Big 12 schedule breakdowns

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*My thoughts on a good/bad schedule. You want to play the “bad” teams late in the season when they’ve given up & are tired/fatigued

*The bad teams on paper are: Ok State, West Virginia, Utah, Arizona State, Colorado…in a 16 team league :man_shrugging:

*Back to back road games are concerning.

*The Saturday-Monday quick turnarounds you have to factor in

Kansas

Prediction: 14-6

Losses at Cincy, at ISU, at Baylor, at Kansas St, at BYU, at Houston

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Houston

Predictions: 14-6

Losses at Kansas State, at Kansas, at Arizona, at Texas Tech, at Baylor (1 more rd game: at Colorado due to altitude or maybe at West Virginia)

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Iowa State

Predictions: 14-6

Losses at Colorado, at Texas Tech, at Arizona, at Kansas, at Houston, at *Kansas St

But i think they have potential for more with playing at Colorado, at WVU, at ASU early in the season

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Baylor

Prediction: 13-7

Losses: at ISU, at Arizona, at BYU, at Texas Tech,at Houston, at Cincinnati, at TCU

But again could be more losses if they get tripped up early at Arizona St, at Utah

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Don’t like the games on one day rest, especially when traveling. Having to travel and play Baylor on their Sr night after one day rest is not good scheduling

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Agree with point but I see several days on calendar before at Baylor game… do you mean game we host them?

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Yes home game coming from Boulder.

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friend of the board @justinhub2003 their schedule is interesting… its front and backloaded…with okay middle

ohio state then, a 10 game streak of projected bad to not very good teams… in the non con
then a 4 game stretch of @kstate, arizona, @baylor and kansas

keeping the team from crumbling morally in that stretch likely defines them… losing all 4 but still being competitive in all 4 would be a win… winning 1 or 2 and you can probably start looking at cincy like a tournament team… getting blown out in most is where it gets tricky as it morally starts to affect the team in their believe in to win… @colorado, home at asu and ttech should be wins, but itll be hard if you are coming off of 3 blowut losses

another hard stretch to end the season, but in all likelihood cincy season would have been decided by then

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It took me longer than it should have to figure out what the numbers were

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Uc didn’t get blown out last season with less talent. So I don’t fear blow outs.
Loss to Texas by 1
Baylor by 3
Oklahoma by 4
Kansas by 5
Houston by 5
Etc

Uc was blown out just one time last season in big 12 play in a fluke bad game against TCU.

Had they found their closer earlier, they beat Texas, Oklahoma and Baylor.

For UC in the big 12 I’ll go:
L at K state
W vs Zona
L at Baylor
w vs Kansas
W @ Colorado
W vs Arizona State
W vs Texas Tech
L @ BYU
W @ Utah
W vs West Virginia
W @ UCF
W vs BYU
W vs Utah
L @ Iowa State
W @ West Virginia
W vs Baylor
W vs TCU
W vs k State
L @ Houston
L @ Ok st

14-6 for the Cats.

That’s protecting home court. Not really upsetting anyone on the road minus maybe UCF. It sets up pretty well for a good finish.

Not having to go to zona, TCU, Kansas, Texas tech helps a ton

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@justinhub2003

As an outside perspective, yall have a brutal start to conference play.

At K State, Arizona, at Baylor, Kansas, at Colorado

They gotta be careful not to be 2-3 or 1-4.

I think you could start 3-2 in first (5). But got show that maturity to win your home games/close games this yr

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Will be interesting to see how new players fold into lineup. Transfer portal makes everyone worry about defensive rotations.

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UH ending w huge games something to look forward 2.
Last 2 could be Top 5 watched of the season.

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that is an incredible optimistic prediction… you are top 3 in the league and like a top 5 seed with those results…

undefeated at home is bold… for a projected middle big 12 team

and the top of the league is stronger this year, which related to my point, that you are playing alot of the top back to back to back (projected 1,3and 4th, all likely preseason top 10) oklahoma, texas and baylor last year arent going to be on those level… even last years kansas , my point a bad game can turn to multiple and demoralize a team…

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Man… I might go to the WVU game if I haven’t moved to Seattle yet.

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UC is right behind Houston in returning minutes in the conference. I expect a huge jump from jizzle and Dan Skillings. And I think Simas shoots more consistent this year.

Still think the starting lineup is:
Jizzle
Skillings
Simas
Mitchell
Aziz

Not a ton of shooting in that lineup But jizzle, Skillings and Mitchell will put pressure on the rim to free up Skillings.

The backup lineup is probably good enough to to finish in top 4 of the current AAC:

Dayday
Hickman
CJ Frederick
Tyler Betsy
Arrington Page

With Rayvon Griffith and Josh Reed being situational guys.

Unfortunately 4 Star freshman and local Cincinnati PF Tyler McKinley will not play this year after getting knee surgery.

Rayvon could really surprise people I think

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Wonder if Jizzle is going to eat Uzans lunch, he gave Shead all he wanted I remember

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I’m high on Cincy but this is a Wes Miller prove it year on the court. If he can get over the hump this year I think you guys are fully back.

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Shead handled Jizzle just fine from what I recall. Pretty much shut him down here.

Cinci has the talent to be pretty good and challenge for an at large spot but there second team isn’t a top 4 team in the AAC. That’s taking it way too far

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I agree on this.

It’s the year of no excuses.

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The new AAC sucks. They are predicted to have just 1 top 75 team and just 3 top 100 teams.

The new version of the AAC is real bad. UC’s 2nd starting 5 would include a top 60 center, top 50 SF/PF, a starting PG from the Big 12, an All conference SG from the MVC, and a shooter, who at his best was lights out at Iowa.

The new AAC is brutally bad. Memphis needs to take whatever train is offered out of there

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Kansas could run away w/ this thing.

Athletic + Experienced + Bill Self (best HCs in the country)

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Still no announcement for when our team media day is? And I’m assuming no red v white scrimmage this year or it would have been announced by now

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