If you have not read Casey's front page article, then take time to read it. Great job. Casey
I think the biggest issue for our conference is OOC scheduling. It's terrible. As much as I have complained about our scheduling in the past, we are the cream of the crop in C-USA. C-USA schools schedule entirely too many RPI 200 or worse non-confernce games.
The average C-USA team played 5 OOC games against RPI 200+ teams. Over half of UAB, UTSA, UTEP, and FIU's OOC games were against RPI 200+ schools. MT was the only school to play less than 3 OOC games against RPI 200+ schools (we played against 1).
I agree with Casey 100%. C-USA must have a scheduling mandate, like other conferences. Our schools must not be allowed to schedule games against schools that had an RPI of 200+ the previous year. Additionally, there must a concerted effort to schedule at least 5 games against RPI Top 50 teams. Only 2 C-USA schools played 3 Top 50 RPI schools. Five (5!!!!) C-USA schools did not play a single Top 50 school. For comparison, 3 of the last 4 in schools, played 15, 11, and 9 games, respectively against RPI 1-50 schools.
For everyone that is mad MT is a 15 seed, the conference is doing it to ourselves. MT and UAB should both be in the NCAA tournament this season; both are as good as teams on the 10 - 12 seed lines. C-USA needs to correct this fixable problem.
I think the biggest issue for our conference is OOC scheduling. It's terrible. As much as I have complained about our scheduling in the past, we are the cream of the crop in C-USA. C-USA schools schedule entirely too many RPI 200 or worse non-confernce games.
The average C-USA team played 5 OOC games against RPI 200+ teams. Over half of UAB, UTSA, UTEP, and FIU's OOC games were against RPI 200+ schools. MT was the only school to play less than 3 OOC games against RPI 200+ schools (we played against 1).
I agree with Casey 100%. C-USA must have a scheduling mandate, like other conferences. Our schools must not be allowed to schedule games against schools that had an RPI of 200+ the previous year. Additionally, there must a concerted effort to schedule at least 5 games against RPI Top 50 teams. Only 2 C-USA schools played 3 Top 50 RPI schools. Five (5!!!!) C-USA schools did not play a single Top 50 school. For comparison, 3 of the last 4 in schools, played 15, 11, and 9 games, respectively against RPI 1-50 schools.
For everyone that is mad MT is a 15 seed, the conference is doing it to ourselves. MT and UAB should both be in the NCAA tournament this season; both are as good as teams on the 10 - 12 seed lines. C-USA needs to correct this fixable problem.