(05-18-2015 08:53 AM)NBPirate Wrote: (05-18-2015 08:46 AM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote: Conference needs to have seven or eight teams in the top 100 of the RPI and only one team outside of the top 200.
Cincinnati, SMU, UConn, Tulsa, Memphis, and Temple should once again be in the top 100 of the RPI. Can someone out of the bottom group breakthrough? Houston would be the first candidate followed by UCF and USF. I am not sold on ECU and Tulane as anything more than spoilers at this point.
At the top of the conference, UConn still has to prove they be a good regular season team. It has been a long time since the Huskies dominated the regular season. Memphis should bounce back in tournament contention this season.
You realize ECU beat UCF THREE times last year right? Not sure why they would all of a sudden be better than us.
its called recruiting and adjusting
usf played with a depleted roster as half the roster transferred out when they brought in a new coach, and actually played without the best player that remained for half the season due to injury ....
next year they add 4 recruits (2 4star), had a former 5star sitting out from transfer rules who will be eligible and add a Gonzaga grad transfer
not even mentioning there coach will be on his second year =better acclimated, the athletes to used to his system and his improvement on his players
ucf adds 4 recruits all of which are higher rated than any ecu is bringing including the tallest active basketball player in the world
so yes, that is why "they would all of a sudden be better than ecu"...basketball changes dramatically year to year because single players can completely change the dynamic of everything (adding or losing)..you can't use previous years as sole justification from reasons you think you'll be better the next year
there is no reason besides fandom to think ecu will be dramatically better next season, and some legit reasons to think they could be worse ....
me personally i dont think ecu got worse, i just think everyone else in the league got better (or is already good)...i think ecu got passed up by the teams below them who on paper have legit reasons as to why they could be dramatically better next year..
but the game in played on the court, im speaking pure analysis..your lower rated recruits might end up better, tyson or tejada could some how jump into the elite level year 2 after acclimating ..who knows, but on paper its not looking great for ecu next year