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Message: [QUOTE="BFieldHusky, post: 1991993, member: 2154"] To me I look at the schedule is 3 categories: [B]1. Beating the bottom teams in the league: [/B] Of UConn's 13 games remaining in conference play, 5 are against the true bottom of the league. 2 games each with USF, and East Carolina, and a home game against Tulane. If we want ANY CHANCE of finishing in Top 5 of the league, we have to win all of these games. [B]2. Cincinnati and SMU:[/B] Clearly appear to be the best two teams in the league. I do think SMU is vulnerable in that they play less guys than we do, and have zero depth in the front court. I'm not expecting UConn to beat these teams on the road, but can we hold serve against them at home? If we can that is huge. I like that both teams come to Hartford/Storrs late in the year. [B]3. The middle of the league: [/B] If you believe that Cincy and SMU are the best team twos in the league, than you have 6 teams battling for the 3-5 seed in the conference tournament. UCF, Houston, Memphis, Tulsa, Temple and UConn. Temple is 1-5 so they may already be on the outside looking in. I worry that the Tulsa loss is really going to come back and bite us since they have the tiebreaker on us all year as we only played them once. Every else UConn has already played. The return games @UCF, @Houston, @Temple, and home to Memphis will ultimately determine if we can get to 12 wins or so and get that first round bye. Maybe even 11 can get them the 5 seed. To get 12 wins: 5 wins again the bottom of the league gets them to 7 wins. If they could split with SMU and Cincy that gets them to 9 wins. They would then need to go 3-1 against UCF, Houston, Temple and Memphis, with 3 of those being on the road. [/QUOTE]

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