Mumphish will get in because of the circus act that is coach Penny Hardaway. M’eh. 
We aren’t a mid Major! That term applies to traditional one bid conferences. People need to stop misusing that term. So annoying.
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If we are ranked #21, how can we be less that a 5-6 seed logically?
top 4 - 1 seeds
next 4 - 2 seeds
next 4 - 3 seeds
next 4 - 4 seed
next 4 - 5 seeds
next 4 - 6 seeds (#21 falls in here)
Because it remains a “subjective” process
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What makes those projections really egregious is all the computers have us even higher than that. Ken Pom we’re #11 and Sagarin we’re #12.
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The AP Poll is just College basketball writers across the Country. They are pretty much Zero part of Committee or play a very very sm role when Comm looks at all the metrics to get SEEDING done as accurate as possible.
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First thing I did was look at the source on where write up came from – “The Score”. All the major publications don’t ever include AAC as part of any MID-MAJOR Conf. I’ll say it again if you Google mid-major confs you will never see AAC part of the list. There’s about 23-24 Confs under MM title but not AAC, BGEAST. Just part of what Coog Nation has to deal with ongoing basis.
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Lunardi has UH vs Indiana in the first round…oh the story lines for that one.
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I beat that drum all the time. But ESPN has its announcers pushing it all the time as well. They fear that it will catch on and cost them money.
I never hear any ESPN announcers call AAC mid-major Conf on Basketball side. On the Football side yes P5 vs Grp5 but I watch lot BBall on ESPN and can’t signal out any announcer or analyst who calls AAC a Mid-Major Conf. #NotThere
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Next year, the AAC is going to be one of the saltiest basketball leagues. With the exception of Cincinnati, I think all of the top tier teams are extremely young. Adding experience and maturity, we could very well be a five bid league next year.
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Cincinnati should be good to, they have 2 really good retuning players (Williams Vogt) and have the second best recruiting class, outside of us… with 2 ships to give… likely the best recruiting class when it’s all said and done
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Even losing UConn shouldn’t hurt the league. UConn hasn’t been good in a long time since Kevin Ollie left.
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Houston - Top 10 team
Wichita State - Top 20 team (return everyone except Echinique, bringing in a pretty solid forward)
Memphis - Top 20 team (return everyone except for Precious, I’d imagine they’ll bring in at least 1 touted recruit)
SMU - Top 25 (return everyone, get Darius McNeill eligible)
Cincy - Top 35 (lose Scott & the Cumberlands, return everyone else; also bringing in some good players)
Tulsa - Top 50 (lose Igbanu and Lawson, have two pretty good transfers that become eligible next season)
USF - Top 50 (lose Rideau, bring in Caleb Murphy and get Alexis Yetna back; I may have the Bulls too low here)
UCF - Top 75 - they have some very good young players. Lose Ingram, Milon, and Bertz)
ECU - Top 125 (bring everyone back)
Tulane - Top 150 (lose KJ, I think they’ll be pretty equal to this year’s team)
Temple - Top 150 (lose Rose, Alani Moore, and Damion Moore; I expect Temple to finish dead last in the AAC next season)
That’s how I see the conference shaking out next year. With 7 teams in the top 50. 8 in the top 75. With the hope that VCU or Dayton are added this summer.
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That would be a pretty awesome scenario. Not only because it means more money for the conference, but also If UH won the league with that salty of a schedule our NCAA seeds would be pretty dang high.
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Just got back from Vegas. Put some money down on our Coogs. 50 to 1 right now. We definitely have a shot. Defense travels, as they say. We’re gonna be a tough out.
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Ranked teams have been left out before. AP ranking and tournament seeding don’t have that strong of a correlation.
Only thing Vogt had going for him is 7’…
He had no skills.
And don’t give me…you cannot teach height !! He is just not athletic.
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Incorrect on Vogt. Not a great athlete but he is skilled and he does make a difference protecting the paint.
vogt is good…teams have started to sell out on him, so he hasnt been amazing the last 5 games …but the first 20 games on the season he was top 10 nationally in fg%, and considered automatic if he got the ball in the post
https://twitter.com/MoEgger1530/status/1215086429577142273
vogt isnt dominant, he wont take on a double team, or beat elite defensive bigs…but he is definitely a weapon, if you get him the ball 1 on 1 in the post against the average big its automatic points …
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