No games Monday-Thursday of this week but here are weekend games:

Friday:
ULM at Ohio St. (7:00 ET)

Saturday:
Georgia Southern at N.C. A$T (2:00 ET)
Belhaven at Troy (8:00 ET)
Brescia at WKU (8:00 ET)
South Alabama at New Mexico St. (9:00 ET)

Sunday:
Georgia St at East Carolina (2:00 ET)

Conference games are not far away at this point.

Our next one opens conference.

BTW, that game on Sunday will be big. Both teams are in the 200's RPI and Georgia State is expected to compete for a conference championship. Winning that bumps up their RPI and brings one of our lowest teams up.

(12-26-2013 09:54 AM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  BTW, that game on Sunday will be big. Both teams are in the 200's RPI and Georgia State is expected to compete for a conference championship. Winning that bumps up their RPI and brings one of our lowest teams up.

Agreed. RPIforecast projects ECU to have a 120 something RPI. Getting a W over a top-150 RPI team would be great for GSU especially considering the team squandered its chances to do similarly earlier in the season.

This is a big weekend for the Sun Belt with three of the four games (against Div. I opponents) being against RPIforecast's top 150 in RPI. That is Ohio St. (currently 11/projected 7), Ole Miss (currently 83/projected 77), New Mexico State (currently 49/projected 60), and ECU (currently 162/projected 129). The Sun Belt is not projected to win any of these games,* so getting at least one would be great and two would be awesome.

* UALR is playing Grambling which is an above 300 RPI team.

Assuming UALR doesn't blow it against Grambling, that would make it a 3-2 weekend.

These are the RPIs according to Nolan (12/26)

Sun Belt is now at #15 of the 33 conferences. It has been going up over the last 2 weeks.

RPIs:
69 Louisiana
99 WKU
132 Ark. St.
140 ULM
196 Texas-Arlington
210 South Alabama
213 Georgia St.
222 Texas St.
303 UALR
311 Troy

Georgia Southern is at 326 and Appalachian is at 338.

Having UL so high has helped (good job UL) . WKU went from 200+ down to 99 fast and pending on the game with ole miss we could go up 20 spots or drop 40

Ohio St 71 ULM 31 (yep 31) FINAL

(12-28-2013 09:57 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Ohio St 71 ULM 31 (yep 31) FINAL

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OSU is good but 31 points. ULM took a step backwards for sure.

(12-28-2013 10:01 AM)Franko Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 09:57 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Ohio St 71 ULM 31 (yep 31) FINAL

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OSU is good but 31 points. ULM took a step backwards for sure.

We still have a ways to go to recover from all our APR sanctions, but I believe we have the right coach to lead the way.

Belhaven 35 Troy 31 HALF
N.C. A&T 31 Ga. Southern 28 HALF

Georgia Southern 66 N.C. A&T 63 FINAL
Troy 74 Belhaven 62 FINAL

(12-28-2013 04:19 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Georgia Southern 66 N.C. A&T 63 FINAL
Troy 74 Belhaven 62 FINAL

Good...Troy had no business losing to Bellhaven...whoever that is.

WKU beats Brescia University 103-65. Yes, Brescia is an NAIA program but it's our only non-Division 1 team on the schedule.

Augustine Rubit now has more rebounds than any other player in Sun Belt Conference history.

GSU up on ECU 35 to 27 at the Half.

GSU knocked off ECU 89- 82.

Three players with over 20 points and a second consecutive win on the road vs. CUSA. Uh oh...GSU getting in a groove...

Congrats on the win!Good win for the SUN BELT and GSU.