AAC Tourney Prediction

[ForneyGreen]

29 minutes ago, TIgreen01 said:

I'm not sure I agree.  Our OOC was pretty solid this season.  Our home schedule was pretty crap might be a valid gripe.  Either way, we had teams on our schedule that are in the wheelhouse of who we need to be scheduling and beating.  Good to very good mid-major programs, with a couple of P5 programs mixed in.  If we go 2-1 against the trio of Utah St, McNeese and High Point we are in the discussion for an at large bid.  Instead we went 0-3. 

The scheduling is not the problem, imo, unless you want to say we need to get more of those games at home instead of at neutral site tournaments.

Kind of the same issue with our women's team... a good, solid team that struggles to win against very strong, high-level competition (South Florida loss ... still very proud of the ladies).

We do need to figure out how to win games against the Utah St, McNeese, and High Points of the world.  Seems we are a "consistent go to" person away in most cases - the player that puts the team on their shoulders when the team is having a bad shooting game.  Maybe Atin Wright becomes that player during this AAC tournament!

[NorthTexasWeLove]

3 hours ago, ForneyGreen said:

Kind of the same issue with our women's team... a good, solid team that struggles to win against very strong, high-level competition (South Florida loss ... still very proud of the ladies).

We do need to figure out how to win games against the Utah St, McNeese, and High Points of the world.  Seems we are a "consistent go to" person away in most cases - the player that puts the team on their shoulders when the team is having a bad shooting game.  Maybe Atin Wright becomes that player during this AAC tournament!

A big reason I believe we won't get past uab in the semis is namely due to Atin Wright. He's semi efficient offensively, and he's not a distributor. He does his damage from 3. In tournament basketball guards win games at the rim, not shooting 3's.