Games of Interest (2.4.20)

[loca2874]

All three teams lost yesterday luckily we only dropped one spot in the rankings. The next conference games are Wednesday with TU playing on Thursday on ESPN2.

Todays games will be much better than yesterdays but ony one of these teams we have beaten. If Colorado State can get a good decisive victory then they could move to a Q2.

Todays Games

Boise State (92) at Wyoming (287)
Auburn (18) at Arkansas (35)
Colorado State (101) at Fresno State (149)

NET Rankings Through February 3

Houston (34) Up 1
Wichita St (38) Down 1
Cincinnati (46) No Change
Memphis (50) Up 1
Tulsa (61) Down 1
SMU (72) No Change
UConn (86) No Change
Temple (104) No Change
South FL. (120) No Change
UCF (122) Down 1
Tulane (173) No Change
ECU (224) Up 3

Quadrant Tracker

Q1

Win

none

Loss

Arkansas (A) - L (35)
Cincinnati (A) - L (46)

Q2

Win

Houston (H) - W (34)
Memphis (H) - W (50)
UConn (A) - W (86)
Wichita State (H) - W (38)

Loss

UT Arlington (A) - L (121)
Kansas State (A) - L (76)

Q3

Win

Oral Roberts (H) - W (143)
Austin Peay (H) - W (137)
Vanderbilt (A) - W (168)
Boise State (H) - W (92)
Temple (H) - W (104)
ECU (A) - W (224)
Tulane (A) - W (173)

Loss

Colorado State (N) - L (101)

Q4

Wins

Houston Baptist (H) - W (346)
Southeastern LA (H) - W (340)
South Carolina State (H) - W (324)
Arkansas Pine Bluff (H) - W (344)

Loss

Arkansas State (H) - L (204)

 

[Barlass]

Here's hoping the weather doesn't affect attendance on Thursday. There are a lot of tix still available.

 

[Weatherdemon]

Seems like we need some 20 point home wins and 10+ point road wins to gain anything prior to the UH game.

 

[loca2874]

Seems like we need some 20 point home wins and 10+ point road wins to gain anything prior to the UH game.

If we play our game like we have been all of these games we have coming up to Houston can be 10 point wins.

 

[ctt8410]

We’re only 1-point favorites at each of the Florida schools. Just survive those games and we’ll move up.

 

[TU_BLA]

Here's hoping the weather doesn't affect attendance on Thursday. There are a lot of tix still available.

You can get them super cheap off the 3rd party sites like Tick Pick/Vivid Seats, etc. I'm waiting to see what my son's ability to get out of soccer practice is (which is looking really good right now).

 

[Gold*]

We’re only 1-point favorites at each of the Florida schools. Just survive those games and we’ll move up.

I don’t get that. If we do what we do, we should be fine in those games. The standings really reflect two halves in this league. They are on the other half.

 

[loca2874]

I don’t get that. If we do what we do, we should be fine in those games. The standings really reflect two halves in this league. They are on the other half.

I got his point. What we do is not shoot very well from outside on the road. So I get his survive statement. If we can punish them inside then they should be easy 10 point wins. In this league there isn't an "easy" game though.

 

[loca2874]

I was trying to figure out why they have us losing 5 more in conference and after CTT mentioned it I looked at the Projections. They have us losing
@ UCF
@ USF
@ Houston
@ Temple
@ Wichita State

So this means that they do not respect us on the road.

 

[ctt8410]

I don’t get that. If we do what we do, we should be fine in those games. The standings really reflect two halves in this league. They are on the other half.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but they’re both weird afternoon games in front of small, disinterested crowds. It’s kind of like the old San Jose State games. There’s no good reason they should be close, but sometimes they just are.

 

[Gold*]

That’s what I like about them. If we show up focused like the Tulane game, we should be fine. Tulane has more talent than those two and probably a better coach. We usually dominated San Jose. We would stub our toe in random Valley games back in the day.

 

[astonmartin708]

We're also going to start getting everyone's best since we're the top dog in the conference at the moment. To start conference play, I'm not sure anyone had us circled on their calendar.

 

[Gold*]

That’s why I like the random start times on weekends. You live in Tampa and you have the choice of nice weather on a Saturday or watching that crap? I’m taking the weather.

As long as we stay focused and do what we need to do, we should be fine.

None of this matters yet.

BEAT UCONN!!!!!1

 

[TU_BLA]

I don’t necessarily disagree, but they’re both weird afternoon games in front of small, disinterested crowds.

You mean like when we had to go to Hartford and play in an abandoned mall?

The point of there being a clear separation between the top 5-6 teams and the bottom couldn't be more true. I think there are 6 teams with 3 league losses or less (us, Houston, Cincinnati, WSU, SMU, & Memphis), and everyone else has 6 losses or more. The only team with 6 losses I don't quite get is Temple. They can lose to the worst teams and beat the best teams but as Forrest Gump's mama said "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know whatcha gonna get". Pretty applicable to Temple. USF and UCF are not good teams right now. USF lost some very key parts of their team and have never been able to find an identity after that. UCF is just young and raw and can't shoot really. UCONN is bad despite what CBS wants to continually shove down our throats. Tulane-struggling to find an identity. ECU-is what we have thought is ECU was. ECU v SMU game was more of a fluke than anything else time has revealed.

 

[TU_BLA]

BEAT UCONN!!!!!

I second this sentiment

 

[rusty-c]

F-U-Con

 

[drboobay]

NM

 

[loca2874]

Colorado State won by 10 on the road. They should get a nice boost in the NET. That means they will move to a Q2 and out of a Q3 tomorrow.

Arkansas lost by 3 to Auburn and Boise is trying to hang on with 4 minutes left

 

[loca2874]

Boise State wins by 5