BillySee58

We haven’t been able to separate from teams in th second half this year. Would be a nice time to start doing that

Good, fun start

Disappointing crowd. Game will be over before Cowboys start too

We’ve never had a higher seed in the NCAA Tournament than 15. I just want us to be in position where if we win the CUSA Tourney we can have a 13 or better seed and actually have an opponent we have a shot against.

Not possibly. These rankings update exactly one time per day. If you saw us at 38 yesterday then that was before it had the rankings updated for games through January 2nd. If you look at them right now then it will still say it has last been updated for games through January 2nd. Later it will update for games through January 3rd, and that will be the last and only time it updates today.

Heading into yesterday, La Tech and Southern Miss we’re 3rd and 4th in our conference in NET. Southern Miss won’t be 4th when we play them after that Rice loss, but it’s still a quality CUSA school that is senior heavy.

I really think La Tech is going to make a great rival going forward. A lot of sophomores and juniors in their rotation.

When you looked at it this morning it must have still been only counting games through January 1st.

Not true. This was as of games through yesterday, like it says at the top. We fell 4 spots because of the outcomes of the Wednesday games. We were hurt notably by Indiana State getting massacred and falling 30 spots.

Wasn’t giving us anything offensively, they were denying him the ball, and defensively he isn’t one of our best 5 against this La Tech team.

Crazy how our single-season all time leading scorer has been relegated to the bench in the second half

We need one of Gibson and Rose to get going. Both played great last game and it’s been the opposite for both on the offensive end today

Turns out those $5 tickets were to watch a ref show. Explains why they were so cheap

We had some good looks when Woolridge was out. Offense still a work I progress without him though.

Taking an official visit this week per Vito. Signed in 2017 with Buffalo and spent his true freshman season there. Currently playing at Odessa College. http://www.wranglersports.com/Sports/mbkb/2018-19/bios/reese_james_emif https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/james-reese https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/10797

I think we see La Tech twice this regular season.

I think the NET might make it easier for us to get some good opponents to Denton. The NET has shown that winning any road game period is a big plus. So programs who might have previously seen playing mid-majors on the road as a high-risk, low-reward proposition may see it as the opposite now. Baker should take advantage of this and get some High-Major home and homes scheduled like he did with football.

Wisconsin moved down from 4 to 13 after that loss. Not sure what WKU was before but I’m sure they moved up. These update daily.

Difference is their coach left and they had 3 or 4 players leave/dismissed right before the school year started. They also have a few players sitting out this season. I think they’ll be back to being competitive next year, just not sure to what degree.

Good call. So last year there were three (at least), but none in 2016 and 2018.

I believe the only P5 Head Coach opening filled by a Coach coming from another P5 school in the last three coaching carousels was Dan Mullen going from Mississippi State to Florida last year. Didn’t happen after the 2016 season and hasn’t happened yet this year. The degree of separation between P5 and G5 Head Coach is not that great. OU is a program, like Florida, that could lure another P5 coach but I don’t think you’re looking at candidates far above Littrell. I don’t think Littrell would be a shoe in, or even necessarily the top candidate, but I also think ADs care much more about overall record and recruiting track record than the results of the type of Bowl Games we have been in.

NET has clearly shown how valuable road wins are, almost regardless of opponent. Which bodes well for us.

I’m not sure about ever, but certainly looks that way for the foreseeable future. Riley is 35. If he leaves for the NFL now, even if he bombs, he would still be the front runner for any premier job he would want if he chose to go back to college. And he would still have another crack at a second NFL job down the line if he wanted that too. I don’t think he leaves OU right now but it would make sense from a few angles.

The job openings I’m worried about are the ones that will come open tomorrow. Especially if Lincoln Riley feels like after yesterday, with Mayfield and Murray gone, he won’t have a good crack at schools like Bama, Clemson, and Georgia for a while.

You’re right in that CUSA might have lost its chance to be a true two-bid league. In a true two-bid league, either of the top two teams could win the tournament and the other would still be in. Maybe a third team could win it and get three in. We don’t have that. However, we still have a chance to be in position for an at-large bid, and wins like these for the conference help us there.