GAMES OF INTEREST (3.9.24 - 3.10.24) SOUTH FLORIDA END OF REGULAR SEASON

[loca2874]

ITS GAMEDAY!!!! This is the last regular season game for this TU mens Squad. Tulsa hosts first place and Regular Season Champs South Florida. A win guarantees 9th place. The Womens Conference tournament starts today in Fort Worth. There is a lot of opportunity for shake up in the seedings but could very well lock almost all of the seeds today with only two games tomorrow. Tomorrow I will announce the bracket challenge.

Today’s games

Memphis at FAU
Charlotte at ECU
North Texas at Rice
Oklahoma State at BYU

Full Schedule is below

AND ONE
Current Standings and AAC Tournament projections

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

Game 1 – Temple vs. UTSA – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN+
Game 2 – Wichita St vs. Tulane – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN+

Thursday, March 14
Game 3 – Tulsa vs. East Carolina – 12:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. CT | ESPNU
Game 4 – Game 1 winner vs. Memphis– 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. UAB – 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

Standings

Team	Conference Record	Overall Record
South Florida	16-1	23-5
Florida Atlantic	13-4	23-7
Charlotte	12-5	18-11
SMU	11-6	20-10
Memphis	11-6	22-8
UAB	11-6	19-11
North Texas	9-8	16-13
East Carolina	7-10	14-16
Tulsa	6-11	15-14
Rice	5-12	11-19
UTSA	5-12	11-19
Tulane	5-13	14-16
Wichita State	5-13	13-18
Temple	4-13	11-19

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Memphis	71	at	Fla. Atlantic	33	11:00 a.m.	CBS
South Fla.	73	at	Tulsa	196	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Charlotte	108	at	East Carolina	184	3:00 p.m.	ESPN+
North Texas	86	at	Rice	234	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Other Games of Interest (TU Women)

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Mississippi Val.	362	at	Jackson St.	286	2:30 p.m.
La Salle	197	at	Loyola Chicago	87	3:00 p.m.	ESPN+
FIU	296	at	New Mexico St.	288	3:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Oklahoma St.	121	at	BYU	12	8:00 p.m.	BIG12/ESPN+

Rankings

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
33	Even	Fla. Atlantic	23-7	5-5	6-1	12-1	2-3	6-2	9-0	6-2
55	Even	SMU	19-10	5-6	1-1	13-3	0-5	2-3	9-1	8-1
71	Even	Memphis	22-8	7-5	2-1	13-2	2-2	4-4	11-1	5-1
73	Even	South Fla.	23-5	7-3	1-0	15-2	1-0	5-3	8-0	9-2
86	Even	North Texas	14-13	4-5	1-4	9-4	0-5	2-5	8-2	4-1
108	Up 1	Charlotte	17-11	4-7	1-2	12-2	0-5	2-2	6-4	9-0
116	Up 1	UAB	18-11	7-5	1-1	10-5	0-4	6-3	7-2	5-2
138	Up 3	Tulane	13-16	2-8	1-2	10-6	0-5	1-5	5-5	7-1
159	Down 7	Wichita St.	12-18	2-10	1-3	9-5	0-4	3-4	2-8	7-2
184	Even	East Carolina	13-16	3-7	0-1	10-8	0-3	0-8	5-2	8-3
196	Even	Tulsa	14-14	2-9	0-1	12-4	0-3	0-2	6-7	8-2
233	Up 1	Temple	10-19	4-7	2-3	4-9	0-4	1-4	3-6	6-5
234	Up 1	Rice	10-19	5-7	0-3	5-9	1-5	1-5	1-5	7-4
259	Up 1	UTSA	10-19	4-11	0-0	6-8	1-2	1-4	2-9	6-4

Rest of GOI Teams

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
87	Even	Loyola Chicago	21-8	7-4	1-2	13-2	1-4	4-2	9-1	7-1
121	Even	Oklahoma St.	12-18	1-8	1-2	10-8	2-9	0-7	4-1	6-1
144	Down 2	Missouri St.	17-16	4-10	4-1	9-5	1-5	2-3	5-5	9-3
178	Up 10	Little Rock	21-11	6-6	1-1	14-4	0-0	0-0	2-3	19-8
273	Up 2	Oral Roberts	9-18	2-13	1-0	6-5	0-2	0-2	2-8	7-6
286	Down 1	Jackson St.	14-16	7-13	2-1	5-2	0-4	0-0	2-4	12-8
288	Down 1	New Mexico St.	8-18	1-13	0-2	7-3	0-3	0-3	3-9	5-3
294	Down 1	South Carolina St.	12-17	5-13	0-0	7-4	0-3	0-2	0-6	12-6
342	Even	Central Ark.	7-23	4-13	0-0	3-10	0-1	0-1	1-7	6-14
346	Even	UIW	6-23	3-14	0-1	3-8	0-2	0-1	1-5	5-15
362	Even	Mississippi Val.	1-29	0-21	0-0	1-8	0-6	0-4	0-3	1-16

 

[loca2874]

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)
South Florida (A)
Q2
Win
None
Loss
Charlotte (A)
Memphis (H)
Q3
Win
Missouri State (H)
Loyola Chicago (H)
Wichita State (H)
Rice (A)
Charlotte (H)
Temple (A)
Loss
Oklahoma St. (N)
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)
UTSA (A)

 

[I.I.]

Watching FAU - Memphis. Rim protectors have blocked about 10 layups. The importance is noted.

 

[I.I.]

Tomlin who Memphis bought after first semester is wearing out the three at 6’11” but Golden for FAU is MVP of this game.

 

[loca2874]

FAU now locked in at the 2 and Memphis sits at the 6 for the moment

 

[loca2874]

ECU and Charlotte tied at 29 with 2 min left in the first

 

[Gmoney4WW]

ECU and Charlotte tied at 29 with 2 min left in the first

 

[loca2874]

David gates a will rogers Graduate

 

[loca2874]

Charlotte take down ECU 82-72. That locks charlotte into the 3 seed and the double bye

 

[loca2874]

Tomorrow SMU and UAB play for that 4th seed. Winner gets it. If SMU wins though UAB drops to 6 seed behind Memphis as the 5 seed. If UAB wins the. SMU is the 5 seed and Memphis is the 6 seed

 

[loca2874]

Memphis gets the 6th seed regardless of what happens in the UAB v SMU game.

And guess which tie breaker finally would break the tie if UAB beats SMU & SMU ties Memphis?

The Rice game. SMU beat Rice & Memphis lost to Rice. That's the one that will break the tie.

I would so love that Rice loss to cost Memphis the 5th seed.

Memphis has the tie breaker over UAB. If UAB loses then UAB has the 6 seed

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Memphis gets the 6th seed if UAB wins.

And guess which tie breaker finally would break the tie if UAB beats SMU & SMU ties Memphis?

The Rice game. SMU beat Rice & Memphis lost to Rice. That's the one that will break the tie.

I would so love that Rice loss to cost Memphis the 5th seed.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Memphis has the tie breaker over UAB. If UAB loses then UAB has the 6 seed

I typed the first line wrong. You read it in the 3 seconds it was up, before I edited it.

 

[loca2874]

North Texas Beats Rice 71-55

Tomorrow, we have two games.

SMU at UAB to determine Seed 4,5 and 6
Temple at UTSA to determine Seed 10, 11, 13 and 14

 

[loca2874]

Great win yesterday knocking off #24 South Florida. Next game will be on Thursday against East Carolina. If we beat East Carolina we will have a rematch against South Florida on Friday where we could knock them out of the tournament, no hope for the NCAA tournament and get them on a losing streak.

Today’s games

Temple at UTSA
SMU 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 – Temple vs. Tulane – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN+
Game 2 – Rice vs. Wichita St. – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN+

Thursday, March 14
Game 3 – Tulsa 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 – UTSA 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

Standings

Team	Conference Record	Overall Record
South Florida	16-2	23-6
Florida Atlantic	14-4	24-7
Charlotte	13-5	19-11
SMU	11-6	20-10
UAB	11-6	19-11
Memphis	11-7	22-9
North Texas	10-8	17-13
East Carolina	7-11	14-17
Tulsa	7-11	16-14
UTSA	5-12	11-19
Tulane	5-13	14-16
Wichita State	5-13	13-18
Rice	5-13	11-20
Temple	4-13	11-19

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Temple	230	at	UTSA	258	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
SMU	55	at	UAB	116	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Rankings

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
34	Down 1	Fla. Atlantic	24-7	5-5	6-1	13-1	2-2	7-3	9-0	6-2
55	Even	SMU	19-10	5-6	1-1	13-3	0-4	2-4	9-1	8-1
70	Up 1	Memphis	22-9	7-6	2-1	13-2	2-3	4-3	11-2	5-1
78	Down 5	South Fla.	23-6	7-4	1-0	15-2	1-0	5-3	8-1	9-2
81	Up 5	North Texas	15-13	5-5	1-4	9-4	0-5	2-4	9-3	4-1
105	Down 3	Charlotte	18-11	5-7	1-2	12-2	0-4	2-2	7-5	9-0
116	Even	UAB	18-11	7-5	1-1	10-5	0-4	5-3	8-2	5-2
136	Up 2	Tulane	13-16	2-8	1-2	10-6	0-4	1-6	5-5	7-1
158	Up 1	Wichita St.	12-18	2-10	1-3	9-5	0-4	3-4	3-8	6-2
186	Down 2	East Carolina	13-17	3-7	0-1	10-9	0-3	0-7	5-4	8-3
187	Up 9	Tulsa	15-14	2-9	0-1	13-4	0-2	0-3	7-7	8-2
230	Up 3	Temple	10-19	4-7	2-3	4-9	0-3	1-5	3-6	6-5
239	Down 5	Rice	10-20	5-7	0-3	5-10	1-4	1-5	1-7	7-4
258	Up 1	UTSA	10-19	4-11	0-0	6-8	1-1	1-4	2-10	6-4

Rest of GOI Teams

Rank	Trend	School	Record	Road	Neutral	Home	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
84	Up 3	Loyola Chicago	22-8	7-4	1-2	14-2	1-2	4-4	9-1	8-1
120	Up 1	Oklahoma St.	12-19	1-9	1-2	10-8	2-12	1-5	3-1	6-1
144	Even	Missouri St.	17-16	4-10	4-1	9-5	1-5	2-3	5-5	9-3
182	Down 4	Little Rock	21-12	6-6	1-2	14-4	0-0	0-0	2-4	19-8
275	Down 2	Oral Roberts	9-19	2-13	1-1	6-5	0-3	0-1	2-9	7-6
285	Up 3	New Mexico St.	9-18	1-13	0-2	8-3	0-4	0-2	3-9	6-3
292	Up 2	South Carolina St.	12-17	5-13	0-0	7-4	0-3	0-2	0-6	12-6
296	Down 10	Jackson St.	15-16	7-13	2-1	6-2	0-4	0-0	2-4	13-8
342	Even	Central Ark.	7-23	4-13	0-0	3-10	0-2	0-0	1-7	6-14
346	Even	UIW	6-23	3-14	0-1	3-8	0-2	0-1	1-4	5-16
362	Even	Mississippi Val.	1-30	0-22	0-0	1-8	0-6	0-4	0-2	1-18

 

[loca2874]

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)
Memphis (H)
South Florida (A)
Q3
Win
Missouri State (H)
Loyola Chicago (H)
Wichita State (H)
Rice (A)
Charlotte (H)
Temple (A)
South Fla. (H)
Loss
Oklahoma St. (N)
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)
UTSA (A)

 

[loca2874]

Temple beat UTSA 84-82 on a last second fade away by temple

 

[loca2874]

SMU up 68-65 with just over a minute left

 

[loca2874]

UAB just took the lead by one point with 26 seconds left in the game. SMU ball

 

[loca2874]

SMU missed the free throw and rebounded by UAB. Blazers made one free throw and SMU goes down and loses the ball and commits another foul on UAB. UAB 72-70 with .8 remaining

 

[I.I.]

Memphis fans are elated that SMU lost. They think they have the tournament now.

 

[loca2874]

UAB made both both free theows and sealed it up 74-70

 

[I.I.]

Bracket?

 

[loca2874]

Defense won this game

 

[I.I.]

Best coach in basketball. Kennedy.

 

[I.I.]

Memphis wanted to be on USF side so they could coast in. Might be Tulsa side 😊

 

[loca2874]

UAB locks the 4, SMU 5 and Memphis 6

 

[loca2874]

UAB locks the 4, SMU 5 and Memphis 6

OH NO I WAS WRONG!!!

Memphis is the 5 and the SMU is the 6. Common opponents again

 

[I.I.]

OH NO I WAS WRONG!!!

Memphis is the 5 and the SMU is the 6. Common opponents again

 

[I.I.]

How about play in seeds?

 

[loca2874]

Game 1 – UTSA vs. Temple – 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT | ESPN+
Game 2 – Rice vs. Wichita St. – 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT | ESPN+

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

The AAC bracket has game 1 Rice vs Wichita and game 2 UTSA vs Temple.

 

[Weatherdemon]

 

[I.I.]

They still haven't put up the bracket pdf which us bracket aficionados appreciate. This is a cutsie worthless approach to a bracket presentation.

 

[Weatherdemon]

They still haven't put up the bracket pdf which us bracket aficionados appreciate. This is a cutsie worthless approach to a bracket presentation.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/theamerican.sidearmsports.com/documents/2023/12/28/14_team_mbb_bracket.pdf

 

[I.I.]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/theamerican.sidearmsports.com/documents/2023/12/28/14_team_mbb_bracket.pdf

Thanks but no names attached to print out nicely. They are several hours late and threw out that silly mascot thing on X.

 

[loca2874]

The AAC bracket has game 1 Rice vs Wichita and game 2 UTSA vs Temple.

My bad I had them flipped

 

[nevadanatural]

OH NO I WAS WRONG!!!

Memphis is the 5 and the SMU is the 6. Common opponents again

What!? You were wrong? Say it ain’t so!

 

[loca2874]

What!? You were wrong? Say it ain’t so!

I know hard to fathom I was wrong. Usually correcting your butt lol

 

[I.I.]

My bad I had them flipped

Hey, You have done a great job all year. It's tough working through 2 pages of tie-breakers.