Tomorrow is a must win

[Blanko97]

So Michigan looks GOOD. Definitely better than Houston. TENN might be a toss up but I think Michigan ends up favored

 

[Cuse99&01]

Speaking of Auburn - it is odd that they have Bruce Pearl on the call of Auburn/Mich game

 

[PoppyHart]

I wish the NCAAT had this format. This is genius.

 

[Hawknate144]

I think Maryland if they lose by 20+ would be more negative than Auburn and we would play them instead of Auburn.

I hope its auburn, the team is talented enough that by the end of the season they will probably be pretty good, but Steven Pearl is not a great coach right now and they have a lot of the same weaknesses we do I.E not great 3 point shooting and bad FTs

 

[Hawknate144]

would also be fine with maryland, but I think the upside is better with Auburn while being a similarly winnable game

 

[Sbucketball]

I hope its auburn, the team is talented enough that by the end of the season they will probably be pretty good, but Steven Pearl is not a great coach right now and they have a lot of the same weaknesses we do I.E not great 3 point shooting and bad FTs

Auburn’s going to go wild tomorrow to redeem itself. Michigan is humiliating them.

 

[Sherman20]

I think it's more about the composition of the schedule. We have tomato cans lined up for the ENTIRE pre-conference schedule, EXCEPT for this tournament and the ACC/SEC challenge. 4 chances to get a marquee win. We're 0-2.

So...

Must win, might be more like necessary win. Because I don't see how we can qualify for the NCAA if we don't get an OOC victory over anyone a step up from a traffic cone.

Good conference wins will suffice.

 

[Irt4su]

What about this team makes me think we win tomorrow? Nothing right now. And that stinks

 

[Dinkyspond]

craziness

 

[Sherman20]

So Michigan looks GOOD. Definitely better than Houston. TENN might be a toss up but I think Michigan ends up favored

Michigan is stacked. They have so much talent and size, get great movement and Dusty May is a very good coach. Lendeborg is the real deal. They’re gonna win it all.

 

[Sherman20]

I don’t want to play Auburn. Oregon or Creighton would be nice. San Diego State is also a winnable game. Rutgers or UNLV would do nothing for our resume. We have to avoid those two.

 

[Sherman20]

Not the NBA but I sort of think he moves on somewhere. Maybe the G League. Maybe another school.

I don’t see that. He’ll be back at Cuse. Guys need to be patient with their development.

 

[Scooch]

This is someone who clearly has never participated in a youth hockey tournament before.

 

[Sherman20]

Tomorrow's game is important. I didn't want to dismiss that. Because it makes me doubt our ability to go 10-8 or 11-7 in the ACC. But losing these first two games isn't crushing -- would have been really rewarding though.

We want to get that one tomorrow and not rely on Tennessee. That being said, 11-7 in the ACC will almost certainly get you a good enough resume to get in the tournament. You can't get to 11 wins in the ACC without building quality. It's way different than last year. Of course the real question is could we get to 11-7?

Looking at the schedule as of now we have
8 Q1 games
7 Q2 games
3 Q3 games

You can't get to 11 wins without getting at least a few Q1 wins.

My Iggy prediction had us going 10-3 in the non conference (thinking 1 win in Vegas) and 12-6 in the ACC.

 

[im4cuse]

This is someone who clearly has never participated in a youth hockey tournament before.

Except in youth hockey we’d end up playing LeMoyne or Colgate.

 

[RF2044]

Good conference wins will suffice.

No, they won't

 

[Blanko97]

No, they won't

I’ll never understand how it’s 2025 and people still don’t understand you need non con success to be real player in the bubble discussion

 

[phil77]

Well SDSU looks different tonight

 

[blust2i3d4]

Who would we play?

San Diego St/Oregon loser. Also Rutgers or UNLV is a possibility.

 

[blust2i3d4]

There’s only 18 ACC games this year, the home schedule is charmin soft, and our toughest opponents are mainly on the road.

After Tennessee we play sub 150 teams most of the OOC.

Beating Notre Dame, Cal, SMU, Pitt, Virginia Tech and Miami in the dome isn’t moving the needle.

You’re likely looking at having to win every home game which includes UNC and Clemson while trying to peel off 1 or 2 of UNC/Duke/Louisville on the road.

Again I know the ACC is better, but our ACC schedule is not to our advantage.

Cal is now winning against UNLA (ranked). I think Cal and SMU would be decent wins.

 

[djorange1989]

Well SDSU looks different tonight

Yep they have talent but have not been good out of the gate. Certainly look like a normal SDSU team so far tonight

 

[Sherman20]

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San Diego St/Oregon loser. Also Rutgers or UNLV is a possibility.

We have to avoid playing Rutgers or UNLV. Those teams would do nothing for our resume. Hope that Oregon wins so we play tomorrow against a better team.

 

[phil77]

This is where we are at right now: 4 of these teams play on Turkey day. Creighton and Rutgers are a lock for Thursday

Creighton 0-2 -25
Rutgers 0-2 -20

Syracuse 0-2 -15

San Diego 0-1 -20
Oregon 0-1 -11
UNLV 0-1 -7

 

[FloridaCuse]

Not certain there’s TV for our next game. Can anyone confirm??

I think games not on TNT will be on TruTV.

 

[FloridaCuse]

This is where we are at right now: 4 of these teams play on Turkey day. Creighton and Rutgers are a lock for Thursday

Creighton 0-2 -25
Rutgers 0-2 -20

Syracuse 0-2 -15

San Diego 0-1 -20
Oregon 0-1 -11
UNLV 0-1 -7

I just read somewhere that UNLV as the local team will also play on Thursday.