Wow, so we are on par with Coppin State? I thought they would be an easy mark. Expectations must be continuously downgraded I guess. 

The Dude wrote:

This shows two things, that were and remain abundantly clear

1. The schedule wasn't that bad, a lot those teams are pretty good with small school names

2. We are a bad team, worse than almost all of our opponents (close to every single one) which was the case coming into the year. 

We need a dramatically better roster, the schedule doesn't much matter when you're bad.  This schedule was more than fine.  the roster isn't.
 

I...agree with dude. Wow. That's a first. These must really be the end times

Here is the current resume of GW via bracketologists.com. Our schedule so far has mostly included Q3 (of which we’ve lost them all) and Q4 games.

I’d be curious how many schools have played 0 quad 1 games and only one quad  two games.  That’s probably the fewest quad 1 or 2 games we’ve played in my memory. 

That said, what matters is what the fact that we gave ZERO quad 3 or better wins, against 7 losses.  That shows our level, and it is among the worst in GW history - and yet this is year three when we were supposed to start improving.

I wouldn't get too hung up in the Quadrants. There is a vast difference between the top of a quadrant and the bottom of the same quadrant especially in AWAY games.  Again in 2005-06 our OOC SOS was 333. Today it is 206. 

Again, I'm not making the case that it's a good schedule but it is not historically bad either or one of the weakest in the nation which was the original claim.

And in other revelations, down is up.

Joel Joseph wrote:

With a sure win against powerhouse UMES, ranked 339, maybe we can still pull out an invite to the CIT or CBI?

There are simply no "sure wins" this season when one of your best performances was being outcoached at home by BU.

"it's CBI or bust."
   Pretty impossible, barring an incredible turnaround, to reach that noble goal since late November.
But "CBI or bust" may be our highest aspiration in the near future.

I was always under the impression that schadenfreude here was about misfortunes of that school down the street or the one where couches are burned in the street. Disappointing to see how often it appears to be about our own team under the guise of emulating Howard Cosell, sending a message of anger to school officials or just claiming to “being real.” To each his own I guess. Just glad I can sit back as a fan and root for the team, good and bad, without the burden of being a basketball savant.

As much as GWRising or anyone would like to make this a fact based discussion, the answer to whether this is one of the worst OOC schedules in the country or not boils down to one's opinion.  Asking us to ignore the application of quadrants is foolish.  It's a strong enough metric for the NCAA selection committee to use but it's not good enough to analyze GW's schedule?  Hardly.

I'm guessing the 206 SOS ranking is based on the cumulative won-loss record of one's opponents which as we all know is badly misleading.  Everyone knows that a 7-3 Villanova should not be treated exactly the same as a 7-3 Marshall or a 7-3 Southern Utah.

We should all be able to agree that most of the "bad sounding teams" on our schedule are not terrible.  All but three presently have records of .500 or better.  The median KenPom ranking of our OOC opponents is 224, not good but not terrible.

The problem again boils down to quadrants or not enough quality opponents.  Am not suggesting that we would have won such games, only that playing them would have resulted in playing a tougher schedule.

Based on KenPom rankings, here is how our 13 games break out:

KenPom Ranking                # of Opponents

1-49                                              0
50-99                                            2
100-149                                        1
150-199                                        3
200-249                                        4
250-299                                        1
300+                                             2

Over half of the opponents are in the 155-243 range.  

So, if you're a really bad program and this is your schedule, you can claim it was challenging.

If you're GW and your KenPom ranking is 252, as the 252nd best team in the country, you can look at this schedule and claim that it's challenging.

If your aspirations are to be a far better program, say a top 100 or top 125 program, then this schedule is soft.  You've barely challenged yourself with better teams and you've loaded up on teams who aren't terrible but who you should handily beat.  A 10-3 or 11-2 record should be attainable for a top 125 team against this schedule.

Back to reality.  This exact same schedule may be perceived as fair and challenging because we are the 252nd best program in the country right now.  So really, one can make a case practically in any direction based on how one wishes to view our situation.