It looks like we’re paying the price for playing our best ball in conference.
I should reword it. We (AAC minus WSU) played our worst ball OOC and you can’t do that. It takes the whole conference down.
Additionally, it appears our highest ranked preseason team was also our most overrated. Bad luck right there.
Tulsa is legit. Cincy is legit. UH, WSU. All good enough to make the tourney. Probably Memphis too. But the early season (Tulsa) is bringing us all down with each sporadic loss.
If Tulsa wins the conference it might, ironically, be their early season that limited our spots in the 64.
The only road games Tulsa has left against the top five AAC teams is here and at Wichita. IMO they have the easiest schedule. These guys are riding high in a year the conference is probably not as good as advertised . We have to win all our home games to have a shot
Every team has 4 teams they only play once. That’s just how it landed for them this year in that Cincy n Memphis are only schd once.
Coogs not as fortunate in that all top pre-season pick teams are schd twice-- Memp, Cincy, WSU.
Plus u have SMU, Tulsa twice so difficult to say the least.
There are multiple bracket projections with 4 AAC teams in. We just need that right combination of wins/losses. Cincy and Tulsa winning this weekend was bad for getting a high AAC seed, good for getting more teams in.
We got the rug pulled under us with Armoni and no one is going to argue Grimes has come close to filling that void, save for a few games. Next season we have some serious recruits coming in. If we can go 6-3 to finish AAC we’ll make the tournament. That’s my only goal now. Just keep the tournament making streak going. We are way too inconsistent offensively to get to the sweet 16 again and it’s February that’s not changing.
we need to set some screens for out shooters instead of just trying to let them get themselves free against Tulsa. Also wish Grimes would start being more aggressive at shooting 3’s. He has good range and in pre game practice is very good at draining them.
Tulsa has Ws over UH, Memphis and Wichita St (all at home). Their final stretch is easier than UH’s (those final 6 games!!!) but their best AAC road win so far is @ UConn (? – only other options are @ Tulane and @ ECU). They got steamrolled @ Cincy. They may only lose 3 more (SMU, @ UH and @ WSU) and that should be good enough to take the AAC reg season crown or come close to it unless @ UCF, @ USF and @ Temple prove harder than they seem on paper. With this season, you never know. It will be fun to watch. Would be glad to see the Coogs get on a hot streak and navigate their difficult schedule down the stretch.
It’s actually better to play more games against good teams in conference. Winning the conference regular season title is nice, but making the tourney/seeding are more important.
I can agree with that, as long as they win the majority of gms left. Like to see them go 7-2 to close it out or worse case 6-3 . Then win a couple of Conf Tourney gms.
I agree and as balanced as the league there are no guarantees in the tourney. I like to win both the regular season!
That said I don’t think it’s good for Tulsa to win the title. This is a team that lost to UT Arlington by 14 points!
Of course our resume isn’t much better with home losses to OSU and BYU.