Nord wrote:I predict Wake Forest and Ole Miss along with NC Central. Now if it becomes Notre Dame, Kentucky and Wichita State, then I will book a flight.
Ugh...sometimes I wonder who's in charge of Creighton scheduling. Honestly, we need to get better at setting up good non-conference games. X went to UNI this year. Nova always has the Philly roundtable. We need to get semi-decent competition + 3/4 cupcakes. This year we had 5 cupcakes + Yale who turned out to be a sub-200 RPI team. That's half of our non-conference schedule that is made up of snoozefests that drag down our ratings.
Doug's junior and senior season we had a nonconference KenPom rating of 113 and 122.
Since then NC KenPom SOS:
260
298
192
289
I'm sure the RPI non-con numbers are similar. Look I'm not saying we should be gunning to play the toughest non-con schedule, but scheduling better quality tournaments and not taking a multitude of buy games against sub-200 competition is paramount to getting out of the 6-7-8-9 seed range where making the second weekend is improbable to the 3-4-5 range where we can get more favorable matchups and locations (hopefully). There is variation in scheduling obviously, but there is also using analytics to predict where a team will land and see how your non-conference schedule will forecast out. Creighton is full of smart, educated individuals, so it boggles my mind how scheduling so poorly is still happening in 2018 with all the resources we have. Develop a better non-con strategy!