2007-03-11 13:49:07 · 7 answers · asked by Boo Man 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
ah because they stink go rebels!!!!!!
2007-03-11 13:56:44 · answer #1 · answered by nevadaed73 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Criminal incompetence by the selection committee.
The comment about non-conference schedule is just stupid. The BE has 16 teams. It is a mega-conference. They just added Marquette and Louisville a few years ago. So if SU had a win over Marquette in 2005 that would be impressive, but their win this year is somehow less valid because they're in the same conference? Please.
Arkansas goes 7-9 in a crappy SEC (ok good at the top but overall below overage) and gets in and Syracuse goes 10-6 in BE and doesn't?
Syracuse has 4 in conference road wins, many others who got in ahead of them had 1.
Syracuse is the only team to beat Georgetown in the past six weeks (GTown is 14-1 in that stretch).
Also, crappy Stanford got in at 18-12, AND LOST FOUR OF THEIR LAST FIVE!!! The best team in the Pac-10, UCLA got smoked by the eighth best team in the BE (West Virginia). But for some inexplicable reason, many people somehow thing the Pac-10 is the best conf. this year. We'll see, but I don't think any of those teams will get a whiff of the Final 4.
SU smoked Marquette at Marquette in their one matchup this year, and they both went 10-6 in the conference. Somehow though Marquette got in but SU didn't.
And they went 7-3 down the stretch.
I believe that the whole thing has to do with stupid perceptions among the committee about "relative conference strength" but there are nowhere near enough intraconference games among the majors to make that judgment.
You heard all of the pundits repeat endlessly, starting in November that "the Big East is down this year", and when UConn turned out to suck, many of the uninformed took this as somehow indicative of conference strength (UConn generally being considered the marquee BE team over the last several years).
Absolutely no one will really know who the best conference is until the tournament is over.
As far as "bad losses" please? Xavier lost to Duquesne, St. Joseph's and St. Louis. None of those teams is close to as good as Drexel (who beat SU way back in December)
2007-03-11 22:14:41 · answer #2 · answered by celticexpress 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three bad losses- and, okay, Witchita State was ranked during the season, Drexel was good, and winning at UConn has always been hard. On UConn, that was a team Syracuse was clearly better than, and you have to beat the twelveth place team in your league whether it's at home, away, New York, wherever.
On the other two, there was a time no non-conferce team went into the Carrier Dome and had a chance of winning. Didn't even matter if they were ranked. I know a lot of people think Drexel got snubbed, but Syracuse had no business losing to them in the Dome.
2007-03-11 22:16:15 · answer #3 · answered by Patrick M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A decent case can be made as to why they didn't get in, but I definitely think they got the shaft big time.
Arkansas wasn't even the best team in a PATHETIC SEC West, and they got in cos of a little run in the SEC tournament.
Xavier got an at large ahead of Cuse, and that too is wrong simply because Syracuse is a better team.
I also think Syracuse and Drexel were somewhat handcuffed together (meaning if one got in the other should've gotten in as well). They both deserved to make it into the tournament, but cases CAN be made as to why ODU made it ahead of Drexel from the CAA as well as why Syracuse didn't get there.
2007-03-11 21:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by psyduck702 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no clue, they should have locked up their bid with there late season win against Georgetown. I just can't see why teams like Old Dominion, and Arkansas can make the tourney and not SU. They have 22 wins and were 10-6 in the toughest conference in the nation. The committee really screwed the puch on this snub.
2007-03-11 20:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by Martino78 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well sorry but they didnt deserve to make it. Their non-conference schedule was absolutely horrible and the best team they played was Oklahoma State (a non NCAA tournament team) and they lost to them. So because they did so bad in the Big East and didn't even make the Big East Tournament combined with a terrible non-conference schedule they actually didnt deserve to make it. Sorry but it is true. Hope this helped!!
2007-03-11 21:40:46 · answer #6 · answered by genius'n'training 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's there own fault. Did they win every game they had a chance to win? Nope.
2007-03-11 20:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋