Route to the NCAA tournament

[RedDog]

UConn's best (and maybe only) route to the tourny is to win the AAC tournament. UConn is getting better, but there are not enough quality opponenets left. Just focus on the AAC tournament, and with it being played in Hartford, and we'll be dancing!

 

[Cheeky]

Dude, I will be doing my part to cheer - Seriously hate having to win the AAC tourni to make the NCAAs.

I'll consider a sweet 16 to be a great finish to the year!

 

[4in16]

RPI DATE OPPONENT SCORE
67 Dec. 5 Yale L 44-45
331 Dec. 14 Coppin St W 106-85
8 Dec. 18 Duke* L 56-66
129 Dec. 22 Columbia* W 80-65
341 Dec. 28 Central Connecticut St W 81-48
59 Dec. 31 Temple L 53-57
77 Jan. 3 @ Florida W 63-59
206 Jan. 6 @ South Florida W 58-44
32 Jan. 10 Cincinnati W 62-56
43 Jan. 13 @ Tulsa L 58-66
31 Jan. 17 @ Stanford L 59-72
201 Jan. 22 UCF W 67-60
UPCOMING GAMES TIME
206 Jan. 25 South Florida 12:00 PM
32 Jan. 29 @ Cincinnati 8:00 PM
266 Feb. 1 @ Houston 3:00 PM
261 Feb. 4 East Carolina 7:00 PM
141 Feb. 7 @ Tulane 6:00 PM
43 Feb. 12 Tulsa 7:00 PM
14 Feb. 14 @ SMU 9:00 PM
89 Feb. 19 @ Memphis 9:00 PM
141 Feb. 22 Tulane 4:00 PM
261 Feb. 25 @ East Carolina 7:00 PM
14 Mar. 1 SMU 2:00 PM
89 Mar. 5 Memphis 9:00 PM
59 Mar. 7 @ Temple 12:00 AM

As of today our schedule with opponents RPI per ESPN. As long as they don't lose to one of the bottom 4 Houston, ECU, USF, UCF(don't play again) well bottom 5 rpi wise with Tulane at 141 currently they have 4 games possibly 5 top 50 games with temple close at 59. Go 3-2 in those and they are 5-7 vs top 50 4-1 they're 6-6 so who knows at this point that's not including AAC tourney opponents. They technically don't have a bad loss( 100 plus rpi )with Yale @ 67 and temple 59 being the highest ours is currently 75. It's definitely a long road but the rigorous ooc schedule will garner more respect than SMU's terrible schedule last year that got them snubbed. Uconn's current sos is 46, point is optimistic yes but it is possible to go 11-2 in the last 13 and still get in no matter what the seed which is why most bracketology sites have them just outside at the moment.

 

[pnow15]

Someone has to explain to me how traditional NCAA teams UConn, Temple, Memphis and Cincy have all of a sudden became the sisters of the poor because they are in this conference. Tulsa and SMU are good teams this year. So, just why are we this 2nd rate conference when
the nation championship banner hangs in one of its gyms. Someone is serving the Kool Aide and too many people are drinking it.
Take out Kansas, Kt, Louisville, Duke, North Carolina, UCLA, Indiana and Michigan St, and just what the hell have any of those others remaining programs done on a consistent basis that makes them better than what the teams in this conference have done.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Someone has to explain to me how traditional NCAA teams UConn, Temple, Memphis and Cincy have all of a sudden became the sisters of the poor because they are in this conference. Tulsa and SMU are good teams this year. So, just why are we this 2nd rate conference when
the nation championship banner hangs in one of its gyms. Someone is serving the Kool Aide and too many people are drinking it.
Take out Kansas, Kt, Louisville, Duke, North Carolina, UCLA, Indiana and Michigan St, and just what the hell have any of those others remaining programs done on a consistent basis that makes them better than what the teams in this conference have done.

Not a single AAC team other than UConn and Memphis has done a bit of anything in the tournament since 2001 (Temple got to the Elite Eight), and Memphis has done nothing since Cal left. Most teams have absolutely no history to speak of either.

Maybe these other teams should try getting to a sweet 16 or two and then they and the conference will start to get some benefit of the doubt.

 

[pnow15]

Not a single AAC team other thanlijuwon UConn and Memphis has done a bit of anything in the tournament since 2001 (Temple got to the Elite Eight), and Memphis has done nothing since Cal left. Most teams have absolutely no history to speak of either.

Maybe these other teams should try getting to a sweet 16 or two and then they and the conference will start to get some benefit of the doubt.

Cincy has two national championships, which two more than 90% of the p-5 schools. Houston has produce two or three of top 50 players of all time. But that's not history. And the greatest regular season game in NCAA history featured the Big E vs Kareem. But that is not history either.
Stop drinking the Kool Aide
Boston College won a lot. Clemson won a lot. Perdue? Rutgers? Penn St.? Every team on the west coast minus UCLA.

 

[whaler11]

Cincy has two national championships, which two more than 90% of the p-5 schools. Houston has produce two or three of top 50 players of all time. But that's not history. And the greatest regular season game in NCAA history featured the Big E vs Kareem. But that is not history either.
Stop drinking the Kool Aide
Boston College won a lot. Clemson won a lot. Perdue? Rutgers? Penn St.? Every team on the west coast minus UCLA.

Do you really want to claim Houston's history as relevant? Then Oregon has a national championship.

Do you ignore Arizona on purpose?

Your point seems to be that the AAC is good? Based on Oscar Robertson, Clyde Drexler and Akeem? Maybe 2% of the television audience could tell you where those three went to school.