Questions.... Thoughts.....

[agw0038]

If the season had ended last night, Denver, the team we just man-handled would have been a second seed and have a bye in the first round of the conference tournament. That is truly unbelievable.... i mean, how did we lose to them the first time? North Texas' future is in there on hands now and every game is important. Does anybody see us possible getting hot and catching fire like we did last year? i know theres still a few games left to be played but last night UNT didi something they have not done in a long long long time. RUN!!!!!!!!!!! Collin Dennis even said it himself, it feels like they haven't run in like 4 years. I think we still have a very good chance of coming away with the west division and possible a sun belt conference championship once again. Of course consistency is needed with UNT and on so many different levels. They havent been healthy, and everybody pray for BB, the defense has been horrible and the offense has been slugish. That being said, they looked great last night and played with a lot of emotion. Another question I would like to pose is, Exactly how good is MTSU? they just knocked off USA and them along with WKU and USA are the only teams 3 games above .500. They also seem to be getting better. Anyways....

just a few thoughts.......

[CMJ]

As bad as MTSU looked in the nonconference schedule, it's remarkable to me how good they've become. They're a real darkhorse come tourney time IMHO.

[emmitt01]

To answer your question, no I don't think this team will "catch fire" and make a run through the conference tourney. Nothing I have seen out of them makes me believe they have the ability to be that consistent. Plus, we are not exactly "road warriors" even against teams that we would soundly spank in our house (see Denver). To win the conference tourney we'd have to win AT LEAST three games on the road consecutively.

I want so so so badly to be wrong. I just don't think I am.

[CMJ]

Well to be fair Emmitt....unless we drew USA those games would be nuetral court games.

We weren't exactly tearing it up on the road in conference last year either. We were just 3-6 on the road with wins at WKU, Denver, and ULL. The run in Lafayette was all nuetral court.

[UNTLifer]

Well to be fair Emmitt....unless we drew USA those games would be nuetral court games.

We weren't exactly tearing it up on the road in conference last year either. We were just 3-6 on the road with wins at WKU, Denver, and ULL. The run in Lafayette was all nuetral court.

I think emmitt meant that we don't play well away from the Pit. They may be on a nuetral court, but we have to travel down the road to get there and that's not good for this team.

[CMJ]

I think emmitt meant that we don't play well away from the Pit. They may be on a nuetral court, but we have to travel down the road to get there and that's not good for this team.

I know, and as I pointed out...we didn't last year either

[SUMG]

Well to be fair Emmitt....unless we drew USA those games would be nuetral court games.

We weren't exactly tearing it up on the road in conference last year either. We were just 3-6 on the road with wins at WKU, Denver, and ULL. The run in Lafayette was all nuetral court.

That's true. But, our only neutral court game this year----we barely beat Division II Western New Mexico.

[CMJ]

Hey, I'm not saying that we will do the same thing this year! Only that at this point last year, most people would have thought we had no shot winning the conference. I think we showed more potential last year to make the sort of run that we did - but it's not impossible either.

Edited February 15, 2008 by CMJ