Currently sitting at 16-5 overall and 9-0 in AAC play, Tulsa has found themselves sitting at #34 in the latest AP poll. They have a game this Thursday (2/5/15) at Houston which assuming they can overcome the inevitable onslaught of 3's they should win and then they would head home on Saturday (2/7/15) to take on #23 SMU. If they can win both games and improve to 18-5 and 11-0 in conference then I think it would be hard for the coaches to justify leaving them off of next week's Top 25 poll. This would set up a rematch between UCONN and a ranked Tulsa team at the XL Center on 2/12/15.
I know this is largely speculation but I'm just excited about the prospect of getting to play a ranked opponent at home this season. I never thought at the beginning of the season that our best conference game would be against Tulsa but that could definitely be the case next Thursday.
On the other hand if SMU walks out of there with a win then maybe they can improve up the rankings and maybe we get a shot at a ranked SMU squad on March 1st. I know that people on this board always criticize people for looking too far ahead but it's pretty painful to look back at what has transpired over the past couple weeks so I'd rather look forward at what could be than look back at what has already happened.
I know this is largely speculation but I'm just excited about the prospect of getting to play a ranked opponent at home this season. I never thought at the beginning of the season that our best conference game would be against Tulsa but that could definitely be the case next Thursday.
On the other hand if SMU walks out of there with a win then maybe they can improve up the rankings and maybe we get a shot at a ranked SMU squad on March 1st. I know that people on this board always criticize people for looking too far ahead but it's pretty painful to look back at what has transpired over the past couple weeks so I'd rather look forward at what could be than look back at what has already happened.