FWIW Rankings

[bcgruber]

We dropped only 3 spots to #27 in the AP poll.  At large might still be in play by a thread

[belgianbull]

7 minutes ago, bcgruber said:

We dropped only 3 spots to #27 in the AP poll.  At large might still be in play by a thread

That is great news. Beating Memphis in the semi final might be enough for us.

It will be a nervy week. Great to be this close.

[olafberserker]

I'll stand by that if we get to the final against FAU we have a decent shot either way.   It will be close if we lose to FAU in the final, but I don't think it is impossible

[USF_Bullsharks]

Win a Q1 game in the tournament, lose a close one in the finals to a Q1 team. 

Plus, all conference leaders win their tournaments, so the AQ is an expected AQ and the conference leader does not get put into at large discussion. 

[Peatearpan]

4 hours ago, belgianbull said:

That is great news. Beating Memphis in the semi final might be enough for us.

It will be a nervy week. Great to be this close.

I do have a question,

how often does the regular season conference champ also win the conference tourney?

[79 Bull]

31 in Coaches poll so let's act like that one doesn't count for anything.

GO BULLS!

[M50_BULL]

1 hour ago, Peatearpan said:

I do have a question,

how often does the regular season conference champ also win the conference tourney?

Well looking at Wikipedia.

Looking since 2013-2014 (Not counting COVID AND counting Louisville's vacated titles)

You have 9 samples.

So 5/9 times that regular season champs won the AAC tourny as well.

Taking it a step further looking at the 4 times where regular season champs didn't win both:

2 out of those 4, the regular season champs made it to the AAC tourny finals but lost.

The other 2 of those 4 the regular season conference champs made it to the semi's.

Sooooo... the worst a regular season conference champion has done is reach the semi's of the tournament. I like those stats.

[olafberserker]

2 hours ago, Peatearpan said:

I do have a question,

how often does the regular season conference champ also win the conference tourney?

So far this year.  1 out of 4 regular season conference champs have won the tourney as well.

[Peatearpan]

1 hour ago, 350_BULL said:

Well looking at Wikipedia.

Looking since 2013-2014 (Not counting COVID AND counting Louisville's vacated titles)

You have 9 samples.

So 5/9 times that regular season champs won the AAC tourny as well.

Taking it a step further looking at the 4 times where regular season champs didn't win both:

2 out of those 4, the regular season champs made it to the AAC tourny finals but lost.

The other 2 of those 4 the regular season conference champs made it to the semi's.

Sooooo... the worst a regular season conference champion has done is reach the semi's of the tournament. I like those stats.

Thank you for this breakdown, I like those odds to. Also, I feel like CAAR will work hard to correct the mistakes that hurt us on that loss to Tulsa.

[Bull Matrix]