SoCal_Pony wrote:SmooBoy wrote:Last time losing by 20+ to unranked opponent at home? Anyone?
Ranked you say????, I have a couple of rankings
Sagarin had them at #172 entering this game
Lobos projected to finish tied for 8th in the MWC with Wyoming and only above San Jose St and Air Force
CP is correct, we are most likely entering a Doh phase for our program
Greetings Mustangs. Sorry, I had to create an account to correct a few things.
The Lobos were picked to finish 5th in the MWC, not 8th. Wyoming was picked to finish 2nd, not 8th. You're looking at last year's preseason poll for the MWC. Also, Sagarin weights early rankings heavily on last year's performance. We are a vastly different team from last year. We had zero inside game last year, and added two extremely experienced D1 big men transfers in the off-season, both of whom were close to getting double-doubles tonight against SMU (one had 18/9, the other had 15/8). Plus we added the California Mr. Basketball who had 7 assists for us tonight.
We are most assuredly much, much better than the #172 team in the country, and the numbers will prove that as the season goes on. Right now, this is probably at least a top-75 team, with the potential to be better than that.
I wouldn't feel too badly about this loss. Your roster turned over quite a bit, and you lost to a very good, experienced basketball team that will likely finish in the top 4 in the Mountain West and win 20+ games. Good game tonight, and good luck in the AAC.