The Official “Regular Posters of the Basketball Forum” Thread

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Butch Jones’ face just turned a new shade of purple.

 

[knoxvol52]

Butch Jones’ face just turned a new shade of purple.

By all means it should've , they just got hosed....

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

By all means it should've , they just got hosed....

It might be that they can’t break the plane - not simply can’t contact the turf. UT had one of those called back (versus Mizzou?) a few years back. It might have been a Butch team.

 

[omghulkhands]

14 of the last 16 NCAA Tournament champions were top 6 in the team rankings predictive metric the day before the tournament began

NCAA College Basketball Predictive Rankings & Ratings

NCAA College Basketball Predictive Rankings & Ratings from TeamRankings.com, your source for NCAAB computer power rankings.

www.teamrankings.com

The two outliers were also the same team. UCONN in 2011 & 2014.


As an example, last year if you had bet $100 on the top 6, based on tournament odds after selection Sunday, you'd have won $1,300 net ($1,900 total minus your $600 spent)

The only team in the top 6 where you wouldn't have profited was Houston at +550

I think this is really interesting one to keep an eye on this year for you responsible sports bettors.

 

[omghulkhands]

I ran the number for 2022 as well. You'd have been guaranteed a profit if 5 of the top 6 hit there as well.

 

[Col_Cathcart]

I ran the number for 2022 as well. You'd have been guaranteed a profit if 5 of the top 6 hit there as well.

Would you have lost much on the 6th one? I’m guessing not too bad unless the odds were really terrible on the overall one seed

 

[bleedingTNorange]

Would you have lost much on the 6th one? I’m guessing not too bad unless the odds were really terrible on the overall one seed

Probably similar to the year after with Houston, something like +550 favorites, so maybe lose $50-$100.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

 

[omghulkhands]

Would you have lost much on the 6th one? I’m guessing not too bad unless the odds were really terrible on the overall one seed

yah it’s basically the odds on favorite where you’d lose money.

Houston last year, you’d have lost $50

Gonzaga a couple years ago you’d have lost $180

 

[cardvolfan]

Bad news for Illinois basketball.

 

[Sea Ray]

Any reason why our Vols have such a long layoff right now?

 

[walkenvol]

Any reason why our Vols have such a long layoff right now?

Mid season break to go home and spend some family at Christmas. Good time to heal any nagging injuries before the conference schedule grind begins.

 

[Sea Ray]

Mid season break to go home and spend some family at Christmas. Good time to heal any nagging injuries before the conference schedule grind begins.

Do many teams do this (as I see Kentucky playing tonight)?

 

[berryvol]

Without looking, I’d guess this is definitely a longer-than-normal break for us. I’d imagine they scheduled it that way due to the tough matchups we faced the first 2 months of the season - get a good rest in before conference play.

 

[VolArmy74]

This is the first year since 1999 that we didn't play a game between Dec 27th and Dec 31st. It's the longest break in total since 1998.

 

[Sea Ray]

Nice to have this break for re-setting the season and all but I gotta believe there will be some rust issues when we get back

 

[Vol49er]

Nice to have this break for re-setting the season and all but I gotta believe there will be some rust issues when we get back

Not trying to be snarky, but I’ll take that trade-off against Norfolk State

 

[Volprofch05]

Vols at #5 in the athletic rankings this week

 

[berryvol]

We start 2024 in the top 5!

 

[tev.sm]

We start 2024 in the top 5!

Also noted is Providence led by Coach Kim English at #23. Well done, especially in his first year.

 

[omghulkhands]

Very excited for the start of conference play.

Ole Miss would be a great win for narrative. Come out and beat a top 25 team and one of the last remaining undefeated teams.

Then head to Miss. State who possibly could be top 25 by then. They rate top 30 in KenPom

 

[JelloPuddinPup]

Happy the football team won today. Thankfully, Vol fans are reasonable and logic-based in their fandom approach and expectations for Nico won’t be too high next year.

 

[chuckiepoo]

Happy the football team won today. Thankfully, Vol fans are reasonable and logic-based in their fandom approach and expectations for Nico won’t be too high next year.

…yer killing me, boo!


You don’t check in at the LV forum, do you?

 

[orangemadam]

Nice to see, but I think that's a little high right now.

Top 10 yes, not top 5 yet. Need to see a couple of conference games before
putting this high. Still, it's nice to see.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

I was looking at KenPom and noticed just how much of a wild data point Alabama is…

6th in KenPom at 8-5. Ahead of us. With the #1 offense and #72 (!) defense.