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17 minutes ago, greenminer said:

Shockers lose to FL 88-51.

Shocking!

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ECU moves to 7-1 with a blow-out win over North Carolina A&T. Rice lose in OT to Hofstra to fall to 5-2. 

ECU might be pretty solid...4 double-figure scorers, including pre-season all AAC pick RJ Felton at 21ppg. 

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Around the American 11/30/2024

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Around the American (12/1/2024)

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MTSU beats UAB 76-69. 

MTSU is solid, ranked just above UAB in KenPom heading into this game, but I still don't know what to make of UAB. pre-season pick to win the AAC, now 4-5, and without really a quality win. 

Rice beats Iona to go 2-1 in their tourney...including a win against Arkansas State. 

Minnesota beats Bethune-Cookman (sheesh, thanks)...Oregon State beats UC-Davis

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basically heading into December, I think this is a pretty good way to look at the league, KenPom through 12/1 games in ():

Tier 1 - Memphis (31) - I know everyone will be quick to point out their collapse last season...I suppose it could happen again, but this team looks built different. they'll head into December ranked while presumably no one else will even receive a vote. 

Tier 2 - UNT(66) ; Wichita State (88) - both schools have quality wins over Big 10, WCC, A-10 and MVC schools...nothing really to blink at too much in their losses. 

Tier 3A - Rice (164) ; East Carolina (123) - call this the over-achieving tier. Rice has a good win now over ASU...hung tough with Florida State. ECU has yet to play an actual road game and their loss looks pretty mid, but 7-1 is 7-1 so far. 

Tier 3B - FAU (105) ; UAB (137) - call this the under-achieving tier. FAU look like Memphis last season...a solid collection of talent that isn't playing as a team...case in point, they went 52-26 to lose by 2 to FGCU. I don't know what to make of UAB. still, despite early struggles, both these will be tough Ws

Tier 4 - Temple (114) ; South Florida (138) - both just look solid if unremarkable. both have some testers in December and it'd be a big benefit to the conference if they can pick up some good wins.

Tier 5 - Tulane (226) ; Charlotte (204) ; Tulsa (215) ; UTSA (263) - there's very little to like here. nothing approaching a quality win and each with some pretty bad loses. I almost just made a separate tier for UTSA, but I'll be kind for now since the resumes here all look so similar. UTSA goes to Cali to play St. Mary's Tuesday and then to Fayetteville for ranked Arkansas on Saturday (who made their schedule?)...so once they get drubbed by 30 in each, maybe they'll earn their own tier

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2 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

Oregon State beats UC-Davis

Underrated win in my opinion. They're 3-4 but have just 1 bad loss. I say bad because I don't know much about Norfolk State. Otherwise UC Davis has the 11th ranked scorer in the country and could make some noise come conference play.