2018-19 C-USA Basketball Predictions, Scores, and Rankings

C-USA News & Notes
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With the 2018-19 college basketball season officially kicking off September 25th, here we go!

Street & Smith’s
1 Marshall (#25 S&S Top 25)
2 WKU
3 UTSA
4 ODU
5 North Texas
6 Southern Miss
7 LA Tech
8 UAB
9 FIU
10 UTEP
11 Middle Tennessee
12 FAU
13 CHARLOTTE
14 Rice

NOTE: No Niners among all-conference picks

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Marshall’s Jon Elmore and CJ Burks and WKU’s Charles Bassey on this list.

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WKU to be without returning PG Lamonte Bearden during the fall semester.

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i like how these publications have to state best “mid-major” players instead of best players. What a joke and schill these people are for the p5. this distinction between mid-major and high-major makes the implication that the guys on this list are not as good as the high-major players. also, i promise we will finish much higher than 13th.

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https://www.vaughtsviews.com/2018/09/rick-stansbury-doesnt-see-western-kentucky-as-mid-major-program/

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Barstool ranks all 353 teams.

Barstool Sports
50 Marshall
54 WKU
96 UTSA
110 ODU
151 North Texas
168 Middle Tennessee
194 Southern Miss
201 UAB
229 UTEP
243 FIU
249 LA Tech
276 Rice
281 CHARLOTTE
313 FAU

https://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/its-time-to-argue-ranking-all-353-division-i-college-basketball-teams-for-the-2018-19-season/

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So we are not last. Niiice!

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The annual Top 144.

College Sports Madness
59 Marshall (C-USA #1)
80 ODU (C-USA #2)
97 WKU (C-USA #3)
120 UTSA (C-USA #4)

http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/mens-basketball/top-144-previews

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clt says the author was positive about sanchize, so we have that going for us

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Includes interesting comments from Coach Sadler about C-USA’s new league scheduling policy.

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Jon Elmore #5 on this list.

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Marshall and WKU make this list.

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Jon Elmore (#38) and Charles Bassey (#65) on this list.

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Official C-USA men’s basketball coaches’ preseason poll and all conference team.

2018-19 MBB Preseason Poll

  1. WKU (9)
  2. Marshall (5)
  3. Old Dominion
  4. North Texas
  5. UTSA
  6. Louisiana Tech
  7. Southern Miss
  8. UAB
  9. Middle Tennessee
  10. FIU
  11. UTEP
  12. Florida Atlantic
  13. Charlotte
  14. Rice

2018-19 MBB Preseason Team

Jon Davis, Charlotte
Daquan Bracey, Louisiana Tech
Jon Elmore, Marshall
C.J. Burks, Marshall
Roosevelt Smart, North Texas
Ahmad Caver, Old Dominion
B.J. Stith, Old Dominion
Zack Bryant, UAB
Jhivvan Jackson, UTSA
Taveion Hollingsworth, WKU
Desean Murray, WKU

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C-USA per Ken Pomerory’s initial ranking of D-I teams.

2019 Pomerory Ratings (kenpom.com)

79 WKU
86 ODU
95 Marshall
133 LA Tech
154 Middle Tennessee
162 UAB
164 North Texas
165 Southern Miss
166 UTSA
221 FIU
275 UTEP
295 CHARLOTTE
297 Rice
303 FAU

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So CUSA still sucks I see.

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That is absolutely putrid

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Matt Norlander’s annual rankings.

CBSSports.com

45 WKU
58 Marshall
87 UTSA
104 ODU
114 North Texas
148 Southern Miss
171 LA Tech
198 FAU
227 UAB
232 Middle Tennessee
263 UTEP
302 CHARLOTTE
322 FIU
335 Rice

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clt says our fb team is better than our mbb team