(04-05-2014 10:11 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (04-05-2014 10:05 PM)AirRaid Wrote: (04-05-2014 07:56 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote: (04-05-2014 07:52 PM)baruna falls Wrote: (04-05-2014 07:48 PM)techdawg88 Wrote: you really expect Tulsa & ECU to compete with the top of the AAC right away?
Tulsa much better shape than ECU. ECU is years away from being good. Tulsa however, is competitive right now. Plus recruiting will be easier n the AAC because of UConn, Memphis and Cincy. A three to five bid league has to have some attraction to it as a coach right.
U of L leaves. three bids max. Plus ecu and tulsa have been in the league with Memphis for how long???? If your not doing it year in and year out now your not going to.
LOL please, 5 bid league next year. Cincy, Memphis, Uconn, SMU, Houston/Temple, definitely a power basketball conference and not a 1 bid league
lmfao.....4 tops....3 is more likely.....guess we'll find out next year, won't we?
you really just came with temples........wow....did they hire lon chaney IV.....give me a fkn break.
See it is statements like you just made about Temple that shows that you don't watch much basketball other than CUSA. Did you know that Temple is top 10 all times in NCAA wins? Only Kentucky, UNC, Kansas, Duke and Syracuse have more wins. Temple had 5 Elite 8's under Cheney. Before this season Temple had been to 6 straight NCAA tournaments. That school has 2 final fours and a national championship back in 1938 and in the 50's. I am shocked at how little you know of Temple's basketball history. History says that they will be back in the tournament shortly.
For your reading pleasure:
"History
The Temple Men's Basketball program is only the 6th team in NCAA history to reach 1,800 wins, along with Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, and Syracuse.
The Temple Owls became the 1st National Invitation Tournament (NIT) Champions in 1938, one year before the conception of the NCAA Tournament. They again won the NIT Championship in 1969.
During the 1950s, the Temple basketball team
made two NCAA Final Four appearances (1956, 1958) under legendary Head Coach Harry Litwack. Litwack would be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame after concluding a 21-year coaching career that included 373 wins.
Head Coach John Chaney, also a Hall of Famer, won a total of 741 career games (312 losses) and
took Temple to the NCAA tournament 17 times. His 1987-88 Owls team entered the NCAA tournament
ranked #1 in the country, and
he has reached the Elite Eight on five different occasions. He was consensus national coach of the year in 1988.
On April 10, 2006, University of Pennsylvania head coach and La Salle University alumnus Fran Dunphy was named the new Temple's Men's Head Basketball coach. Dunphy had coached the Quakers for 17 straight seasons prior to the move. Dunphy and his Owls won the Atlantic-10 tournament in 2008. And in 2009, the Owls won their second consecutive Atlantic-10 tournament, for their conference leading 8th A-10 title. Dunphy's 2009-2010 team went into the A10 tournament as its regular season champions sharing the title with Xavier. The '09-'10 team has been Dunphy's most successful yet, it ranked #12/#13 going into the NCAA tournament after being ranked in the top twenty-five for thirteen straight weeks in both the AP and ESPN polls.
Players Mark Macon, Juan Ignacio Sanchez, Eddie Jones, Lavoy Allen, Aaron McKie, and Mardy Collins are just a few who have gone on to play in the NBA. An avid supporter is Bill Cosby, who once attended Temple University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Owls...basketball
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