Texas San Antonio (2/27/14)

[bstnsportsfan3]

still shouldn't have been trailing to UTSA. I will take the 4 game win streak though. Still not sold on Benny at all.

[CMJ]

I'm not a fan of Benford either, but he's gotten this kids to win three straight road games. I'm not gonna bitch about him till the offseason. Should we lose out, the criticism will begin in earnest in mid March.

Edited February 28, 2014 by CMJ

[greenit]

Congrats to the team. The play still doesn't sound/look pretty, but ugly wins are better than the alternative.

So this win guarantees at least a .500 regular season?

[risinggreen]

Not sure what this mini-streak means, but for now I'm just happy that we didn't lose to SA.

[aztecskin]

It was a hell of a game to watch up close. Aniefiok gave us a nice little handclap at the end.

Day is made.

Four in a row y'all.

[JesseMartin]

Nice, with the surprise win at aTm, we're a win ahead of where I expected us to be. I was only able to keep up with this by refreshing the box score online, and it seemed like a mix of exciting comeback and "they're missing a lot of shots, let's just be sure to miss less."

Side note: how does CUSA do its tourney seeds? I couldn't find crap on the website, it just keeps looping back to the same pages with no details.

[golfingomez]

oh mah lard!!!

Benford 4 Prez!

[Ben Gooding]

4 in a row. Can't complain about that! GMG!!!

[Mean_Green09]

4 in a row. Can't complain about that! GMG!!!

There still will be those who complain.

[untwillrise]

Utsa is not a good team. No fans. Small gym. That's all.

[Andrew]

Nice, with the surprise win at aTm, we're a win ahead of where I expected us to be. I was only able to keep up with this by refreshing the box score online, and it seemed like a mix of exciting comeback and "they're missing a lot of shots, let's just be sure to miss less."

Side note: how does CUSA do its tourney seeds? I couldn't find crap on the website, it just keeps looping back to the same pages with no details.

Use Wikipedia

[Andrew]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Conference_USA_Men's_Basketball_Tournament

[greenminer]

Nothing is a "bit" which is a term that makes no sense.

Use Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_part

[Andrew]

Use Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_part

It makes no sense in relation to anything I have said...

[JesseMartin]

So weird that it's on wiki and impossible to find on the conference's own site. I totally wouldn't expect Wikipedia to have some of the info they do...maybe I should stop doubting and just start looking there first. Just seems kind of random, you know? "Oh, we don't have that info on our site. But check wiki and it'll have all of the answers we don't have available for OUR OWN TOURNAMENT." Anyway yeah thanks...and so if FIU wasn't ineligible would we assume that the 10th seed would have had a first round bye as well?

[Censored by Laurie]

Nothing I have said is comical at all.

Maybe not on purpose.

[UNT90]

Very happy for the kids.

Very sad that Benford will be back.

[Green P1]

Very happy for the kids.

Very sad that Benford will be back.

Bingo

[JesseMartin]

Very happy for the kids.

Very sad that Benford will be back.

Yeah, whether you agree with bringing him back or not, the fact that this year's record is better than last year's (and without Mitchell, no less), it will likely be considered praise-worthy progress. If we had only won like 5-7 games this season, then RV and co. would probably have figured that was inexcusable even with the loss of Mitchell. But with an improved record after losing a player to the draft...I think even those who doubted it before would probably agree now that he will be back.

So...3rd season looks to be a lock, so even though I expect we'll still hear plenty of complaints, those complaints will probably last at least another year unless 2014-15 really does show a huge turnaround (i.e. enough that people are happy with the performance). Whether you consider it good news or bad is probably irrelevant since all of the opposition this year was ignored.

My next "stating the obvious" post will be a prediction of yesterday's weather.

[THOR]

This year's record is only better to non d1 opponents

[Andrew]

This year's record is only better to non d1 opponents

2 of our wins were against d1 opponents. The same amount of opponents that Southern Miss and Middle Tennessee played. Granted they beat both opponents by much more, we all played the same amount of d2 opponents this year. Do people just believe the lies that one or two people continue to spread on these boards without simply looking at espn and comparing schedules?

Tulsa played 0 against d2 teams and LA Tech played 1. Then you have a team like ECU that played four. Two times as many as we did. Yes they beat them all. Yes ECU is a terrible team. However our schedule was comparable to any other team in our league. All it takes is a little research and not listening to people who think they can just tell un truths on the internet and somehow be believed.

Essentially sure UTEP and a few others played a top 25 team, but there were other teams that played 3 and 4 division two schools while we only played 2 during our schedule. We still played some tough teams in OU, BYU, and SFA.

[10Eagle10]

http://www.conferenceusa.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/m-baskbl-format.html

http://www.conferenceusa.com/championships/m-baskbl-championship-14.html

[Andrew]

http://www.conferenceusa.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/m-baskbl-format.html

http://www.conferenceusa.com/championships/m-baskbl-championship-14.html

Just go to the Wikipedia link already posted. It already has all of this plus the bracket and more. The point was the CUSA website does not have the info in a user friendly format.

[UNT90]

I predict a game thread next year where Andrew talks to Andrew throughout because everyone else has pretty much stopped caring.

But, hey, Benford will still be coach...

Edited March 1, 2014 by UNT90