12/5/2023

Southern Utah (Away)
Utah (Home)
6:00 P.M. MT Salt Lake City, Utah
TV: Pac-12 Network

Weber State (Away)
Utah Valley (Home)
6:00 P.M. MT Orem, Utah
TV: ESPN+

Louisiana Tech (Away)
Stephen F. Austin (Home)
6:30 P.M. CT Nacogdoches, TX
TV: ESPN+

Hardin-Simmons (Away)
Tarleton State (Home)
7:00 P.M. CT Stephenville, TX
TV: ESPN+

San Diego State (Away)
Grand Canyon (Home)
7:00 P.M. MST Phoenix, Ariz.
TV: ESPNU

12/6/2023

UNT Dallas (Away)
UT Arlington (Home)
4:00 P.M. CT Arlington, TX
TV: ESPN+

Utah Tech (Away)
California Baptist (Home)
7:00 P.M. PT Riverside, Calif. (Conf.)
TV: ESPN+

Northern Arizona (Away)
Abilene Christian (Home)
7:00 P.M. CT Abilene, Texas
TV: ESPN+

UTRGV (Away)
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi (Home)
7:00 P.M. CT Corpus Christi, TX
TV: ESPN+

12/9/2023

Utah Valley (Away)
Oregon State (Home)
2:00 P.M. PT Corvallis, OR
TV: Pac-12 Network

Stephen F. Austin (Away)
Wyoming (Home)
2:00 P.M. MT Laramie, WY
TV: Mountain West Network

Grand Canyon (Away)
Liberty (Home)
2:00 P.M. ET Lynchburg, Va.
TV: ESPNU

Northwest (Away)
Seattle U (Home)
5:00 P.M. PT Seattle, WA
TV: ESPN+

Idaho State (Away)
Southern Utah (Home)
6:30 P.M. MT Cedar City, Utah
TV: ESPN+

Idaho (Away)
Utah Tech (Home)
7:00 P.M. MT St. George, Utah
TV: ESPN+

12/10/2023

Howard Payne (Away)
Abilene Christian (Home)
3:00 P.M. CT Abilene, Texas
TV: ESPN+

12/11/2023

Utah Tech (Away)
CSUN (Home)
7:00 P.M. PT Northridge, CA
TV: ESPN+ [/b]

SFA and Grand Canyon have good games this week. We need to beat the CUSA teams.

GCU takes down #25 San Diego State 79-73.

Great win Lopes!!!!

very nice win for GCU! SFA losing to La Tech is disappointing. SUU almost upsetting Utah is absolutely shocking!

Gcu is a beast. Wouldn't be surprised to see them sneak into the top 26 at sometime this season. The Wac is a decent enough conference that it shouldn't drag them down

(12-06-2023 03:19 PM)RT98 Wrote:  Gcu is a beast. Wouldn't be surprised to see them sneak into the top 26 at sometime this season. The Wac is a decent enough conference that it shouldn't drag them down

Personally if GCU can get into the top 50, I'd be ecstatic. A victory over Liberty on Saturday would go a long way towards this. KenPom has Liberty ranked #55 with GCU at #73.

On a side note, it was nice to see that the WAC passed CUSA in the KenPom conference rankings. The WAC is now at #13 and CUSA at #14. I wonder if Sam Houston State and New Mexico State are regretting their decision to leave the WAC.

https://bracketologists.com/conferences/ WAC at #12 and CUSA #16 NMSU is dragging down their rankings lol. I still think RGV is way too low in the net at 300+

ACU continued their same. They were losing, and playing catch-up, most of game against NAU. They would occasionally get a 1-2 point lead and then immediately lose it. ACU was lucky enough to tie it with about 13 seconds left and then lose the game with about 0.02 seconds left: 76-78. Our fast break, bench and 2nd chance points were actually a little better from our past but NAU nailed their shots and squeezed out more bench points as they forced TOs, as well as way outrebounded us. In the end, we continued to struggle defending the lanes and the paint. Just like last game, we couldn't stop one shot with a few seconds left to defend a win.

kinda shocking to see ACU lose to NAU. You are better than that come on now! Tje Cats are on a 4 game skid now. That OT Loss to SFA seemed to knock some of the mojo out of them or something.

Last night, I watched one of the best games I seen this year. Utah Tech and CBU. Two good teams playing extremely hard. UT made their FTs at the end and blocked a final 3 pt shot at the end to seal the game.

We now have three teams sitting 2-0 at the top of the standings, GCU, UT & Tarleton.

(12-07-2023 01:00 PM)Spolovilo4EVER Wrote:  kinda shocking to see ACU lose to NAU. You are better than that come on now! Tje Cats are on a 4 game skid now. That OT Loss to SFA seemed to knock some of the mojo out of them or something.

It is like flipping a coin, whether we win or lose. Seems every game is super close and recently each one has had a remarkable bounce to a loss. Sooner or later, lady luck needs to bounce our way. Last night, Simmons had a leg cramp at the end and had to retire. That probably cost us the game.

(12-07-2023 01:39 PM)RCI Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 01:00 PM)Spolovilo4EVER Wrote:  kinda shocking to see ACU lose to NAU. You are better than that come on now! Tje Cats are on a 4 game skid now. That OT Loss to SFA seemed to knock some of the mojo out of them or something.

It is like flipping a coin, whether we win or lose. Seems every game is super close and recently each one has had a remarkable bounce to a loss. Sooner or later, lady luck needs to bounce our way. Last night, Simmons had a leg cramp at the end and had to retire. That probably cost us the game.

I won't play that game. Yes, losing Simmons hurts, but he was also the one who helped allow SFA to score at the end of the game a week ago. So, it's not all on him. Besides, NAU had two of their starters foul out within the last 3 minutes and we still couldn't get it done. No, that didn't cost us the game. We need more than Lady Luck right now. NAU played faster and with more intensity than we did. So did SFA, as well as UTA. I am constantly watching our opponents run quick-set plays that take advantage of us. We tend to dribble down, stop, and pass it around the best we can and then run into people while driving. Now, over simplifying a bit, but not completely. I was at least hoping for the ugly dub last night but couldn't even pull that off. As much as we don't have ourselves figured out, other teams sure do.

(12-07-2023 01:39 PM)RCI Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 01:00 PM)Spolovilo4EVER Wrote:  kinda shocking to see ACU lose to NAU. You are better than that come on now! Tje Cats are on a 4 game skid now. That OT Loss to SFA seemed to knock some of the mojo out of them or something.

It is like flipping a coin, whether we win or lose. Seems every game is super close and recently each one has had a remarkable bounce to a loss. Sooner or later, lady luck needs to bounce our way. Last night, Simmons had a leg cramp at the end and had to retire. That probably cost us the game.

Simmons is my favorite non Tarleton player in the WAC. He doesn’t have a basketball body but man can he play. Love it when he shoots the 3. Rebounds. Just a gamer.

And I understand he is a good guy as well.

(12-07-2023 10:56 PM)RCI Wrote:  And I understand he is a good guy as well.

He will always be an ACU favorite.

Wildcats easily beat division III Howard Payne, 120 to 69. Not sure why we play a D3 opponent other than tradition. HPU had some fine shooters and should beat many of their peers. It was fun watching so many minutes from our bench. They should get a lot of confidence out of playing a game like this.

I do not like playing non D1 schools either, especially DIII/NAIA schools. Playing a "historic" DII rival WTAMU/Angelo St etc... would be more palatable but still not ideal. Attendance wise it would not matter much during the break as attendance suffers regardless of opponent during the break until spring semester starts. But playing an overmatched non D1 squad just hurts your NET rankings. Would rather take a "money" game against a P6.

(12-11-2023 12:12 PM)Spolovilo4EVER Wrote:  I do not like playing non D1 schools either, especially DIII/NAIA schools. Playing a "historic" DII rival WTAMU/Angelo St etc... would be more palatable but still not ideal. Attendance wise it would not matter much during the break as attendance suffers regardless of opponent during the break until spring semester starts. But playing an overmatched non D1 squad just hurts your NET rankings. Would rather take a "money" game against a P6.

Fully agree. Attendance was down with only about 1250 in attendance. It is finals time for students. We play UTEP on Dec. 17th and the students will be home for Christmas??? It will be a reunion for Joe Golding, the UTEP coach. Tonight we play another non-D1 school in women's basketball, McMurry. Only good thing is there is no travel issues for McMurry, just across town.

Deeply hurt and disappointed that not one of you congratulated UTRGV on actually (and barely) winning a D1 basketball game for the first time this season.

Don't think of it as a milestone for us, it's a milestone for the WAC. If we do it again we might even bask in the glory of being out of the 300s.

(12-11-2023 08:25 PM)edinburger Wrote:  Deeply hurt and disappointed that not one of you congratulated UTRGV on actually (and barely) winning a D1 basketball game for the first time this season.

Don't think of it as a milestone for us, it's a milestone for the WAC. If we do it again we might even bask in the glory of being out of the 300s.

True. My apologies. Congrats to UTRGV!
I am glad GCU got to play you earlier in the season rather than later. It seems Coach Figger is an excellent coach and the team continues to improve with every game.

Since you took down Corpus Christi at their place, I expect you will win the repeat at Edinburg. That should pull you out of the 300s.
With Chicago State & Incarnate Word after the Corpus Christi repeat, UTRGV could easily be 6-7 by the time they face SFU on Jan. 4th.