UTEP game
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Good win against a bad team. Did what they needed to do. Wish we would have taken care of business Thursday and went into pod play winning 4 in a row. Let’s finish strong and see if we can make some noise in the tournament.
This pod nonsense is confusing, and I see no point in it if it doesn't help get a second C-USA team to the tournament.
It was a 2 year experiment. Most likely gone after this year. I do give the league kudos for a least trying something different
I think (just like last season), Pod 2 gives us the best chance to build some momentum going into the tournament. I don't think our podmates are still tinkering with their rotations/player combos this late, whereas we are definitely still a work in progress.
We’ve had to tinker with a combination (through the year) of PG becoming eligible second semester, players injured just as they were coming on, players going beyond ice cold for weeks at a time, players heating up right when you’re about to declare them a lost cause.
I know they might not be tinkering as much, and everyone has injuries to deal with, but I’m not sure anyone has had such wild inconsistencies among personnel.
I like our team today. I liked our team Thursday. In spite of everything. I felt we worked the ball well and took good shots, just couldn’t make anything Thursday in the second half. It was hard to watch. But the way we were attempting to play puts us at our best.
UTEP isn’t good but there’s no such thing as a win that isn’t good that far from home. We’ve seen that all before.
And when teams don’t win OOC games and build a strong overall record it is worthless. until the league as a whole starts to focus on winning as many games as possible against quality competitions we are in no better shape than the OVC or Southern Conference.
The Southern may get more than 1 team in the dance. They are strong this year. ETSU, Furman and UNCG all less than 6 total losses
they may and the key is they win games and focus on winning more than their tournament. You said it best...they all have less than 6 losses. Half of our CO Terence would do cart wheels if they could pull that off but they don’t and won’t. No focus there.
The OVC did it last year. Time to throw away the pods and do what other teams do and that is win.
SBNation website has Furman and ETSU in the field, I have seen other bracketologist have both of them as well
ETSU is currently ranked 42 in the NET rankings. That puts them in the "at-large" conversation. UNCG (55) and Furman (72) have a lot of work to do for the SoCon to get more than one bid if ETSU is the champion.
In a power index ranking the top 200 D1 teams earlier this week in the Charleston Gazette, all three of these SO CON teams were rated higher than ANY CUSA team! ETSU has already defeated LSU IN Baton Rouge this season. At least some top MID Major Coaches put value on the OOC games, apparently!!
people thought that about the OVC last year and they got two teams. It is amazing what happen when you teams go out and compete in OOC games and win.
ETSU is currently ranked 42 in the NET rankings. That puts them in the "at-large" conversation. UNCG (55) and Furman (72) have a lot of work to do for the SoCon to get more than one bid if ETSU is the champion.
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SoCon is a legit mid-major. Any of the top 6 teams could win the conference. Wofford has some bad losses, but has beaten the top teams of the conference too...and beat an at the time ranked UNC before they spiraled downhill quickly.
The ONLY way they get two teams is if ETSU does not win the conference tourney. The problem is they knock each other out. The problem for a team like Furman is yes they scheduled games like Alabama and Auburn, but they didn't win them. And they have losses to teams like Wofford and South Florida. Those are BAD losses, especially for a team who's best win is ETSU, which whom they split with and is in their conference. That is not a tournament resume. Lets say ETSU doesn't win the conference tourney- thats a BAD loss, whoever they lose to, to end the season. So that would hurt them on the bubble as well. The only way they get two teams is in Furman beats ETSU in the conference finals and a SECOND loss to Furman isn't considered purtid enough to knock ETSU out of the dance.
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