The AAAAAAAC and Advanced Marketing (or Self-Kidding)

[Savannah Jay]

SMU and Temple should get in pretty easily...

Temple has projected #21 OOC SOS and #32 overall SOS. With those numbers, if they get to 18 wins, they're going to have a top 40 RPI with a good SOS. Teams like that get in easily...
SMU has an easier schedule- but still #109 OOC SOS and #74 overall SOS. And accordingly they're projected with 22 wins. 22-9 with their SOS is projected to be a 44.5 RPI. Teams like that generally get in pretty much every time. If they can split with USC and TCU, they're in really good shape. That Arizona win will resonate all year long.

Missouri is not a BAD team. And if they are, what does that say about St Johns, whom they beat by 8? And UCF is missing their best player.

And really wouldn't count out UConn yet. They have projected #8 OOC SOS and #26 overall SOS. If they get to 19 wins they're in pretty easily.

The AAC can get 5 in way more likely than getting only 2 in.

See, here's the thing...you sold us this same horse hockey last year. Wasn't Memphis going to get in "pretty easily" because they were going to win 22 or 23 games? Of course they were, right up until they lost 7 of 9 to end the season. Conversely, you didn't see anyway that Providence, and Seton Hall, and Marquette...were going to win enough games to get in the tournament and then, after the fact, made excuses for why the Big East got 7 teams in and your conference got two. 2 teams. out of 12 or 13...that's not good Stever. Always some excuse why the Stever is wrong. The only commonality is that the Stever is wrong a lot, if not all the feckin time.

And I am counting UConn out.

[stever20]

SMU and Temple should get in pretty easily...

Temple has projected #21 OOC SOS and #32 overall SOS. With those numbers, if they get to 18 wins, they're going to have a top 40 RPI with a good SOS. Teams like that get in easily...
SMU has an easier schedule- but still #109 OOC SOS and #74 overall SOS. And accordingly they're projected with 22 wins. 22-9 with their SOS is projected to be a 44.5 RPI. Teams like that generally get in pretty much every time. If they can split with USC and TCU, they're in really good shape. That Arizona win will resonate all year long.

Missouri is not a BAD team. And if they are, what does that say about St Johns, whom they beat by 8? And UCF is missing their best player.

And really wouldn't count out UConn yet. They have projected #8 OOC SOS and #26 overall SOS. If they get to 19 wins they're in pretty easily.

The AAC can get 5 in way more likely than getting only 2 in.

See, here's the thing...you sold us this same horse hockey last year. Wasn't Memphis going to get in "pretty easily" because they were going to win 22 or 23 games? Of course they were, right up until they lost 7 of 9 to end the season. Conversely, you didn't see anyway that Providence, and Seton Hall, and Marquette...were going to win enough games to get in the tournament and then, after the fact, made excuses for why the Big East got 7 teams in and your conference got two. 2 teams. out of 12 or 13...that's not good Stever. Always some excuse why the Stever is wrong. The only commonality is that the Stever is wrong a lot, if not all the feckin time.

And I am counting UConn out.

And the AAC is a whole hell of a lot stronger this year than it was last year. That's the thing that you fail to realize. Cincy and Wichita both should get top 4 seeds easily. Temple with their SOS will get in easily as well- and if they can get the wins, they're going to have a really good seed. Good SOS does that.

The only reason why the Big East got 7 in last year was the injuries at Xavier and Creighton. Marquette and Providence don't make the tourney w/o that. That's not an excuse, that's a very reasonable guess. Providence likely doesn't go 2-0 vs those 2 last 2 weeks of the season w/o them injuried, and they absolutely needed both wins to get in the tourney. Marquette likely doesn't go 4-0 vs them after the injuries, and they needed at least 3 wins to make the tourney. You say Marquette beat Nova, that would have been enough. Tell me when the last time a 17-15 team made the NCAA tourney at large. But you say Creighton and Xavier would have done better. Maybe- but they would have still been for Creighton in the 3-4 seed range and Xavier in the 4-6 seed range. No guarantees at all there either.

[GumbyDamnit!]

Another banner night for the AAC. Powerhouse Elon beats USF and Memphis loses by 15 to UAB.

And Temple is beating South Carolina by 11 points. UCF down only by 6 to Missouri early 2nd half. If AAC would get both of those wins, that's a good night.

South Carolina is not good.

UCF lost to a BAD team.

Memphis is really bad.

Gun to your head...who in the AAC makes the tourney outside of WSU and Cincy?

Sorry, fat fingers. I meant USF lost to a bad team (Elon). Mizzou is clearly not a "bad" team.

[GumbyDamnit!]

SMU and Temple should get in pretty easily...

Temple has projected #21 OOC SOS and #32 overall SOS. With those numbers, if they get to 18 wins, they're going to have a top 40 RPI with a good SOS. Teams like that get in easily...
SMU has an easier schedule- but still #109 OOC SOS and #74 overall SOS. And accordingly they're projected with 22 wins. 22-9 with their SOS is projected to be a 44.5 RPI. Teams like that generally get in pretty much every time. If they can split with USC and TCU, they're in really good shape. That Arizona win will resonate all year long.

Missouri is not a BAD team. And if they are, what does that say about St Johns, whom they beat by 8? And UCF is missing their best player.

And really wouldn't count out UConn yet. They have projected #8 OOC SOS and #26 overall SOS. If they get to 19 wins they're in pretty easily.

The AAC can get 5 in way more likely than getting only 2 in.

See, here's the thing...you sold us this same horse hockey last year. Wasn't Memphis going to get in "pretty easily" because they were going to win 22 or 23 games? Of course they were, right up until they lost 7 of 9 to end the season. Conversely, you didn't see anyway that Providence, and Seton Hall, and Marquette...were going to win enough games to get in the tournament and then, after the fact, made excuses for why the Big East got 7 teams in and your conference got two. 2 teams. out of 12 or 13...that's not good Stever. Always some excuse why the Stever is wrong. The only commonality is that the Stever is wrong a lot, if not all the feckin time.

And I am counting UConn out.

Yes deja vu all over again for sure. Last year Temple beat two ranked teams in a preseason tourney--WVU and Fla St.. They surely were a Stever lock at that time. 3 months later they end up 7-11 in a weak conference and aren't considered for the NIT or CBI. Not saying Temple won't make it this year but that you have shown a tendency to figure out what's going to happen long before it happens and usually you expect everything to fall perfectly for the AAC and everything to fall apart for the BE. The season needs to play out. At this point I think you can expect Cincy and WSU to make it. After that, hold your breath (and your nose) and let the AAC season play out a bit. 4 may happen but it almost certainly will not fall into place how you expect today so there really is no point of you telling us what KPI predicts.

[Hall2012]

Btw, did anyone see much of the Temple-South Carolina game last night? Play of the night was when Temple's Quinton Rose hilariously over-threw a break-out pass, but nailed the 3/4 court 3 instead!

[Edrick]

Never again to I want to see any mention of the freaking AAC on this board.

You’d figure the closet AAC moles would be the earliest adopters given how embarrassing this has become year after year.

[RxJay]

Let’s talk Stever. How good is Cincinnati again?

[xusandy]

Hey, I kinda like having a single thread for all the AAC moles to post how good the AAC is. Many of them were Big East fans before the old league imploded, so they do have rivalry memories, and giving them a single thread for venting keeps them from messing with our threads on more serious topics.

Plus, it's fun every now and then to come to this thread and remind them all of the final score -- XU 89, UC 76, and the game wasn't really that close. UC clearly has a lot of talent this year, but they didn't look like they've jelled as a team yet, and their vaunted press produced only 1 or 2 turnovers while yielding a dozen or so drives or quick passes to the paint. X didn't ever look like the UC press was a problem. I think Mick has some work to do if they're gonna win the conference.

[MullinMayhem]

UConn hanging by a thread for wins over Monmouth and some other bum the other day. Even in wins, they just are not the same. They don't look anything like a blue blood program anymore.

[kayako]

I can't wait till Nova obliterates Temple and Uconn in their home courts.