Quote Originally Posted by crooked road View Post
I think you're right, unfortunately. We will probably have to be at least two games better than on the bubble, to make the NCAA. Whatever the reasons, that seems to be the case. This is not sour grapes, because frankly, I could not care less about their postseason, but if we had the same resume as UVa, we would have been excluded. The same goes for probably all of the 9 & higher seeds. The excuse would have been our weak OOC SOS or something like that. Our weakness against Top 150 RPI teams, etc.

In the next decade or more, we will always have to be a couple of games better than a bubble team, just to squeak in. IIWII.
In sum, we need to be better than what we did the two previous years. Leave the conspiracy stuff out of it and just say that. And by "better", that doesn't necessairly mean more wins, it just means "better" wins and not as many "bad" losses. VT's season cannot begin and end before January, which it seemingly has the past few years because of a weak OOC slate or not being able to capitalize against any decent OOC opponent.