Gophers Non-Conference Opponents So Far

Lol Turdue is still ahead of us in the NET rankings! Do you actually have to win basketball games or how does that work?
 

Updated Big Ten Ranks

Non-conference Opponents overall D1 win %
1. Penn St 63.8%
2. Illinois 62.9%
3. Purdue 61.1%
4. wisconsin 54.6%
5. Maryland 51.5%
5. Ohio St 51.5%
7. Michigan St 51.1%
8. Indiana 50.5%
9. Rutgers 49.4%
10. Nebraska 48.2%
11. Michigan 46.9%
12. Iowa 44.1%
13. Northwestern 43.7%
14. GOPHERS 38.7%


Average Non-conference Opponent NET ranking
1. Illinois 115.27
2. Purdue 117.64
3. Penn St 124.18
4. wisconsin 132.82
5. Michigan St 149.36
6. Indiana 167.09
7. Ohio St 167.27
8. Nebraska 173.30
9. Maryland 174.09
10. Northwestern 181.55
11. GOPHERS 191.36
12. Iowa 194.00
13. Rutgers 200.20
14. Michigan 200.82


Average Non-conference Quad Game
1. wisconsin 2.36
2. Illinois 2.45
2. Purdue 2.45
4. Indiana 2.64
4. Penn St 2.64
6. Michigan St 2.73
7. Nebraska 2.90
8. Ohio St 2.91
9. Northwestern 3.09
10. GOPHERS 3.18
11. Rutgers 3.20
12. Iowa 3.27
12. Maryland 3.27
12. Michigan 3.27

What does Quad Game mean?
 

What does Quad Game mean?

At the risk of me butchering this, I think that the tournament committee gets a sheet that groups your games into four "quadrants" based on quality of opponent and home/neutral/road. The average on that list is the average quadrant of our non-conference games, such that a 1.00 would be the highest quality non-conference schedule possible, and 4.00 would be the softest.
 

At the risk of me butchering this, I think that the tournament committee gets a sheet that groups your games into four "quadrants" based on quality of opponent and home/neutral/road. The average on that list is the average quadrant of our non-conference games, such that a 1.00 would be the highest quality non-conference schedule possible, and 4.00 would be the softest.

Ah thanks. Never heard that before.
 

They go 10-10 in conference and they are a LOCK as long as they don't lose to any of these cupcakes the next few games here.

I don't think 10-10 would be a lock if 5 of the wins are against Penn St, Illinois & Rutgers.
 


I assume the averages were done without any weighting? I go back and forth on this but for me better high end wins matter more than average overall numbers. To each their own though.
 

I assume the averages were done without any weighting? I go back and forth on this but for me better high end wins matter more than average overall numbers. To each their own though.

What type of weighting would you do?

Each game counts the same.

If you prefer the top end games that isn't going to look good either. Going by the NET rankings, every single team in the B1G plays at least one opponent ranked better than our best NET opponent.

B1G Ranks by Best Non-conference opponent (using NET rankings)
1. wisconsin (vs #2 Virginia)
1. Maryland (#2 Virginia)
3. Indiana (@ #3 Duke)
4. Nebraska (vs #4 Texas Tech)
5. Michigan St (vs #6 Kansas)
6. Illinois (vs #7 Gonzaga)
7. Michigan (#15 North Carolina)
8. Northwestern (#17 Oklahoma)
9. Penn St (vs #18 NC State)
10. Purdue (vs #24 Virginia Tech)
11. Ohio St (@#25 Cincinnati)
12. Rutgers (#30 St. John's)
13. Iowa (#35 Iowa St)
14. GOPHERS (vs #43 Washington)
 
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Gophers OOC SOS according to NET is currently 163.

Our two remaining OOC games come against NC A&T(266 in NET) and Mt. Saint Mary's(345).

I don't see anyway this OOC schedule is in the top 250 by the end of the year.

Breakdown of OOC games as it currently stands:

Quad 1: Washington
Quad 2: Boston College, Oklahoma State
Quad 3: Texas A&M, Utah
Quad 4: North Florida, Arkansas State, Omaha, Santa Clara

Based on how these teams are playing, it wouldn't surprise me if Washington ends up a Q2 game, Oklahoma State ends up a Q3 game, and Utah ends up a Q4 game. The OOC schedule has done us no favors.
 



Updated Big Ten Ranks

Non-conference Opponents overall D1 win %
1. Penn St 63.3%
2. Purdue 61.5%
3. Illinois 59.6%
4. wisconsin 54.2%
5. Maryland 52.8%
6. Michigan St 51.9%
7. Indiana 51.0%
8. Rutgers 50.0%
9. Ohio St 49.5%
10. Nebraska 46.4%
11. Michigan 45.0%
12. Northwestern 43.2%
13. Iowa 43.1%
14. GOPHERS 41.5%


Average Non-conference Opponent NET ranking
1. Purdue 118.73
2. Illinois 124.45
3. Penn St 129.64
4. wisconsin 132.45
5. Michigan St 135.82
6. Ohio St 168.91
7. Indiana 170.36
8. Maryland 170.73
9. Nebraska 177.00
10. Northwestern 184.82
11. GOPHERS 186.55
12. Rutgers 195.90
13. Michigan 198.18
14. Iowa 198.73


Average Non-conference Quad Game
1. Purdue 2.27
2. wisconsin 2.36
3. Illinois 2.55
3. Penn St 2.55
5. Indiana 2.64
6. Michigan St 2.73
7. Nebraska 2.80
8. Ohio St 2.91
9. Iowa 3.18
9. Michigan 3.18
9. Northwestern 3.18
12. Rutgers 3.20
13. GOPHERS 3.27
13. Maryland 3.27
 

Gophers Non-conference Games by Quad

QUAD 1
NONE

QUAD 2
vs Washington (NET 56)
vs Oklahoma St (71)
@ Boston College (116)

QUAD 3
vs Texas A&M (111)
Utah (153)

QUAD 4
North Florida (201)
Arkansas St (220)
Omaha (232)
North Carolina A&T (262)
vs Santa Clara (285)
Mount St. Mary's (345)
 

The good news is I think we would have got hung with more losses if our schedule had been tougher. Hopefully Washington wins their league. Not sure about the other P5 teams we played.

I am still not sure where we stack up in a deep league with many strong but not exceptional teams. I hope we have a good home court advantage this year because more than two home losses will keep us out of the tourney, I strongly suspect.

There remain some X-factors for this years team; namely IW and Curry. As they go, so go the Gophers if everyone else stays healthy and eligible.
 

This OOC schedule is why simply saying "we played 5 P5 teams" doesn't really mean much. Those P5 teams are garbage outside of UW, who will be lucky to even make the tournament. Give me teams like Belmont, Murray State, Buffalo, South Dakota State and Lipscomb over these garbage P5 teams.
 



This OOC schedule is why simply saying "we played 5 P5 teams" doesn't really mean much. Those P5 teams are garbage outside of UW, who will be lucky to even make the tournament. Give me teams like Belmont, Murray State, Buffalo, South Dakota State and Lipscomb over these garbage P5 teams.

I agree the teams aren't good for the most part. I will say though that most of those teams are good enough that if you have a bad night, you will probably lose. The Gophers played 9 games in 24 days too and only 3 of those 9 were at Williams Arena.
 

This OOC schedule is why simply saying "we played 5 P5 teams" doesn't really mean much. Those P5 teams are garbage outside of UW, who will be lucky to even make the tournament. Give me teams like Belmont, Murray State, Buffalo, South Dakota State and Lipscomb over these garbage P5 teams.

I believe it's called "smoke and mirrors"
 

Its hard because you schedule teams and they aren’t good. Utah and Oklahoma State have been good consistently.

Really if the gophers deserve to make the tournament they will be 12-8 on the conference and get in. If they don’t deserve it they won’t. More than enough opportunities in the conference to build a strong resume.
 

Santa Clara beat USC last night. Wayyyyyyyy too much talent on Southern Cal for that team to already have 6 losses...
 

Updated Big Ten Ranks

Non-conference Opponents overall D1 win %
1. Illinois 62.6%
2. Purdue 62.3%
3. Penn St 61.8%
4. wisconsin 55.5%
5. Michigan St 51.5%
6. Maryland 51.1%
7. Nebraska 48.4%
8. Rutgers 48.3%
9. Ohio St 48.3%
10. Indiana 48.1%
11. GOPHERS 45.5%
12. Michigan 45.2%
13. Northwestern 43.2%
14. Iowa 42.2%


Average Non-conference Opponent NET ranking
1. Illinois 116.00
2. Purdue 124.36
3. wisconsin 135.27
4. Penn St 138.09
5. Michigan St 139.64
6. Nebraska 161.30
7. Ohio St 165.00
8. Maryland 168.00
9. Indiana 175.73
10. GOPHERS 179.91
11. Rutgers 189.60
12. Michigan 199.82
13. Northwestern 203.27
14. Iowa 205.00


Average Non-conference Quad Game
1. wisconsin 2.36
2. Illinois 2.45
3. Purdue 2.64
4. Nebraska 2.70
5. Indiana 2.73
5. Penn St 2.73
7. Michigan St 2.82
8. Ohio St 3.00
9. Maryland 3.09
10. Iowa 3.18
10. Michigan 3.18
12. Rutgers 3.20
13. Northwestern 3.27
14. GOPHERS 3.36
 




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