(12-12-2022 07:54 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  BTW, the early conference season showdown between Rice and Middle Tennessee State is a Tuesday noon start (December 20th). That seems to be a crazy start time for a game between two potential NCAA teams (they were both listed last week in ESPN's bracketology as ESPN is now projecting two conference women's teams to make the tournament). But pre-holiday games often have daytime starts for Rice because they have a ton of school kids attending who are still in school and this is part of a fun school trip (they visit various parts of the campus and then get to see a basketball game before going home).

And it may be the first time on a college campus for many of those kids.

Good game Rice! I know we have another match in Jan, but also very likely to meet in the conference tournament. Our teams were very evenly matched today.

On to another tough conference foe in Charlotte at home for MT.

(12-20-2022 03:00 PM)tyler90wm Wrote:  Good game Rice! I know we have another match in Jan, but also very likely to meet in the conference tournament. Our teams were very evenly matched today.

On to another tough conference foe in Charlotte at home for MT.

Sounded like a whale of a game. Would have been nice to be able to watch it on ESPN+. I'm not paying another cent to Judy's worthless CoosaTV

(12-12-2022 10:56 AM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(12-12-2022 07:54 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  BTW, the early conference season showdown between Rice and Middle Tennessee State is a Tuesday noon start (December 20th). That seems to be a crazy start time for a game between two potential NCAA teams (they were both listed last week in ESPN's bracketology as ESPN is now projecting two conference women's teams to make the tournament). But pre-holiday games often have daytime starts for Rice because they have a ton of school kids attending who are still in school and this is part of a fun school trip (they visit various parts of the campus and then get to see a basketball game before going home).

And it may be the first time on a college campus for many of those kids.

clt says we had our education game yesterday. The kids seemed to have fun and were loud!

Im going to post a hot take.

Tyler claimed above that our teams (MT & Rice) are very likely to meet in the conference tournament.

I certainly hope for, and anticipate, that re-re-match to follow the back end of the regular season home and home.

MT and Rice have been top 60 Massey teams and MT might be up in the top 50 after winning last week. No other CUSA teams were in the top 100 last week.

So yes, MT and Rice are the two most likely teams to meet in the final.

But we will be seeded in separate brackets (since it’s “very likely” that one of us will be the 1 seed, and the other will be either a 2 or 3.)

But it would only take one upset in four games to spoil the likely final.

I’ll call it “likely” but not quite “very likely”

Splitting hairs but still smarting from
Our #1 seed soccer team getting bounced in the first round this year. :/