UNH - W
UML - W
Columbia - W
BYU - W
Arizona - L
Bryant - W
Illinois - L
@Kansas - L
ETAMU - W
UF - L
Texas - W
Butler - W
@DePaul - W
@Xavier - W
Marquette - W
@PC - W
DePaul - W
@SHU - W
@Georgetown - L
Nova - W
PC - W
@Creighton - L
Xavier - W
@SJU - L
@Butler - W
Georgetown - W
Creighton - L
@Nova - L
SJU - W
SHU - W
@Marquette - W
OOC: 7-4
Conf: 15-5 (3rd place outright)
Overall: 23-10
BET Semifinal Loss -Creighton
5 seed east Sweet 16 Loss to 1 seed Florida (Close)
Final Record: 25-11
Commentary Watched the BC game wasn't impressed in terms of being elite this season, no Reed and Demary BUT i'm worried about the defense and being undersized at times
To be elite Demary is going to have to be a lockdown defender, the bigs will need to stay out of foul trouble, Hurley will have to trust a 3rd big to insure against foul trouble and any issues with Karaban. Karaban will have to be more accurate from 3.
Out of conference I have 4 losses, despite the favorable locations. The key games of the entire season will be Arizona/Illinois. Illinois has the extreme revenge factor from the 30-0 run. If we win one or both those games I would say the Big east goes to 16-4, we make a BE final and we get to an elite 8
The X factor on the players end is will Jaylin Stewart become the star he is capable of being, I believe he has limitless potential, if he is a double figure average scorer by January the sky is the limit (He would have to be playing admirable Defense to get on the floor for that long.
And yes I see creighton being a major thorn this season, and with all the unknowns I had to add an odd big east road loss and a Big east home loss. The seed drop to 5 is a combination of projected 0-1 NCAA level road wins (MQ) and the out of conference wins being home and neutral and I'm not sold on Texas (and its home) . Beat Arizona and Illinois get a 3 seed even with everything else fixed.
