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I think there will be at least a couple of upsets today. You could make a case for any of the underdogs but of course not all of them will prevail. I think that the "bye" do teams have the advantage in the later rounds, but tonight the advantage will be had by the lower seeds as they have had a game to get out thier opening game "jitters".

WKU/UL: WKU lost by three in a fantastic atmosphere down in Louisiana. Can the Cajuns do it again without the big home crowd? I am fascinated by the psychology of basketball... Does the 11 game winning streak start to work against the Cajuns?

NT/FAU: If FAU is going to be the champs they must beat the champs. Regardless of how thier season ended, North Texas has some nice players and they are on a mini roll, building some confidence and they have a shot at FAU.

FIU/MT: FIU came to Diddle for senior day last week. I remarked that FIU has some nice young athletes and it looked like to me that Thomas has them playing some pretty stout defense. Of course that is met by a chorus of IT can't coach and never will be able to. The addage about beating a team three times will be tested twice today in hot springs. I could be wrong and MTSU rolls, but given Kermit's propensity to drop the ball in the tourney, I think that this has the potential be a shocker.

UALR/ASU: Instate rivalry, stAte swept them in the regular season. I tend to think that this is the least likely of the upsets but still very much possible. Like I said, the "can't beat a team three times in one season" theory will be put to the test today.

So who is going to get the upsets?
(03-06-2011 08:31 AM)Hilltopper2K Wrote: [ -> ]I think there will be at least a couple of upsets today. You could make a case for any of the underdogs but of course not all of them will prevail. I think that the "bye" do teams have the advantage in the later rounds, but tonight the advantage will be had by the lower seeds as they have had a game to get out thier opening game "jitters".

WKU/UL: WKU lost by three in a fantastic atmosphere down in Louisiana. Can the Cajuns do it again without the big home crowd? I am fascinated by the psychology of basketball... Does the 11 game winning streak start to work against the Cajuns?

NT/FAU: If FAU is going to be the champs they must beat the champs. Regardless of how thier season ended, North Texas has some nice players and they are on a mini roll, building some confidence and they have a shot at FAU.

FIU/MT: FIU came to Diddle for senior day last week. I remarked that FIU has some nice young athletes and it looked like to me that Thomas has them playing some pretty stout defense. Of course that is met by a chorus of IT can't coach and never will be able to. The addage about beating a team three times will be tested twice today in hot springs. I could be wrong and MTSU rolls, but given Kermit's propensity to drop the ball in the tourney, I think that this has the potential be a shocker.

UALR/ASU: Instate rivalry, stAte swept them in the regular season. I tend to think that this is the least likely of the upsets but still very much possible. Like I said, the "can't beat a team three times in one season" theory will be put to the test today.

So who is going to get the upsets?

Man, I am hoping our fans represent. I got 4 going up to Hot Springs, but Mardi Gras is just like Christmas around here..lots of folks feel like its sacrilegious to miss it (LOL) .... BOP mentioned in his blog that you guys represented well yesterday. I hope our fans can match your intensity.

Should be a great game. I give you the nod in overall talent. We get the nod in coaching.

Best Of Luck!

Z
WKU/UL

UNT/FAU

FIU/MT

UALR/ASU
Mean Green will win 02-13-banana
North Texas is banged up, but I like the fight in our boys. They had their killer instinct last night against Troy. I think they have a good shot at pulling off an upset tonight.
I predict North Texas will beat FAU.....ULL will beat WKU, we are a bad shooting team and I predict ULL to be dancing before its all said and done....MTSU only comes to play against WKU, they have letdown once again and get beat by FIU.....Ark St. will beat UALR....Semis North Texas vs ULL, Laf wins....Other side of bracket Ark St beats FIU...Ark St. vs ULL, with Laf heading back to the dance as a 16th seed in play in game.....Wow the Sun Belt is bad this season....As bad as WKU is this season I would have liked our chances better in Ark. St. side of the bracket, would be a lot easier imo....
(03-06-2011 03:26 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote: [ -> ]I predict North Texas will beat FAU.....ULL will beat WKU, we are a bad shooting team and I predict ULL to be dancing before its all said and done....MTSU only comes to play against WKU, they have letdown once again and get beat by FIU.....Ark St. will beat UALR....Semis North Texas vs ULL, Laf wins....Other side of bracket Ark St beats FIU...Ark St. vs ULL, with Laf heading back to the dance as a 16th seed in play in game.....Wow the Sun Belt is bad this season....As bad as WKU is this season I would have liked our chances better in Ark. St. side of the bracket, would be a lot easier imo....

I hope you are right... Its time for UL to take its rightful place back at the top of the Sunbelt basketball heap alongside Western Kentucky!

Z
GO OWLS!!!
(03-06-2011 10:15 AM)tyler90wm Wrote: [ -> ]WKU/UL

UNT/FAU

FIU/MT

UALR/ASU

Sure hope you're right! We perform like we did last night and we could very well beat ASU. The question is if we can perform like we did last night.
Happy to be wrong on this prediction...
I hope the "upsets" keep happening tonight. Let's go Panthers!
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