GAMES OF INTEREST (2.24.24 - 3.1.24) CHARLOTTE AND @UTSA

[loca2874]

ITS GAMEDAY!!!! Tulsa Men host Charlotte this evening on ESPNU if you cant make it to the Reynolds Center. Trying to get back on the winning track after suffering a defeat to Wichita State on the road. If you notice there are two games on here. The reason for this is our next game is on February 28th and I will be in Vegas for my 20th Wedding anniversary. I will have to watch the replay of the UTSA Game. So this will cover through March 1. The next game will be on March 2 @Temple.

Today’s games

East Carolina at Rice
UTSA at North Texas
Oklahoma at Oklahoma St.
Oral Roberts at South Dakota

Full Schedule is below

AND ONE

Current AAC Tournament projections are in the next post.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
East Carolina	163	at	Rice	212	1:00 p.m.	ESPNU
UTSA	285	at	North Texas	77	3:00 p.m.	ESPNU
Charlotte	100	at	Tulsa	199	7:00 p.m.	ESPNU

Other Games of Interest (TU Women)

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Central Ark.	344	at	Eastern Ky.	194	12:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Oral Roberts	267	at	South Dakota	321	1:00 p.m.
Delaware St.	311	at	South Carolina St.	290	3:00 p.m.
Oklahoma	39	at	Oklahoma St.	114	3:00 p.m.	ESPN2
Jackson St.	280	at	Alcorn	299	3:00 p.m.
Little Rock	214	at	Lindenwood	358	3:30 p.m.	ESPN+
George Mason	80	at	Loyola Chicago	99	3:30 p.m.	USANet
UIW	339	at	McNeese	54	4:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Missouri St.	152	at	Belmont	137	5:00 p.m.	ESPNU
Texas Southern	284	at	Mississippi Val.	362	6:00 p.m.
Louisiana Tech	89	at	New Mexico St.	282	8:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Rankings

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
33	Even	Fla. Atlantic	21-6	4-4	6-1	11-1	2-1	6-3	7-1	6-1
40	Even	SMU	18-8	5-5	1-1	12-2	0-3	2-3	9-2	7-0
77	Up 1	North Texas	12-11	3-5	1-4	8-2	0-5	1-3	7-3	4-0
82	Even	Memphis	19-8	6-5	2-1	11-2	3-3	2-3	8-1	6-1
93	Even	South Fla.	20-5	6-3	1-0	13-2	0-0	4-3	6-0	10-2
100	Even	Charlotte	16-9	4-6	1-2	11-1	0-3	3-3	4-3	9-0
123	Up 1	UAB	16-9	5-4	1-1	10-4	0-3	4-3	7-1	5-2
132	Even	Tulane	12-12	2-6	1-2	9-4	0-2	0-6	5-3	7-1
157	Down 1	Wichita St.	10-16	1-9	1-3	8-4	0-2	2-5	2-7	6-2
163	Even	East Carolina	13-12	3-4	0-1	10-7	0-2	0-5	4-2	9-3
199	Up 2	Tulsa	12-13	1-8	0-1	11-4	0-2	0-2	4-8	8-1
212	Even	Rice	9-16	5-5	0-3	4-8	0-4	2-5	0-4	7-3
242	Up 1	Temple	8-17	2-7	2-3	4-7	0-4	1-5	1-4	6-4
285	Even	UTSA	7-19	2-11	0-0	5-8	0-1	0-4	2-8	5-6

Rest of GOI Teams

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
99	Even	Loyola Chicago	18-7	6-3	1-2	11-2	0-3	3-2	8-1	7-1
114	Even	Oklahoma St.	12-14	1-7	1-2	10-5	2-8	0-4	3-1	7-1
152	Down 2	Missouri St.	15-13	4-8	3-0	8-5	1-3	2-3	3-5	9-2
214	Even	Little Rock	17-11	5-6	0-1	12-4	0-0	0-0	3-3	14-8
267	Even	Oral Roberts	8-16	2-12	0-0	6-4	0-2	0-2	1-7	7-5
280	Down 1	Jackson St.	12-14	6-11	2-1	4-2	0-3	0-1	2-5	10-5
282	Even	New Mexico St.	7-16	0-12	0-2	7-2	0-3	0-2	2-7	5-4
290	Up 1	South Carolina St.	8-16	3-12	0-0	5-4	0-3	0-2	0-6	8-5
339	Even	UIW	6-18	3-11	0-1	3-6	0-1	0-1	1-4	5-12
344	Even	Central Ark.	7-21	4-12	0-0	3-9	0-1	0-1	1-6	6-13
362	Even	Mississippi Val.	0-26	0-19	0-0	0-7	0-6	0-4	0-3	0-13

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)
Wichita State (H)
Rice (A)
Loss
Oklahoma St. (N)
Memphis (H)
East Carolina (A)
Tulane (H)
UAB (H)
Little Rock (A)
North Texas (H)
Wichita St. (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 (H)
Loss
Oral Roberts (A)

 

[loca2874]

Current AAC Tournament projections

2024 American Men's Basketball Championship Schedule
Wednesday, March 13

Game 1 – Temple vs. Wichita State – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN+
Game 2 – UTSA 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

 

[I.I.]

I had rather play UTSA in the tournament than anyone else if we are looking for a win and confidence.

 

[loca2874]

I had rather play UTSA in the tournament than anyone else if we are looking for a win and confidence.

To be honest how everyone plays on the road and this is a neutral court I am fine with anyone really. We all suck on the road except for USF. They dont suck on the road. Even the top teams have 4 or 5 losses in conference and they are mostly on the road.

 

[loca2874]

Eastern Kentucky up on central Arky 88-76 with 3 min left

 

[loca2874]

Rice up on ECU 29-27 at half
ORU up on South Dakota 38-32 at half

 

[loca2874]

Latest bracketology

FAU 8 seed in the East
USF 11 seed in the south as the AQ

No Memphis or SMU

 

[loca2874]

Rice is beating the brakes off ECU 62-47 with just under 5 min left

 

[loca2874]

Rice wins 79-52

 

[loca2874]

Eastern Kentucky beats central Arky 95-82

 

[loca2874]

South Dakota beats ORU 77-76

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Rice wins 79-52

Great, Rice finds their stride late in the season, and may pass us up!

 

[nevadanatural]

Great, Rice finds their stride late in the season, and may pass us up!

That”s two big road wins for Rice. So much for the “we suck because we barely beat Rice” crowd.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

That”s two big road wins for Rice. So much for the “we suck because we barely beat Rice” crowd.

Depends on when u beat them too. If you barely beat rice early then that isn't the best foot forward. If you barely beat them late, that's alright. We managed to sweep them though. That's great , but we still may not stay ahead of them in the standings. with this late surge.

 

[lawpoke87]

That”s two big road wins for Rice. So much for the “we suck because we barely beat Rice” crowd.

Rice is closing out the season the way I hoped we would. Still time.

 

[I.I.]

Bruce keeping saying we have the tie breaker with Rice but Bruce, a tie breaker doesn't matter unless we tie..

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Rice is closing out the season the way I hoped we would. Still time.

Right before that road win against UAB, they lost to us.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Bruce keeping saying we have the tie breaker with Rice but Bruce, a tie breaker doesn't matter unless we tie..

I can still see us both finishing with 6 wins. We shall see.

 

[loca2874]

Oklahoma State is up on Oklahoma 59-58 with just under 6 minutes left
Jackson State is up on Alcorn 41-39 just starting the second half
Delaware state up on South Carolina State 29-27 just starting the second hlf

 

[lawpoke87]

Right before that road win against UAB, they lost to us.

They lost in OT on the road. Rice is 4-3 in since Jan 31. We are 2-5. I still contend we have a better roster than Rice.

 

[loca2874]

I can still see us both finishing with 6 wins. We shall see.

I see Rice with 6 wins. They have Temple and North Texas at home and they are on the road in Wichita and Charlotte

To meet that we have to win two games. We got Charlotte at home today and then Temple and UTSA on the road and finish off with USF at home.

Gonna be tough to get the two. We will see how tough tonight.

 

[loca2874]

UTSA has come back on North Texas and is down by 2 with 6 minutes left

 

[Gmoney4WW]

I see Rice with 6 wins. They have Temple and North Texas at home and they are on the road in Wichita and Charlotte

To meet that we have to win two games. We got Charlotte at home today and then Temple and UTSA on the road and finish off with USF at home.

Gonna be tough to get the two. We will see how tough tonight.

I think today is going to be the least likely win. USF probably will have the title wrapped up by our last game, and won't be as motivated to win.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

I thought N Texas would run away with this game. They got somebody back that was really important after a long break from the team. I guess he has to get back into form.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

They lost in OT on the road. Rice is 4-3 in since Jan 31. We are 2-5. I still contend we have a better roster than Rice.

We had a tougher schedule than them the last seven games. The most the difference would have been would been would be one game instead of two. More likely we would have the same record with switched schedules. The one thing they did that we didn't do though, is beat a team like UAB.

 

[loca2874]

UTSA defeats North Texas in Denton 64-62

 

[loca2874]

Rice is sitting in the 9th seed position currently and UTSA is now in 13th.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Bruce keeping saying we have the tie breaker with Rice but Bruce, a tie breaker doesn't matter unless we tie..

I'm guessing Bruce didn't have much to say about our tiebreaker with Tulane?

 

[lawpoke87]

We had a tougher schedule than them the last seven games. The most the difference would have been would been would be one game instead of two. More likely we would have the same record with switched schedules. The one thing they did that we didn't do though, is beat a team like UAB.

Rice had roads wins over UAB and Memphis. I don’t see us winning either of those road games. I do think we get the win tonight btw.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

A win over Memphis anywhere, doesn't mean much at this point.

 

[loca2874]

South Carolina state beat Delaware State 69-62
Oklahoma beat Oklahoma state 84-82 in overtime
Alcorn state over Jackson state 87-73 in overtime
Loyola Chicago over George mason 80-59
Little Rock over lindenwood 82-73
Mcneese over incarnate word 87-71
Belmont over Missouri State 93-78

 

[loca2874]

Boy I didn’t think they were gonna pull that out last night. Charlotte got in the double bonus with like 5 or 6 minutes to go in the game and we still beat them. Luck was on our side in the second half. As they say I would rather be lucky than good any day. Three more games left before the conference tournament. Tulsa going into today is the 10th seed, Rice is a half game up in the 9th seed and then Tulane is in the 11th seed. Today is going to be a great slate of games in the American.

TU Women host South Florida today at 2:00 p.m. pm ESPN+

Today’s games

FAU at Memphis
UAB at Tulane
SMU at USF
Temple at Wichita State

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. Tulane – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN+

Thursday, March 14
Game 3 – Rice 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

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

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
SMU	40	at	South Fla.	91	11:00 a.m.	ESPN2
Fla. Atlantic	32	at	Memphis	81	1:00 p.m.	ESPN
UAB	125	at	Tulane	132	3:00 p.m.	ESPN2
Temple	244	at	Wichita St.	156	3:00 p.m.	ESPN

Other Games of Interest (TU Women)

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Tulsa Women
South Florida	105	at	Tulsa	123	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Rankings

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
32	Up 1	Fla. Atlantic	21-6	4-4	6-1	11-1	1-1	7-3	7-0	6-2
40	Even	SMU	18-8	5-5	1-1	12-2	0-3	2-4	9-1	7-0
81	Up 1	Memphis	19-8	6-5	2-1	11-2	2-2	3-4	8-1	6-1
87	Down 10	North Texas	12-12	3-5	1-4	8-3	0-5	1-3	7-3	4-1
91	Up 2	South Fla.	20-5	6-3	1-0	13-2	0-0	4-3	6-0	10-2
104	Down 4	Charlotte	16-10	4-7	1-2	11-1	0-3	3-3	4-4	9-0
125	Down 2	UAB	16-9	5-4	1-1	10-4	0-3	4-3	7-1	5-2
132	Even	Tulane	12-12	2-6	1-2	9-4	0-2	0-6	5-3	7-1
156	Up 1	Wichita St.	10-16	1-9	1-3	8-4	0-3	2-4	3-7	5-2
175	Down 12	East Carolina	13-13	3-5	0-1	10-7	0-2	0-5	4-3	9-3
193	Up 6	Tulsa	13-13	1-8	0-1	12-4	0-2	0-2	5-8	8-1
200	Up 12	Rice	10-16	5-5	0-3	5-8	0-4	2-5	0-4	8-3
244	Down 2	Temple	8-17	2-7	2-3	4-7	0-3	1-5	1-5	6-4
276	Up 9	UTSA	8-19	3-11	0-0	5-8	0-1	1-4	2-8	5-6

Rest of GOI Teams

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
93	Up 6	Loyola Chicago	19-7	6-3	1-2	12-2	0-2	3-3	9-1	7-1
113	Up 1	Oklahoma St.	12-15	1-7	1-2	10-6	2-10	1-3	2-1	7-1
153	Down 1	Missouri St.	15-14	4-9	3-0	8-5	1-3	2-4	3-5	9-2
214	Even	Little Rock	18-11	6-6	0-1	12-4	0-0	0-0	3-3	15-8
270	Down 3	Oral Roberts	8-17	2-13	0-0	6-4	0-3	0-1	0-6	8-7
285	Down 5	Jackson St.	12-15	6-12	2-1	4-2	0-3	0-1	2-5	10-6
286	Down 4	New Mexico St.	7-17	0-12	0-2	7-3	0-3	0-2	2-8	5-4
293	Down 3	South Carolina St.	9-16	3-12	0-0	6-4	0-3	0-2	0-6	9-5
339	Even	UIW	6-19	3-12	0-1	3-6	0-2	0-1	1-4	5-12
343	Up 1	Central Ark.	7-22	4-13	0-0	3-9	0-2	0-0	1-8	6-12
362	Even	Mississippi Val.	0-27	0-19	0-0	0-8	0-6	0-4	0-3	0-14

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)
Wichita State (H)
Rice (A)
Charlotte (H)
Loss
Oklahoma St. (N)
Memphis (H)
East Carolina (A)
Tulane (H)
UAB (H)
Little Rock (A)
North Texas (H)
Wichita St. (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 (H)
Loss
Oral Roberts (A)

 

[loca2874]

The First Conference Tournament is the Atlantic Sun starting on March 4th. Next weekend the Conference tournament thread will be introduced. Also The Bracket Challenge (Also known as "Win Loca's Money") will be announced during Champ week with the rules that will be strictly enforced.

 

[TULSARISING]

South Carolina state beat Delaware State 69-62
Oklahoma beat Oklahoma state 84-82 in overtime
Alcorn state over Jackson state 87-73 in overtime
Loyola Chicago over George mason 80-59
Little Rock over lindenwood 82-73
Mcneese over incarnate word 87-71
Belmont over Missouri State 93-78

Any day OSU loses is a good day in my books , of course I say the same thing about ou , but you can’t win them all !

 

[loca2874]

South Florida is holding the lead on SMU. 62-53 with 6 min left

 

[loca2874]

South Florida beats SMU 79-68

 

[loca2874]

FAU up by 3 on Memphis with just over 2 remaining in the half

 

[Gmoney4WW]

South Florida beats SMU 79-68

That pretty much wraps up the RS championship for USF. One loss for FAU or one win for USF for the rest of the season, and it is clinched. No way FAU goes undefeated and USF goes winless.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Really intelligent repartee between the announcers on the Memphis/FAU game. Not being sarcastic at all. Really great announcers.

 

[loca2874]

Really intelligent repartee between the announcers on the Memphis/FAU game. Not being sarcastic at all. Really great announcers.

Did the Pangaea or Mesopotamia step do it for you? Lol