RE: How many wins will it take to Be Cusa Champ?

[Keith Wedinger]

Here is my list of games that will give UC trouble this season:

Jan 14th at Marquette - I guarantee the Eagles will be sky high for this
one.  UC better have their game face on.
Jan 21st at Louisville - I think this will be UC's first loss
Feb 3rd at Xavier - On paper, we should destroy the Mouseketeers but,
you just never know with this game
Feb 15th at Wake Forest - Probably the toughest game on the schedule.
This could be loss #2.
Feb 18th at UAB - If this game did not follow WF, I would not list it
but this has potential letdown written all over it
Feb 28th at Charlotte - See my comment above about Marquette.  A fast UC
start in this game is imperative.

If UC is to earn a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, they need to lose no
more than 2 of the above games.  In C-USA, I think a maximum of 3 losses
will give UC a shot at the championship.  I don't think a 4 loss team in
C-USA will win it.

J. Keith Wedinger
Bearcatnews.com
Sciotofootball.com


-----Original Message-----
From: ALACOMBE [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:47 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] How many wins will it take to Be Cusa
Champ?

Yeah, I wouldn't consider St. Louis a hard game, unless you think
Arizona is any good ;-)  The league is good this year and I bet
13-3 or 12-4 might be good enough.

Time will tell.  Let's hope that Dan Peters has created the perfect
recipe for the season.  Bring on Tulane and the start of the CUSA year
of the Cat (see the CUSA calendar, unlike the Chinese Calendar only has
the Year of the Cat and every once in a while the year of something else
;-)  )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon breiner [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:32 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] How many wins will it take to Be Cusa 
> Champ?
>
>
> I would consider UL, Memphis, and Marquette to be hard games.  In 
> addition, at UAB, at Charlotte, and at DePaul would be considered hard

> games.  Even though it is tough to go to USM and ECU, I do not really 
> consider them hard games (although Marquette does have some sort of 
> WECU phobia).
>
> I think a 2 or 3 loss record will win the conference.
>
> Jon
>
>
> Reber, Steven Edwin (Steve) wrote:
>
> > Every year I watch as the "nobodys" come out and identify
> themselves, losing 2 of the first 3 games.  At a certain point there 
> are just a few contenders left, looking at the loss column
> 0,1,2 whatever.   My question is what do you predict it will take 
> to win conf USA this year 16-0, 15-1, 14-2, 13-3, certainly not
12-4.... 
> > BTW, I prefer the years UC is 14-0 and everybody else already
> has 3 losses. 
> > How good is Louisville(Mem/Marq 2/Char/Cincy 2) 6 hard games 
> > How good is Memphis(Cincy/Char/Louis/Marq)     4 hard games
> > How good is Marquette(Cincy/Char/Louisville 2/Memphis) 5 hard games
> >
> > Does Charlotte/St Louis/East Carolina belong as hard games
> (Louisville/Charlotte/Memphis all have to make the road trip to ECU)
> > Cincinnati/Marquette are  the only ones that have to go to UAB
> (which used to be a hostile crowd environment). 
> > At least Memphis and Marquette have to play each other this year. 
> >
> > Steve in Columbus
> >
> >
> >