People talk about how bad the ACC is, but the Little 12 is waaaaaaaay overrated! MSWho's best win is against the 4th best team in the ACC out of conference. Maryland didn't win any good games out of conference and Purdue has a win over Bama. Why do they have such high seeding in these bracketology brackets? They absolutely stink.
Little 10 Overrated
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Main question I have is, wouldn’t “Little12” be a more appropriate nickname for the Big 12 and not the Big 10?
Ha! Good catch. I was going back and forth between screens looking up Ws and Ls. Regardless the little 10 STINKS!
In terms of overrated, what league should be rated ahead of them? That's the point of overrated, that the conference or teams below them are underrated.
Generally everyone rates the SEC as the best this year, then the Big 12 and Big Ten are probably tied for 2nd and either could be ahead of them. Do we think the ACC is better? No. The Big East isn't good either. The Pac 12 doesn't exist anymore.
Ken Pom rates it as
1. SEC +22.7
2. Big Ten +17.98
3. Big 12 +17.16
4. Big East +13.59
5. ACC +9.40
6. Mountain West +8.44
7. WCC +4.29
We just need to realize the reason the Top 3 leagues are rated so high, it's because the other leagues flat out aren't good. There isn't some anti-ACC bias or anti-Big East Bias, the leagues just aren't good. And they have to put 68 in the tournament and those polls have to pick 25 teams from somewhere.
So because the rest of the conferences outside of the top 3 are so down, their teams will be rated higher.
Generally everyone rates the SEC as the best this year, then the Big 12 and Big Ten are probably tied for 2nd and either could be ahead of them. Do we think the ACC is better? No. The Big East isn't good either. The Pac 12 doesn't exist anymore.
Ken Pom rates it as
1. SEC +22.7
2. Big Ten +17.98
3. Big 12 +17.16
4. Big East +13.59
5. ACC +9.40
6. Mountain West +8.44
7. WCC +4.29
We just need to realize the reason the Top 3 leagues are rated so high, it's because the other leagues flat out aren't good. There isn't some anti-ACC bias or anti-Big East Bias, the leagues just aren't good. And they have to put 68 in the tournament and those polls have to pick 25 teams from somewhere.
So because the rest of the conferences outside of the top 3 are so down, their teams will be rated higher.
The problem with the ACC is it went from some of the best coaches in college basketball to some of the worst coaches in college basketball. Thankfully we saw the light and made changes. It looks like some of the other schools are still going to feel the pain a little while longer.
I mean the big thing that just gets me is how bad it is. Like 2 thirds of the league is just flat out awful, like mid major level bad. And I can understand how the $EC and Big Ten have more money and such, but the Big 12 is still doing great. The Big East isn't what it used to be and they're doing better than our league it seems with way less money. You'd think with NIL and such that all the talent would consolidate in the power leagues and we'd at least be respectable, but we've gotten worse since NIL and the portal began.
You're right, there's not many teams in the little 10 or 12 that have an OOC Q1 win. It's crazy. The next 4 weeks will be very interesting as I think the refs in the sEZ let them play too much and when they get to the tournament, the refs tighter whistle hurts them. The little 10 and 12 have no wins and Houston is the only one who scares anyone. That leaves the Beast and ACC. Give me an sEZ team, Houston, Puke and someone else as of right now.
GO CARDS!
I have been watching a lot of conference tournament games and the refs are letting them play. There have been some really hard knocks that are going uncalled. Then there is the touch foul that should not be called that has everyone pulling their hair out.
It really is that simple; coaching matters and if the ACC a expects to experience improvement it will need to focus on hiring the best and the brightest coaches.
The Little 10 is overrated EVERY YEAR. Just about every year they get more teams in the tournament than any other conference & pretty much every one of them falls flat on their faces. And besides this past football season their football is as overrated as can be.
I don't think I am going to complain how bad the ACC is this year because it set up a perfect storm for us to get back to where we belong. I'm not nieve enough to believe we would only have 2 conference losses if we were in the SEC but I'm not going to complain about a weak schedule. We are back to respectiveability.
These “ratings” are subjective.
For the last +/- 8 weeks 95% of the games have been against each other in conference. So win or lose, the raters say “oh that was a great team they won/lost to”.
The ACC busted my bubble on all this “best conference” crap several years ago.
Things change.
Anybody think Tennessee, ol piss, or uk would look forward to playing us again?
I’m very excited to see some of the first weekend “upsets” this year, while hoping we are not among them.
The sec or L10 may very well win the NC. But we’ll see if “everybody else” is a good as they think they are.
For the last +/- 8 weeks 95% of the games have been against each other in conference. So win or lose, the raters say “oh that was a great team they won/lost to”.
The ACC busted my bubble on all this “best conference” crap several years ago.
Things change.
Anybody think Tennessee, ol piss, or uk would look forward to playing us again?
I’m very excited to see some of the first weekend “upsets” this year, while hoping we are not among them.
The sec or L10 may very well win the NC. But we’ll see if “everybody else” is a good as they think they are.
