Is the SMU Game a must win

[Wise2]

ditto

 

[HuskyHawk]

no...unless we lose to Houston

 

[storrs15]

Or any team from Florida

 

[Penfield]

Must wins - USF & UCF & 1st AAC tourney game
Kinda must win - Houston
Would be very nice to win - SMU anything after 1st AAC tourney game

 

[Excalibur]

We need to win the games we should win. UCF, USF, Houston. Do that and we should be in.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Gotta have 3 of 4 down the stretch to tread water. Doesn't really matter which 3 (i.e. a marquee win would offset a bad loss; avoid bad losses is as helpful as a marquee win).

 

[amory]

Must wins - USF & UCF & 1st AAC tourney game
Kinda must win - Houston
Would be very nice to win - SMU anything after 1st AAC tourney game

This is a pretty optimistic view.

USF & UCF are obviously must-wins
I think we also have to win either the Houston or SMU game
And really I'd like to make it to the championship game of the AAC tourney to basically take it out of the committee's hands

If we beat USF and UCF, lose to Houston and SMU, and just win 1 game in the tournament, there's a very good chance we'll be back in the NIT

 

[DALTX]

Yes, since I'm going to it.

 

[jibsey]

Gotta have 3 of 4 down the stretch to tread water. Doesn't really matter which 3 (i.e. a marquee win would offset a bad loss; avoid bad losses is as helpful as a marquee win).

Aside from making the NCAA, don't we need 3 of 4 and then at least 1 in the AAC to have any chance of doing anything postseason? Seriously.

 

[Chief00]

No - SMU isn't a must win. Assuming we win the 3 other games.

 

[B1GEast]

20 wins and we dance

 

[Hi-Low]

Needless to say....Yes, now SMU is a must win after this Houston debacle!

 

[swami7774]

It is now.

 

[UConnMike04]

This is a pretty optimistic view.

USF & UCF are obviously must-wins
I think we also have to win either the Houston or SMU game
And really I'd like to make it to the championship game of the AAC tourney to basically take it out of the committee's hands

If we beat USF and UCF, lose to Houston and SMU, and just win 1 game in the tournament, there's a very good chance we'll be back in the NIT

Unfortunately there's a very good chance that may happen. They just shot themselves in the foot today...

 

[UconnFanDC]

no...unless we lose to Houston

Well well well....... Now the SMU game is a need/must!

 

[Montaleno]

Houston Loss makes SMU a must win.

 

[freescooter]

This team deserves the NIT. How can you not be totally focused for this one? If it were up to me I might even turn down the NIT and just tell everyone to go away. Start over from scratch next year. Disgusted with this crew.

 

[BleedHuskyBlu]

Not really still I could still see us missing the tourny beating SMU. Need to win the conference tourny record is not pretty

 

[tykurez]

I don't know how they can/will beat SMU.

 

[3rdbass]

It is SMU or win AAC tourney. With the up and down team we have I think we have a lot better chance winning at SMU. Pretty much that game is our season.

 

[UConnMike04]

I don't know how they can/will beat SMU.

That's what bothers me the most. When the hell did we turn into a program that has no chance of beating a barely ranked team on the road? The AAC is killing us, back in the Big East days we'd go out and beat teams that would wipe the floor with this SMU team. That's the scariest thing of all for me.

 

[starpka]

Not really still I could still see us missing the tourny beating SMU. Need to win the conference tourny record is not pretty

We just moved to a 11 seed. We would be back to an 8 seed if we beat SMU, but will be back to NIT if we loose to UCF at home next saturday (unless of course we win the conference tournament)

 

[SubbaBub]

Need to beat at least .500 vs the RPI 100. Today would have helped immensely allowing us to beat SMU to guarantee a .500+ record. Now we sit at 7-8 after today's loss. The math is simple. Don't lose to a sub 100 team, beat SMU plus at least one top half team in the AAC or put yourself at the mercy of the committee.

 

[wheelerdog]

Even if they beat SMU, I think we're going to need to get to the AAC final. And if we lose Thursday, we're out unless we win the tournament.

 

[Dabutlerdidit]

Even if they beat SMU, I think we're going to need to get to the AAC final. And if we lose Thursday, we're out unless we win the tournament.

that's probably right. any other scenario is a complete coin flip...not a good position. bummed that we could very well be sitting out for the second year in a row