Sunbelt Action (11/17/11)

[CMJ]

Tulsa

vs WKU

(Neutral site game)

Tenn-Martin

@ ASU

Southern Miss

@ Denver

[TheTastyGreek]

Coming in to these games, the Sun Belt is 11-16 against D1 opponents.

WKU and Denver have it tough against quality CUSA teams. Denver has their enormous home court advantage going for them, too. Both are conceivably winnable games, but I don't think the Belt team is going to be favored in either.

Hopefully, we split the CUSA games. ASU should be able to handle Tennessee-Martin, but then again ASU has looked like complete crap this year.

C'mon, 2-1 night...

[CMJ]

I'm also hoping for 2-1. The Belt didn't have a good evening yesterday.

[CMJ]

WKU/Tulsa on ESPN3.

[CMJ]

WKU looks like they have some athletes, but not playing very well as a team yet. Down 13 at halftime.

[CMJ]

Tulsa 65

WKU 49

[CMJ]

These were the RPI's of the league teams before today's games. The Belt is currently the 14th rated conference in the nation.

25 FIU

40 Denver

75 MTSU

91 ULM

113 Troy

146 North Texas

162 ULL

163 UALR

217 FAU

228 ASU

261 USA

265 WKU

[CMJ]

ASU 63

Tenn-Martin 45

[CMJ]

Denver 59

Southern Miss 52

And we get our 2-1 day.

Edited November 18, 2011 by CMJ

[TheTastyGreek]

Nice. Up to 13-17 in OOC play. Not great, but well ahead of last year's final win %, and it should continue to get easier (generally speaking) for the league.

[CMJ]

Yeah, I think we should be much higher in the RPI than last season.

[dahbeed]

These were the RPI's of the league teams before today's games. The Belt is currently the 14th rated conference in the nation.

25 FIU

40 Denver

75 MTSU

91 ULM

113 Troy

146 North Texas

162 ULL

163 UALR

217 FAU

228 ASU

261 USA

265 WKU

god almighty i never thought i'd see the day we were DEAD LAST in the belt. i've been saying we suck but that is black and white proof.

still yet (this is one of my favorite 'clem haskinsisms'...he used 'still yet' whenever possible) i am very pleased with the conference as a whole.

much better success this year ooc. very happy the red woofs beat utmartin as i end up scrapping with murray state/ovc fans on a regular basis and that would have been an embarrassing loss to swallow.

yes...that's the same ut-martin in my siggy.