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GlennMacGrady
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 Posted: 06/13/14 8:04 am ::: Who will come in second in the AAC next season? |
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This could be a competitive race.
Super-duper extra credit for predicting the non-UConn player All-Conference team. |
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FollowtheCardinalRule
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| Posted: 06/13/14 8:35 am ::: |
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G/F Jada Payne, East Carolina
G Ariel Hearn, Memphis
G Courtney Williams, USF
F Jeanise Randolph, Cincinnatti
F Alisia Jenkins, USF
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G Feyonda Fitzgerald, Temple
G Jamie Kaplan, Tulane
G Ashley Clark, Tulsa
G/F Abria Trice, East Carolina
G Danielle Blagg, Tulane
As for the American standings?
UConn
University of South Florida
East Carolina University
Tulane University
Southern Methodist
Memphis University
Temple University
Cincinnati
Tulsa
University of Central Florida
Houston (Needs a miracle to not finish last.)
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purduefanatic
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| Posted: 06/13/14 8:41 am ::: |
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| Man, what will be UConn's average margin of victory in conference games? I don't see a single team that could keep it within 25 points at best.
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FollowtheCardinalRule
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| Posted: 06/13/14 8:57 am ::: |
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| purduefanatic wrote: |
| Man, what will be UConn's average margin of victory in conference games? I don't see a single team that could keep it within 25 points at best. |
UConn should take four walk ons and have Breanna Stewart prove how good she is by playing the walkons alongside Stewie and see what happens.
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PUmatty
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| Posted: 06/13/14 9:35 am ::: |
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| A more appropriate question might if that second place team will make the NCCAs.
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ArtBest23
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| Posted: 06/13/14 9:59 am ::: |
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| PUmatty wrote: |
| A more appropriate question might if that second place team will make the NCCAs. |
Predicting a "no" answer to that is a lot easier than predicting who will be #2.
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Stephen Shirley
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| Posted: 06/13/14 10:00 am ::: |
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| PUmatty wrote: |
| A more appropriate question might if that second place team will make the NCCAs. |
This is the definition of a mid-major conference in every aspect except for the presence of UConn.
One bid league
One team ranked
Average conference RPI of 8-10
Blech!
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GlennMacGrady
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| Posted: 06/13/14 10:22 am ::: |
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UConn's oldest and hence most traditional American rival is Cincinnati, first played in conference on January 12, 2006. Next oldest is South Florida, first played in conference on January 24, 2006.
Will these ancient rivalries pack the house? |
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| Posted: 06/13/14 1:10 pm ::: |
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| Stephen Shirley wrote: |
| PUmatty wrote: |
| A more appropriate question might if that second place team will make the NCCAs. |
This is the definition of a mid-major conference in every aspect except for the presence of UConn.
One bid league
One team ranked
Average conference RPI of 8-10
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Not pretty.
I was going to say that the conference RPI estimate was too high, but I went back and looked at the Colonial back in the days when ODU was good, and maybe 8-10 is right. You have to figure that the big 5 will be ahead of the AAC, plus probably the A-10, but after that it gets harder to find conferences you would expect to be ahead - possibly the BEast, possibly the CAA, but then it looks like slim pickings.
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PRballer
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| Posted: 06/14/14 12:45 pm ::: |
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| GlennMacGrady wrote: |
UConn's oldest and hence most traditional American rival is Cincinnati, first played in conference on January 12, 2006. Next oldest is South Florida, first played in conference on January 24, 2006.
Will these ancient rivalries pack the house? |
Nope and that's the problem - the women's games will be so boring. Man I miss the old Big East.
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ridor
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| Posted: 06/14/14 2:15 pm ::: |
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| This is exciting for UConn Huskies, somehow Geno managed to convince HS All-Americans that their OOC and conference games are awesome. Does anyone else remember what Louisiana Tech did - they had a strong non-conference schedule to balance with their weak conference in American South Conference & WAC? It did not work out that well after Leon Barmore retired. That is what I suspect will happen to UConn.
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Homyonkel
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| Posted: 06/14/14 9:22 pm ::: |
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| ridor wrote: |
| This is exciting for UConn Huskies, somehow Geno managed to convince HS All-Americans that their OOC and conference games are awesome. Does anyone else remember what Louisiana Tech did - they had a strong non-conference schedule to balance with their weak conference in American South Conference & WAC? It did not work out that well after Leon Barmore retired. That is what I suspect will happen to UConn. |
Perhaps the operative words are "after Leon Barmore retired". I'm surprised you are making such a strong case for UCONN.
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Martini Man
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| Posted: 06/16/14 4:25 am ::: |
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| ridor wrote: |
| This is exciting for UConn Huskies, somehow Geno managed to convince HS All-Americans that their OOC and conference games are awesome. Does anyone else remember what Louisiana Tech did - they had a strong non-conference schedule to balance with their weak conference in American South Conference & WAC? It did not work out that well after Leon Barmore retired. That is what I suspect will happen to UConn. |
You didn't even know who Barmore was until it was mentioned in another thread LOL. Once you read that in the other thread, you'll use that same name over and over again just like you do now about the LA Tech reference in every post referencing the Huskies.
Who cares about their strength of schedule it's what, 10 games or whatever? The rest of the season will be packed with all of the top teams in the country. Geno will still be playing more ranked opponents every year than everyone else. Plus, it's not exactly like their former Big East was at all competitive for UConn aside from Notre Dame. The Uconn machine will be chugging along until Geno retires or dies. Until then, shut up. Read you comic books under your sheets with your flash light. You know more about Captain America than you do about anything basketball related.
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ridor
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| Posted: 06/16/14 5:28 am ::: |
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| Trying to attack my hobbies on this board, Martini Man? Pathetic. I knew Leon Barmore when I was 14 years old. Go away, troll. You're not being productive, to say the least.
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