Sunbelt Action (12/28/11)

[CMJ]

Siena

@ FAU

[CMJ]

RPI Update:

Conference Rank: 15

Conference SOS Rank: 14

30 Denver

92 MTSU

109 USA

122 FAU

140 ASU

199 WKU

208 ULL

224 North Texas

247 Troy

251 FIU

295 ULM

308 UALR

[CMJ]

Siena 67

FAU 60

[CMJ]

With Belt play starting tomorrow, here's a snapshot of how we all did OOC.

EAST

MTSU 0-0 11-2

USA 0-0 8-3

Troy 0-0 5-6

FAU 0-0 4-9

WKU 0-0 4-9

FIU 0-0 3-9

WEST

Denver 0-0 10-2

North Texas 0-0 7-6

ASU 0-0 6-7

ULL 0-0 6-8

UALR 0-0 3-10

ULM 0-0 1-12

Edited December 29, 2011 by CMJ

[TheTastyGreek]

With Belt play starting tomorrow, here's a snapshot of how we all did OOC.

In the past 12 years, very few SBC teams have made it to the NCAA tournament (at-large or SBC tournament win) with sub-.500 OOC records vs. D1 opponents. UALR last year was a rare exception, with a 6-7 mark against D-1 schools.

The only other schools to do it since 1999 (finding OOC records before then is very difficult and time consuming, so I transfered at that point) were ULL in 2004 (5-6) and 2005 (4-5). And as far as the official record books are concerned, ULL didn't play in the tournament those years.

For the past 12 years, no team with a D-1 OOC record worse than 1 game below .500 has won our tournament.

If the trend holds, your contenders for the auto-bid this year are:

Middle Tennessee: 10-2

Denver: 10-2

South Alabama: 7-3

North Texas: 5-6

Arkansas State is 5-7 with OOC games remaining against Kent State and Seattle. If they win both, they would be in that mix, too.

If Vegas offers early SBC tournament lines... Don't put your money on anyone but those 4 (maybe 5) teams.

EDIT to add: Nobody in that period has done it with a sub .500 overall OOC record. Doesn't affect the pool of teams that meet the historical criteria.