Don'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.
SMU tied with Nevada for second...
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Re: SMU tied with Nevada for second...
We need to root for fresno to lose... doesn't really matter if we're 2nd or 3rd in the conference. shoot for the top...
Re: SMU tied with Nevada for second...
Actually we have another game with UTEP, as well, so thats 2 games with the bottom feeders.
Fresno has the majority of their road games left, is the Tulsa/Rice trip no longer considered tough games?
Fresno has the majority of their road games left, is the Tulsa/Rice trip no longer considered tough games?
Some will tell you that a glass is half empty, and others that the same glass is half full. But all CPC really wants to know is...... does the drink taste good?
Re: SMU tied with Nevada for second...
That doesnt make any sense. How do we have easily the toughest schedule, when we play Boise twice and have 6 games at home, while Fresno and Nevada play each other twice, and each have 6 road games left? We're all playing roughly the same teams here, its all the same conference. And in a conference where everyone has at least 2 wins and everyone but Fresno has at least 3 losses. Home court seems to be the determining factor in alot of thse games, it would seem that the teams with the most road games would have the toughest schedule.