MrAlien

When I was a student at UNT, (fraternity, german club, church group, ROTC, (and half a dozen more)) had a designated basketball game night. This was before social media, so a physical presence at any student event on campus was necessary to promote your organization and reach out to new members.

It would have been good for the conference if they won, however they did not look ready to play that game, they looked confused defensively, were out rebounded, and Colorado state did a good job keeping them outside.

This is what makes this tournament the greatest in sports, everyone has a shot at winning it!! People that rarely watch college basketball tune in because of the possible upsets, and every now and then it happens. Every team knows what it has to do to get into this tournament, you fight all season to earn a bid, those teams that fall into the bubble are just a fluke.

Hodge has only really had one full recruiting year on his own. His first season he took over right after the program won the NIT, so heading into the transfer window a lot of the recruiting and re-recruiting was done under Grant. Following his first he lost a lot of players, however he had decent success in the portal, finding players that fit his system.

The numbers don't lie, UNT finished exactly where the metrics said they would. Could this team have won a quad 1 game? I honestly think no, there was nothing in their metrics that suggest they would.

6.5 As usual the team was strong on defense, however the team never found that primary ball handler to lead. At times the team had some serious unforced mental mistakes.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of those 5-8 teams makes a run. UNT has been hot and cold, but they just had a good look at Temple, so they should have a good game plan going into their first game assuming its against Temple. The possible match up between UAB/UNT could almost be a toss up, UAB plays later Thursday night and that could be important. The program need to be in the best tournament available to them. Because this team will most likely need to do some major recruiting again this off season.

The mountain west is the conference the AAC should be looking at, they are almost always a 3-4 bid conference.

Why not Rice? Private school in a large city with a rich history in college sports. Rice would fit with a lot of the other private schools in that conference. Sure they haven't been great at sports of late, however they could turn it around if they wanted to.

The administration has to be proactive, the AAC as we know it will not last much longer. As soon as the ACC looses their big brand schools they will raid the AAC, and UNT is not going to be on their list.

I dont think he has had enough experience and success at this level to move up to a high major program.

Every year it comes down to those 8 bubble teams (last 4 in, first 4 out), and most bracket projections have those same 8 teams after the conference tournaments are done. And if your team is not included in those last 8 then they probably dont belong in the conversation.

Its not perfect, but I think the committee gets it right far more often then they get it wrong. There is a path for just about every team to get into the Big Dance this late in the season. 31 automatic qualifiers through their conference championships, and the next best 37.

I dont hate that projection as things are now, the top 16 seem about right other then St. Johns (I have them as a 5 seed instead of a 4). St. Marry's I think could be a shocker, I would have them at a 6th or even 5th seed. The rest of the bracket is really up in the air at this point, depending how the conference tournaments go. That bracket obviously assumes Memphis will win the conference tournament, and with their Q1 record, be a 5th seed.

The problem is you just dont know which schools will be quad 1 schools when you schedule them. The projections had UNT as 7th in the AAC, which would have put us at a Q2/Q3 school.