Very Bad Basketball Teams - any hope?

[KnightBridgeAZ]

A little amusement and reminder that there are teams that are as unfortunate as UConn is fortunate.

With only a relatively few games left in the season, there are a few teams in the major conferences that have yet to win a conference game. And one team from a lesser conference that has yet to win a game what-so-ever. Who are most likely to lose out?

- Pittsburgh 8-15, 0-10 Big East
- Seton Hall 7-17, 0-10 Big East
- Indiana 5-19, 0-11 Big Ten
- Alabama 10-14, 0-10 SEC
- Boston College 5-18, 0-10 ACC
- Missouri 10-11, 0-10 Big 12
- Arkansas Pine Bluff 0-21, 0-10 SWAC
- Houston Baptist 1-19 (the victory was not Division I)
and honorable mention
- Rhode Island 1-22, 0-8 Atlantic 10 (sadly, their victory was Providence).

 

[triaddukefan]

Boston College has a chance next week ...... @ VPI, and a home game vs Clemson. Those are the only winnable games left on their schedule. Not sure if any ACC team has ever gone winless in the regular season, but this may be the year.

 

[Wbbfan1]

To think Boston College used to have a good Women's BB program until Cathy Inglese resigned and/or was forced out. BC is a good school located in a great city and with the right coach they should not have trouble recruiting good players. They should be able to keep most of the talent in Mass and that would at least give them a respectable program with a winning record on a yearly basis.

 

[HuskyNan]

To think Boston College used to have a good Women's BB program until Cathy Inglese resigned and/or was forced out. BC is a good school located in a great city and with the right coach they should not have trouble recruiting good players. They should be able to keep most of the talent in Mass and that would at least give them a respectable program with a winning record on a yearly basis.

Der Flipper forced CI out; ditto with the football coach. He's also the guy that blackballed UConn from getting voted into the ACC last fall because, get this, UConn might steal all of BC's football recruits. And that's important because if BC hadn't shut out UConn to their existing recruits, it might not have gotten that sparkling 4-8 record last year.

BTW, the BC men's basketball team is currently 7-16, 2-7 in the ACC. Yessiree Bob, Flipper's leading BC to the Promised Land, all right.

 

[ThisJustIn]

You missed a couple:
On the 0-for side, we have:

A-10: Rhode Island: 1-22 (0-8)​

ACC: Boston College: 5-18 (0-10)​

Big 12: Missouri: 10-10 (0-9)​

Big East: Pittsburgh: 8-15 (0-10) and Seton Hall: 7-17 (0-10)​

Big Sky: Weber State: 2-21 (0-10)​

Big 10: Indiana: 5-19 (0-11)​

Conference USA: East Carolina: 6-15 (0-8)​

Great West: Houston Baptist: 1-19 (0-4)​

Ivy League: Columbia: 2-17 (0-5)​

Mountain West: Air Force: 5-18 (0-8)​

Patriot League: Bucknell: 2-21 (0-8)​

SEC: Alabama: 10-13 (0-9)​

SWAC: Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 0-21 (0-10)​

Sun Belt (W): Louisiana-Lafayette: 5-18 (0-11)​

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There are 17 fer-0′s, so to speak, in their conferences.​

 

[meyers7]

Who are most likely to lose out?

- Pittsburgh 8-15, 0-10 Big East
- Seton Hall 7-17, 0-10 Big East

Well, Pitt and the Hall play on the 25th.....so one of them won't.

 

[ThisJustIn]

Yessiree Bob, Flipper's leading BC to the Promised Land, all right.

That would be the "I never promised you a Rose Garden (visit) land."

 

[VAMike23]

Indiana surprises me a little. How strong is the culture for girls basketball in the Hoosier state? Obviously it's beyond huge for the boys, but I would have thought a little more of that would rub off on the prep girls' scene, and that this would lead the IU women to be at least decent, with some homegrown talent supporting a modicum of performance. Not necessarily anything over .500 in the conference, but just "OK". The Big10 isn't that strong from top to bottom.

 

[bruinbball]

Indiana has been terrible FOREVER! The last decent team they had was in '02 when they made a good run through the Big Ten tourney and solidified their spot in the NCAA tourney.

The school does not have a good history of recruiting in-state talent. In fact, it's deplorable. The support within the university isn't much better.

 

[Sonny44]

A little amusement and reminder that there are teams that are as unfortunate as UConn is fortunate.

With only a relatively few games left in the season, there are a few teams in the major conferences that have yet to win a conference game. And one team from a lesser conference that has yet to win a game what-so-ever. Who are most likely to lose out?

- Pittsburgh 8-15, 0-10 Big East
- Seton Hall 7-17, 0-10 Big East
- Indiana 5-19, 0-11 Big Ten
- Alabama 10-14, 0-10 SEC
- Boston College 5-18, 0-10 ACC
- Missouri 10-11, 0-10 Big 12
- Arkansas Pine Bluff 0-21, 0-10 SWAC
- Houston Baptist 1-19 (the victory was not Division I)
and honorable mention
- Rhode Island 1-22, 0-8 Atlantic 10 (sadly, their victory was Providence).

How do you figure they are "unfortunate"?
You think the top four got there by luck?

 

[UcMiami]

Indiana has been terrible FOREVER! The last decent team they had was in '02 when they made a good run through the Big Ten tourney and solidified their spot in the NCAA tourney.

The school does not have a good history of recruiting in-state talent. In fact, it's deplorable. The support within the university isn't much better.

Interesting to look at BCS conferences - I think the ACC, Big 12 and Big East have all done a good job as conferences in having their member institutions promote their WCBB teams - for the ACC and Big East, this could be seen as an extension of their general basketball focus, for the Big 12 it is a little more surprising because their MCBB isn't as strong. SEC has of course always had TN and a few other teams that take the women's game seriously year in and year out. For the Pac it is Stanford and a rotating cast of challengers and for B1G there seems to be one or two teams that have success each year, but they sort of rotate from one school to another over time. I don't know if it is institutional focus or quality of coaching or what? All the conference have serious bottom dwellers of course - but I am thinking about that middle and top range more than those obviously disfunctional programs.

 

[rington]

To think Boston College used to have a good Women's BB program until Cathy Inglese resigned and/or was forced out. BC is a good school located in a great city and with the right coach they should not have trouble recruiting good players. They should be able to keep most of the talent in Mass and that would at least give them a respectable program with a winning record on a yearly basis.

Cathy is at Rhode Island now.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

How do you figure they are "unfortunate"?
You think the top four got there by luck?

Actually, there is a piece of that - when UConn hired Geno, who had never been a coach, who knew? As the UConn team got better - it was in the perfect position to develop a rabid fanbase - who'd have thought?

At least some of the "sad sack" schools thought they hired a good coach and were positioned to do well - in some cases, unfortunate decisions were made.

Then again, maybe I just used a wrong word

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

You missed a couple:

There are 17 fer-0′s, so to speak, in their conferences.​

I was only going for the major conferences in conference zippos - mostly because I didn't expect anyone would know or care about the others.

Couldn't resist including AK Pine Bluff, not only for total futility, but check out their OOC schedule. Ditto, Houston Baptist, that provided Houston with their first win of the season (they won another since) in a battle of "non-victorious" and have only won against Houston-Tillitsen (sp?).

Plus Rhode Island, mostly for the reason noted above, that CI is the Head Coach.