mrjames
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12-30-18 02:24 PM - Post#270472
In response to Streamers
A few different sets of thoughts here:
1) A few things to clear up from PF10's post. First, Bryce did play in Ivy play last year. He saw the floor in a brief stint at Dartmouth before deciding to wait a few more weeks. He played 33 mins over two games on Brown/Yale weekend, including 18 points in 20 mins (38% usage) against Brown. It was the next weekend at Columbia where he retweaked it and decided to shut it down for the year.
Second, both Bryce and Seth have been on the floor before/after games - Aiken actually more than Towns, getting up a fair deal of shots.
Third, all of this comes back to Amaker's policies. Agreeing or disagreeing is totally up to you, but he's dogged in his insistence on the separation between expectations and standards. For Tommy, expectations are external, and he avoids addressing them. Whether it be polls or other accolades (or expectations for injured players), he's rarely going to answer a question that would indicate that those matter. The point is to keep the focus on what the people that can play have to do and not let the external forces set the expectation of excuses on the program. It's the culture he sets - you can like it or not, but it's consistent.
As for Ivy performance, here are some fun ones... starting with 2018 and 2019 Torvik ratings mashed together into one set of standings:
1) Harvard 2019 .7358
2) Penn 2019 .7081
3) Yale 2019 .6989
4) Penn 2018 .6643
5) Brown 2019 .6483
6) Harvard 2018 .5859
7) Princeton 2018 .4681
8) Princeton 2019 .4539
9) Dartmouth 2019 .4370
10) Yale 2018 .4244
Top three are all 2019, four of the top five and six of the top nine. Crazy improvement YOY especially with the injuries.
Second, if you think this is the best Ivy performance in the non-conference, you're certainly right for this decade (and probably right all the way back to the start of the AI era)...
2019 53 (Avg. Game Score)
2014 51
2016 51
2015 49
2011 47
2012 47
2017 45
2018 44
2013 42
2010 40
Third, this year has now yielded seven of the Top 40 non-conference wins in Adjusted Game Score (i.e. margin is excluded, so just the raw value of the win itself):
8) Princeton @ ASU (91)
11) Harvard @ St. Mary's (91)
21) Yale @ Miami (86)
29) Brown @ San Diego St. (81)
31) Penn vs. Villanova (79)
39) Penn vs. Miami (77)
40) Harvard @ UMass (76)
We only had six total the past three seasons.
Finally, if we look at best average game score (does include margin) months this year, there have been four strong ones by four different teams:
Nov Yale 76
Dec Penn 74
Nov Harv 74
Dec Brwn 72
Only Princeton's Dec average of 52 is keeping those four teams from having the top 8 months, as the Tigers' Dec (52) is barely ahead of Brown's Nov (50).
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