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A lot of the big ones done, but still some important ones remaining

Dec 1: nova at sjuofpa. Nova should win, but this is a true road game against a team that hates nova

Dec 2: butler at Cincy. Right now butler is not ranked, but the lone loss is to a good Miami team. Road game though against a ranked team
Seton hall at GW. Huge road game if seton hall is serious about getting the 6th bid
Arizona State at Creighton. ASU is nothing special, and it's in Omaha, but it's one we really don't want to drop

Sat dec 5:
Seton Hall at Rutgers. Really a must win for the hall
Georgetown v Cuse. At some point Georgetown has to turn one of these moral victories into a real victory
Providence v URI. Road game, but one providence's must win if it wants to be considered among the elite

Mon dec 7
Nova v Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. One of those good test games. No lose situation for either team, but huge chance at a big win. Played at the Pearl Harbor rec center, but I have my security clearance and will be making as much noise as possible pulling for the cats.

Wd dec 9
BC @ PC. BC is pretty bad, but they always play PC tough. Like the uri game, a must win if PC wants national respect
Nebraska at Creighton. Nebraska has pulled it together a bit, but game is in Omaha. Would be a nice ooc win for the jays.

Sat dec 12
Marquette v Wisconsin. Realistic chance at Marquette winning
Butler v Tennessee. Similar to seton hall v Georgia or ole miss or Creighton v Nebraska. Not a sexy game but the type of game we need to win
Xavier v Cincy. Obviously a huge game

Sun dec 13
Cuse v St. John's. Probably lose this one, but you never know (I'm saying there's a chance!). Games at the garden.

Tue dec15
DePaul at Stanford. Stanford is not that great, but DePaul is DePaul. This would be an encouraging win, but my hopes are very low
Monmouth v Georgetown. Gtown can't trip up here

Sat dec 19
Seton hall v Wichita state. A chance for a good ooc win for the hall
Nova v Virginia. Similar to the Oklahoma game, no blood lost if the cats lose, but a win could be huge. I would like to see the cats win at least one of those two games. Winning both would be huge.
Auburn v Xavier. Another chance for a F5 win
Creighton v Oklahoma. Nothing at all to lose in this one. A win would be awesome, but loss doesn't hurt at all
Butler v Purdue. If butler wants to be a top 15 team, they win this game.
Northwestern v DePaul. Not the type of game DePaul should be losing, but then again, DePaul is DePaul

Sat dec 20
St. John's v njit. Not a gimme game for St. John's, but one they really should win.

Mon dec 21
U mass v PC. Again, like BC and uri, a game that PC should win, but the chances are they will drop one of the three. Winning all three is the difference between PC being viewed as sweet 16 contender or a likely one and done team

Tues dec 22
USF v seton hall. Must win for the hall
Xavier at wake. Wake doesn't look good, but it's a road game and a loss would sting
St. John's v South Carolina at Mohegan sun. Win would be nice here
GW at DePaul. I have a feeling DePaul is going to keep tarnishing our ooc resume

Jan 23
Gtown at Uconn. Good ooc test in late jan

Feb 17
Nova v temple.

Yeah, the URI/PC game has taken some crazy, unexpected turns over the years.

'96-'97, the year PC went to the Elite 8, they lost to URI by close to 20.

'98-'99, the year URI had Lamar Odom, PC won by over 20.

Cooley has had URI's number but the URI game is always a concern, regardless of where each team is.

Nova,

Your DePaul bashing is getting old! DePaul's OOC schedule is pretty challenging.

Why do you expect DePaul to win this season? Northwestern is a much improved team and GW is VERY good too.

DemonLS wrote:Nova,

Your DePaul bashing is getting old! DePaul's OOC schedule is pretty challenging.

Why do you expect DePaul to win this season? Northwestern is a much improved team and GW is VERY good too.

It's kinda funny. I mean, it's been the same excuse for nearly 10 years. give 'em more time.

DePaul is in its 10th year on a never-ending rebuilding plan. During that time, they have had 9 seasons of double-digit conference losses and six or fewer conference wins. But, to quote JLP, "We don't view that as a failure - and we are banking on Coach Leitao being the right fit a second time."

This is not a DePaul bashing thread. It is a fact that DePaul is DePaul and hey will likely hurt our collective ooc resume, and our #6 team will have a tougher time getting a bid because DePaul hired a coach who doesn't know what he's doing and DePaul will lose to teams it should beat. But that's not the point of this thread, so please stop being s troll. We are allowed to talk openly about the conference here, and 90% of the conference is good.

29 games on there.

We now have 15 non-con losses. Last year as the #2 RPI team, we had 31.

Games we really should win:

Nova vs StJoe
Cu vs ASU
SHU vs Rutgers
Prov vs URI
Prov vs BC
CU vs NU
Butler vs Ten
Gtown vs Monmouth
Xavier vs Auburn
StJ vs NJIT
Prov vs UMass
SHU vs USF
X vs Wake

That's 12 right there. So theoretically winning the games we should win, plus the games not listed, almost matches last season's record before we have even addressed the tossups and tougher matchups.

We could really come out looking great come New Year's even if we lose more of that last pile than we win.

2-1 so far. Some winnable ones tomorrow, with one huge one in DC

handdownmandown wrote:29 games on there.

We now have 15 non-con losses. Last year as the #2 RPI team, we had 31.

Games we really should win:

Nova vs StJoe
Cu vs ASU
SHU vs Rutgers
Prov vs URI
Prov vs BC
CU vs NU
Butler vs Ten
Gtown vs Monmouth
Xavier vs Auburn
StJ vs NJIT
Prov vs UMass
SHU vs USF
X vs Wake

That's 12 right there. So theoretically winning the games we should win, plus the games not listed, almost matches last season's record before we have even addressed the tossups and tougher matchups.

We could really come out looking great come New Year's even if we lose more of that last pile than we win.

As God as my witness, the Bearkittens will not leave the Cintas Center victoriously.

Little Micky will lose it - again.

Hasn't it been over a decade since UC won at Cintas? I would hate for that streak to end.