College Basketball 2025-26 Season Thread

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Calheel said:
The schedule is was LESS unbalanced than it has been for several years. Every team plays basically every other team 1 time with just a couple of home and aways. We play Duke twice, which makes our schedule slightly harder but not significantly so. We play Syracuse twice instead of BC but that is basically a push.
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So everyone has 1 game against every team and an second games against 2 of those teams?
 
Another reason the ACC and expansion sucks. I really hope the bigger schools break away soon and form their own league without separate conferences and have smaller geographical regions for everyone.
 
Bigs23 said:
So everyone has 1 game against every team and an second games against 2 of those teams?
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Yes. One "traditional" 2-game rival and one rotating 2-game opponent. It is a dumb system, but it certainly makes for much more balanced schedules than before.
 
Before this season only one team had gone to the Keft Coast and won twice (WFU oddly). I believe dook did it this year - has anyone else?
 
donbosco said:
Before this season only one team had gone to the Keft Coast and won twice (WFU oddly). I believe dook did it this year - has anyone else?
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Clemson this year

OTOH, only UNC and GT have managed to get swept on that trip this year; everyone else so far has managed a split at least. And Tech’s losses on that trip are part of a still active 9-game losing streak (2-13 since conference play started).

There’s no way around that California road trip sweep being a blight on the results for UNC this season, even without Seth.

Separately, I’ve not heard many pundits credit the impact of playing without Seth when considering our NCAA resume (other than Corey Alexander). We do seem to be getting some credit for playing without Caleb and Henri.
 
nycfan said:
Clemson this year

OTOH, only UNC and GT have managed to get swept on that trip this year; everyone else so far has managed a split at least. And Tech’s losses on that trip are part of a still active 9-game losing streak (2-13 since conference play started).

There’s no way around that California road trip sweep being a blight on the results for UNC this season, even without Seth.

Separately, I’ve not heard many pundits credit the impact of playing without Seth when considering our NCAA resume (other than Corey Alexander). We do seem to be getting some credit for playing without Caleb and Henri.
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Never understood that either. Seems like getting killed by the opposing backcourts when your best back court defender and senior leader is hampered would have caught some attention. I remember thinking that it mattered.
 
finesse said:
Never understood that either. Seems like getting killed by the opposing backcourts when your best back court defender and senior leader is hampered would have caught some attention. I remember thinking that it mattered.
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It's also reasonable to believe they win both of those games with Seth, damn weight machines.
 
I posted about the Left Coast junkets mainly to point to the absurdity of current ACC scheduling. Someone (more than one? ) must not have had that as part of their ticket.
 
nycfan said:
Clemson this year

OTOH, only UNC and GT have managed to get swept on that trip this year; everyone else so far has managed a split at least. And Tech’s losses on that trip are part of a still active 9-game losing streak (2-13 since conference play started).

There’s no way around that California road trip sweep being a blight on the results for UNC this season, even without Seth.

Separately, I’ve not heard many pundits credit the impact of playing without Seth when considering our NCAA resume (other than Corey Alexander). We do seem to be getting some credit for playing without Caleb and Henri.
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Seth played in those games in California. He came back on 12/20. Those games were played on 1/14 and 1/17. He played 35 minutes vs. Stanford and 29 vs. CA.

The talk at the time seemed to bring up concerns that Seth’s return to the lineup had disrupted the chemistry that was developed with him out. I didn’t really buy into that. He had been back for 5 games before that trip out to the west coast.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Seth played in those games in California. He came back on 12/20. Those games were played on 1/14 and 1/17. He played 35 minutes vs. Stanford and 29 vs. CA.

The talk at the time seemed to bring up concerns that Seth’s return to the lineup had disrupted the chemistry that was developed with him out. I didn’t really buy into that. He had been back for 5 games before that trip out to the west coast.
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D’oh! My bad. I think we were still struggling with establishing our rotations and chemistry once he returned, but certainly not the same as not having him on the floor.
 


Gooogle:

Wins Above Bubble
(WAB) measures how many more wins a team has against its schedule compared to an average NCAA tournament bubble team (typically ranked ~#45 in NET). It serves as a, key resume-evaluation metric for the NCAA selection committee to rank teams, often proving more correlated with tournament seeding than NET.
 
Current metrics:
Torvik = 28
KenPom = 30
NET = 25
WAB = 18

If anyone can/knows how to get those number prior to the Miami game I'd like to see them. The only one that I can, or know how to do, is Torvik. We were 26th heading into the Miami game.
 
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