(10-03-2022 01:15 PM)pesik Wrote:  FOR FUN


how fo you think we do the first couple days

auto wins
- Chaminade at Cincinnati
- McNeese State at Tulane
- Texas A&M Commerce at SMU
- Cleveland State at Cincinnati
- Central Arkansas at Wichita State

comfortable win, but you cant say auto win
- Houston vs. Saint Joseph’s - a10 team in "neutral"
- Mercer at East Carolina -- mercer is bad but no ecu game is auto
- SE Missouri State at South Florida -- SE isnt good but no usf game is auto
- Wagner at Temple -- Wagner was good last year but rebuilding
- UMBC at Tulane

could be surprisingly competitive (projected good non brand mid majors)
UNC Asheville at UCF
Northern Colorado at Houston

Toss up
- Memphis at Vanderbilt - on paper memphis blowout win, but would have said the same about Georgia last year
- Tulsa at Oregon State - oregon state projected bad but so is tulsa

Major resume games
Florida State at UCF
SMU at Dayton

season defining winnable games as underdogs
Villanova at Temple
South Florida at Auburn

(10-04-2022 05:09 PM)justinhub2003 Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 01:15 PM)pesik Wrote:  FOR FUN


how fo you think we do the first couple days

auto wins
- Chaminade at Cincinnati
- McNeese State at Tulane
- Texas A&M Commerce at SMU
- Cleveland State at Cincinnati
- Central Arkansas at Wichita State

comfortable win, but you cant say auto win
- Houston vs. Saint Joseph’s - a10 team in "neutral"
- Mercer at East Carolina -- mercer is bad but no ecu game is auto
- SE Missouri State at South Florida -- SE isnt good but no usf game is auto
- Wagner at Temple -- Wagner was good last year but rebuilding
- UMBC at Tulane

could be surprisingly competitive (projected good non brand mid majors)
UNC Asheville at UCF
Northern Colorado at Houston

Toss up
- Memphis at Vanderbilt - on paper memphis blowout win, but would have said the same about Georgia last year
- Tulsa at Oregon State - oregon state projected bad but so is tulsa

Major resume games
Florida State at UCF
SMU at Dayton

season defining winnable games as underdogs
Villanova at Temple
South Florida at Auburn

Here we frickin Go…

Pesik already hyping up Houston’s buy games to be title contenders… lol Northern Colorado is 231 in Bartovik’s preseason predictions. St Joe’s is 168!!!!


Lol, the yearly tradition

(10-04-2022 05:09 PM)justinhub2003 Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 01:15 PM)pesik Wrote:  FOR FUN


how fo you think we do the first couple days

auto wins
- Chaminade at Cincinnati
- McNeese State at Tulane
- Texas A&M Commerce at SMU
- Cleveland State at Cincinnati
- Central Arkansas at Wichita State

comfortable win, but you cant say auto win
- Houston vs. Saint Joseph’s - a10 team in "neutral"
- Mercer at East Carolina -- mercer is bad but no ecu game is auto
- SE Missouri State at South Florida -- SE isnt good but no usf game is auto
- Wagner at Temple -- Wagner was good last year but rebuilding
- UMBC at Tulane

could be surprisingly competitive (projected good non brand mid majors)
UNC Asheville at UCF
Northern Colorado at Houston

Toss up
- Memphis at Vanderbilt - on paper memphis blowout win, but would have said the same about Georgia last year
- Tulsa at Oregon State - oregon state projected bad but so is tulsa

Major resume games
Florida State at UCF
SMU at Dayton

season defining winnable games as underdogs
Villanova at Temple
South Florida at Auburn

Here we frickin Go…

Pesik already hyping up Houston’s buy games to be title contenders… lol Northern Colorado is 231 in Bartovik’s preseason predictions. St Joe’s is 168!!!!


Lol, the yearly tradition

(10-04-2022 05:48 PM)pesik Wrote:  ...

this whole "I overhype Houston's opponent" started when i said BYU was better than their preseason rankings 3 season ago.. and you (and mark) said they were trash...note i wasn't even saying they were that good ( i was saying they could be a bubble team/nit team).... note that byu team ended up top 10 that year, and the best team we played all year (covid cancelled post season - drastically better than i even anticipated)..and you guys railed on about how they were bad... mark said he would eat his show if they were a good defense.. they were a good defense (he never ate his shoe)

(10-04-2022 06:30 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(10-04-2022 05:48 PM)pesik Wrote:  ...

this whole "I overhype Houston's opponent" started when i said BYU was better than their preseason rankings 3 season ago.. and you (and mark) said they were trash...note i wasn't even saying they were that good ( i was saying they could be a bubble team/nit team).... note that byu team ended up top 10 that year, and the best team we played all year (covid cancelled post season - drastically better than i even anticipated)..and you guys railed on about how they were bad... mark said he would eat his show if they were a good defense.. they were a good defense (he never ate his shoe)

I never said BYU was trash. You constantly lie about what I say. I was incredibly skeptical they'd be a top 50 kenpom DEFENSE. I was wrong. They were a top.50 kenpom defense (the only time in the past decade byu had a Top 50 defense). But I never said or believed the were trash.

(10-04-2022 05:48 PM)pesik Wrote:  

(10-04-2022 05:09 PM)justinhub2003 Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 01:15 PM)pesik Wrote:  FOR FUN


how fo you think we do the first couple days

auto wins
- Chaminade at Cincinnati
- McNeese State at Tulane
- Texas A&M Commerce at SMU
- Cleveland State at Cincinnati
- Central Arkansas at Wichita State

comfortable win, but you cant say auto win
- Houston vs. Saint Joseph’s - a10 team in "neutral"
- Mercer at East Carolina -- mercer is bad but no ecu game is auto
- SE Missouri State at South Florida -- SE isnt good but no usf game is auto
- Wagner at Temple -- Wagner was good last year but rebuilding
- UMBC at Tulane

could be surprisingly competitive (projected good non brand mid majors)
UNC Asheville at UCF
Northern Colorado at Houston

Toss up
- Memphis at Vanderbilt - on paper memphis blowout win, but would have said the same about Georgia last year
- Tulsa at Oregon State - oregon state projected bad but so is tulsa

Major resume games
Florida State at UCF
SMU at Dayton

season defining winnable games as underdogs
Villanova at Temple
South Florida at Auburn

Here we frickin Go…

Pesik already hyping up Houston’s buy games to be title contenders… lol Northern Colorado is 231 in Bartovik’s preseason predictions. St Joe’s is 168!!!!


Lol, the yearly tradition

lmao its a yearly tradition for CINCINNATI TO OVERHYPE its opponents...and then insult Houstons...

this whole "I overhype Houston's opponent" started when i said BYU was better than their preseason rankings 3 season ago.. and you (and mark) said they were trash...note i wasn't even saying they were that good ( i was saying they could be a bubble team/nit team).... note that byu team ended up top 10 that year, and the best team we played all year (covid cancelled post season - drastically better than i even anticipated)..and you guys railed on about how they were bad... mark said he would eat his show if they were a good defense.. they were a good defense (he never ate his shoe)

as far as Northern Colorado (and everyone else on that list.. i used preseason projections from preseason magazines). with advent of the transfer portal and mass transfers in midmajors kenpom preseason is basically useless now

if ecu and pitt played, based on your reasoning (kenpom) ecu would win, pitt with top 40 dior johnson, John Hugley (one of the nations best centers), nelly cummings (touted transfer pg that Cincinnati wanted) Jamarius Burton etc...

if cincy played ecu week 1 id put that in "comfortable win, but you cant say auto win"... if you played pitt id put that in "Toss up".. STEP UP YOUR PROGNOSTICATION GAME JUSTIN lol
northern colorado is projected 2nd in its league and returns Daylen Kountz who was top 10 nationally in scoring last season (top 5 returning in scoring), seen as a 24+ win team

inversely wagner is a good kenpom team but is projected a massive rebuild..

if i wanted to overhype an opponent on pure bias, we play saint joes, who is decent in kenpom, we play in neutral that is basically a home game for them...and they are from a good league, returning some notable players...i could have overhyped them.. but no prognostication has them good

BUT TO BE CLEAR- cincy fans overhype their opponents to be amazing... and attack when i say houston's opponent are passable...

(10-04-2022 07:59 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  Almost universally, I’ve seen UC fans say our non con schedule is horrible this year outside of Maui and Xavier. I’ve seen no hype at all for our opponents.

Hyping up Northern Colorado is exactly what you always accused UC fans of doing though in the past (sometimes correctly to be fair). There’s no way we can think Houston is as good as we all think they are and then say Northern Colorado is going to be a problem. That’s just asinine. No top team like Houston should absolutely be this year should consider an opponent of that quality a tricky game.

You are absolutely overhyping opponents a bit here. Which isn’t a big deal, we’ve all done it, including UC fans in the past as you’ve pointed out.

(10-04-2022 07:33 PM)steves Wrote:  I'd like to add my 2 cents worth on Memphis at Vandy. It's called Memorial Gym.
1. The floor is raised on both sides. Fans sit right there and bang on the floor as well as it being a distraction ... Call it the fall off factor.
2. The benches are under the baskets. Another strange distraction. Think about how different those two things are for a visiting team.
Factor in opening game of the season with 14,000 hostile fans ... Not sure which paper Pesiks referring to but we could loose easily.

(10-04-2022 08:44 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  This again. You said Illinois was a fringe top 25 team "AT BEST". you indicated they might miss the tournament. I said they were more likely to win the Big 10 than miss the tournament. (And they won the big 10)

(10-04-2022 07:33 PM)steves Wrote:  I'd like to add my 2 cents worth on Memphis at Vandy. It's called Memorial Gym.
1. The floor is raised on both sides. Fans sit right there and bang on the floor as well as it being a distraction ... Call it the fall off factor.
2. The benches are under the baskets. Another strange distraction. Think about how different those two things are for a visiting team.
Factor in opening game of the season with 14,000 hostile fans ... Not sure which paper Pesiks referring to but we could loose easily.

(10-04-2022 05:48 PM)pesik Wrote:  

(10-04-2022 05:09 PM)justinhub2003 Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 01:15 PM)pesik Wrote:  FOR FUN


how fo you think we do the first couple days

auto wins
- Chaminade at Cincinnati
- McNeese State at Tulane
- Texas A&M Commerce at SMU
- Cleveland State at Cincinnati
- Central Arkansas at Wichita State

comfortable win, but you cant say auto win
- Houston vs. Saint Joseph’s - a10 team in "neutral"
- Mercer at East Carolina -- mercer is bad but no ecu game is auto
- SE Missouri State at South Florida -- SE isnt good but no usf game is auto
- Wagner at Temple -- Wagner was good last year but rebuilding
- UMBC at Tulane

could be surprisingly competitive (projected good non brand mid majors)
UNC Asheville at UCF
Northern Colorado at Houston

Toss up
- Memphis at Vanderbilt - on paper memphis blowout win, but would have said the same about Georgia last year
- Tulsa at Oregon State - oregon state projected bad but so is tulsa

Major resume games
Florida State at UCF
SMU at Dayton

season defining winnable games as underdogs
Villanova at Temple
South Florida at Auburn

Here we frickin Go…

Pesik already hyping up Houston’s buy games to be title contenders… lol Northern Colorado is 231 in Bartovik’s preseason predictions. St Joe’s is 168!!!!


Lol, the yearly tradition

lmao its a yearly tradition for CINCINNATI TO OVERHYPE its opponents...and then insult Houstons...

this whole "I overhype Houston's opponent" started when i said BYU was better than their preseason rankings 3 season ago.. and you (and mark) said they were trash...note i wasn't even saying they were that good ( i was saying they could be a bubble team/nit team).... note that byu team ended up top 10 that year, and the best team we played all year (covid cancelled post season - drastically better than i even anticipated)..and you guys railed on about how they were bad... mark said he would eat his show if they were a good defense.. they were a good defense (he never ate his shoe)

as far as Northern Colorado (and everyone else on that list.. i used preseason projections from preseason magazines). with advent of the transfer portal and mass transfers in midmajors kenpom preseason is basically useless now

if ecu and pitt played, based on your reasoning (kenpom) ecu would win, pitt with top 40 dior johnson, John Hugley (one of the nations best centers), nelly cummings (touted transfer pg that Cincinnati wanted) Jamarius Burton etc...

if cincy played ecu week 1 id put that in "comfortable win, but you cant say auto win"... if you played pitt id put that in "Toss up".. STEP UP YOUR PROGNOSTICATION GAME JUSTIN lol
northern colorado is projected 2nd in its league and returns Daylen Kountz who was top 10 nationally in scoring last season (top 5 returning in scoring), seen as a 24+ win team

inversely wagner is a good kenpom team but is projected a massive rebuild..

if i wanted to overhype an opponent on pure bias, we play saint joes, who is decent in kenpom, we play in neutral that is basically a home game for them...and they are from a good league, returning some notable players...i could have overhyped them.. but no prognostication has them good

BUT TO BE CLEAR- cincy fans overhype their opponents to be amazing... and attack when i say houston's opponent are passable...

(10-04-2022 10:46 PM)pesik Wrote:  the interesting thing about UC class is that its making a cohesive team .. no offense to memphis, they have some super elite class but a ton of the players were clashing, they bring in 5 super outed wings and 2 centers

cincy is putting together a class but of all different skill sets and sizes the last 2 classes

defensive wing (with 3 and d potential) , stretch 4, a tall shooting guard, and now a more dynamic combo guard... targeting a true PG ...
still need a center and collier isnt guaranteed but the class is coming together

read an article yesterday that chad dollar is the one orchestrating everything... curious if some big schools target him after the season, with such big splashes