teams from the ACC and SEC that were not selected to the NCAA Tournament field. The remaining 12 “exempt” spots will go to the top team in the top 12 conferences based on the KenPom Rankings.

The remaining 16 spots in the 32-team field will go to automatic bids — conference regular-season champions that have a "KNIT" score of 125 or better — and at-large teams of the best available teams that didn’t make March Madness."

So... if exempt teams come first before auto bids... Dayton is chosen first

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

2025 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings

Dayton is 74 and Mason 78.

I dunno, it's confusing lol

So would we be on the road?

 

[GMUYoda]

So would we be on the road?

I assume so yes

 

[jruby]

I would assume we’d be an automatic bid team. Conference regular season champion. I’m not sure what our ridiculous KNIT score would be but I’m sure our metrics are good enough for it.

That’s gone now isn’t it? That’s why nit sucks so bad now. It’s the 10 auto bids for power schools.

 

[illayin]

The KNIT score is a team's average ranking in these seven metrics: ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI), Kevin Pauga Index (KPI), NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET), Ken Pomeroy Rating (KenPom), Strength of Record (SOR), Torvik ranking (TOR) and Wins Above Bubble (WAB).

from what's currently available.. unless i'm mistaking what the torvik is on that page:

                bpi    kpi    net    kenpom    SOR    torvik    wab    avg
gmu              70    47      68       78       51        70        55    62.7
dayton           72   51      67        71       58        79        62    65.7

edit: also don't know if these are updated after the games today