Road to the Double-Bye - Games to Watch

[bcgruber]

Forgot to mention Charlotte looks like a tough one too at their place.  We need to win 2 of the 3 tough remaining games and win the ones we should win

[BullyPulpit]

1 hour ago, USF_Bullsharks said:

FAU is going to be really difficult. Regular season and conference tournament. 

Could be as many as 9,000 at the FAU game.....the homecourt advantage alone will be worth 5 points! 

[Rocky Style]

5 minutes ago, BullyPulpit said:

Could be as many as 9,000 at the FAU game.....the homecourt advantage alone will be worth 5 points! 

That's going to be a wild game. I think we rise to the occasion.

[belgianbull]

2 hours ago, BullyPulpit said:

Could be as many as 9,000 at the FAU game.....the homecourt advantage alone will be worth 5 points! 

Its great to be relevant again. What a turn around in both basketball and football. Its been years ( more than a decade) since I have looked at NCAAT brackets mid season with interest.

[bullsbucsfan426]

9 hours ago, flsportsfan83 said:

Don't forget out of the 68 total slots. 32 of them come from Conference Champs. Leaving 36 at large spots. Many of those 32 will have a high enough NET to get in regardless of if they win the Conference or not. There will be a good number that would have no shot at getting in without the AQ. Not by any way are the best 68 teams selected. We prob need a NET in the 50's to even have a shot.

The simplest solution is to simply win the conference. Agree that a NET in the 60s would make it hard, especially if we have no Q1 wins. 

Every team in this conference is beatable as FAU showed a second time tonight. We have pole position and every major challenger left has to come to the YC except for Charlotte. It won't be easy but it's not impossible. As it is-one game at a time. have to beat Rice before we can worry about Tulsa, and have to beat Tulsa before we can worry about FAU. I don't want to look ahead but if we do beat FAU we could be looking at closing out the #1 seed with a win vs. SMU. 

[Bull Matrix]

This is a great thread. USF definitely needs to grab one of these double bye for the AAC tournament. They can beat anyone in the AAC so the more rest they have the better 

[BullyPulpit]

Well, last night didn't go totally according to plan. UAB is still very much alive for a top 4 seed after upsetting FAU. That was probably a worst case outcome for the Bulls. It does improve our chance of attaining the regular season conference title. Memphis survived in a hideous game against Temple. Almost 50 fouls combined and some of the worst FT shooting you have ever seen. Made the old USF squads look like Pistol Pete. They remain 3.5 back of us, so we are safely ahead for the time being. They certainly look like a group of talented players that have not been coached up and don't have the it factor. 

Assuming the Bulls continue to take care of business against the lesser competition, the SMU game still looms the largest as far as a top 4 seed is concerned. 

[Triple B]

1 hour ago, BullyPulpit said:

Well, last night didn't go totally according to plan. UAB is still very much alive for a top 4 seed after upsetting FAU.

That's a good point. They're the only one of the 6 behind us that currently holds the first tiebreaker over us, assuming it's head-to-head. Would have been nice to have seen a 4th loss hung on them.

[Bull Matrix]

5 minutes ago, Triple B said:

That's a good point. They're the only one of the 6 behind us that currently holds the first tiebreaker over us, assuming it's head-to-head. Would have been nice to have seen a 4th loss hung on them.

I do believe UAB will lose some more games on the road. They are tough at home even though USF could of easily won that game.  

[CousinRicky]

Memphis survived in a hideous game against Temple

I watched some of that. Hideous is a good word.