Originally Posted by CE80
Vermont was ended up with an RPI of 60 so they paid big bucks for a quad 2 win. When was the quadrant system introduced? Did Kentucky and Marquette know about it when they scheduled Vermont? The scheduling of Vermont may have been more about RPI.
The reality is that the likes of Vermont is who we may have to start doing H/H series with in OOC. The problem is the number of this "locks" are limited and many schools will be trying to get them.
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I meant to clarify that it would be a quad 1 win as a road game for us. A quad 1 win from a buy game is virtually impossible. My mistake
I'm not sure if UK knew about Quads but they generally will spring for some high quality buy games. Some people knew
@GaryParrishCBS
We just talked to @EricPMusselman on @CBSSportsNet. He said when he realized the quadrant system would be so important he scheduled
URI, Texas Tech, Davidson and TCU. And for those of you saying schedules are “made years in advance,” he scheduled some of those as late as August.
So I don't think the competition to play say Vermont H/H would be that great. No P5/Big East school would play them. UC, Wichita St or Gonzaga wouldn't play them either. Filter those teams out and I'm sure we'd stand a great chance. I bet we could get a 2 for 1 out of them.
Getting a quad 1 win on the road and quad 2 win on the home slate is probably the best we can hope for. Maybe if you know it's a rebuilding/reloading year you shoot for the quad 1 win on the road and don't worry about the quality of the home game, See us last year vs this
A quad 1 win at home off a series is gonna be really hard. It's gonna take a luck to get a top 30 RPI team at home
