(01-08-2018 12:27 PM)450bench Wrote: [ -> ]My thoughts now are that Memphis wins 4 or 5 more games. Nothing is a gimme win, regardless of opponent. Tulsa was a good win for this particular team. It wouldn't shock me, however, if every road game is a loss.
Now way in hell they drop both to USF and ECU.
Those teams, literally, are two of the worst in D1.
USF is #310 in KenPom and ECU is #313.
USF has lost by 20, 40, and 40 vs. UH, SMU, and WSU.
ECU lost by 26 at Tulsa, by 20 at home to UCF, and beat USF on the road.
For comparison purposes Loyola (MD) is #283 and Bryant is #340. So they are somewhere between those two.
That should be 4 wins, plus home vs. Tulane, and one more vs. either UH or UConn.
Six more wins, 7-11 in conference. Right on expectations.
"We were picked to go 7-11 and we went 7-11. What is the fuss?"
(01-08-2018 12:33 PM)salukiblue Wrote: [ -> ] (01-08-2018 12:27 PM)450bench Wrote: [ -> ]My thoughts now are that Memphis wins 4 or 5 more games. Nothing is a gimme win, regardless of opponent. Tulsa was a good win for this particular team. It wouldn't shock me, however, if every road game is a loss.
Now way in hell they drop both to USF and ECU.
Those teams, literally, are two of the worst in D1.
USF is #310 in KenPom and ECU is #313.
USF has lost by 20, 40, and 40 vs. UH, SMU, and WSU.
ECU lost by 26 at Tulsa, by 20 at home to UCF, and beat USF on the road.
For comparison purposes Loyola (MD) is #283 and Bryant is #340. So they are somewhere between those two.
That should be 4 wins, plus home vs. Tulane, and one more vs. either UH or UConn.
Six more wins, 7-11 in conference. Right on expectations.
Certainly reasonable and i do realize how bad ECU and USF actually are. I don't, however, see even those games as gimmes. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
(12-11-2017 06:42 PM)BinghamptonNed Wrote: [ -> ] (12-11-2017 06:37 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ]I know it will not be us, barring a miracle.
We are undefeated in the league!
Keep pumping me up. I need it. I need Rose Colored Glasses. Currently seeing black. Lots of black.
Woo Woo. I've heard Pete Gillen and other announcers saying 5 or 6.
(01-08-2018 12:19 PM)salukiblue Wrote: [ -> ] (12-15-2017 12:34 PM)salukiblue Wrote: [ -> ] (12-15-2017 10:52 AM)Tigx Wrote: [ -> ]Temple is doing fine this year. Have beaten Auburn, Clemson, South Carolina and Wisconsin already. Have a very competitive OOC schedule. Props to them for that.
Yeah. Also odd (bad) losses to GW and Lasalle. They have put themselves in a nice position but, again, going 11-7 in the AAC won't cut it for an at-large.
Temple is 7-8 now, 0-4 in the AAC, after a 60-39 loss to UCF.
SMU just got whooped by Cinci and lost earlier this week to Tulane.
Houston got skulldrug by WSU.
Looking more and more like two-bid league.
One of those predictions you never miss on?
Houston just beat Tulsa by 30 tonight.
I guess UH is now the presumptive third best team.