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[BigWillie]

13 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

Memphis does not play until Thursday night, meaning we have another opportunity of being sole possessors of first place for a night if we win in Wichita Wednesday.

It'd be cool to chase down that #1 seed but personally would rather take the 2 seed and the more attendance-friendly 6 pm start for that first tournament game at Dickies. The #1 seed would have to play at 12pm on Thursday.

Also not a fan of the inevitable banner and possibly rings our social media/AD will parade around for being "conference (regular season? champions."

The other thing is #2 shouldn't play #1 until the Championship if all goes according to plan. That would help with not seeing Memphis until our revenge game.

[Matt from A700]

9 minutes ago, BigWillie said:

The other thing is #2 shouldn't play #1 until the Championship if all goes according to plan. That would help with not seeing Memphis until our revenge game.

Us vs. Memphis in the final would be the best chance Dickies has of looking respectable before the conference tourney gets moved somewhere else.

[greenminer]

1/28/2025 in the AAC

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[GMG_Dallas]

Minnesota plays Michigan State and Oregon State plays Gonzaga tonight. Two big games involving our two best wins.

Another team I'm monitoring is Northern Iowa. They're currently a Quad 2 win for us. They get NET #66 Drake on the road tomorrow and #63 Bradley at home this Sunday. Those are Quad 1 and Quad 2 games, respectively. Just need UNI to stay in the top 100 and those are two important games for their NET ranking. They'll get Bradley and Drake again in two of their final three games of the season. 

[greenminer]

1/28/2025 Final

[Matt from A700]

Rice proving to have a fraudulent OOC record once again.

[greenminer]

oof didn't even notice that until now.  Rice just lost their 6th straight.

Irony: one of their OOC wins was Arkie State, which beat Memphis.

Edited 20 hours ago by greenminer

[UNTLifer]

12 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Minnesota plays Michigan State and Oregon State plays Gonzaga tonight. Two big games involving our two best wins.

Minnesota loses by 22. 
OR St. currently losing by 40. 

[THOR]

went up 1 in the net to 45

[Cooke County Kid]

If we end the season with a NET rating below 45 wouldn’t we be hard not to get an at large bid?

[greenminer]

43 minutes ago, Cooke County Kid said:

If we end the season with a NET rating below 45 wouldn’t we be hard not to get an at large bid?

IIRC, NIT champs were 38 NET as of Selection Sunday.  There's precedent.

[greenminer]

1/29/2025 Today in the American

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[GMG_Dallas]

15 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Minnesota loses by 22. 
OR St. currently losing by 40. 

Dang. There's always next time...

[greenminer]

 

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

8 hours ago, Cooke County Kid said:

If we end the season with a NET rating below 45 wouldn’t we be hard not to get an at large bid?

0 Q1 wins won't help you here, no matter how highly ranked you are. These metrics rise with blowouts and high-efficiency offensive/defensive outputs. We could be 35 by the conference championship, lose and still be left out. Because at the end of the day, no matter the quantity of wins and blowouts, if you, as a mid-major in a not-as-great conference this year, don't have any QUALITY wins, they will snub you. Just like 2021-22 team and even the 22-23 team, just like MTSU in 2017-18, Belmont a few years ago etc...