Lunardi at least has Tulsa in the picture.
Next four out for now.
GO TU!!!!
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
Next four out for now.
GO TU!!!!
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
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Finally, a little hope. I'm not sure why but CBS does not like the American conference. On their bracket they only have one AAC team in, Memphis as a 13 seed. Cincy, UCONN, or Tulsa don't even crack the first four out.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology
Chandler the UALR and ORU games are killing Tulsa's RPI right now both games at home and winnable. Ctt could probably give you the exact number but winning both of those games our RPI goes from its current spot in the mid 60's to the high 20's. (11-6 record vs 13-4 record)
In other words if we won both of those games we would be an at large in everyones bracket.
We did it to our selfs. Probably pay the price down the line come selection day.
But besides Cincy I think our team can beat anyone in this league in the AAC Tourney in Orlando so we could still get the auto.
Go TU!!!!
In other words if we won both of those games we would be an at large in everyones bracket.
We did it to our selfs. Probably pay the price down the line come selection day.
But besides Cincy I think our team can beat anyone in this league in the AAC Tourney in Orlando so we could still get the auto.
Go TU!!!!
If UALR wins their conference and finishes with a strong record then that isn't a bad loss. ORU was definitely a bad loss and might end up costing us if we are on the border.
I think if Tulsa can finish with a regular season record of 21-9 or 22-8 then they have a strong chance of making the tournament even if they lose in the conf. tournament. However, that would mean dropping zero cupcake games, beating Houston twice, and going 4-2 or 3-3 versus Cincy, SMU, Temple x2, UCONN, and Memphis. That will be really tough, but if they can keep playing stingy defense then they have a shot.
If they go 20-10, then I think they need to at least make it to the conf. championship. 19-11 or worse then they have to win the conf. tournament or they're NIT bound.
I think if Tulsa can finish with a regular season record of 21-9 or 22-8 then they have a strong chance of making the tournament even if they lose in the conf. tournament. However, that would mean dropping zero cupcake games, beating Houston twice, and going 4-2 or 3-3 versus Cincy, SMU, Temple x2, UCONN, and Memphis. That will be really tough, but if they can keep playing stingy defense then they have a shot.
If they go 20-10, then I think they need to at least make it to the conf. championship. 19-11 or worse then they have to win the conf. tournament or they're NIT bound.
UALR has an RPI of 54/66 so I'm not sure that is a bad loss at this time.
ORU is 113/85 which is not good, it's also not as bad as them being 165 last year.
By contrast we have two good wins we didn't have last year.
RPI 40/38 WSU and RPI 65/51 UConn.
But, we didn't any credit for wins vs 34 (twice) and 77 last year.
We were 12-4 this time last year vs 11-6 now vs an SOS of 91 vs 43
We had 2 top 100 wins at this point and 1 bad loss vs 163.
This year have 2 top 100 wins and 0-1 sub 100 losses depending on the site.
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Weather: I guess I should say rather than UALR being a bad loss it was a game that we should have won. ORU goes without saying. Both teams have RPI's in the 80's according to ESPN.
I'm simply saying that the RPI math formula would produce a much better ranking for Tulsa had we not lost those two winnable games at home. To date it effects our RPI ranking from the 60's to the 20's. Even though these games were at neutral sites beating So Carolina and Ore. State would essentially have the same effect on the RPI but they are much better teams and it was much harder to win those games.
The only other game at home that we could have won would have been SMU. But Shake Milton decides to go off on us from the three point line. By the way Milton is 7-8 against Tulsa and 6 -26 from the three point line against the rest of the AAC.
Man SMU got so lucky he was hot.
GO TU!!
I'm simply saying that the RPI math formula would produce a much better ranking for Tulsa had we not lost those two winnable games at home. To date it effects our RPI ranking from the 60's to the 20's. Even though these games were at neutral sites beating So Carolina and Ore. State would essentially have the same effect on the RPI but they are much better teams and it was much harder to win those games.
The only other game at home that we could have won would have been SMU. But Shake Milton decides to go off on us from the three point line. By the way Milton is 7-8 against Tulsa and 6 -26 from the three point line against the rest of the AAC.
Man SMU got so lucky he was hot.
GO TU!!
Gotcha and agree 100%.
And yea, WTH is it with opposing players going off from 3 in the Reynolds Center? The UConn kid that hit their first two and went 3-3 from three had taken SEVEN treys all year prior to our game according to the announcers. UGH!!!
