2016-2017 Season

[Union Bearcat]

13-7 the rest of the way.

I have made note to mock this post after the season

 

[WAITE HOYT 2]

So you are only seeing 3, maybe 4 more losses the rest of the season? I think they will have at least 1 or 2 "WTF" losses away from home and I could see them splitting the games with UConn, Houston and SMU. Since joining the AAC our best season is 27-7 with 11 losses the past 2 seasons. I think this team will drop a few close games they should win but it will hopefully be a learning experience and toughen them up for March Madness.

here are MY predictions for the rest of the season. you can say they are bogus and I am not a real fan but the only game I've picked wrong so far was the Iowa St game.

vs Marshall Win
at Temple Loss
vs Tulane Win
at Houston Loss
vs SMU Win
at ECU Win
vs Temple Win
at Tulane Win
vs Xavier Loss
vs USF Win
at Tulsa Win
vs Uconn Loss
vs UCF Win
at SMU Loss
at USF Win
vs Tulsa Win
vs Memphis Loss
at UCF Win
vs Houston Win
at Uconn Loss

13-7 the rest of the way.

I know I have them losing to UConn both games but for some reason I feel UConn is eventually going to gel and run through the conference schedule.

We beat UCONN at least once, beat Memphis ,X. and Houston.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

I have made note to mock this post after the season

What's your prediction? Unless you are willing to put yourself out there in a similar fashion, you have no room to mock anyone.

 

[#BearcatNation]

So you are only seeing 3, maybe 4 more losses the rest of the season? I think they will have at least 1 or 2 "WTF" losses away from home and I could see them splitting the games with UConn, Houston and SMU. Since joining the AAC our best season is 27-7 with 11 losses the past 2 seasons. I think this team will drop a few close games they should win but it will hopefully be a learning experience and toughen them up for March Madness.

here are MY predictions for the rest of the season. you can say they are bogus and I am not a real fan but the only game I've picked wrong so far was the Iowa St game.

vs Marshall Win
at Temple Loss
vs Tulane Win
at Houston Loss
vs SMU Win
at ECU Win
vs Temple Win
at Tulane Win
vs Xavier Loss
vs USF Win
at Tulsa Win
vs Uconn Loss
vs UCF Win
at SMU Loss
at USF Win
vs Tulsa Win
vs Memphis Loss
at UCF Win
vs Houston Win
at Uconn Loss

13-7 the rest of the way.

I know I have them losing to UConn both games but for some reason I feel UConn is eventually going to gel and run through the conference schedule.

This is pretty ridiculous. Do you not think this team is capable of beating a top 100 team on the road? We're favored in every remaining game currently and you have us at 13-7. You have very little faith, my friend. Like Waterhead said, if this actually happened, I think I'd start to join the "maybe we need to start looking for a new coach" crew.

 

[waterhead]

The conference is fairly weak and we are better this year. We will probably favored in every game. If we lose 7 more... it's going to be a huge problem for me with our coach. Even if we lose 5 more it will be under achieving imo.

X and SMU are the only two teams ranked ahead of Rhode island on KenPom currently. Butler is very good and ISU is ranked ahead of SMU.

Cronin's history of not putting together a really great team is my only question....but my worst case scenario would be 5 more losses and I wouldn't be too happy with that. This is based on a weak conference and having a more talented team this year. We are good enough! If we can make a few more FTs and 3s...we are a very tough out.

 

[Jon Rycek]

here are MY predictions for the rest of the season. you can say they are bogus and I am not a real fan but the only game I've picked wrong so far was the Iowa St game.


What else would you have got wrong? Being negative about every game that's obviously the one you would have taken Iowa state. We will not go 13-7 lol. 6 conference losses, that's a joke at best. I think we are gonna catch Xavier this year and I see 2-3 conference losses at most.

 

[spinal070508]

I have made note to mock this post after the season

That's fine by me. If I'm wrong then that means they won a lot of games and will have a high seed. If I'm right I will make note to mock your reply after the season.

 

[Jon Rycek]

I'd be shocked if we went 26-5. The Temple game will tell a lot though.

Shocked?

 

[Jon Rycek]

Funny I've noticed a big change in the confidence of out depth. That was our biggest concern to start the year, now no complaints. More about getting our starters going at this point, which isn't a bad thing

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Shocked?

Yeah. 26-5 is really good. That's winning 17 out of 20 to end the year. Really tough to do with 9 road games and Xavier left. Not impossible by any means, with the players we have. But it's a grind for sure.

 

[waterhead]

Do we do the same old slow game in the 50s, where we don't use the bench, and we let a competent 3 pt team bury us with a barrage of good looks anytime we perceive that a team might be good? Or do we take it to them and play our game no matter what? We're 9-9 in AAC road games the past 2 years. Add that with our struggles against Xavier and we could be looking at 23-8 type stuff. That shouldn't happen with this group. Time will tell if this team is different. They know how they need to play to win. Actually doing it is the question.,

I don't see us splitting road games this year and I would hope for no more than 1 home loss. 5-4 would be an absolute minimum on the road...but disappointing. I would hope for 6-3 or better.

Maybe 5 total losses is optimistic...but certainly shouldn't be unattainable with this squad.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Funny I've noticed a big change in the confidence of out depth. That was our biggest concern to start the year, now no complaints. More about getting our starters going at this point, which isn't a bad thing

Easy to have questions about it when it was 3 players who had never played, plus Jenifer and Moore. Glad to be able to count on 4 of those guys to give us solid minutes at worst.

 

[justinhub2003]

So you are only seeing 3, maybe 4 more losses the rest of the season? I think they will have at least 1 or 2 "WTF" losses away from home and I could see them splitting the games with UConn, Houston and SMU. Since joining the AAC our best season is 27-7 with 11 losses the past 2 seasons. I think this team will drop a few close games they should win but it will hopefully be a learning experience and toughen them up for March Madness.

here are MY predictions for the rest of the season. you can say they are bogus and I am not a real fan but the only game I've picked wrong so far was the Iowa St game.

vs Marshall Win
at Temple Loss
vs Tulane Win
at Houston Loss
vs SMU Win
at ECU Win
vs Temple Win
at Tulane Win
vs Xavier Loss
vs USF Win
at Tulsa Win
vs Uconn Loss
vs UCF Win
at SMU Loss
at USF Win
vs Tulsa Win
vs Memphis Loss
at UCF Win
vs Houston Win
at Uconn Loss

13-7 the rest of the way.

I know I have them losing to UConn both games but for some reason I feel UConn is eventually going to gel and run through the conference schedule.

No amount of gelling will make up for Gilbert and larrier missing.

 

[Jon Rycek]

Yeah. 26-5 is really good. That's winning 17 out of 20 to end the year. Really tough to do with 9 road games and Xavier left. Not impossible by any means, with the players we have. But it's a grind for sure.

Yeah I'm not saying it will be easy, but as it's been stated before, we will be a favorite in probably every game the rest of the season. 17-3 in favored games isn't that difficult when you think about it that way. I just think this team has it in them this year. Time will tell, but I'm confident in 26-5, even a game or two better if things go right.

 

[Jon Rycek]

Easy to have questions about it when it was 3 players who had never played, plus Jenifer and Moore. Glad to be able to count on 4 of those guys to give us solid minutes at worst.

Oh I'm not saying it shouldn't have been a question, just funny how our views have changed since the beginning of the season. But like I said, I'd rather know we have the depth and that it's our stars that need to step up a little, because I have faith that they will.

 

[spinal070508]

here are MY predictions for the rest of the season. you can say they are bogus and I am not a real fan but the only game I've picked wrong so far was the Iowa St game.


What else would you have got wrong? Being negative about every game that's obviously the one you would have taken Iowa state. We will not go 13-7 lol. 6 conference losses, that's a joke at best. I think we are gonna catch Xavier this year and I see 2-3 conference losses at most.

The shootout should be a very good game this year but X will be a different team for that game. They get Davis back and Gates will have a few more games under his belt. If Davis wasn't going to be back for that game I would have changed it to a UC win. Davis likes to save his good shooting games for UC. 17pts last year and 12 the year before.

I also think the starters for x are better scorers than our starters. Evans and Washington are the guys we will have to rely on this year. Troy can score but disappears a lot. Sumner, Blueitt, Macura/Davis and Bernard can all stroke it from 3 or beat their guy off the dribble. They also have Yancy's cousin who can score in bunches from 3 and is supposedly their best defender. Their weakness is in the interior. Their bigs cannot make easy layups but they are a very good rebounding team.

Troy < Sumner
Evans = Bluiett (Blueitt hasn't done much in the shootouts. due for a big game)
Johnson < Macura or Davis
Clark > Bernard (Depends which clark shows up)
Washington>Gaston

 

[JasonS]

Conference play is a grind. Xavier is a toss up every year. So, based on that, I'm thinking 15-3 in conference is reasonable and would be good enough to win the league (probably by a couple games). The conference tourney will be a crap shoot since it is on UCONN's floor again. Will depend on when UC would have to play UCONN. I think 26-5 is reasonable. Could be 25-6 as well. I don't see anything worse than that, barring injuries, of course.

 

[spinal070508]

No amount of gelling will make up for Gilbert and larrier missing.

They still have Admas, Purvis and Brimah. Those 3 should match up well with Troy, Evans and Washington.

 

[waterhead]

Oh I'm not saying it shouldn't have been a question, just funny how our views have changed since the beginning of the season. But like I said, I'd rather know we have the depth and that it's our stars that need to step up a little, because I have faith that they will.

With the recent surge from Cumberland I can safely say we are getting equal or better performance out of 4 bench guys than what I expected. Of course Washington has been a nice surprise but Troy and KJ have not played better than last year. Evans has come down to earth from his fast start...but still very solid. Clark is playing much better than he started.

Most of this is positive...but Troy needs to step it up a little from 3 and KJ too.

 

[JasonS]

They still have Admas, Purvis and Brimah. Those 3 should match up well with Troy, Evans and Washington.

UCONN is always tough on their home floor. They get the Xavier home court treatment. No way we shouldn't beat them at home and frankly, we should win on their floor too assuming no 4 steps, no dribble, in 0.8 seconds, 80 foot heave garbage.