Conference of the Americas......one-bid

[stever20]

As if it needed to be emphasized yet again - after the consistent thumping of the AAC's chests and disappointing basketball losses - but UConn staying in the AAC for men's basketball is not sustainable. Fact of the matter is that UConn/Cincy are both with 8 other schools that were elevated from Conference USA and another from the Atlantic-10. With each passing year, the likelihood of them losing to a team like USF/UCF/Tulane/East Carolina/Tulsa just increases - and, last night, came to fruition.

UConn, despite being a top basketball program in the country, is not strong enough to elevate all of the weak programs in the conference. The other 9 schools, especially the weaker programs, will continue to bring them down. Between UCF (4), Tulane (3), East Carolina (2) and USF (3) - over a third of the conference in basketball - has a combined twelve NCAA Tournament appearances in their respective program's history. If you throw in SMU and Houston, since 1995, those two programs have a combined two appearances in the NCAA tournament. Add those six schools up (UCF, Tulane, ECU, USF, Houston, SMU), and you have over half of a conference that has been extremely poor in basketball for over 20 years. Compare that to the Big East, which has had all of it's programs make the tournament since 2004, and six of the schools have advanced to the Sweet 16 in that time. There's just no comparison between the leagues.

So glad that the C7 avoided that dumpster fire.

Tulsa is not a bad basketball team. Not now, and not in history. They have as many NCAA tourney wins as Creighton does. It's moronic to put them in with the USF/UCF/Tulane/ECU group. They have over double the number of bids in history as those 4 combined.

Heck- Tulsa with 15 NCAA appearances has 2 more than Butler does. Guess Butler has no history then.

[NovaBall]

Just the fact that we are debating whether Conference of All Americans is a one or two bid league says a lot about the quality of that league.

[stever20]

Just the fact that we are debating whether Conference of All Americans is a one or two bid league says a lot about the quality of that league.

First off, just stop your idiotic Conference of All Americans. It's sophomoric and idiotic. It's the AAC. Just like it's DePaul and not the Chicago Franchise. Are you 12?

If the AAC does get 2 teams in this year- it is an improvement from last year. Why? Because SMU would have been in as well with both of those teams. That's the thing folks want to forget/ignore. And heaven help if they get 3 in, that would mean they would have gotten 4 in.

[Jet915]

Can u imagine if the Big East was a 1 or 2 bid league? Some people would be calling for the end of the conference...

[muskienick]

Just the fact that we are debating whether Conference of All Americans is a one or two bid league says a lot about the quality of that league.

First off, just stop your idiotic Conference of All Americans. It's sophomoric and idiotic. It's the AAC. Just like it's DePaul and not the Chicago Franchise. Are you 12?

If the AAC does get 2 teams in this year- it is an improvement from last year. Why? Because SMU would have been in as well with both of those teams. That's the thing folks want to forget/ignore. And heaven help if they get 3 in, that would mean they would have gotten 4 in.

And once again, for Stever, "the queen has balls"!!!

[NovaBall]

Can u imagine if the Big East was a 1 or 2 bid league? Some people would be calling for the end of the conference...

Nodding



I just noticed that SMU is undefeated, yet they are still only ranked tenth. All ten teams ahead of them have at least one loss, and several have multiple losses. That's how little respect the CONFERENCE OF ALL AMERICANS receives.

[adoraz]

The thing is the AAC is in great shape for a few reasons....

1. We lost a lot of close games so we're really better than our record
2. UConn and Cincy are in a great position to make the tournament, because obviously they will play in line or better than projections from whatever source I choose
3. We might get THREE yes THREE teams in this year if everything breaks right. Well, two because one won't be eligible but that's still an improvement.
4. We aren't 15th best conference, we are 10th best dammit and that makes us far from mediocre.
5. Bottom half teams like ECU have improved from RPI 300 to RPI 250 and this is totally relevant.
6. I'm a professional message board poster who understands how advanced metrics prove that everything is unbelievably positive for the AAC.

[Westbrook#36]

Temple double tappin' Cincy's tourney hopes. Win @ home in double OT 67-65.

[adoraz]

Temple double tappin' Cincy's tourney hopes. Win @ home in double OT 67-65.

BUT if they won their RPI would've improved by 20 and if they win the next 3 their RPI will improve by 30!

[Masterofreality]

The Borecats lose again. The AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC is dominating the 80's RPI group. That is great for their NIT bid hopes.