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AAC Basketball - Keeping up the Big East Glory

Renegade

Charge on!
Looks like 5 of 10 AAC schools will make the tourney. That's pretty impressive, and even with the loss of Louisville next year, AAC will still be a 4-6 bid league, especially if Temple gets it together. Going to be a lot more impressive than what the new Big East is doing.
 

Chase

Well-Known Member
The Big East is still a much better conference top to bottom and has the best team in either league. Once you go past the top 5 AAC teams, they're all terrible. Big East is currently the 3rd rated conference and the AAC is 7th.
 

Rutgers Mike

Dr. Sad
The Big East is still a much better conference top to bottom and has the best team in either league. Once you go past the top 5 AAC teams, they're all terrible. Big East is currently the 3rd rated conference and the AAC is 7th.

Which team in the Big East is better than Louisville? Or Cincinnati?
 

Renegade

Charge on!
The Big East is still a much better conference top to bottom and has the best team in either league. Once you go past the top 5 AAC teams, they're all terrible. Big East is currently the 3rd rated conference and the AAC is 7th.

And yet all 5 of those teams are better than the best Big East team. Big East will get 2 bids at most for a league of the same size. So their bottom teams might be better than the AAC's bottom, but so what?
 

Chase

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Wait, wat? Villanova and Creighton as of right now are better than any AAC team and I don't think it's close. Louisville might be a top 10 team in some fabricated Corches poll but they only have 3 top 100 wins and there is something like 5 games left in the regular season.

Maybe it's this meth I'm smoking but you cray if you think that SMU is a better team than Villanova or Creighton. They can't beat anyone out of Dallas.

Also, no chance Big East only gets 2 teams in the tourney. They will get at least 4. Probably 5.
 

bruin228

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NCAA Moderator
When Louisville beat Cincy by 1 the other day, that was the first Top 25 team they've beaten all year
 

Renegade

Charge on!
Looks like USF's new AD (previously the Asst AD at UCLA) will be hiring a basketball coach soon. In an interview with the USF student newspaper, President Genshaft let her feelings on the basketball team be known.

But Genshaft had stronger words for the basketball program.

"It's hard to tolerate mediocrity," Genshaft said. "Especially with a university that's on the move and everything else is moving forward except for our revenue sports. I'm really confident about Willie (Taggart) moving forward, but we've got to get basketball going."

Genshaft then paused before clarifying she meant men's basketball, as women's basketball has a chance at a second consecutive NCAA Tournament bid pending a decision on Sunday.

Laughing, she referred to the men's basketball team and made a gagging noise, followed by a hand gesture of a gun to the head, indicating her frustration with the program.
 

Renegade

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USF hired and then didn't hire Manhattan coach Steve Masiello. He had agreed to a 6-year deal worth over $1m per year. But then he failed his background check, so back to square one for USF. (we need a good schadenfreude icon)
 

Chase

Well-Known Member
It's South Florida though. They should have hired him while he was finishing his degree at the University of Phoenix.


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Renegade

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It's South Florida though. They should have hired him while he was finishing his degree at the University of Phoenix.


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I love bashing USF, but it's a very reputable academic institution that is a major research university (over $400m in sponsored research last year). Not sure where their freshman admit standards are at right now, but they've been just a little lower than UCF's the past few years, and those are higher than most of the SEC universities not named Florida or Vanderbilt. USF nor UCF are overgrown community colleges or little regional universities with no standards like Eastern Michigan despite popular opinion.
 

doh

THANK YOU Dermott McHeshi
USF hires a new AD… who hires a search firm to make his decision for him? That school is a complete joke when it comes to athletics.
 

Rutgers Mike

Dr. Sad
Wait, wat? Villanova and Creighton as of right now are better than any AAC team and I don't think it's close. Louisville might be a top 10 team in some fabricated Corches poll but they only have 3 top 100 wins and there is something like 5 games left in the regular season.

Maybe it's this meth I'm smoking but you cray if you think that SMU is a better team than Villanova or Creighton. They can't beat anyone out of Dallas.

Also, no chance Big East only gets 2 teams in the tourney. They will get at least 4. Probably 5.

Would you like to rethink your statement that Villanova and Creighton are better than any AAC team?
 

Renegade

Charge on!
Probably not because SMU didn't even make the tourney

It's their own fault for choking against a bad Houston team. But they're going to win the NIT, and I'd put them up against anyone in the BE. Might lose to Nova or Creighton, but they could definitely beat them. But UL, UConn, and even Memphis. Any day, any time, any place.
 

Renegade

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Tulsa reportedly has hired Frank Haith away from Mizzou. Guess some of those oil rich Tulsa boosters decided to pony up in the arms race against SMU.
 

Corn Hawk

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Tulsa reportedly has hired Frank Haith away from Mizzou. Guess some of those oil rich Tulsa boosters decided to pony up in the arms race against SMU.
I don't know about that. He left Mizzou because he was going to get fired after next season.
 
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