2024-25 Around College Hoops

[Jason Svoboda]

Around the college hoops landscape outside the Valley.

Valley-specific thread: https://sycamorepride.com/threads/2024-25-around-the-valley.46093/

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Anyone catch this?

It Looks Like George Mason's Basketball Team Got Duped Out Of Bahamas Trip

George Mason's men's basketball team reportedly got duped out of a trip to the Bahamas and only found out the day the trip was supposed to start.

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[jturner38]

Didn’t know where to post this but didn’t want to create a new thread for it but thought it was interesting to look at. Data used is from 22/23 season.

 

[Prisonmate]

There must be some sort of buyout with Lottich that inflated Valpo's budget. If there was a $750k-$800k buyout, then Valpo's budget would be 3.2 instead of 4.0

The other 10 generally went in the usual order for MBB expenses.

 

[BlueBleeder]

Damn, we should be recognized nationally for doing the most with one of the lowest budgets. Sure wish we could bump up that budget about 1-2 million dollars or so. But, we won't/ can't and that is why any success we have here is short lived.

 

[jturner38]

Damn, we should be recognized nationally for doing the most with one of the lowest budgets. Sure wish we could bump up that budget about 1-2 million dollars or so. But, we won't/ can't and that is why any success we have here is short lived.

I would like to see the budget of last season and this year and see how much it has increased.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

I would like to see the budget of last season and this year and see how much it has increased.

I thought I heard it actually decreased. Guess we won't know until the data finally hits EADA database here in a year.

Equity in Athletics

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[treeman]

Damn, we should be recognized nationally for doing the most with one of the lowest budgets. Sure wish we could bump up that budget about 1-2 million dollars or so. But, we won't/ can't and that is why any success we have here is short lived.

It really is impressive what we have done with one of the lowest if the not the lowest budgets in this conference. Say what you want about Greg Lansing but he did punch above his weight class as far as budget is concerned about 90% of the time. Just goes to show what could be at Indiana State for basketball if we put the resources there. We are doing more with less. I would love to see what it looks like fully funded. Here are all of our Kenpom Rankings from the Lansing and Schertz eras. During that time we have had a budget ranked near 200 in college bball and one of it not lowest in the MVC.

38 17-3 1st in conference
100 13-7 5th in conference
230 4-14 Schertz first year (Key out with injury)
119 11-7 in conference
122 11-7 in conference
208 7-11 in conference
138 8-10 in conference
199 5-13 in conference - Low spot in Lansing era
168 8-10 in conference
169 11-7 in conference
108 12-6 in conference - Damn good team, just had a generational Wichita State program at their peak
92 9-9 in conference
137 8-10 in conference
108 12-6 in conference - Won conference tournament

Average Kenpom = 138
Conference win loss = 136-120

So after 14 seasons and 2 coaches (with totally different philosophies) we have had 3 seasons that I would consider bad; Schertz first year when Key was out for the season and 2 seasons in the middle of Lansings tenure. But those "Bad" seasons are essentially what we are paying for. We are paying for a 200 ranked team and bottom 1-3 finish in the conference. We've managed to avoid that 85% of the time which should show you what could be.