GAMES OF INTEREST (2.17.24 - 2.20.24) RICE

[loca2874]

ITS GAMEDAY!!!! The Tulsa men host Rice. Tulsa edged out Rice In Houston when they gave up a big lead towards the end of the game and had a controversial ending that sent the Rice coach chasing the officials into the tunnel. Rice currently occupies the 10th seed in the Conference Tournament while Tulsa dropped to the 11th Seed that plays on Wednesday. Hopefully we can right the ship and get a win and out of the bottom 4. Rice is 3-8 in conference and Tulsa is 3-9.

Today’s games

BYU at Oklahoma State
North Dakota at ORU

Full Schedule is below

AND ONE

As you probably already know, Detroit Mercy, a team we played last year, got their first win ending a 27-game losing streak by beating handily IUPUI 81-66 on Wednesday night. That might not be the interesting thing about that. What is even better is they have the BEST FAN around. One fan stormed the court in that win. ONE FAN! That was the best thing I have heard all week.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Rice	232	at	Tulsa	203	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Other Games of Interest (TU Women)

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
BYU	9	at	Oklahoma St.	136	1:00 p.m.	BIG12/ESPN+
Valparaiso	296	at	Missouri St.	139	1:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Mississippi Val.	362	at	Alabama A&M	336	2:00 p.m.
New Mexico St.	272	at	Western Ky.	138	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Southern Ind.	327	at	Little Rock	227	3:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lipscomb	167	at	Central Ark.	344	3:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Northwestern St.	337	at	UIW	332	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Florida A&M	345	at	Jackson St.	282	5:30 p.m.
North Dakota	252	at	Oral Roberts	251	7:00 p.m.
Tulsa Women
Tulsa	115	at	Wichita St.	227	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Rankings

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
29	Even	Fla. Atlantic	20-5	4-3	6-1	10-1	3-1	4-2	7-1	6-1
40	Even	SMU	17-7	5-4	1-1	11-2	0-3	4-3	6-1	7-0
74	Down 1	North Texas	12-10	3-4	1-4	8-2	0-5	1-2	7-3	4-0
80	Up 1	Memphis	18-7	6-4	2-1	10-2	3-3	2-2	7-1	6-1
98	Even	Charlotte	15-8	4-5	1-2	10-1	1-2	3-3	2-3	9-0
100	Even	South Fla.	18-5	5-3	1-0	12-2	1-0	2-2	6-1	9-2
115	Even	UAB	15-8	5-4	1-1	9-3	2-3	2-3	6-1	5-1
122	Even	Tulane	12-11	2-5	1-2	9-4	0-4	0-4	5-2	7-1
159	Even	Wichita St.	9-15	1-8	1-3	7-4	0-3	1-4	3-6	5-2
172	Even	East Carolina	12-12	3-4	0-1	9-7	0-2	0-6	3-1	9-3
203	Even	Tulsa	11-12	1-7	0-1	10-4	0-2	0-3	4-6	7-1
232	Down 1	Rice	8-15	4-4	0-3	4-8	0-5	1-4	0-3	7-3
244	Down 2	Temple	7-17	2-7	2-3	3-7	0-5	1-4	1-4	5-4
287	Even	UTSA	7-17	2-10	0-0	5-7	0-1	0-4	2-7	5-5

Rest of GOI Teams

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
103	Even	Loyola Chicago	17-7	5-3	1-2	11-2	0-3	3-1	7-2	7-1
136	Down 1	Oklahoma St.	10-14	0-7	1-2	9-5	0-8	0-4	2-1	8-1
139	Even	Missouri St.	14-12	4-8	3-0	7-4	1-4	2-2	3-4	8-2
227	Even	Little Rock	15-11	4-6	0-1	11-4	0-0	0-0	4-4	11-7
251	Even	Oral Roberts	8-14	2-11	0-0	6-3	0-2	0-1	2-8	6-3
272	Even	New Mexico St.	7-14	0-11	0-2	7-1	0-3	0-2	2-6	5-3
282	Even	Jackson St.	10-14	6-11	2-1	2-2	0-3	0-1	2-5	8-5
306	Even	South Carolina St.	7-15	2-11	0-0	5-4	0-3	0-1	0-6	7-5
332	Even	UIW	6-16	3-11	0-1	3-4	0-1	0-1	1-4	5-10
344	Even	Central Ark.	7-19	4-11	0-0	3-8	0-1	0-1	2-6	5-11
362	Even	Mississippi Val.	0-24	0-17	0-0	0-7	0-7	0-3	0-3	0-11

Quad Tracker

Q1	Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
	Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Win	Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 136-240
none	Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
Loss
SMU (A)
Florida Atlantic (A)
Q2
Win
None
Loss
Charlotte (A)
South Florida (A)
Q3
Win
Missouri State (H)
Loyola Chicago (H)
Rice (A)
Wichita State (H)
Loss
Oklahoma St. (N)
Memphis (H)
East Carolina (A)
Tulane (H)
UAB (H)
Little Rock (A)
Q4
Wins
Central Ark. (H)
UIW (H)
Jackson St. (H)
South Carolina St. (H)
New Mexico St (H)
Mississippi Val St. (H)
UTSA (H)
Loss
Oral Roberts (A)

 

[loca2874]

With the conference tournament coming in just over 3 weeks the weekends will have the changing landscape of the conference seedings. Most of the teams play on Saturday or Sunday. So all weekend posts to include Monday will have the seeding chart.

Current AAC Tournament seedings

2024 American Men's Basketball Championship Schedule
Wednesday, March 13
Game 1 – UTSA vs. Wichita State – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN+
Game 2 – Temple vs. Tulsa – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN+

Thursday, March 14
Game 3 – Tulane vs. East Carolina – 12:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 4 – Game 1 winner vs. UAB – 2:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 5 – Rice vs. North Texas – 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 6 – Game 2 winner vs. Memphis – 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT | ESPNU

Friday, March 15
Game 7 – Game 3 winner vs. USF – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN2
Game 8 – Game 4 winner vs. SMU – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN2
Game 9 – Game 5 winner vs. FAU – 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 10 – Game 6 winner vs. Charlotte – 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT | ESPNU

Saturday, March 16
Game 11 – Semifinal 1, Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN2
Game 12 – Semifinal 2, Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner – 5 p.m. ET/4 p.m. CT | ESPN2

Sunday, March 17
Game 13 – Championship, Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner – 3:15 p.m. ET/2:15 p.m. CT | ESPN

 

[nevadanatural]

When I said the standings need to change so we don’t play UNT this is not what I had in mind.

 

[loca2874]

When I said the standings need to change so we don’t play UNT this is not what I had in mind.

Well we have played one more game than rice so if they played and lost another than with the same record we would be above them.

 

[loca2874]

Game yesterday afternoon was a lot closer than what we wanted it to be. The overtime was exactly what we wanted. Pooh mentioned that whoever scores first in OT wins 70 percent of the time. We blew them out in Overtime just like FAU blew out WSU in overtime a couple weeks ago. Crazy really. Rice has dropped to a Q4 for both home and away.

The rest of the scores from yesterday.

Oklahoma State over BYU 93-83
Little Rock beat Southern Indiana 80-62
Oral Roberts lost to North Dakota 78-65 (ORU might just stay as a Q4 loss now)

Today’s games

Memphis at SMU
Tulane at ECU
Wichita State at Charlotte
UTSA at Temple
FAU at USF
North Texas at UAB

Full Schedule is below

AND ONE

Current Standings and AAC Tournament projections

2024 American Men's Basketball Championship Schedule
Wednesday, March 13
Game 1 – UTSA vs. Wichita State – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN+
Game 2 – Temple vs. Rice – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN+

Thursday, March 14
Game 3 – Tulane vs. East Carolina – 12:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 4 – Game 1 winner vs. UAB – 2:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 5 – Tulsa vs. North Texas – 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 6 – Game 2 winner vs. Memphis – 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT | ESPNU

Friday, March 15
Game 7 – Game 3 winner vs. USF – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN2
Game 8 – Game 4 winner vs. SMU – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN2
Game 9 – Game 5 winner vs. FAU – 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 10 – Game 6 winner vs. Charlotte – 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT | ESPNU

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Fla. Atlantic	27	at	South Fla.	99	11:00 a.m.	ESPN
Wichita St.	160	at	Charlotte	95	11:00 a.m.	ESPN2
UTSA	283	at	Temple	246	1:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Tulane	122	at	East Carolina	175	1:00 p.m.	ESPN+
North Texas	74	at	UAB	116	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Memphis	81	at	SMU	41	3:00 p.m.	ESPN

Other Games of Interest (TU Women)

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Loyola Chicago	102	at	Rhode Island	184	11:00 a.m.	CBSSN

Rankings

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
27	Up 2	Fla. Atlantic	20-5	4-3	6-1	10-1	2-1	5-2	6-1	7-1
41	Down 1	SMU	17-7	5-4	1-1	11-2	0-3	3-2	6-2	8-0
74	Even	North Texas	12-10	3-4	1-4	8-2	0-5	1-2	7-3	4-0
81	Down 1	Memphis	18-7	6-4	2-1	10-2	3-3	2-2	7-1	6-1
95	Up 3	Charlotte	15-8	4-5	1-2	10-1	1-3	3-2	1-3	10-0
99	Up 1	South Fla.	18-5	5-3	1-0	12-2	1-0	2-3	5-0	10-2
116	Down 1	UAB	15-8	5-4	1-1	9-3	2-3	2-3	6-1	5-1
122	Even	Tulane	12-11	2-5	1-2	9-4	0-4	0-4	5-2	7-1
160	Down 1	Wichita St.	9-15	1-8	1-3	7-4	0-3	2-4	2-6	5-2
175	Down 3	East Carolina	12-12	3-4	0-1	9-7	0-2	0-6	3-1	9-3
200	Up 3	Tulsa	12-12	1-7	0-1	11-4	0-2	0-3	3-6	9-1
241	Down 9	Rice	8-16	4-5	0-3	4-8	0-5	1-4	0-4	7-3
246	Down 2	Temple	7-17	2-7	2-3	3-7	0-5	1-4	1-4	5-4
283	Up 4	UTSA	7-17	2-10	0-0	5-7	0-1	0-4	1-7	6-5

Rest of GOI Teams

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
102	Up 1	Loyola Chicago	17-7	5-3	1-2	11-2	0-3	3-2	7-1	7-1
126	Up 10	Oklahoma St.	11-14	0-7	1-2	10-5	1-8	0-4	3-1	7-1
142	Down 3	Missouri St.	15-12	4-8	3-0	8-4	1-3	2-2	3-5	9-2
217	Up 10	Little Rock	16-11	4-6	0-1	12-4	0-0	0-0	4-4	12-7
264	Down 13	Oral Roberts	8-15	2-11	0-0	6-4	0-2	0-2	1-7	7-4
272	Even	New Mexico St.	7-15	0-12	0-2	7-1	0-3	0-2	2-7	5-3
280	Up 2	Jackson St.	11-14	6-11	2-1	3-2	0-3	0-1	2-5	9-5
307	Down 1	South Carolina St.	7-16	2-12	0-0	5-4	0-3	0-2	0-6	7-5
339	Down 7	UIW	6-17	3-11	0-1	3-5	0-1	0-1	1-3	5-12
343	Up 1	Central Ark.	7-20	4-11	0-0	3-9	0-1	0-1	2-6	5-12
362	Even	Mississippi Val.	0-25	0-18	0-0	0-7	0-7	0-3	0-3	0-12

Quad Tracker

Q1	Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
	Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Win	Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 136-240
none	Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
Loss
SMU (A)
Florida Atlantic (A)
Q2
Win
None
Loss
Charlotte (A)
South Florida (A)
North Texas (H)
Q3
Win
Missouri State (H)
Loyola Chicago (H)
Wichita State (H)
Loss
Oklahoma St. (N)
Memphis (H)
East Carolina (A)
Tulane (H)
UAB (H)
Little Rock (A)
Q4
Wins
Central Ark. (H)
UIW (H)
Jackson St. (H)
South Carolina St. (H)
New Mexico St (H)
Mississippi Val St. (H)
UTSA (H)
Rice (A)
Rice (H)
Loss
Oral Roberts (A)

 

[loca2874]

Here is the Current Standings. If you notice there is a one game gap going down each place until you get from the 8 to 9 and then there is a 2 game gap. These games today could shake up the landscape of the seedings.

South Florida	11-1
Florida Atlantic	10-2
Charlotte	10-2
SMU	9-3
UAB	8-3
Memphis	7-5
North Texas	7-5
East Carolina	6-6
Tulane	4-8
Tulsa	4-9
Rice	3-9
Wichita State	2-10
UTSA	2-10
Temple	1-11

 

[loca2874]

FAU vs USF is starting now

 

[I.I.]

USF first sellout in 20 years. Leading FAU 46-29. Lunardi says if USF goes 17-1 in conference and 27-6 and loses championship game they are out in favor of a team in the Big 12 sub .500 in conference.

 

[loca2874]

South Florida is giving FAU a pounding

 

[I.I.]

South Florida is giving FAU a pounding

They are a legitimate top 25 team. It will be a travesty if the committee omits them due to the very early losses.

 

[loca2874]

They are a legitimate top 25 team. It will be a travesty if the committee omits them due to the very early losses.

Well they are currently up by 21. They beat Tulsa by 19 and people were calling for konkols head. Maybe Dusty May needs to be canned at the end of this game.

It will be wrong if they are left out. They did get votes in the poll and this will will help that out

 

[Gmoney4WW]

USF first sellout in 20 years. Leading FAU 46-29. Lunardi says if USF goes 17-1 in conference and 27-6 and loses championship game they are out in favor of a team in the Big 12 sub .500 in conference.

I think Lunardi is full of it. They pull that off & I think they are in.

 

[lawpoke87]

They are a legitimate top 25 team. It will be a travesty if the committee omits them due to the very early losses.

USF needs to get their NET in the low 60s imo. Very soft OOC schedule where they performed poorly is dragging them down. Still think 17-1 and conference finals gets that NET to a range where they get an at large.

 

[loca2874]

In other scores Charlotte is up on WSU 55-43 10 min left

 

[loca2874]

Loyola Chicago up on Rhode Island 59-50 with 7 min left

 

[Gmoney4WW]

USF needs to get their NET in the low 60s imo. Very soft OOC schedule where they performed poorly is dragging them down. Still think 17-1 and conference finals gets that NET to a range where they get an at large.

They won't finish 17-1. FAU will beat them at home, at a minimum.

USF has also had a weaker conference schedule. They sure are not showing it against FAU though.

 

[loca2874]

FAU is roaring back into this

 

[Gmoney4WW]

The league is trying to get USF in the conversation with the homer ref's. Several fouls reversed or not called on USF recently.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Don't see that very often, in motion foul off the ball, count the three ptr, and take two foul shots after, for FAU.

 

[loca2874]

Don't see that very often, in motion foul off the ball, count the three ptr, and take two foul shots after, for FAU.

I thought that was strange

 

[loca2874]

Charlotte beats Wichita State 72-61

 

[loca2874]

Loyola Chicago beats Rhode Island 77-67

 

[Gmoney4WW]

I thought that was strange

Yeah I didn't even think that worked that way till I saw it happen.

 

[loca2874]

USF is tossing this away

 

[Gmoney4WW]

1 pt game fau usf.

 

[loca2874]

Those two missed free throws are HUGE

 

[loca2874]

USF wins by 4, 90-86. Great game

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Wow they pulled out a win due to Fau not getting a 3pt shot on last try.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

They won't finish 17-1. FAU will beat them at home, at a minimum.

USF has also had a weaker conference schedule. They sure are not showing it against FAU though.

I thought that FAU played USF at home, my mistake. It was Memphis that plays FAU late, then plays FAU at home the last game.

USF is in the drivers seat for the RS championship. But they play @Charlotte which is the only team that might catch them. If Charlotte gets a win, I don't know what the tie breaker is since they would split their two games and they both beat FAU. I'm guessing their record against SMU/UAB. Charlotte would hope it's UAB, and USF would hope it's SMU, that finishes ahead of the other. Charlotte would have a better chance if it comes to UAB finishing ahead of SMU.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

If East Carolina finishes out a game they are leading against Tulane, Tulane falls into a tie with us. Finishing in 9th ahead of Tulane, and behind E Carolina is about the best we can do if that happens. If Tulane pulls out the win, then we have a slim, but possible chance of pulling into 8th place, ahead of Tulane & E Carolina. I'm figuring we have a better chance of finishing in 9th, no matter how this game comes out.

 

[I.I.]

I think there are 7 teams that can win the AAC tournament. Never seen it so open. Best tournament in years. Just wish we were fully there this year. Maybe next year.

FAU
Charlotte
Memphis
UAB
North Texas
South Florida
SMU

 

[loca2874]

If East Carolina finishes out a game they are leading against Tulane, Tulane falls into a tie with us. Finishing in 9th ahead of Tulane, and behind E Carolina is about the best we can do if that happens. If Tulane pulls out the win, then we have a slim, but possible chance of pulling into 8th place, ahead of Tulane & E Carolina. I'm figuring we have a better chance of finishing in 9th, no matter how this game comes out.

Well if Tulane wins we are still in 10th because we are tied with them and they beat us. I don’t mind being 10th as long as we can have an opponent that is equal to us.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Well if Tulane wins we are still in 10th because we are tied with them and they beat us. I don’t mind being 10th as long as we can have an opponent that is equal to us.

That won't last long. Look at Tulane's closing schedule. Brutal. If E Carolina wins, and we can find two more wins, we will in all likelihood be in 9th place. Tulane probably only has one win against Wichita St in their final game.

 

[loca2874]

That won't last long. Look at Tulane's closing schedule. Brutal. If E Carolina wins, and we can find two more wins, we will in all likelihood be in 9th place. Tulane probably only has one win against Wichita St in their final game.

Ahhh yep

 

[I.I.]

Might it not be better to be one of the last 4 so we have a chance to play two games and at least break even? It looks likely a one and done if not in the bottom four. Just being realistic ........

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Might it not be better to be one of the last 4 so we have a chance to play two games and at least break even? It looks likely a one and done if not in the bottom four. Just being realistic ........

Edited

On a neutral court I think we have a shot at beating E Carolina. Don't think we're gonna finish out at anything other than 9 or 10. Rice would have to make up 2 games on us for us to close out behind them. But what I'm hoping for is Memphis falls to #8 seed. Then we might get Memphis on a neutral court. Would love to close out Memphis' season.

Would love for Memphis and us to finish out #7/#10 or #8/#9.

 

[loca2874]

Temple over UTSA 83-77
East Carolina over Tulane 81-67

 

[loca2874]

UAB up on North Texas 58-48 with 3 min left

 

[loca2874]

Tulsa and Tulane are tied. Tulane holds the tie breaker. We are 3 games behind ECU. That might be a hill that is too hard to climb for us. We have a path to the 9th seed. We also have a path to the 14th seed lol

 

[I.I.]

If you win that first game in the tournament it sometimes really fires up your team. I never liked the bye and having to play a team that won the first round........e.g. Tulsa vs Houston 1982 NCAA. And Houston winning four games at the 2010 BOK Conference USA tournament as a 7 seed.