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

[jon breiner]

that is true, I forgot about at SLU.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ALACOMBE" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:47 PM
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