No way to spin this.

[TidePony]

Truth

[Pony147]

And I guess playing Rhode Island twice didn't hurt Umass or those A10 teams, but it hurt us to play them.

Rhode Island actually was a good non-conference game (their RPI was 154). These are the games that really hurt us:

RPI Team
265 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
273 McNeese State
279 Hofstra
306 Texas State
311 Texas-Pan American
315 @ Illinois-Chicago

[SoCal_Pony]

ESPN just said that our non conference schedule was ranked 303rd in the country.

Not sure how playing Virginia, Texas A&M, at Arkansas, at Wyoming is all that bad. And I guess playing Rhode Island twice didn't hurt Umass or those A10 teams, but it hurt us to play them. Our team met the eye test and our schedule met the eye test too, it was not bad enough to deserve getting left out.

Agree and those VA & Aggie games were not played in Dallas. We went 2-2 in those games, should have gone 3-1, and were within 1 possession of tying Arky in the final 2 minutes of the game.

Complete BS and a real snub to LB, who deserves much more.

[SoCal_Pony]

And I guess playing Rhode Island twice didn't hurt Umass or those A10 teams, but it hurt us to play them.

Rhode Island actually was a good non-conference game (their RPI was 154). These are the games that really hurt us:

RPI Team
265 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
273 McNeese State
279 Hofstra
306 Texas State
311 Texas-Pan American
315 @ Illinois-Chicago

BTW, how many of those games were remnants of the Doh era?