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I think we are a tournament team

Postby Rebel10 » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:22 pm

Yes, I know this sounds strange coming from me but I think we are. Not saying I know what seed we should be but the team is a tournament team imo. The thing I was looking for is how we would do against middle of the road competition. We have played mostly bad teams and good teams but not many middle of the road teams. USF is a middle of the road team that is not bad but they are super good either and we preformed very well at home against them. I put UCF and Rutgers in that same category of middle of the road teams as well. Let's beat UCF and go from there. GO SMU.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby Pony ^ » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:38 pm

We are good and only getting better. Need to reel off a few straight W's as we player lesser opponents. Then it's off to the big show with home games against memphis and cincy
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby skyscraper » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:42 pm

At this moment, yes, we are a tournament team. I can't believe it. But it's actually a logical conclusion to come to.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby OhioBrownFan » Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:49 pm

It's not that illogical. This team is the 4th best in the conference on a neutral floor. And they don't have a bad loss. One bad loss could crush this team (Rutgers, Temple, UCF, USF). That's all it takes for them to be on the outside looking back in. But if they sweep those and get a couple more quality wins, they got a strong resume. I'm still hoping the Virginia loss doesn't come back to bite them. Gotta have those.

In other news, Rebel, wtf. I don't like these damn predictions. Take them elsewhere :lol:
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby SMU 86 » Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:57 pm

Be interesting to see how we do against UCF at UCF and Rutgers at Moody. I consider Houston as a pretty good team and not a middle of the road team.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby Nacho » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:01 pm

we will know how good we are when the season is over.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby Rebel10 » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:01 pm

OhioBrownFan wrote:It's not that illogical. This team is the 4th best in the conference on a neutral floor. And they don't have a bad loss. One bad loss could crush this team (Rutgers, Temple, UCF, USF). That's all it takes for them to be on the outside looking back in. But if they sweep those and get a couple more quality wins, they got a strong resume. I'm still hoping the Virginia loss doesn't come back to bite them. Gotta have those.

In other news, Rebel, wtf. I don't like these damn predictions. Take them elsewhere :lol:

LOL. That is why I said I know this sounds strange coming from me. Obviously I don't know whether the team will make the NCAA tournament or not but I believe we are currently playing at the level of an NCAA tournament team. Keep up the good work Mustangs.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby Nacho » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:04 pm

we have lost to all the good teams we have played except uconn. not exactly nc material yet.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby OhioBrownFan » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:07 pm

Rebel10 wrote:
OhioBrownFan wrote:It's not that illogical. This team is the 4th best in the conference on a neutral floor. And they don't have a bad loss. One bad loss could crush this team (Rutgers, Temple, UCF, USF). That's all it takes for them to be on the outside looking back in. But if they sweep those and get a couple more quality wins, they got a strong resume. I'm still hoping the Virginia loss doesn't come back to bite them. Gotta have those.

In other news, Rebel, wtf. I don't like these damn predictions. Take them elsewhere :lol:

LOL. That is why I said I know this sounds strange coming from me. Obviously I don't know whether the team will make the NCAA tournament or not but I believe we are currently playing at the level of an NCAA tournament team. Keep up the good work Mustangs.


I've watched quite a bit of ball this year and I haven't seen 40 teams better. I think they're right in that mix but at the end of the day it will come down to W-L. Tourney or not, Moody needs to be packed so that Brown can feel comfortable bringing in recruits for games and know they will have a good experience. Obviously the game is a very, very small piece of recruiting, but that is where it starts or what puts one school over the top. Need the Dallas kids to know this is a great hometown alternative to Kansas, Texas, or Oklahoma State.

And as for the argument they've lost to all good teams they've played, so has Ohio State pretty much. But if you win the games you're supposed to, that's better than 99% of the teams in CBB. That's the sign of a good team. Great teams win the games they're not supposed to.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby Nacho » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:09 pm

if we don't beat the good teams in our conference we aren't going anywhere.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby Rebel10 » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:15 pm

Nacho wrote:if we don't beat the good teams in our conference we aren't going anywhere.

NIT or CBI?
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby CalallenStang » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:15 pm

Nacho wrote:if we don't beat the good teams in our conference we aren't going anywhere.


We already beat UConn. They are a good team in our conference.
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby CalallenStang » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:17 pm

Rebel10 wrote:
Nacho wrote:if we don't beat the good teams in our conference we aren't going anywhere.

NIT or CBI?


NIT if we don't make NCAA tourney if we don't collapse completely.

I've been saying 18 wins and NIT for awhile now. Going to change that to 20 wins and NCAA berth after the past 4 games
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby Harry0569 » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:25 pm

Lunardi has us as a 11 seed playing in SA vs. Oregon
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Re: I think we are a tournament team

Postby LA_Mustang » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:29 pm

Nacho wrote:we have lost to all the good teams we have played except uconn. not exactly nc material yet.

We beat the team tied for first in the SEC (Texas A&M, 3-0 in SEC play). That's not a good win?

btw, OBF made a great point. The fact that we've avoided a bad loss is huge, especially if you're in that 30-50 range.
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