A couple of near upsets tonight. One happened (Marshall beating La Tech at home - actually that's not a major upset). One didn't as Western Kentucky held off a scrappy USM team. Here are the updated CUSA standings on the men's side with the remaining games before the pod play is announced.

North Texas 10-2 (Charlotte, ODU)
WKU 9-3 (at UTEP, at UTSA)
Louisiana Tech 8-4 (FIU, FAU)
FIU 8-4 (at La Tech, at USM)
Charlotte 8-4 (at UNT, at Rice)
Florida Atlantic 6-6 (at USM, at La Tech)
Marshall 6-6 (at UTSA, at UTEP)
Old Dominion 6-6 (at Rice, at UNT)
UAB 5-7 (MTSU, at MTSU)
UTSA 5-7 (Marshall, WKU)
UTEP 4-8 (WKU, Marshall)
Rice 4-8 (ODU, Charlotte)
Southern Miss 3-9 (FAU, FIU)
Middle Tennessee 2-10 (at UAB, UAB)

Pod 2 is still in play for Rice. But it still seems likely that they have to win both games because UAB is going to win at least 1 of the MTSU games you'd imagine, and if it's a 5-9 Rice team tied with UTSA for 10th and 11th place, UTSA would win the tie-breaker.

(02-08-2020 07:31 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  There have been an under-12, under-10 and under-8 timeouts this half. I haven't heard about the under-10 before. When did that start? (Or was this a mistake?)

There isn't a 10-minute timeout. Looking at the play-by-play, MTSU called a 30-second team timeout with 11:34 remaining, and that does not count as the TV timeout. So the next stoppage in play (at 9:11 remaining) was the 12-minute timeout. And then the 8-minute timeout came at 7:30.

(02-09-2020 11:09 PM)gsloth Wrote:  

(02-08-2020 07:31 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  There have been an under-12, under-10 and under-8 timeouts this half. I haven't heard about the under-10 before. When did that start? (Or was this a mistake?)

There isn't a 10-minute timeout. Looking at the play-by-play, MTSU called a 30-second team timeout with 11:34 remaining, and that does not count as the TV timeout. So the next stoppage in play (at 9:11 remaining) was the 12-minute timeout. And then the 8-minute timeout came at 7:30.

Thanks. When these three timeouts were called, they were all called TV timeouts. Looks like they edited to correct the record.

Winning two games on the road in conference is really significant for this team. I hope they have a good home stand and get closer to a .500 conference record. The team seems to be coalescing and it was great to see Tommy McCarthy log some productive minutes at a time when it was sorely needed. He had a really poor game a while back that seemed to bury him deep on the bench.