our non conference resume is gonna STINK

[CorduroyG]

if we dont beat wisconsin. we better not be on the bubble. last year beating uconn and a&m in atlantis basically got us in the tourny, this year we'll have nothing.

 

[OttoMets]

If we rack up the number of conference losses we did last season, we deserve to be on the wrong side of the bubble. Don't know how we'll do tomorrow night (though I have a hunch it'll go better than Saturday did), but if getting swept by South Carolina and Wisconsin hurts our NCAA chances, so be it.

 

[Delmar]

What we all tend to forget is how the college game has changed. There just aren't that many good teams. With the turnover of rosters being so significant, it takes a while for teams to gel --or they never do. We may struggle, but so will just about everybody else.

And we have a coach who is able to make it work better than most.

 

[Cusefan0307]

You guys are crazy. One loss and bubble talk? We are ninth in Kenpom rating. Talk about overreaction Monday. Just get better and everything else will take care of itself.

 

[cuseinseattle]

The bubble talk has started. YES! Once I saw a thread about m-2-m defense I know the bubble talk isn't far behind. We are going to win more than 24 games this year so I'm not worried about the bubble.

 

[Trueblue25]

This thread is making me dizzy from all the pansyness

It's one damn loss

 

[Day2]

 

[Col. Bleep]

We're playing 9 guys...5 of them have never played a single game in orange before this season.
There's talent.
But it takes time to jell as a team to be good enough to beat good teams.
Whatever happens against Wisconsin, we'll be all right...especially after we beat the #$!&%^ out of UConn and G-town.

 

[Briancuse]

We're playing 9 guys...5 of them have never played a single game in orange before this season.
There's talent.
But it takes time to jell as a team to be good enough to beat good teams.
Whatever happens against Wisconsin, we'll be all right...especially after we beat the #$!&%^ out of UConn and G-town.

I think we all expected this, two of our main guys are coming from different programs with different systems, learning a new system and zone defense, its going to take time, I would not want to play this team later in the year, but we are going to take some lumps early.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

I remember all of the bubble talk on this forum when we lost to Memphis at MSG to open the 2002-03 season.

 

[OrangeDW]

You guys are crazy. One loss and bubble talk? We are ninth in Kenpom rating. Talk about overreaction Monday. Just get better and everything else will take care of itself.

From half the board predicting a national title, to bubble talk. Just like that. LOL.

 

[realorange]

This board could give a psych prof. fodder for a years worth of classes.

 

[HoustonCuse]

This board could give a psych prof. fodder for a years worth of classes.

Any hardcore sports board could.

 

[Zippy1808]

meantime the Northwestern fans are buying Final Four tickets. funny.

 

[Briancuse]

Any hardcore sports board could.

They need to offer of a sports fan pysch class in colleges.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

You guys are crazy. One loss and bubble talk? We are ninth in Kenpom rating. Talk about overreaction Monday. Just get better and everything else will take care of itself.

citing a ken pom ranking at this stage in the season is equally baseless as the bubble talk.

 

[wallacecuse]

He's actually correct - our OOC sked will be w/o any key wins should we lose tonight, as UConn, Gtown, and SJU look to be crap run-over 50x. However, it only becomes relevant if we have a mediocre record in conference. We would have no margin for error in that scenario.

 

[Jeremy L.]

South Carolina is probably going to the tournament and so is Wisconsin. I'm not worried about the non-conference resume unless we drop a game to UConn, Georgetown or St. John's

 

[Cuse House]

Wait until we win tonight, the championship talk will commence. You guys are crazy.

 

[Newhouser]

if we dont beat wisconsin. we better not be on the bubble. last year beating uconn and a&m in atlantis basically got us in the tourny, this year we'll have nothing.

But if we win - a win at Wiscy is more impressive than beating A&M and UCANT on neutral floors last year. This win would be big come tourney time if we are in the position to need it.

 

[OttoMets]

He's actually correct - our OOC sked will be w/o any key wins should we lose tonight, as UConn, Gtown, and SJU look to be crap run-over 50x. However, it only becomes relevant if we have a mediocre record in conference. We would have no margin for error in that scenario.

Exactly, don't want to speak for the poster, but I thought his point was pretty clear. If we ended up in bubble territory, the loss to some SEC team would hurt us. But he's not predicting that we'll be on the bubble.

 

[Eric15]

There's no reason to even mention the word bubble at this point. We will be fine and should have a solid conference record. But the underlying point of the OP is completely correct. If we lose to Wisconsin our non-conference resume will not be that good with UConn and Gtown inevitably having bad RPIs.

 

[Cuse House]

Exactly, don't want to speak for the poster, but I thought his point was pretty clear. If we ended up in bubble territory, the loss to some SEC team would hurt us. But he's not predicting that we'll be on the bubble.

You mean a loss to a ranked team? Not sure how losing to South Carolina hurts us, they are good and will contend in the SEC.

 

[OttoMets]

You mean a loss to a ranked team? Not sure how losing to South Carolina hurts us, they are good and will contend in the SEC.

Contend for what, second place?

It's early - we don't know how good they are. It's like clockwork, every year conventional board wisdom is that some Virginia Tech or California is going to be a fantastic team in their conference by virtue of having played a good game against SU. Then they end up 18-13 and the people who made those claims (and only saw 40 minutes of that team all season) are nowhere to be found.

For SC, we'll see. They played tenacious defense against a very accommodating opponent, and they're in a crappy league. Maybe they're really good. If they wind up a ranked team, we'll all be happy about that.

 

[Cuse House]

Contend for what, second place?

It's early - we don't know how good they are. It's like clockwork, every year conventional board wisdom is that some Virginia Tech or California is going to be a fantastic team in their conference by virtue of having played a good game against SU. Then they end up 18-13 and the people who made those claims (and only saw 40 minutes of that team all season) are nowhere to be found.

For SC, we'll see. They played tenacious defense against a very accommodating opponent, and they're in a crappy league. Maybe they're really good. If they wind up a ranked team, we'll all be happy about that.

They have beaten 3 good teams (Us, Monmouth, and Michigan). That is 3 quality non-conference wins. They will finish 1st or 2nd in the SEC and likely be above 20 wins again this year more than likely they are in the 22-25 range. They also returned their best players. They are a tournament team, and no way they don't win 20 games in their conference.