01-22-2022, 11:52 AM
(01-22-2022, 11:08 AM)M T Wrote: (Moved my reply from a FB to MBB thread)How about benchmarking the team's performance by looking at multiple rating systems? All these systems take into account strength of schedule in one way or another. Here's what they say about this year's team:
(01-22-2022, 10:05 AM)MV72018 Wrote:(01-21-2022, 05:03 PM)81alum Wrote: This is just getting more and more revolting, and I am beginning to not care about football any more. If it were not for all the other sports, I would say it is time to join the Ivies.
Cardinal men's basketball is already Ivy-League level -- at best.
It is hard to recognize sarcasm sometimes. Maybe I'm being generous thinking you think what you said is cute. Princeton has the highest NET rating of the Ivy League MBB teams and is well below Stanford. Stanford has a respectable 3-3 record against Quad 1 while Princeton doesn't have any Quad 1 games.
Only 15 teams have played at least 6 quad 1 games and have at least an even record (plus 2 more at 3-2). Only one other team has only 5 games that are Quad 3 or 4 (and Stanford has won all those). After looking at their quad results of 3-3, 2-3, 0-0, 5-0, I can't understand why their NET ranking is so low. Wash. State is 30+ spots above them at 0-2, 1-2, 4-2, 5-1. Weird.
Maybe Haase's main problem is that he doesn't schedule enough weak opponents for the benefit of the W-L record to please some fans.
Massey has Stanford ranked 75th
KenPom has Stanford ranked 92nd
Team Rankings has Stanford ranked 97th
Here's KenPom's end of season rankings while Haase has been the head coach:
2017 - 102nd
2018 - 87th
2019 - 112th
2020 - 43rd
2021 - 57th
2022 - 92nd
Sorry, but after 6 years - Covid or not - this just isn't good enough.