A Little Mid-majority Love

[BobFam]

You have to wonder if this is the year we get multiple bids to the Big Show.

Here's a link from the Mid Majority website.

The Sun Belt. It's been a good, if not super-spectacular, early season for a conference that's been pretty much pre-assigned to a single bid for the past decade-plus. Sure, the overall nonconference record's in the toilet (.408) and it can't beat the SEC (0-7), but there have been some good signs: a 5-4 mark against Conference USA, even pulls against the WAC and ACC, and winning records against the A-Sun, OVC and WCC. And there have been a few teams distinguishing themselves.

Like South Alabama, coached once again by Ronnie Arrow (who took a few years off to build up Corpus Christi). Team USA is 6-3, and beat Southern Miss last night, 75-68. And 6-2 Western Kentucky, whose 69-62 overtime slog win over Nebraska means that the Huskers can't use the term "Big Red" anymore without paying WKU licensing fees.

And there's North Texas, another darling of the computer poll. The league champs' game with Texas was on the Full Court last night, and I thought they handled themselves extremely well after the Longhorns stormed them out of the gate. The Mean Green pretty much won the last 35 minutes of that game, freshman Josh White was fantastic (28 points), and UNT outrebounded them too! Final score: Dirt Brown 88, Mean Green 72.

[GreenBat]

Dirt Brown, I luv it!

[chrisfisher]

You have to wonder if this is the year we get multiple bids to the Big Show.

Here's a link from the Mid Majority website.

The Sun Belt. It's been a good, if not super-spectacular, early season for a conference that's been pretty much pre-assigned to a single bid for the past decade-plus. Sure, the overall nonconference record's in the toilet (.408) and it can't beat the SEC (0-7), but there have been some good signs: a 5-4 mark against Conference USA, even pulls against the WAC and ACC, and winning records against the A-Sun, OVC and WCC. And there have been a few teams distinguishing themselves.

Like South Alabama, coached once again by Ronnie Arrow (who took a few years off to build up Corpus Christi). Team USA is 6-3, and beat Southern Miss last night, 75-68. And 6-2 Western Kentucky, whose 69-62 overtime slog win over Nebraska means that the Huskers can't use the term "Big Red" anymore without paying WKU licensing fees.

And there's North Texas, another darling of the computer poll. The league champs' game with Texas was on the Full Court last night, and I thought they handled themselves extremely well after the Longhorns stormed them out of the gate. The Mean Green pretty much won the last 35 minutes of that game, freshman Josh White was fantastic (28 points), and UNT outrebounded them too! Final score: Dirt Brown 88, Mean Green 72.

Good stuff... take a look at the thread I started earlier today on the SBC conference rankings... the wins are certainly paying off and getting attention.... nice!