(02-04-2017 09:54 PM)CoastalAlum2011 Wrote:  Coastal wins at Little Rock 82-75. Coastal keeping in the thick of things.

Little Rock. We are just not very good this year.

(02-05-2017 11:47 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Off the thread topic, but didn't want to make a separate thread.

(01-24-2017 08:49 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Sickening to see the Sun Belt ranked 13th in RPI, seriously 13? Sun Belt was awful for years in hoops besides us, MTSU and LA...THe bottom of this conference has 5 teams just bad and they are bad every season...What do we do?

(01-23-2017 07:45 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Football : 5th in G5 this year

Basketball : RPI currently 24 of 32

TV contract : Terrible

How about this ? Gary Ransdell for...woops-he would be biased.

Somebody do SOMETHING PLEASE !!!

Heart-warming.

MARKETZ!!!!

Guys
Guys!
GUYS!



I'm starting to think we suck.

(02-04-2017 09:43 PM)UTArlingtonMaverick Wrote:  Fo I think you can be satisfied with margin of victory. Cross put in subs at end otherwise the margin would have been greater than it was.

For the record, we both put in our scrubs at the exact same timeout. Our walkons that never play were on the court during that same period.

Good dominating win for you guys either way.

http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php

Looks like we have 4 teams in the Mid-Major 25:
12. stAte
15. UTA
18. GS
22. GSU
Appears that's the most from any conference this week

stAte up 34 - 24 at the half.

(02-06-2017 08:44 PM)sdcritter Wrote:  stAte up 34 - 24 at the half.

34-22 last basket by coastal was waved off

GS tops ULL 74-70.

Coastal' point guard and our fans are exchanging pleasantries. The 4 letter word kind

(02-06-2017 08:27 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php

Looks like we have 4 teams in the Mid-Major 25:
12. stAte
15. UTA
18. GS
22. GSU
Appears that's the most from any conference this week

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why aren't Conference USA, the Mountain West, and the Atlantic 10 in that poll?

67-57 stAte win. The log jam continues.

(02-06-2017 09:49 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  

(02-06-2017 08:27 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php

Looks like we have 4 teams in the Mid-Major 25:
12. stAte
15. UTA
18. GS
22. GSU
Appears that's the most from any conference this week

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why aren't Conference USA, the Mountain West, and the Atlantic 10 in that poll?

These polls came out years ago when CUSA had Memphis, Cincy, and Louisville, and was certainly not a mid major league. After the defections, the polls were too lazy to ever demote them to mid major.

(02-06-2017 09:58 PM)sdcritter Wrote:  67-57 stAte win. The log jam continues.

Schedule gets a lot tougher next week. Trip to UTA and Texas State, with the Georgia Schools headed to town 2 weeks later.

(02-06-2017 09:49 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  

(02-06-2017 08:27 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php

Looks like we have 4 teams in the Mid-Major 25:
12. stAte
15. UTA
18. GS
22. GSU
Appears that's the most from any conference this week

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why aren't Conference USA, the Mountain West, and the Atlantic 10 in that poll?

P8

Standings:

AState 9-2
GS 9-2
GSU 9-2
UTA 7-3
Texas State 6-4
CCU 6-5
Troy 4-6
USA 4-6
UL 4-7
Little Rock 4-7
ULM 1-10
App 1-10

Next Week:

Saturday:

Georgia State at Appalachian State
Georgia Southern at Coastal Carolina
South Alabama at UL Monroe
Troy at Louisiana
Arkansas State at Texas Arlington
Little Rock at Texas State

Monday:

Georgia State at Coastal Carolina
Georgia Southern at Appalachian State
Troy at UL Monroe
South Alabama at Louisiana
Little Rock at Texas Arlington
Arkansas State at Texas State

(02-07-2017 12:04 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Standings:

AState 9-2
GS 9-2
GSU 9-2
UTA 7-3
Texas State 6-4
CCU 6-5
Troy 4-6
USA 4-6
UL 4-7
Little Rock 4-7
ULM 1-10
App 1-10

Next Week:

Saturday:

Georgia State at Appalachian State
Georgia Southern at Coastal Carolina
South Alabama at UL Monroe
Troy at Louisiana
Arkansas State at Texas Arlington
Little Rock at Texas State

Monday:

Georgia State at Coastal Carolina
Georgia Southern at Appalachian State
Troy at UL Monroe
South Alabama at Louisiana
Little Rock at Texas Arlington
Arkansas State at Texas State

nice work, app

The thing is the Sun Belt has improved in basketball primarily because of expansion.
Of the current top five in RPI, three weren't in the Sun Belt during the years WKU was pissed off about the caliber of hoops.
UTA, Georgia State and Georgia Southern were additions to make up for the CUSA raids.
MTSU was a big hoops loss but WKU hoops are down, those three provide more RPI punch than MTSU, WKU, FAU (the top three RPI lost).
Of the five schools lost to CUSA one is top 100 (MTSU) two are in the 200's (WKU and FAU) and two are in the 300s (UNT and FIU).

The Belt gained more in losing UNT and FIU than it lost from MTSU and WKU.

Then in the top 5 of the Sun Belt you have AState (top 100) and Louisiana (129) that is not a surprising spot, both schools have some history of hoops support but both spent a number of years righting the ship in football and just now can start focusing on hoops.

Here's a look at the remaining schedules of the top teams.

GS and GSU: (2 losses each)
@ Carolina teams
Texas Teams
@ Arkansas Teams
Southern versus State

StAte (2 losses)
@ Texas teams
Georgia teams
@ Alabama teams
StAte versus Little Rock

UTA and Texas State (3 losses and 4 losses respectively)
Arkansas teams
@ Georgia teams
Alabama teams
Louisiana teams

Coastal Carolina (5 losses)
Georgia teams
@ Alabama teams
Louisiana teams
Coastal versus App State

Every other team has a least 6 losses and is most likely eliminated from a tournament bye.

Southern and State are going to lose at least 2 more conference games apiece.

If Ark State beats both of the Texas teams I think they will have the regular-season championship almost wrapped up.

(02-07-2017 11:38 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Here's a look at the remaining schedules of the top teams.

GS and GSU: (2 losses each)
@ Carolina teams
Texas Teams
@ Arkansas Teams
Southern versus State

StAte (2 losses)
@ Texas teams
Georgia teams
@ Alabama teams
StAte versus Little Rock

UTA and Texas State (3 losses and 4 losses respectively)
Arkansas teams
@ Georgia teams
Alabama teams
Louisiana teams

Coastal Carolina (5 losses)
Georgia teams
@ Alabama teams
Louisiana teams
Coastal versus App State

Every other team has a least 6 losses and is most likely eliminated from a tournament bye.

Southern and State are going to lose at least 2 more conference games apiece.

If Ark State beats both of the Texas teams I think they will have the regular-season championship almost wrapped up.

Little Rock got their big 6'10 Center back this week. They won't be easy. Also, we're talking about winning at Texas Arlington (Which no one has done this year) and Texas State (Which few have done) We'll have to play our best ball of the season to get wins.

McCasland has said that he believes 14-4 would win the league championship this year, simply based on the remaining games between the top teams. We'll see how close he is.

That's a pretty tall order but we will do our best!