Clark Kellogg on CBS just said OU was one of four teams right now (and I stress RIGHT NOW!) who are "unranked but dangerous." LSU and Northern Iowa were two of the other 3 teams, but I forget which team was the fourth one mentioned.
Hopefully people will be saying the same thing after we get through this upcoming week's TOUGH road trip to NIU and UT.
bobcat_backer Wrote:Clark Kellogg on CBS just said OU was one of four teams right now (and I stress RIGHT NOW!) who are "unranked but dangerous." LSU and Northern Iowa were two of the other 3 teams, but I forget which team was the fourth one mentioned.
Hopefully people will be saying the same thing after we get through this upcoming week's TOUGH road trip to NIU and UT.
Bobcats fall Tuesday night to the best team in the mid-american conference according to the Ratings Percentage Index.
Ohio's rpi is the worst of any 2 loss team. They are hurt by St. Francis, CMU, EMU, WMU, Ball State, and American is 200 rpi or higher right now. Kentucky has long 3 in a row and UC 2 in row like Detroit. Marist started 0-4 in the MAAC. Rhode Island hasn't played the top A-10 rpi team yet and is 2-1 in the A-10 being lowly St. Bonaventure and Forham. The rpi is just one thing the commitee looks at. Its a tool that measures Strength of schedule. It has little to do with how good a team is. A bad Big East team will have a better rpi based on playing 16 games of 27 against the Big East. Ohio has lost to Kentucky 10-5 and Cincinnati 12-4. Lots of good teams have lost to UK and UC this year. Great teams have beat them. Many fans came away impress with Ohio vs UK. We were the team that looked top 20 for 37 minutes. UC was at home and did trail Ohio 31-26 with 3:00 to play in the first half . Ohio put a 21-4 run on the Bearcats in the first half of that game and had several 9 points leads on UK. Ohio played 1 terrible second half vs UC and three terrible minutes when Ohio's starters were tired after logging big minutes in an effort to hold on. O'Shea amitted that he didn't play his bench enough in that game.
Quote:Unranked but Dangerous
Sounds to me like what he meant was "Silent but Deadly."
Nice to see more respect on national TV. Since the Cincy and Kentucky losses, we seemed to fall off the radar. With a good start to the MAC schedule, hopefully top 25 vote totals will climb.
MaddDawgz02 Wrote:bobcat_backer Wrote:Clark Kellogg on CBS just said OU was one of four teams right now (and I stress RIGHT NOW!) who are "unranked but dangerous." LSU and Northern Iowa were two of the other 3 teams, but I forget which team was the fourth one mentioned.
Hopefully people will be saying the same thing after we get through this upcoming week's TOUGH road trip to NIU and UT.
Bobcats fall Tuesday night to the best team in the mid-american conference according to the Ratings Percentage Index.
But if nobody comes to see it, does the game really happen?
:shhh:
yeah i wish our games this week would be on TV, but apparently they won't be.
re: getting votes in the national polls again, it looks like we've finally been forgiven for committing the cardinal sin of losing to *GASP* Cincinnati. we're getting votes again in the AP and the ESPN polls (the only MAC team this week that is getting votes).
bobcat_backer Wrote:yeah i wish our games this week would be on TV, but apparently they won't be.
re: getting votes in the national polls again, it looks like we've finally been forgiven for committing the cardinal sin of losing to *GASP* Cincinnati. we're getting votes again in the AP and the ESPN polls (the only MAC team this week that is getting votes).
So much for that with a loss to Northern. We seem to beat teams as they are starting to get votes...ie Kansas State and I think DePaul was getting a little recognition earlier in the year.