I’m finally on the bandwagon, I think it’s realistically possible we’re national title contenders. If we’re one win from being ranked number 1 and leading the best conference in college basketball this late in the season, it’d be foolhardy to continue to beat the drum that we’re great but not great enough, especially when everyone else has been stumbling both ahead of us and behind us. This team’s defense is fierce and when our shooters are on, we’re tough to beat. One of our weak links (Francis) has become a solid contributor and aside from Dunn being a ghost for 90% of the time, all the players that consistently play contributes.
That said, I just don’t see it, I think we have too many flaws and inconsistencies. If I fill out a bracket and bet on it, I can’t put us as the national champ, no matter how much I want it to happen because we have too many flaws, such as scoring droughts/not enough offense.
But we’ll get favorable draws in the Tournament for the most part because of our seed and may even be favored to win it all.
Do I think it will happen? Definitely not. But can we win it all realistically? Of course we can, unless we basically, if not totally, lose out until the Tournament (unrealistic but possible) to get to the Final Four. Even then, we’d still be no lower than a 4-seed, so we’d just have to pull an upset or two.
[This post has been edited. The last sentence was originally the last sentence to the second to last paragraph, which caused some confusion since I meant to put it at the very end of the post in the last paragraph. It has since been changed to that for that exact reason.]
All the data available on ESPN has shown we have been title contenders all year. We’ve had the highest chance of winning the championship the entire year (per ESPN stats), our BPI has been the highest the entire season (or at least the majority of it), early on our Net Rankings were #1 and have stayed there. We won our first 14 games in a row. When conference play started, we were projected to go 15-3 (although now they are projecting we most likely go 14-4).
You can argue our team has flaws, but all the data has pointed to us being contenders all year.
edit: also, we probably need both a win at Baylor and for UConn to lose to Villanova for us to be ranked #1 next week.
Agree with fiveten on being rated #1 next week. Media in love with UCONN. Will take more than loss to Creighton and may take more than loss to Creighton and a UH win at Baylor.
If we beat Baylor AT Baylor, it doesn’t matter what UCONN does later this week. UH would be #1. We would have beaten #6 and #11 in one week and UCONN would have gotten blasted by 20. If it had been close they wouldn’t’ drop. It wasn’t.
Beating Baylor in Waco is, of course, easier talked about than actually done.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I will sleep better tonight knowing that Tyler Perry kinda thinks we have a shot….but then again really doesn’t.
And people always point out our flaws (which sure we have some) while just completely glossing over the fact that every other team has them too, and in 99% of cases much bigger flaws than UH has.
, that is weaving all over the place, but that there was something.
