Ol Dirty is just trying to fit in! S%!t the bed OOC, then get hot and win the tournament. That's the way it's done, right??

3-1 tonight. Now two fewer games under .500.

Southern Miss beats USA tonight on the road 57-54...

HOw did CUSA hit rock bottom this season in basketball? Are we even ahead of Sun Belt at this point in conf. RPI?

"G5"

Mountain West #8
American Ath. #9
Mid-American #14
Sun Belt #18
Conference USA #20

I blame Old Dominion.

Warren Nolan predicts final RPIs of:

Middle Tennessee 35
Louisiana Tech 62
Western Kentucky 78

(12-14-2015 11:18 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  HOw did CUSA hit rock bottom this season in basketball? Are we even ahead of Sun Belt at this point in conf. RPI?

Little Rock and its 21 RPI has the Sun Belt 2 spots in front.

UTA and Little Rock showing out so far.

(12-14-2015 11:27 PM)Noodles Wrote:  Warren Nolan predicts final RPIs of:

Middle Tennessee 35
Louisiana Tech 62
Western Kentucky 78

Interesting. In 2013 we finished with an RPI of 33 and were the last team into the dance as an at large.

Updated the number. This past week is the first time we haven't grown the deficit.

If we go 39-12 over the next two weeks we can get back to .500 before conference play starts.

(12-14-2015 11:28 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-14-2015 11:18 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  HOw did CUSA hit rock bottom this season in basketball? Are we even ahead of Sun Belt at this point in conf. RPI?

Little Rock and its 21 RPI has the Sun Belt 2 spots in front.

Once they start SBC play, RPI will balloon. Speaking from past experience...

(12-16-2015 10:21 AM)doughtyrowdy Wrote:  

(12-14-2015 11:28 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Little Rock and its 21 RPI has the Sun Belt 2 spots in front.

Once they start SBC play, RPI will balloon. Speaking from past experience...

as long as they keep winning the rpi should
either hold steady or at least not get much worse

I dont understand our basketball scheduling. Why can we not get creative and do things to help the conference at the same time.

Why not play everyone in your division twice. That gets you to 12 conference games right there. Then the last game or so the divisions should face off. Games are determined at the end of the year based on records/rpi or whatever is pre-determined. I would prefer RPI because of how much it seems to be used by the selection committee. Put the best teams from the divisions against each other. This would give those teams at the top another game against a quality opponent. The guys at the bottom of each division would get a win.

I don't know. A lot of you guys know more about this stuff than I do. Just kind of thinking out loud as I think the current conference scheduling is whack.

MT has played terribly (TONS of turnovers) and without Giddy Potts for the first half... and we're up 2 at Georgia State, 31-29. I'm surprised.

(12-22-2015 07:56 PM)Ole Blue Wrote:  MT has played terribly (TONS of turnovers) and without Giddy Potts for the first half... and we're up 2 at Georgia State, 31-29. I'm surprised.

MT loses 64-62, Blue Raider leading scorer Potts did not play.

(12-22-2015 09:10 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  

(12-22-2015 07:56 PM)Ole Blue Wrote:  MT has played terribly (TONS of turnovers) and without Giddy Potts for the first half... and we're up 2 at Georgia State, 31-29. I'm surprised.

MT loses 64-62, Blue Raider leading scorer Potts did not play.

Do you guys know the reason he didn't play?

WKU beat Detroit last night without one of our top players who has been suspended Chris Harrison-Docks...

Old Dominion needs to figure this out, there is no reason a team like this shouldn't be able to perform on the road. Maybe someone needs to evaluate their current road regime and change things up, because the current formula isn't working.

(12-23-2015 09:04 AM)Observer1 Wrote:  Old Dominion needs to figure this out, there is no reason a team like this shouldn't be able to perform on the road. Maybe someone needs to evaluate their current road regime and change things up, because the current formula isn't working.

It is inexplicable.

It's too bad that Chris Farley is no longer alive. We could use his "motivational speaker" character to accompany us on road trips.