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Likeliest OOC Loss?

Which OOC game are the dogs likeliest to lose (If the pragmatists among us are to be believed)?

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There is a mojo-sustaining way to ask the same thing - Which of our OOC games is likely to be the toughest? Gets you the answers you're looking for without the assault on mojo. I would cast a vote on that, I won't vote on the question you asked.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
Florida brought in talent and retained a lot. Kansas’ team is pretty dang underwhelming outside of Peterson.
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Budinga will be very good at the 5 too. Other than that, they have a weird roster.

Florida is hard to script out given they've committed to playing 3 bigs with a brand new back court. It's really hard to know how good Xavian Lee will be back there with Fland - feels like a science experiment until we see how it works. While they are being ranked higher than us, I do like our roster/team better.

BYU could be really tough - it's just so early and cross country for them, that you have to give us the edge. I like the possibility that we go 5-1 against that OOC slate.
 
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SoCalCanine said:
There is a mojo-sustaining way to ask the same thing - Which of our OOC games is likely to be the toughest? Gets you the answers you're looking for without the assault on mojo. I would cast a vote on that, I won't vote on the question you asked.
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I totally respect that. I believe we’ll go 6-0 in these games. I do not think we will lose at Kansas. Those beliefs are not at odds with me thinking @ Kansas is the likeliest to be a loss. Probably should have just said “least unlikely” instead.

However, I also said, “if the pragmatists among us are to be believed,” even though I do not believe them.
 
Florida will be our toughest test but the thought of losing is not in my brain. We play 31 regular season games, 3 Big East conference tournament games and 6 NCAA tournament games. 40-0
 
thekollieman said:
I totally respect that. I believe we’ll go 6-0 in these games. I do not think we will lose at Kansas. Those beliefs are not at odds with me thinking @ Kansas is the likeliest to be a loss. Probably should have just said “least unlikely” instead.

However, I also said, “if the pragmatists among us are to be believed,” even though I do not believe them.
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I'm not sure pragmatism and mojo belong in the same sentence, but I'm no mojo expert.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
This is a weird take. Florida is going to be very good. Likely not as good as last year but probably top 5 to start the season.
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I think they're overrated coming off the championship which is not uncommon. I didn't even think they were that great last season, it took some screw ups by other teams in the tournament and Clayton being Bazz like. They lost all their guards and I don't think Condon and Chinyelu are all that great, I do like Haugh though. They're going to need Fland and Lee to be awesome for them to be anything close to last year.

I expect Kansas to be the toughest game even though several of the other OOC teams we play should be better than them.
 
With obvious extreme bias, I think we’re better than all these teams, so picking where we slip up is tricky.

BYU since it’s the first tough game away from home. Not sure who’s guarding Dynantsa either?But most teams will be asking themselves that.

Florida will be a tough matchup with their insane size, they also have good coaching and at least one elite guard. Think people are underrating them since they lost Clayton, Fland is going to be awesome.

Kansas shouldn’t be counted out, but I like our odds of slowing down a freshman, and Reed matches up well with Flory. Their roster on paper is pretty weak by Self’s standards. Will be interesting to see if Elmarko Jackson bounces back, he’ll have an opportunity on this team.

Arizona is deep and talented. Good coaching staff like Florida. Koa Peat is gonna be another tough cover with his physical style of attacking the rim. I’m excited to see how the Bradley/Buries backcourt develops, think they might compliment each other well.

Don’t know much about Illinois because of all the internationals they brought in, but I’m not gonna disrespect Underwood, he always figures out a tough team.
 
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Loss? What are you giving up on the possibility of running the table already? In AUGUST? I thought we were all supposed to be fans here.
 
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Picked Arizona. Just a gut feeling really. Coming off the BYU game. Heading home, could be a trap game.
 
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RuffRuff said:
While they are being ranked higher than us, I do like our roster/team better.
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FWIW the one good thing Gary Parrish did is ranked Florida behind UConn. 😀 ESPN has Florida at #2 and UConn at #4.


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HuskyHawk said:
Becasue we needed a true road game. It's a home and home.
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So will they be coming to see us twice over the upcoming years? Or was one just a road game and the other a home and home series?
 
HooperScooper said:
FWIW the one good thing Gary Parrish did is ranked Florida behind UConn. 😀 ESPN has Florida at #2 and UConn at #4.


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If I’m doing my early season rankings, I’m giving Purdue the nod given they have their holy trinity all back for their senior year and with the addition of the Israeli. I think they are very beatable but will honor the retention after getting to the S16 in a close loss to Houston.

Maybe I give Sampson the very slight edge over us after reaching the finals. It’s debatable. Then we should be squarely at 3 at lowest. Some of these other teams are all way too hard to project from a chemistry end (StJ, BYU, UM, UF) given they have entirely new units in core areas.
 
Viet Vet said:
Me too. They got my vote.
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But they did closet in the series to beating Kansas and lost by only 4 points on the road. We have a lethal (and hungry) group this year so maybe it'll be easier than we think.

Florida is massive they have 5 guys 7 feet tall, one who is 7'9". Their backcourt will be stellar, but I think we are better and slightly deeper than they are in the backcourt.
 
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