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SOS from a KenPom.com perspective.

Year-Non-Conf.-Overall

2002-228-114
2003-308-105
2004-126-72
2005-120-73
2006-168-121
2007-57-100
2008-218-110
2009-70-67
2010-147-116
2011-188-102
2012-101-71
2013-197-129
2014-255-198
2015-53-130
2016-310-316

yuck

Since 2002, the spectrum of the OOC SOS has varied from the best, last season (53), to the worst, this season (310).

Something that I think a lot of people forget is that our scheduling shut down for two months last spring during the heart of basketball scheduling. This absolutely killed our strength of schedule because we were forced to play chump teams at last second. l don't blame Coach Haase or Mark Ingram for this. This year is an anomaly and and we can look forward to better home games in the future.

(02-19-2016 09:26 AM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  SOS from a KenPom.com perspective.

Year-Non-Conf.-Overall

2002-228-114
2003-308-105
2004-126-72
2005-120-73
2006-168-121
2007-57-100
2008-218-110
2009-70-67
2010-147-116
2011-188-102
2012-101-71
2013-197-129
2014-255-198
2015-53-130
2016-310-316

Hopefully this will be the last time we'll have a non-conference schedule like this

(02-19-2016 12:29 PM)whisperdeer3 Wrote:  Something that I think a lot of people forget is that our scheduling shut down for two months last spring during the heart of basketball scheduling. This absolutely killed our strength of schedule because we were forced to play chump teams at last second. l don't blame Coach Haase or Mark Ingram for this. This year is an anomaly and and we can look forward to better home games in the future.

I think this is absolutely true. There was a lot of chaos. No one knew what conference we would be in. Scheduling is hard enough without that sort of craziness involved. That said, I hope that we do much better next year. This is a very good team that has been hamstrung by our SOS.

(02-19-2016 12:29 PM)whisperdeer3 Wrote:  Something that I think a lot of people forget is that our scheduling shut down for two months last spring during the heart of basketball scheduling. This absolutely killed our strength of schedule because we were forced to play chump teams at last second.[ b]l don't blame Coach Haase or Mark Ingram for this.[/b] This year is an anomaly and and we can look forward to better home games in the future.

But we can sure as HELL blame punkin-head ray Liar watts for this!

I think people weren't stoked to add us to their schedules after iowa state last year either.

Battle for Atlantis got us some quality games as well.

One year is bad enough. We can never have a schedule like this again. Even if the "better" teams on our OOC slate had performed up to snuff RPI wise, we still likely would not have had an at large worthy resume.

If we had zero, 1 or 2 bad losses, we'd be in the hunt for an at large. No matter how many good teams you play, 5 bad losses is too many

(02-20-2016 07:24 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  

(02-19-2016 12:29 PM)whisperdeer3 Wrote:  Something that I think a lot of people forget is that our scheduling shut down for two months last spring during the heart of basketball scheduling. This absolutely killed our strength of schedule because we were forced to play chump teams at last second. l don't blame Coach Haase or Mark Ingram for this. This year is an anomaly and and we can look forward to better home games in the future.

I think this is absolutely true. There was a lot of chaos. No one knew what conference we would be in. Scheduling is hard enough without that sort of craziness involved. That said, I hope that we do much better next year. This is a very good team that has been hamstrung by our SOS.

Yes we did. Why does everybody act like we were going to be booted from CUSA. It was publicly acknowledged that we had one year left in CUSA. Watts and company screwed us over, but everybody knew where we stood with CUSA. No Excuses.

(02-20-2016 10:22 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  One year is bad enough. We can never have a schedule like this again. Even if the "better" teams on our OOC slate had performed up to snuff RPI wise, we still likely would not have had an at large worthy resume.

This is probably just a dream but I wish the conference would protect the top teams more...no more H&H's with the FU's/etc...Middle, WKU, ODU, La Tech/etc for our H&H (when possible anyway) and then we would only have to play the dregs once a year