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Louisville unranked but getting votes...

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=263282168

Current STUDent wrote:Louisville unranked but getting votes...

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=263282168

Nice. I'm going to meet up with your brother tomorrow.

I saw the Dayton-UL score scroll across the bottom of the screen. Then I saw that Florida St was down 32 to Pittsburgh. Hard to figure out who's having a down year or not at this point

Thats great news.

Certainly makes our Dayton win that much more meaningful.

This could be a great year and one of the great suprises in a long time, Hell some Memphis fans over on the C-USA boards are already projecting us to the big dance , people are taking notice.

Im giving the team a free pass on the FSU game. I watched that video replay and SMU looked like the better team, but it was the first true road game and we were a bit tight and the breaks didn't go our way. I bet we could handle them if we play them again.

Florida St is a Top 20 team at home, somewhat woeful on the road--Top 30-40 overall.. A good effort by the Ponies in Tallahassee

And yes Dayton is a good team which could well make the dance this year

Everyone was saying what a horrible team we would have this year. No Final Four for us but I can't believe the change in play from last year. Let's go dancing next year.

RGV Pony wrote:I saw the Dayton-UL score scroll across the bottom of the screen. Then I saw that Florida St was down 32 to Pittsburgh. Hard to figure out who's having a down year or not at this point

Uhhh.. are any of you aware that Pitt is also the #3 team in the nation? FSU is a solid middle of the pack ACC team.

Anyone watching Western Kentucky beating Florida right now? Barely and it's early, but they're outhustling Florida on both ends of the floor right now.

Edit: Florida woke Up

dcpony wrote:

Current STUDent wrote:Louisville unranked but getting votes...

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=263282168

Nice. I'm going to meet up with your brother tomorrow.

I'm so pissed I can't be there. I was looking earlier to see if any airline was trying to offload a last minute red-eye to Houston for cheap...but alas no dice. Give everyone my best, I'll be watching on the computer.

The Dayton win over Louisville is huge for our RPI. We beat Dayton which beat Louisville which will get its share of wins in the BE (arguably the toughest basketball conference in the Country). In essence, we just inherited Louisville's RPI and get credit for all of its wins. If we end up with 18-20 win and a .500 or better conference record, we might be a bubble team because our RPI will be pretty high. On the down side, FSU just had its RPI increase because of Dayton's win. I suspect Dayton, FSU and LU will also be bubble teams this year. We've got a long way to go and a thin bench. But this is a promising development.

Through last night's games the Sagarin rankings have ConfUSA as the 10th best conference and sMU third in Conf USA

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc0607.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkt0607.htm

Sagarin's a joke. His ratings are based on last year's performance and he goes up and down from there.

Sagarin's Top 10 thus far

1 Florida
2 Butler
3 Pittsburgh
4 Maryland
5 Marquette
6 Duke
7 Ohio State
8 Gonzaga
9 Syracuse
10 Alabama

But neither the Sagarins nor the collegerpi starts to "come together" till January or so

Illinois St won at St John's Saturday night, 78-65.

LA_Mustang wrote:Illinois St won at St John's Saturday night, 78-65.

St. John's is horrible, but it still is a good road win for the redbirds. Anything to help us is good.