SIU “pretended” themselves all the way to being tied for first for much of the season. Sorry, I’m calling BS. No, I’m not sorry! Were it not so tedious it would be comical to listen to some of the serial bitchers here Go Dawgs.
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Thanks for clearing that up! I was thinking Indiana State, Belmont and Drake were pretty decent teams. What was I thinking?SIU finished #125 in KenPom last year. They're at #131 right now.
I wondered what the difference was between this year and last year. I looked at the overall and non-conference strength of schedules. This year, overall is 225 and non-conference is 270. Last year, overall SOS was 138 and non-conference was 311.
That means the non-conference schedule was marginally better this year (with Oklahoma St., UNLV and SLU) than last season and the conference opponents are significantly worse than they were last season.
SIU really dominated the bad teams last year and just lost to the good teams, a lot of them in pretty close games. This year they're struggling against the bad teams like Alcorn State, Chicago State, SEMO, Illinois State, Southern Indiana, and UIC.
The Valley is also way down this year. It's good at the top with Drake and Bradley and even Indiana State sneaking into the top 100 now but the bottom is such a huge drop-off.
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