(01-14-2016 08:21 AM)uccheese Wrote:  

(01-13-2016 04:06 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  The AAC gets two bids this year at best.

The best course of action: win the conference tournament and get the auto-bid. In this scenario, the regular season doesn't really matter: win the tournament and remove all doubt.

Outside of that auto-bid, things get murky. Depending upon who wins the tournament, the AAC ***COULD*** be a 1-bid conference this year. And if UC doesn't finish with some sort of "wow!" factor...complete domination of our remaining opponents and a close loss in the conference tournament final...we're going to get eclipsed by a lot "big name" programs having rather ordinary seasons. A 22-win UC out of the AAC isn't going to take a bid away from a major having a questionable year.

Sucks, but it is what it is.

This is exactly what we did last year

That was last year... This is this year...

And last year, the 22-win UC team had a couple of marquee wins to it's credit as well.