Virginia Tech Left Out of the 2010 NCAA Tournament
by furrer4heisman on Mar 14, 2010 6:59 PM EDT
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PrintThe Hokies were probably one of the first teams left out of the tournament when the bracket was unveiled this afternoon. The last at-large teams in were Utah State and UTEP, who were both given No. 12 seeds.
In the end, the Hokies have no one to blame but themselves. They weren't screwed by the committee. The Hokies didn't schedule anyone, didn't beat anyone and didn't play well down the stretch. Yes, Tech got a big road win against Georgia Tech to close the regular season. But they quickly negated it by falling to Miami in its first ACC Tournament game.
If you don't want to be on the bubble, you have to go out and schedule good teams from outside your conference. Virginia Tech tried to pretend to do that by scheduling Penn State and Seton Hall. Those teams weren't very good. At the end of the day, Temple was the best non-conference team we played and that is absolutely sad.
It's unfortunate that the Hokies' ACC schedule ended up being the weakest possible, but we have to live with it. We could have not come out flat against Florida State or we could have come through in overtime against Maryland. Either of those wins would have put the Hokies in the tournament.
You want to be in the NCAA Tournament? Win more. So what if Tech had 23 wins? None of them were against anyone decent. Wake Forest, Georgia Tech and Clemson all went out and either played quality opponents or won big games they had to.
Wake beat Gonzaga, Richmond and Xavier. Georgia Tech beat Duke and Maryland. Clemson beat Butler, Florida State and Maryland. Virginia Tech's best win was over a fellow bubble team, Wake Forest. Look, if this wasn't an historically bad at-large pool, the 23-win Hokies would have known they were going to the NIT two weeks ago.
It comes down to who did you play and who did you beat. Virginia Tech played no one and beat no one.
But hey, at least the NIT games will be at home!
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It comes down to who did you play and who did you beat. Virginia Tech played no one and beat no one.
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by collegegameballs on Mar 14, 2010 7:03 PM EDT reply actions
after the miami game
did anyone seriously not expect this.
if they didnt
they know nothing of the world in which they live.
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by furrer4heisman on Mar 14, 2010 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Weak nonconf kills you
10 wins in the ACC would be fine even though you played a weaker subset this year if you had just scheduled tougher in December.
…You reference WAKE, GT, and CLEMSON, but we beat WAKE, GT, and CLEMSON. I totally agree with everything else in the article, but head-to-head not one of those teams topped the Hokies. On that basis alone we got hosed.
by Tyler Wolverton on Mar 14, 2010 8:13 PM EDT reply actions
But the selection committee uses head-to-head victories as only one of a bunch of criteria.
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by collegegameballs on Mar 14, 2010 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Those teams actually had other credible victories.
GT made a run to the ACCT final. Did we do that? No, we crapped the bed.
If you want to be forgiven losses like Miami in the ACCT, @Miami and @BC, you have to do something in your non-conference schedule. Clemson beat Butler. Wake beat Gonzaga at Gonzaga, and Richmond and Xavier in W-S. We did nothing, and tonight we got paid for it.
That 17-year-old Hokie sitting in the rafters in Greensboro didn't see any of this coming.
when your argument
is that you beat other bubble teams, you have no argument. who cares if we beat wake, gt and clemson? those teams went out and played (and beat) teams much better than them and much better than us. those are our best wins? thats pretty pathetic.
when you need other teams like utep and utah state to take care of business, you deserve to be left out. our scenario was pretty simple. dont get a bad loss to miami and get a higher sos simply by playing duke a second time. we didnt do that. once that didnt happen, we needed to rely on others. thats a recipe for the nit.
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by furrer4heisman on Mar 15, 2010 1:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Wake beat those teams, but didn’t they lose to William and Mary? Our worst loss was against miami who made it to the semis of the ncaa tournament. We also beat nc state and gt on the road where duke couldn’t. not saying we don’t deserve what we got, but how wake get in over us after getting drummed by miami and losing to a team like william and mary.
just sayin
The difference is Wake BEAT the following teams: Gonzaga, Richmond, Xavier and Maryland.
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by collegegameballs on Mar 15, 2010 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Good post
As a BC fan, I have to say losing to us probably cost y’all a bid. We were that bad this year, and this year’s BC team was an RPI killer. Ironically enough I thought that if Wake had gotten through and you guys lost to them, no big deal…but Miami upsetting Wake meant you couldn’t afford a loss to another RPI killer in Miami.
…but look at it this way, at least you’re in the NIT, something BC couldn’t even sniff this year.
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