WKU defeats UAB

MCMLXXX · March 10, 2016

Who will rep CUSA?

Mean_Green09 · March 10, 2016

I predicted that WKU would be UAB.

I think the winner of La Tech ODU has a good shot to win CUSA

GrandGreen · March 10, 2016

Interesting, NT without their best player played WKU closer than the CUSA regular season champion playing in their home city.

CMJ · March 10, 2016

I would not be at all surprised if WKU wins the tournament.

MeanGreenTexan · March 10, 2016

11 minutes ago, CMJ said:

I would not be at all surprised if WKU wins the tournament.

Me either. History is in their corner, and it's always good to enter a tournament hot (winning 4 of their last 5 regular season games).

TheTastyGreek · March 10, 2016

...and Ray Harper is still potentially coaching to save his own job.

DeepGreen · March 10, 2016

And UAB lost, one and done. As the host team, sort of. Didn't that happen to UNT back in the SBC days?

CMJ · March 10, 2016

22 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

And UAB lost, one and done. As the host team, sort of. Didn't that happen to UNT back in the SBC days?

Yes.

CMJ · March 11, 2016

(5)ODU with a slight upset over (4)LA Tech in the second game. Now (7)Charlotte leading (2)MTSU at half.

This thing is wide open.

Edited March 11, 2016 by CMJ

Matt from A700 · March 11, 2016

Still won't be a better underdog story than the 14-19 9th-seeded Holy Cross Crusaders who'll be going to the Big Dance.

dahbeed · March 11, 2016

6 hours ago, TheTastyGreek said:

...and Ray Harper is still potentially coaching to save his own job.

Hopefully he's off the hot seat. I actually heard that he was getting extended before the tourney even started but they were waiting for the best time to announce it.

in my opinion he should have never been on the hot seat. We had 8 new scholarship players this year and it took a long time and kicking Chris Harrison-Docks off the team for them to ever gel. We've been playing pretty well at the end of the year and looked pretty decent today against UAB. Doesn't mean we'll win tomorrow but we should have a good shot against who I consider a highly overrated coach in Jeff Jones.

Justin Johnson has been a load for everyone in the tourney and he's just a sophomore. Chris McNeal is a freshman point God and he's done a fine job. Set the record for assists by a freshman at Western. We have a game changer that sat out this year in Willie Carmichael. He has Jeremy Evans athleticism with Anthony Winchester fire in him. We should be very solid next year. Ray should be allowed to coach that team.

TheTastyGreek · March 11, 2016

3 minutes ago, dahbeed said:

Hopefully he's off the hot seat. I actually heard that he was getting extended before the tourney even started but they were waiting for the best time to announce it.

in my opinion he should have never been on the hot seat. We had 8 new scholarship players this year and it took a long time and kicking Chris Harrison-Docks off the team for them to ever gel. We've been playing pretty well at the end of the year and looked pretty decent today against UAB. Doesn't mean we'll win tomorrow but we should have a good shot against who I consider a highly overrated coach in Jeff Jones.

Justin Johnson has been a load for everyone in the tourney and he's just a sophomore. Chris McNeal is a freshman point God and he's done a fine job. Set the record for assists by a freshman at Western. We have a game changer that sat out this year in Willie Carmichael. He has Jeremy Evans athleticism with Anthony Winchester fire in him. We should be very solid next year. Ray should be allowed to coach that team.

Hey, while you're here... Give me a WKU perspective.

Assume (I know it's horrifying, but try) that you guys hired someone like Benford instead of Harper. How do the Hilltoppers handle that situation?

GMG24 · March 11, 2016

Fired after losing to the Akansas D2 team without question?

untjim1995 · March 11, 2016

1 hour ago, TheTastyGreek said:

Hey, while you're here... Give me a WKU perspective.

Assume (I know it's horrifying, but try) that you guys hired someone like Benford instead of Harper. How do the Hilltoppers handle that situation?

TTG, don't do this to yourself. You know the answer, and you know ours is the complete, polar opposite....

dahbeed · March 11, 2016

3 hours ago, TheTastyGreek said:

Hey, while you're here... Give me a WKU perspective.

Assume (I know it's horrifying, but try) that you guys hired someone like Benford instead of Harper. How do the Hilltoppers handle that situation?

We hired someone every bit as bad as Benford in Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald after Horn took the South Carolina job. We eventually fired him mid season his last year and Ray took over as interim. He ended up getting the job before we won the sun belt tourney that year.

But as bad as Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald was as a coach he was a train wreck in his personal life. He had several serious issues around town. To be honest, if he was winning that stuff could have been swept under the rug. Because as much as we love to pretend we want things done the right way. We want to win. Bottom line.

Ray graduated all 7 guys last year. He's graduating 3 guys with Masters degrees this year and even Chris Harrison Docks is graduating allowing him to txfer immediately to DePaul. So Ray has done things the right way. When he took over he couldn't clean house because Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald had us on the precipice of APR troubles. Won 20 games his first 3 years and struggled this year with a whole new team. But I didn't hear about how great a job he was doing graduating kids. I kept hearing our AD and him don't get along swimmingly and Ray was in trouble. He still doesn't have a contract yet. It expires in about a week.

I'd love nothing more than to win this tourney now that we put UAB out but even if we lose to Mr. Mediocre Jeff Jones tomorrow I personally believe Ray has earned the chance to coach what should be a very good team next year.

TheTastyGreek · March 11, 2016

6 minutes ago, dahbeed said:

We hired someone every bit as bad as Benford in Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald after Horn took the South Carolina job.

I would consent to give Ken McDonald a lifetime contract and the keys to my car if it meant Benford were fired tomorrow.

Actually... Make that next Friday. That way, I don't have to buy anyone else a sandwich.

GMG24 · March 11, 2016

Yep, agree his kids played harder and better than ours did in that game. Crazy thing is we fought to keep it respectable, imagine if we had a real coach ? We could be WKU and still playing!

Greendylan · March 11, 2016

Damn you, WKU! You had to go and beat UAB by more than you beat us, and now you've handed our AD one more excuse to keep Benford's head coaching career on life support for another year.

CMJ · March 11, 2016

15 hours ago, dahbeed said:

We hired someone every bit as bad as Benford in Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald after Horn took the South Carolina job. We eventually fired him mid season his last year and Ray took over as interim. He ended up getting the job before we won the sun belt tourney that year.

But as bad as Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald was as a coach he was a train wreck in his personal life. He had several serious issues around town. To be honest, if he was winning that stuff could have been swept under the rug. Because as much as we love to pretend we want things done the right way. We want to win. Bottom line.

Ray graduated all 7 guys last year. He's graduating 3 guys with Masters degrees this year and even Chris Harrison Docks is graduating allowing him to txfer immediately to DePaul. So Ray has done things the right way. When he took over he couldn't clean house because Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald had us on the precipice of APR troubles. Won 20 games his first 3 years and struggled this year with a whole new team. But I didn't hear about how great a job he was doing graduating kids. I kept hearing our AD and him don't get along swimmingly and Ray was in trouble. He still doesn't have a contract yet. It expires in about a week.

I'd love nothing more than to win this tourney now that we put UAB out but even if we lose to Mr. Mediocre Jeff Jones tomorrow I personally believe Ray has earned the chance to coach what should be a very good team next year.

He wasn't as bad as Benford though...his first year he did well with a talented team...Benford went 12-20.