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RE: 3 AAC Teams Lost
(03-21-2016 01:50 PM)Stookey57 Wrote:  Granted the teams played well and were competitive except for Houston but there are no moral victories, going forward we may need to add villanova for all sports if they'll come.

Err, they won't. But it's not about moral victories, it's about a realistic evaluation of where you are as a basketball conference.

It's accurate to post the headline "3 TEAMS LOST." But when you do that, you should look at HOW they lost. None of the AAC schools in the Tournament got run out of the building. 2 teams lost by 2. Tulsa lost the play-in game by 5. UConn got beat by 12, but when a 1-seed plays a 9-seed the 1-seed is SUPPOSED to win by double digits.

I don't think anyone on this thread is saying "Moral victories." But some people in your conference always seem to see you as completely doomed. And that's not the case.
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(03-21-2016 02:10 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  
(03-21-2016 01:50 PM)Stookey57 Wrote:  Granted the teams played well and were competitive except for Houston but there are no moral victories, going forward we may need to add villanova for all sports if they'll come.

Err, they won't. But it's not about moral victories, it's about a realistic evaluation of where you are as a basketball conference.

A realistic evaluation of our first two seasons is that we aren't as good as most, including me, thought we would be. We are about the 8th-best hoops conference.
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Villanova would be redundant.
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(03-21-2016 02:13 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(03-21-2016 02:10 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  
(03-21-2016 01:50 PM)Stookey57 Wrote:  Granted the teams played well and were competitive except for Houston but there are no moral victories, going forward we may need to add villanova for all sports if they'll come.

Err, they won't. But it's not about moral victories, it's about a realistic evaluation of where you are as a basketball conference.

A realistic evaluation of our first two seasons is that we aren't as good as most, including me, thought we would be. We are about the 8th-best hoops conference.

#8 in the RPI, OK. But the only conference above you that's any kind of surprise is the A-10. And they got 3/14 in, which is less than 4/11.

Your league has USF, UCF, ECU, Houston and Tulane. WE knew who they were when we invited them. None of this should be a surprise.

The top half of your league fits in perfectly well with the P5 conferences and the Big East. The lower half of your league fits in perfectly well with the one-bid conferences. SMU spending money on LArry Brown changes that for SMU, but there's a limited supply of Larry Brown.

When the C7 split off, the risk was that the new league would bring down Memphis, Cincinnati, UConn and Temple. That doesn't seem to be happening. So chin up.
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(03-21-2016 02:52 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  When the C7 split off, the risk was that the new league would bring down Memphis, Cincinnati, UConn and Temple. That doesn't seem to be happening. So chin up.

Not so sure. UConn and Memphis are not what they were even three years ago, Memphis hasn't even made the tournament the past two years, the first full ones of the AAC. Temple has been weak sauce, missing the NCAA last year and then losing first round this year despite winning the AAC regular season title. Cincy has been Cincy, a consistent, good program, but that means going 22-11 and getting a 10th seed in the tournament. Nice, but nothing to really hang your hat on.

And every top conference needs not just 3-5 teams making the tournament, it needs at least one team that is a real power, a top-10 team that is a threat to win the title or at least make the Final 4. That role should be played by UConn, but they haven't been close to that the last two years.

I wonder, how many weeks did any AAC teams spend in the top 10 of the polls this year? It probably wasn't very many. If you aren't in the top 10, you aren't being talked about during the season, and that hurts perceptions.

IMO, the main reason our basketball has disappointed overall is that while the bottom has been every bit as bad as many feared it would be, the top hasn't been as good as it was expected to be.
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