SMU tied with Nevada for second...
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:04 amDon't look now, but Rice is losing to Hawaii, so at the end of the night the Mustangs are in a second place tie int he conference with Nevada.
Nevada plays Fresno on Saturday; who do we root for? Nevada loses, and odds are we are in second on our own; but we need Fresno to drop some games. I think we root for Nevad to beat fresno and then lose their next game at Boise.
Looking at fresno's schedule, they really only have two "tough" games left - SMU and at Nevada. They have three games remaining against UTEP or SJS.
Nevada has two hard games left (home against Fresno and SMU), and two games against SJS or UTEP. They also still have to play at Hawaii.
SMU only has one game left against the bottom teams (SJS at home). We still have to play at fresno, at nevada, and have Tulsa and Hawaii at home.
I would say that SMU easily has the hardest schedule of the top three teams in the WAC. To have any chance of winning the conference, we desperately need to win out at home the rest of the way.
Hopefully we can position ourselves to get Tulsa and Fresno on the opposite bracket in the WAC tourney; winning the tourney is what we are going to need to do to get in the NCAAs.
Nevada plays Fresno on Saturday; who do we root for? Nevada loses, and odds are we are in second on our own; but we need Fresno to drop some games. I think we root for Nevad to beat fresno and then lose their next game at Boise.
Looking at fresno's schedule, they really only have two "tough" games left - SMU and at Nevada. They have three games remaining against UTEP or SJS.
Nevada has two hard games left (home against Fresno and SMU), and two games against SJS or UTEP. They also still have to play at Hawaii.
SMU only has one game left against the bottom teams (SJS at home). We still have to play at fresno, at nevada, and have Tulsa and Hawaii at home.
I would say that SMU easily has the hardest schedule of the top three teams in the WAC. To have any chance of winning the conference, we desperately need to win out at home the rest of the way.
Hopefully we can position ourselves to get Tulsa and Fresno on the opposite bracket in the WAC tourney; winning the tourney is what we are going to need to do to get in the NCAAs.