Top 25?

[fifty]

Need to sweep through tulsa to get ranked? You cra cray

[Grant Carter]

Need to sweep through tulsa to get ranked? You cra cray

I would think it would be sooner too, but the only other possible options before Tulsa are sweeping through Houston or sweeping through UCF.


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[fifty]

Pollsters love ranking us so when we get violations it's a bigger story.

[JasonB]

There are like 17 schools between us and number 25... nobody in our league is getting votes. I think our only hope through Tulsa would be for Tulsa to go undefeated up to that game, start getting some votes, and then we beat them.

[blackoutpony]

Jason's right. CTFO guys. AAC isn't that strong this year and we lost our 3 hardest OOC games. We need to rattle off a few more wins first.

[UCincinnati]

I'm a little concerned at our depleted roster.. Reminds me of when cinci had Kenyon Martin and should've been a #1 seed... Martin broke his leg and cmte took into account, knocking them down a few notches

That happened very late in the season in the conference tournament so there was no time for Cincy to show how they would play without him. Not really analogous to our situation at this point since there are 12 games left plus the conference tourney.


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Yeah, Cincinnati had no games to prove how good they were and ended up with a #2 seed and lost to Bill Self's Tulsa team in the second round.

A better comparison may have been our 2005-06 team that was 13-3 when one of our starters Armein Kirkland tore his ACL, I believe we finished at 19-11 and lost at the buzzer in the Big East tournament. We were left out and the committee pointed to the injury even though we still registered 2-3 quality wins without him.

[SMU1523]

35 in coaches poll with 12 pts.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings

36 in AP Top 25 with 11 pts.

[LA_Mustang]

36th in the AP - 11 votes.

[PonyFan32]

With 9-10 teams in front of us just to hit #25, it's going to take some time to be ranked again anyways. And the light schedule coming up doesn't inspire voting confidence. Rankings are nice but trying to keep my eye on the real prize this year - conf championship and tourney berth.

[Pony_Law]

Just keep winning and this will take care of itself. The next 4 games are all very winnable.

[MFFL02]

Just keep winning and this will take care of itself. The next 4 games are all very winnable.

Yep. It looks like we might have to win 6 games in a row to crack the Top 25. I don't think wins over Tulane, Houston, South Florida and UCF get us in. It probably puts us right on the cusp, but none of those are really quality opponents and I don't think the voters will take too much notice. But, if we win those four, then defeat Cincinnati, we're certainly in. However, the Cincy game is on a Thursday and we have to play at Tulsa that Saturday. Since the Top 25 polls only refresh every Monday, it looks like we may need 6 wins in a row to make it into the Top 25. Doable? Maybe.

[Mustangsabu]

Time for a stupid question. Does being top at the end of the regular conference season get us in the NCAA or do we have to win the Tourney?

[Grant Carter]

Time for a stupid question. Does being top at the end of the regular conference season get us in the NCAA or do we have to win the Tourney?

Have to win the tourney.


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[mustangxc]

Time for a stupid question. Does being top at the end of the regular conference season get us in the NCAA or do we have to win the Tourney?

The AAC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is designated to the AAC tournament champion. The AAC regular season champion is guaranteed a spot in the NIT if it fails to make the NCAA tournament. I would think the AAC has enough prestige that the regular season champion would be a lock for the NCAA tournament, but there are no guarantees. We have to win the conference tournament to remove the human element.

[LA_Mustang]

Time for a stupid question. Does being top at the end of the regular conference season get us in the NCAA or do we have to win the Tourney?

While it is not an automatic bid, if you win the regular season of a major conference you're in the tournament regardless of how you do in the conference tourney.

BTW, I think most agree the major bball conferences are Big XII, Big 10, ACC, Pac 12, American, Big East SEC, A10 and MWC.