Some AAC teams carrying some water

[AdamaNation]

Tulsa!!! Thanks for helping out. Nice to see another team aside from us, Cincy, and UCF/Memphis bear some onus of giving the league some credit.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

47-46 is such a Tulsa score.

 

[Storrs South]

and then there's this

 

[AZHuskiePop]

47-46 is such a Tulsa score.

The total is not important
It’s whether your score is written in the left column and the opponents in the right column that count.
To your point Tulsa may not have the talent but they are a pain in the butt to play when they dictate Tempo. They probably drove KSU nuts.

 

[Robertelamin]

and then there's this

Has Tulane done anything in basketball or football since joining the AAC? What a waste.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The total is not important
It’s whether your score is written in the left column and the opponents in the right column that count.
To your point Tulsa may not have the talent but they are a pain in the butt to play when they dictate Tempo. They probably drove KSU nuts.

Not sure how or why you chose to take my post as a dig but I was pointing out how they must have dictated the tempo and driven them nuts. Thanks for agreeing with me!

 

[Scrutiner]

Has Tulane done anything in basketball or football since joining the AAC? What a waste.

6-6 this year with wins over Navy, ECU, USF, Tulsa and Memphis in the league and they're going to a bowl game. We should be so bad.

 

[Adios]

Tulane seems to be getting stronger at women's basketball.

 

[Drew]

Has Tulane done anything in basketball or football since joining the AAC? What a waste.

they actually had a share of the AAC West division title this year believe it or not

 

[AdamaNation]

and then there's this

Thanks Tulsa for keeping real!!!

 

[UconnU]

Tulane seems to be getting stronger at women's basketball.

Their recruiting pitch must go something like “You get to play against Uconn once or twice a year”.

 

[UconnFanDC]

If tourney started today, Houston, Temple, Cincinnati and Tulsa are in. UCF strong possiblity after a team they beat in Alabama just beat Arizona. Uconn only bubble team right now. All teams above except Uconn have two or more signature wins.

Not sure how or why a few of you mentioned Memphis. Lol. Your not paying attention or you have a typo. Lol

 

[BFieldHusky]

If tourney started today, Houston, Temple, Cincinnati and Tulsa are in. UCF strong possiblity after a team they beat in Alabama just beat Arizona. Uconn only bubble team right now. All teams above except Uconn have two or more signature wins.

Not sure how or why a few of you mentioned Memphis. Lol. Your not paying attention or you have a typo. Lol

Don't agree on UCF as of today. Our neutral court win against Cuse is worth more than their home win against Alabama, and they have a bad loss already on their resume.

 

[billybud]

This morning, for what it is worth, Kenpom has...

#29...Cincinnati
#36...Houston
#44...UCF
#73...Temple
#79...UConn
#104..SMU
#107..Wichita St
#118..Memphis
#122..Tulsa
#210..Tulane
#217..USF
#254..ECU

 

[BFieldHusky]

This morning, for what it is worth, Kenpom has...

#29...Cincinnati
#36...Houston
#44...UCF
#73...Temple
#79...UConn
#104..SMU
#107..Wichita St
#118..Memphis
#122..Tulsa
#210..Tulane
#217..USF
#254..ECU

KenPom is a lot more reliable once conference play starts. Still a lot of data from last year included in current rankings.

 

[Adios]

Their recruiting pitch must go something like “You get to play against Uconn once or twice a year”.

And the school itself. As well as their old gym.

 

[auror]

KenPom is a lot more reliable once conference play starts. Still a lot of data from last year included in current rankings.

You are correct that it is even more reliable then, but the data from last year makes KenPom a lot more reliable than pure W/L records or the metric alternatives (like NET) without it at this point. It's also a daily decay, so the "preseason juice" is already a lessened influence, so I may quibble with your "a lot of data", but that perhaps depends on your perspective. I believe at this point the pre-season weights about 3 games worth of impact, and we've played 10 actual games, so that puts the pre-season influence at 23% or so.

If we have ~23% influence of rank 102 (it was 5.88 AdjEM), and combined we're at 79 (8.47 AdjEM), we can solve that 9.24 would be our AdjEM for this year's play alone, rank 70th. Of course, we must bear in mind that the pre-season projections make the system more accurate at this stage by the nature of their conservatism even on teams they have underestimated (by limitation of design) (see his blog about it), so somewhere between 70-79 is likely our true rank. And the ranks for other teams are likely even more accurate since they didn't have as many complicated things to project as we did, so I would expect their ranks to be accurate to +/- 5 (and the + or - can be guessed by the trend of their rank to date from season start).

Now, we (and other teams) can certainly improve or regress from our play to this date. Nothing is written in stone. But the rankings are already pretty good at this point.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

6-6 this year with wins over Navy, ECU, USF, Tulsa and Memphis in the league and they're going to a bowl game. We should be so bad.

Tulane also remains the untapped possibility of being the AAC's academically distinguished private university member, in a way that is comparable to Vanderbilt (SEC), Northwestern (B1G), Stanford (Pac-12). ACC has several schools, Big 12 has none, and Georgetown could be marginally argued as the most academically elite school in the Big East if a P7 stance were to be adopted.

 

[UconnFanDC]

Don't agree on UCF as of today. Our neutral court win against Cuse is worth more than their home win against Alabama, and they have a bad loss already on their resume.

I hear you but the teams we play vs the teams they and the outcome is what causes all the drama. And we have not beaten a team yet outside of the Cuse with a possible bid.

 

[UconnFanDC]

This morning, for what it is worth, Kenpom has...

#29...Cincinnati
#36...Houston
#44...UCF
#73...Temple
#79...UConn
#104..SMU
#107..Wichita St
#118..Memphis
#122..Tulsa
#210..Tulane
#217..USF
#254..ECU

Does this include Tulsa victory over K State? If so this crazy