Searching for Cinderella

[MacabreMob]

"Over the course of the college basketball season, CSTV.com is going to take a hard look at teams that we identify as candidates to make noise during March Madness. The objective is to earmark these Cinderella teams in November and December before they reveal themselves in March. Below appear CSTV.com's Slipper Rankings, which will be updated each Wednesday and take into account a number of factors common to Cinderellas, among them senior leadership, volume of returning starters and recent success in the NCAAs."


http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/cinderella/

 

[tornado]

I don't know how you feel about this, but here are my thoughts, and I have grown a bit cynical in my old age.

I think it is a commercial gimmick just to try to hype teams that otherwise might not get good ratings in postseason matchups.

The mere mention of Appalachian State also demonstrates they haven't done their homework.
Appalachian State clearly NOT a good team but has simply been fortunate enough to have had a schedule to this point with 3 weak non-D-I's, and 8 weak, high RPI opponents that they beat and then 3 fairly high ranked "guarantee games" that they got blown out but still maintain the high RPI because they were losing to a good team on the road.
But for this team to be in the Top 10 in RPI is the true cracking of the code.

 

[MacabreMob]

Hey, Squirrel said Northwestern just getting to the championship game in the San Juan Shootout and getting a shot at Virginia would give them help for a lock on the NIT.

App St WON the San Juan Shootout beating Virginia, UCF (another PROBABLE post-season team according to Squirrel), and Vandy.

:lol:

Let me add this: App St is in such a bad league, they could run the table in the conference and be lucky to stay in the top 50 RPI. Then if they lose their Conf Trny - they are NIT bound.