Andy Toole

They've rose to every single challenge.

They've figured out every way to win.

And if you're looking at

you know teams that are deserving of going to the ncaa tournament i think if you're 32-1 and you lose you know in the championship game to akron who's had an unbelievable season i mean they're 25-5 and no one even talks about them as one of the best major teams in the country and so if they lose to them in a championship setting you know i think they deserve to be in that ncaa tournament and give them a chance to knock off a big boy and see what they can do on a national stage

i mean obviously akron would get the automatic bid if that was the scenario so they would be in and then i do think they're they are deserving of an at-large and i and i believe that you know they're talking about tournament expansion they're talking about all these different things you know if they're going to start to be inclusive of more mid-major teams you know i think that just makes the tournament that much more exciting um you know some of the teams that

you watch on ESPN or Fox Sports on a regular basis, some of those bottom third teams in the Power Five conferences, yeah, they're talented, they're athletic, they're good, but are they more deserving of a team that went 32-1?

I don't think so.

I mean, I think the Kenpon rankings is great as a teaching tool.

I don't know if it's great as a metric for seeding the tournament.

And the net doesn't really lend itself to seeding the tournament great.

I think they've got to adjust some of these scheduling parameters in the net to really value going on the road, true road games against quality opponents.

And I know that a lot of the power fives do that or power fours do that in their conference scenario, but they don't do in the non-conference.

And so you just don't get some of those opportunities, um, to go out there and get rewarded for going and challenging yourself from a scheduling perspective, because, you know, if you can get to 500 in your league and you can get to 19 wins, 20 wins, you know, that's the formula for a power five school getting in the, in the, in the tournament.

Um,

And so a team like Miami going 32 and one, some of the teams in the Mountain West and what they do on a regular basis, even some of the teams in the Atlantic 10, you know, they don't get the same opportunities to go and win quad one games.

You know, if you're looking at Indiana, who's one in 12 in quad one games or whatever the numbers are, you know, so you play 12 games against a good team.

I'm sure if.

St.

Louis played 12 games against quad ones.

They'd win one or two of them too.