Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?

[NDSUstudent]

And yet UNO would have had the third highest RPI after WSU and ISUr this year.

And UND would have been fourth.

Damn hockey schools.



It's like a middle-aged man who yearns for his high school crush even though her tits are sagging and she's lost her two front teeth.

Love the one you're with, man. Love the one you're with.

Yes, lets compare everything to just one year and base it all on RPI which is extremely flawed and losing favor with the selection committee.

Kenpom which is a superior metric has the best of the Summit in the middle of MVC pack, all light years away from ISUR.

UND's greatest basketball team in its DI history was pummeled by UNI, who wasn't even that great in the MVC. Pretty sure they did the same to SDSU as well and MSU kicked our ass.

Keep living in an alternate reality. To anyone that actually knows basketball, the Summit is not close to the MVC.

[Bison bison]

And the year before the Summit had a better RPI than the Valley.

Keep living in the past.

[NDSUstudent]

And the year before the Summit had a better RPI than the Valley.

Keep living in the past.

Keep basing everything off a flawed metric.

BTW in 2015-16 the MVC was a multi-bid league and the conference won multiple games in the big dance. Which league was better....shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

I can keep giving you dose after dose of reality if you like.

[silkamilkamonico]

Apparently everything stays the same and nothing changes in your world? I suppose you also never thought NDSU should go D1 or win a game in the big dance? Is there a rule somewhere that the Summit schools can't spend money and improve their scheduling?

Do you think that change will happen overnight? It took the MVC a good 20-25 years to get to the point of where it is today. It may or it may not take that long for the Summit if it even happens. It isn't going to happen in the next 5 years.

When you show me that the Summit is starting to spend money and improve scheduling, I will change my tune. Until then, Scott Nagy was by far the highest paid coach in the Summit at roughly $212k, and he left to go to some place called Wright State for a $500k, more than twice as much.

Craig smith is going to leave his cushy job at USD making as much as Dave Richman at NDSU for MVC bottom dweller Drake if it gets the opportunity, and will probably make twice as much money.

I will say this though. Maybe NDSU can start redirecting some of those football funds into the basketball program and we can start paying our coach half as much as the head coach at Wright State.

[Bison bison]

Keep basing everything off a flawed metric.

BTW in 2015-16 the MVC was a multi-bid league and the conference won multiple games in the big dance. Which league was better....shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

There is a difference between a better league and a league with the best teams.

Especially when those best teams are leaving...

[Bison bison]

It took the MVC a good 20-25 years to get to the point of where it is today.

Where is it today? Pissed off and trending downward.

[silkamilkamonico]

There is a difference between a better league and a league with the best teams.

Especially when those best teams are leaving...

You're argument of Summit being a better league than the MVC is 2 years of RPI work out of existence of the 2 conferences?

[silkamilkamonico]

Where is it today? Pissed off and trending downward.

And still able to pay it's coaches significantly more money than any school in the Summit.

[NDSUstudent]

There is a difference between a better league and a league with the best teams.

Especially when those best teams are leaving...

Where is UNI going? Where is ISUR going? Are MVC teams going to suddenly commit fewer resources to hoops when WSU leaves? Just look at Drake, an MVC doormat can poach the Summit coach that just won the league title if it wants.

BTW Sagarin and Kenpom paint different pictures. Both are vastly superior at evaluating teams and conferences.

[Bison bison]

And still able to pay it's coaches significantly more money than any school in the Summit.

What's your point? That the private schools are overpaying for losing programs? I agree.