Next "Game of the Year", tonight (Thur 7 pm) UCF at Cinci ESPN2
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My #1 team is St. John’s. #2 is UCF
Nothing wrong with a fringe NCAA team/NIT team.
Neither team can expect to be Duke.
I know. That’s my point. North Carolina just blew them out
We already beat Temple.
Yes we will need a Q1 win. I thought 20% chance to beat Cincy at their place was fair.
I think we can and need to beat Cincy at home and Temple away.
Going 0-4 in our last 4 is a real possibility.
To be honest, I'm "new to college basketball"
Cincy is a legit blue blood top 10 program. So is UConn.
Our fans should be very proud that we expect to beat UConn home and away, and UCFeel like we can beat Cincy on a good day.
So, I will take this as a moral victory too.
Cincy is 48-2 at home in the last 3 years. I think we showed last night that we were a tournament team. Some of you are delusional because of the success we had had at football. The AAC is a basketball conference and if we can finish in the top 4, that is saying something. This is the best team we ever had and I believe Johnny Dawkins is the real deal. Basketball isn't about recruiting high school seniors unless you are a blue blood program. It is about picking off transfers who aren't getting playing time at their current school.
When the NBA sets the draft age back to 18 and implements the rules for an updated G-League that will take high school kids straight in, teams like Duke, UNC, Kansas and Kentucky are going to lose the majority of those high-end McDonald's All-Americans and not have as much of a talent gap as they have now.
Don’t be so sure of that. The kids with Star power are still going to go to those schools and build their brands in front of sold out arenas for games that air on ESPN.
They aren’t going to want to play in empty arenas on games that no one watches. You don’t get shoe deals that way, even if you are getting paid.
I guess it depends on your definition of good team. It’s a 30-40 rank tournament team. If that’s “good” or not is a matter of opinion.
You must not have followed UCF for long. Even after last nights loss, this is in fact the best team we have had with the only exception the nit final four team. We should be better, but we’re not. It’s a process and Dawkins is on a short leash. We are a top 50 team which is pretty damn good and there is still more to be played.
Now the loss to witchita and FAU, those are gripes I can get behind.
Ps, Terrell held the top scorer in check for basically the whole game. You don’t sub out that defense for a 3 point specialist in a low scoring game. Plenty of other issues last night including offensive movement or griffin playing instead of BJ on cincy’s last possession and griffin giving up the game clinching 3.
Tacko has some big plays last night but the refs tend to let him get whacked by opponents consistently. You play Tack because of his presence on D. Scoring is a bonus.
We all want to be an NCAA team, the fact is this game doesn’t cost us the bid. FAU and witchita would.
If we got the same kids no, but there will be a trickle down affect and we could get FAU or Stetson type players. I only see 5-10 kids being good enough a year. Too many kids will flop.
Cool story. The metric that they actually use for tournament selection has them in the top 40. RPI they are 31. At any rate a top 50 team and currently in the tournament by most projections would classify as good in many people’s eyes.
I'm sorry, you must have been looking for a board that cares about the Big 12 or your opinion.
Nobody on here knows more about Cincinnati basketball than Flem and I. You are welcome.
Even for me, that was brutal.
No need for that, troll.
No need for that, troll.
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This team is playing very well. Lost to a team that has won 48 of the past 50 at home in a game where UCF honestly looked like the better team. If they lose to a team that has won 33 straight at home the board will melt down again.
