I don't think anyone thinks BYU were odds-on favorites for a Final Four berth

Apr 3, 2020
12:30:25pm

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

But I think enough non-BYU sources simming/speculating tournaments and getting BYU into the Elite 8 or even Final Four shows it wasn't completely unreasonable.

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Confused by Those That Think We Could Have Made The Final 4

DesertBlues

4/3/20 12:11pm

Confused by people thinking Gonzaga was making the Final Four

Indy Coug

4/3/20 12:12pm

Great Point, but

DesertBlues

4/3/20 12:28pm

I don't think anyone thinks BYU were odds-on favorites for a Final Four berth

Indy Coug

4/3/20 12:30pm

Great point, but

puntersarepeople

4/3/20 12:30pm

ESPN's BPI simulation says we were so it's now 100% fact that we would have

jreid191

4/3/20 12:13pm

I would have still been shocked if they did however it's all about matchup and

SouthernBlueBlood

4/3/20 12:14pm

That is what I thought, then my thoughts were dashed in the first game

DesertBlues

4/3/20 12:35pm

#1 3pt shooting team, #9 in NET, #13 in KenPom and only had a full roster for

Mr. Scoobs

4/3/20 12:19pm

it was a very disappointing performance that game for sure, but you can't just extrapolate from a one game comparison

byujag

4/3/20 12:20pm

Gonzaga lost a head scratcher to a much worse SMC team the year before and went

puntersarepeople

4/3/20 12:25pm

How many teams didn't have a loss like that?

Clark Addison

4/3/20 12:26pm

Right, but we have 4 or 5

DesertBlues

4/3/20 12:43pm

How many with Yoeli?

Clark Addison

4/3/20 12:54pm

What a dumb comment. Good teams lose to other good teams all the time

idacoug

4/3/20 12:50pm

And this is basketball. Many good teams lose to a bad team once a season

Bee Chunder

4/3/20 1:01pm

I completely agree with the comment that good teams lose to other good teams

DesertBlues

4/3/20 1:40pm

So Honor Code and now CoVid intervenes when BYU could go far, what will be the

Archaea

4/3/20 1:17pm

Cuz a machine learning model, conditioned on 18 years of data, with a wide

Sircumference

4/3/20 1:41pm

And that data included a lot of games without Yoeli, right?

puntersarepeople

4/3/20 2:33pm

Yup, every regular season game, so however many Yoeli didn't play, all included

Sircumference

4/3/20 4:12pm

With a lucky run, or should I say just having very unflawed play consisting of

Coug Man in Florida

4/3/20 2:25pm

Since the tourney got cancelled some assume the best

chestercougar

4/3/20 4:06pm

Does the volleyball team get a repeated season? I thought they were winter.

d-coug

4/3/20 9:03pm

volleyball is a spring sport

chestercougar

4/3/20 9:14pm

This thread reminds of Utah football 2004. You will never know.

ALUF 1990

4/3/20 6:16pm

The st Mary’s game was our worst game all season, and we still almost won

andrewg3

4/3/20 9:06pm

I don’t think many thought we would have gone that far, but multiple projections

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