MBB NET Ranking 12.2.2024

[ZoomZoom]

For those who thought UL would get better playing the 300+ SBC teams. Pot, meet kettle. FWIW, there’s 364 D1 teams.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basket...l-net-rankings

[ULvictory]

Embarrassing

[ZoomZoom]

Embarrassing

Over half the league is solid 200+, nobody sniffing double figures. If the league doesn’t care, it’s hard to justify trying to be a MBB school when one bad night in league play reduces you to 3 games in March.

Even Georgia State, once the league’s MBB darling, stumbles in at 240. Then again, obviously quality wins and SBC are not used congruently in a sentence.

Hello historically bad season.

[ULvictory]

Over half the league is solid 200+, nobody sniffing double figures. If the league doesn’t care, it’s hard to justify trying to be a MBB school when one bad night in league play reduces you to 3 games in March.

Right now, we aren't even one bad night away. We are in the bottom 15 in all of CBB.

[VObserver]

Fellows, we have rarely been better than #150 with Marlin at the helm; hard to be well regarded when your coach has a career losing record vs teams in the top 200 RPI/NET. This year is just the worst of 15 mediocre to bad teams under Marlin, 13 if you concede the one NCAA year and the one NIT year as being better than mediocre.

[lcitsh]

Here's a few more factors to chew on:
Cajuns are the only team in the conference without a Division 1 win (0-7).
Cajuns have the #2 schedule strength (#116) in the conference behind Georgia State (#59).
Cajun opponents have an average NET ranking of #63, second in the conference behind James Madison (#49).
Sun Belt has 0 teams in the top 100, 6 teams in 100-199 (#123 Texas State to #192 Marshall), 4 teams from 201-299 (#205 South Alabama to #282 Coastal Carolina) and 4 300+. 4 out of 14 teams in the top half of the NET.
Sun Belt teams schedule strength, 1 top 100, 3 101-199, 9 201-299 and 1 300+.

Nothing screams weak like scheduling patsies and not being able to beat them. Pitiful.

[cajun4life]

Time to move on. Wasted year, we knew this going into the season anyway.

[HoustonCajun]

Here's a few more factors to chew on:
Cajuns are the only team in the conference without a Division 1 win (0-7).
Cajuns have the #2 schedule strength (#116) in the conference behind Georgia State (#59).
Cajun opponents have an average NET ranking of #63, second in the conference behind James Madison (#49).
Sun Belt has 0 teams in the top 100, 6 teams in 100-199 (#123 Texas State to #192 Marshall), 4 teams from 201-299 (#205 South Alabama to #282 Coastal Carolina) and 4 300+. 4 out of 14 teams in the top half of the NET.
Sun Belt teams schedule strength, 1 top 100, 3 101-199, 9 201-299 and 1 300+.

Nothing screams weak like scheduling patsies and not being able to beat them. Pitiful.

A clearer picture of where we stand and where the conference stands. Not good.

123 - Texas St.
131 - James Madison
138 - Troy
144 - Arkansas St.
189 - App State
192 - Marshall
205 - South Alabama
221 - Ga. Southern
240 - Georgia St.
282 - Coastal Carolina
304 - Southern Miss.
333 - ULM
350 - Louisiana
361 - Old Dominion

[UL_Cajuns]

NO one cares until Bob is gone

[Turbine]

A clearer picture of where we stand and where the conference stands. Not good.

123 - Texas St.
131 - James Madison
138 - Troy
144 - Arkansas St.
189 - App State
192 - Marshall
205 - South Alabama
221 - Ga. Southern
240 - Georgia St.
282 - Coastal Carolina
304 - Southern Miss.
333 - ULM
350 - Louisiana
361 - Old Dominion

This looks like a group effort.

Yuk

Basketball isn't dead in the south. Its dead in the Sun Belt, and some associate the real Sun Belt with the South.

Every 5 years Marlin climbs to the top of that heap.

[cajunref]

This looks like a group effort.

Yuk

Basketball isn't dead in the south. Its dead in the Sun Belt, and some associate the real Sun Belt with the South.

Every 5 years Marlin climbs to the top of that heap.

Was not Gill hired because he was a basketball guy?

[Turbine]

Was not Gill hired because he was a basketball guy?

Thought so at the time.