Our conference only moved up to 19th, but the last week or so has definitely been an improvement for CUSA.

3 teams inside top 100 right now.


http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_cusa_Men.html



49 Louisiana Tech
67 Middle Tenn. St.
80 W. Kentucky

135 UAB

181 Old Dominion
192 Marshall

216 Charlotte
221 Rice
232 UTEP

253 FAU
276 FIU
278 So Miss

301 North Texas
347 UTSA

you're welcome

Just wait till we beat Maryland (end sarcasm)

Hopefully we will beat S Dakota St

Thanks to la tech for holding it down.

(12-24-2015 10:26 PM)ODU2011 Wrote:  Thanks to la tech for holding it down.

You spoke too soon since we play Prairie View A&M next week - oh well our team has been better than expected so far this season

La Tech has a possible at large RPI right now. More importantly is we only have two teams worse than 300. It would actually help us if they lose every game in conference. Hopefully FAU and FIU can get over 250.

I don't many expected WKU to be in the top 100 other than WKU fans. I think this WKU team will only get better with each game

(12-25-2015 11:45 AM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  I don't many expected WKU to be in the top 100 other than WKU fans. I think this WKU team will only get better with each game

With conference play coming up, we will drop. And we probably will go about .600 in conference play. I expect us to finish around 140.

(12-25-2015 11:59 AM)SigNuTopper Wrote:  

(12-25-2015 11:45 AM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  I don't many expected WKU to be in the top 100 other than WKU fans. I think this WKU team will only get better with each game

With conference play coming up, we will drop. And we probably will go about .600 in conference play. I expect us to finish around 140.

I don't disagree about dropping, but I think we do better than .600

(12-25-2015 10:54 AM)monarx Wrote:  La Tech has a possible at large RPI right now. More importantly is we only have two teams worse than 300. It would actually help us if they lose every game in conference. Hopefully FAU and FIU can get over 250.

Getting an at large isn't all about RPI as I'm sure you know. La Tech's blow out loses at Ole Miss and Memphis likely ruined any chance they had at an at large. At this point, UAB, La Tech, or Middle would need to run the table in conference play to even be considered. I'm including UAB on that list even though our OOC wins are only against other good mid majors. The committee tends to favor bubble teams who performed well in the tournament last year. If Middle wins today, I could see them possibly getting an at large if they suffer only 1 or 2 conference losses. This is highly unlikely given they play UAB twice and at ODU and La Tech. La Tech isn't going undefeated in the conference play. I'd give them less than 5% chance at an at large. Middle and UAB are CUSA's best chances.

(12-25-2015 10:54 AM)monarx Wrote:  La Tech has a possible at large RPI right now. More importantly is we only have two teams worse than 300. It would actually help us if they lose every game in conference. Hopefully FAU and FIU can get over 250.

True, Tech has the best CUSA win so far against #38 UTA and a quality win over #81 Ohio State that is coming on strong and beat undefeated #3 Kentucky (at the time) in Lexington. If Ohio State does decent in conference play thats going to be a good win at the end of the season

(12-27-2015 11:35 AM)BlazerGold09 Wrote:  

(12-25-2015 10:54 AM)monarx Wrote:  La Tech has a possible at large RPI right now. More importantly is we only have two teams worse than 300. It would actually help us if they lose every game in conference. Hopefully FAU and FIU can get over 250.

Getting an at large isn't all about RPI as I'm sure you know. La Tech's blow out loses at Ole Miss and Memphis likely ruined any chance they had at an at large. At this point, UAB, La Tech, or Middle would need to run the table in conference play to even be considered. I'm including UAB on that list even though our OOC wins are only against other good mid majors. The committee tends to favor bubble teams who performed well in the tournament last year. If Middle wins today, I could see them possibly getting an at large if they suffer only 1 or 2 conference losses. This is highly unlikely given they play UAB twice and at ODU and La Tech. La Tech isn't going undefeated in the conference play. I'd give them less than 5% chance at an at large. Middle and UAB are CUSA's best chances.

Puff puff pass.

(12-27-2015 02:07 PM)Observer1 Wrote:  

(12-27-2015 11:35 AM)BlazerGold09 Wrote:  

(12-25-2015 10:54 AM)monarx Wrote:  La Tech has a possible at large RPI right now. More importantly is we only have two teams worse than 300. It would actually help us if they lose every game in conference. Hopefully FAU and FIU can get over 250.

Getting an at large isn't all about RPI as I'm sure you know. La Tech's blow out loses at Ole Miss and Memphis likely ruined any chance they had at an at large. At this point, UAB, La Tech, or Middle would need to run the table in conference play to even be considered. I'm including UAB on that list even though our OOC wins are only against other good mid majors. The committee tends to favor bubble teams who performed well in the tournament last year. If Middle wins today, I could see them possibly getting an at large if they suffer only 1 or 2 conference losses. This is highly unlikely given they play UAB twice and at ODU and La Tech. La Tech isn't going undefeated in the conference play. I'd give them less than 5% chance at an at large. Middle and UAB are CUSA's best chances.

Puff puff pass.

Pretty much. UAB has virtually no chance of an at large.

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Any of the top 2 or 3 teams has a "shot" at an at large bid but MUST:

--go undefeated in conference

--make it to the tourney championship game and get narrowly defeated by the nearest top RPI team

~BON CHANCE!!

(12-27-2015 05:06 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Any of the top 2 or 3 teams has a "shot" at an at large bid but MUST:

--go undefeated in conference

--make it to the tourney championship game and get narrowly defeated by the nearest top RPI team

~BON CHANCE!!

Yep

If UAB ran the table (Not happening any way) we would not get an at large. None of us would. The conference RPI is just too bad and even if it wasn't the perception is still bad. (N0 one is running the table any way)

The bottom half of this league has got to just stop sucking. No more sub 300 teams. No more sub 250.
The top half cant lose to the bottom half. Stop it now.
We have ALL got to do a better job scheduling and start knocking off the perceived "big boys" Stop losing to the Sun Belt, the MAC, and spank the AAC and MVC every chance we get. I know scheduling is hard but maybe we just need to get creative and find more neutral site games? Stop scheduling sub 200 teams or keep it to a minimum. (UAB guilty of this)

We all have work to do before we can start thinking about at large births again.

Let's not fool ourselves. We will be lucky to get two NIT births right now the way we have all performed. UAB is just as guilty dropping there winnable games.

At least ODU fans cannot blame any of us for not getting them an at large bid this season....

(12-28-2015 02:45 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  At least ODU fans cannot blame any of us for not getting them an at large bid this season....

Nope, we can't.

Instead, we can blame most of you for being obsessed morons -- ones who would rather see the conference suffer as a whole than accept criticism from the one fan base that was actually lobbying for improvement.

Yup, you sure got us. We all now universally suck.

(Except, just perhaps, for La. Tech, which actually has an outside shot of stringing together an at-large worthy season. But even a few losses in this conference will quickly dash those hopes. When/if that were to happen, most of the ODU fan base would feel badly for the Bulldogs. Not so, apparently, for the rest of you.)

(12-28-2015 03:00 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(12-28-2015 02:45 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  At least ODU fans cannot blame any of us for not getting them an at large bid this season....

Nope, we can't.

Instead, we can blame most of you for being obsessed morons -- ones who would rather see the conference suffer as a whole than accept criticism from the one fan base that was actually lobbying for improvement.

Yup, you sure got us. We all now universally suck.

(Except, just perhaps, for La. Tech, which actually has an outside shot of stringing together an at-large worthy season. But even a few losses in this conference will quickly dash those hopes. When/if that were to happen, most of the ODU fan base would feel badly for the Bulldogs. Not so, apparently, for the rest of you.)

Difference between lobbying and crying, whining, etc. that we all had to hear last season from a few ODU fans....No one wants to suck, but just maybe your gaudy record last season was a result of 10 non conference home games, just a guess though...