Does ND beating up on central Michigan really help Them become a better team or are they just padding stats a la Stony Brook?
Not really a fair comparison. Stony Brook dose a very good job scheduling strong programs for their OOC games.ND has had to lighten their OOC schedule a bit in order to ensure at least a .500 record so they can be considered for an at large bid to the Tournament. In any event, this is not youth lacrosse, as long as the stronger team clears their bench “early “ it’s okay. You have to let the players play, they can’t run around playing keep away. That said, It would be nice to see more assisted goals.
My guess is that if Stony Brook were an ACC team they would have to lighten their out of conference schedule a little as well. The reality is, most ACC and Big 10 teams have to be careful who they play OOC.
Duke's out of conference schedule is awful. So far they outscored Gardner-Webb and Elon by a combined 47-8. Look at the rest of their non-conference and there is only one remotely competitive game with Penn.
Gardner-Webb 22-3 Elon 25-5 William & Mary High Point Wofford East Carolina Penn Davidson Liberty
Hard to compare ACC teams to Stony Brook. ACC schedules are very difficult while Stony Brook plays a very soft schedule each year.
Stony Brook has used this to their advantage and it has obviously benefited them. Stony Brook pads their record every year which gets them ranked exceedingly high but their high ranking has always been based upon hype and not performance. It is what it is and it is not the fault of SBU that their conference is not super competitive but at the end of the day it has help them in the rankings but possibly left them unprepared for the NCAA Tournament.
Actually, it is fairly easy to compare. You are giving Duke a pass simply because they are in the ACC and discounting Stony Brook because they are not. Here is a comparison of of their schedules as it relates to current top 25 teams (obviously those rankings can change). Their top 25 team schedules are very comparable and I would argue that Stony Brook has a more competitive non-top 25 schedule.
DUKE Top 25- Syracuse, UNC, BC, Virginia, Notre Dame and Penn Duke Other- Virginia Tech, Louisville, Pitt, Gardner-Webb, William & Mary, High Point, Wofford, East Carolina, Davidson, Liberty
Stony Brook Top 25- Syracuse, Northwestern, Florida, Princeton and Johns Hopkins Stony Brook Other- Dartmouth, Arizona State, Yale, Brown, Hofstra, Albany, Binghamton, Vermont, UMBC, UMASS-Lowell, New Hampshire, Vermont
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