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Sources: SEC teams not involved in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge will play home-and-home series' starting in 19-20 against select teams from the American Conference. The goal of the alliance between the leagues is create more Quad 1 and 2 opportunities.




not a bad move for the aac.
 
This is what should have been happening all along.

Instead of each school needing to schedule the entire out of conference season, the AAC needs to be supporting and setting these programs up with the best opportunities to compete with other top conferences.

Should be one game each season with Big 10, SEC, ACC, Big 12. I'd say Big East too, but that might mess up the crosstown. I may even be willing to bypass that if we had chances with teams from all of those conferences each season.

Tournaments are great but having a built in process makes so much more sense.
 
Temple has landed transfer Jake Forrester and Tai Strickland...they are having a quality free agency.
 
wow



Sources: Matchups for next season's inaugural AAC/SEC Alliance:

Houston at South Carolina
Vanderbilt/'SMU (Location is TBD)
Georgia at Memphis
Ole Miss at Wichita State

All four are home-and-home series'.
 
cincrulz11 said:
wow



Sources: Matchups for next season's inaugural AAC/SEC Alliance:

Houston at South Carolina
Vanderbilt/'SMU (Location is TBD)
Georgia at Memphis
Ole Miss at Wichita State

All four are home-and-home series'.
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I’m concerned that we will be left out on stuff like this until Brannen proves the program is in good hands.


I expect to see the same kinda thing happen when it comes to prime time games.

That said we didn’t exactly have room on our schedule for another high level game
 
justinhub2003 said:
I’m concerned that we will be left out on stuff like this until Brannen proves the program is in good hands.


I expect to see the same kinda thing happen when it comes to prime time games.

That said we didn’t exactly have room on our schedule for another high level game
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scheduling ability had to play some part. smu over us or uconn can't be the exposure the league wants.


but this being for 2 years blows.
 
If Memphis get RJ Hampton tomorrow I’m gonna start suspecting some shady stuff going on
 
Nothing about Penny. The man still has a shoe that sell out. Not to mention he relate to players better than any other college coach right now
 
In a very surprising bit of news, Houston's Armoni Brooks is STAYING in the draft which means they have now lost 4 of 5 starters from last year's team.
 
Hopefully the bottom of the conference will be a little better this year.

Tulane brought in KJ Lawson (Kansas), Jordan Walker (Seton Hall), Christion Thompson (Rhode Island), and Nic Thomas (Norfolk St) along with four freshmen. They also get Ray Ona Embo back.

East Carolina is completely overhauling their roster with 11 new players around AAC freshmen of the year Jayden Gardner and Shawn Williams.
 
sedziobs said:
Hopefully the bottom of the conference will be a little better this year.

Tulane brought in KJ Lawson (Kansas), Jordan Walker (Seton Hall), Christion Thompson (Rhode Island), and Nic Thomas (Norfolk St) along with four freshmen. They also get Ray Ona Embo back.

East Carolina is completely overhauling their roster with 11 new players around AAC freshmen of the year Jayden Gardner and Shawn Williams.
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And they landed a 7ft center who we were also at least checking in on
 
American Conference teams ranked by percentage of returning scoring for 19-20:

1. South Florida (92.4%)
2. Temple (66.1%)
3. UConn (65.1%)
4. Cincinnati (58.2%)
5. ECU (56.5%)
6. Tulsa (52%)
7. Wichita State (50.8%)
8. SMU (47.2%)
9. Houston (39.4%)
10. Memphis (26.7%)
11. UCF (19.7%)
12. Tulane (13.1%)


Can't necessarily predict the league's standings based off this but it at least gives a point of reference for what other teams return compared to us.
 
Queens_NYC said:
American Conference teams ranked by percentage of returning scoring for 19-20:

1. South Florida (92.4%)
2. Temple (66.1%)
3. UConn (65.1%)
4. Cincinnati (58.2%)
5. ECU (56.5%)
6. Tulsa (52%)
7. Wichita State (50.8%)
8. SMU (47.2%)
9. Houston (39.4%)
10. Memphis (26.7%)
11. UCF (19.7%)
12. Tulane (13.1%)



Can't necessarily predict the league's standings based off this but it at least gives a point of reference for what other teams return compared to us.
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What I read from that is the top 4 isn't going to be Houston/Cincy/UCF/Wich St at all.

Teams that have't finished top 4 in the last 4 years include Memphis, UConn, USF - one of them surely will be top 4, maybe 2 of them. I think USF wins 11-12 games this year in conference.
 
kskenyon4 said:
What I read from that is the top 4 isn't going to be Houston/Cincy/UCF/Wich St at all.

Teams that have't finished top 4 in the last 4 years include Memphis, UConn, USF - one of them surely will be top 4, maybe 2 of them. I think USF wins 11-12 games this year in conference.
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I agree with your second statement a little more than your first. Memphis, UConn and USF will assuredly finish higher in the league standings next year than they did in 18-19. It's reasonable for each of those teams to legitimately aspire to reach the NCAA tournament next season.

Of the other group, I think UCF is the only team you can really count out at the moment. Houston still returns a very solid core from last year that should make an adequate step up into larger roles. For us and Wichita, I think both teams will improve their collective talent compared to last year despite both losing 5-6 scholarship players. Both teams have as good of arguments for top 4 as any other.
 

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