Rivals ranks all the teams

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Writer on Rivals, Mike Huguenin, ranks all D1 teams: http://collegebasketball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1288778

Notables:
Charlotte: #138

OOC sched
Fri 11/11: NC CENTRAL #248
Tue 11/15: at Central Michigan #245
Sat 11/19: at Lamar #167
Tue 11/22: EAST TENNESSEE STATE #136
Sat 11/26: at Wright State #193
Sat 12/3: at East Carolina #187
Tue 12/6: at Radford #330
Sat 12/10: DAVIDSON #82
Mon 12/19: COPPIN STATE #223
Thu 12/22: MIAMI (FL) #37
Wed 12/28: at Arkansas #69
Sat 12/31: at Memphis #11
Wed 1/18: KENNESAW STATE #246

A10
Dayton #115
Duquesne #109
Fordham #235
GW #103
LaSalle #214
Umass #185
Richmond #119
URI #159
St. Bonnie #64
St. Joe’s #122
SLU #47
Temple #25
Xavier #17

Just one guy’s opinion, but has a few surprises:
Davidson is much higher than I would’ve guessed.
Huguenin obviously hasn’t seen the NC Pro-am with the NCCU players dominating. :wink:
The road game at Lamar may end up being one of our tougher games.

If just going by rankings (higher ranked team wins), we’d finish the season 8-5 OOC, 4-12 in conference, 12-17 overall. It also suggests the last 6 games will be tougher than the middle stretch, so a late-season swoon could happen without the team really getting any worse. Of course this ignores home court, upsets, and the fact we’re probably going to be better than this?

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Most notable for me is judging by that we finish 12-17 and we STILL beat LEEEBBBBOOOO!

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QUICK CALL RIVALS!!! THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF MISTAKE!! DO THEY KNOW ABOUT LLEEEEBBBBOOOOO!?!?!?!?!?!?

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ECU in the 180s? I guess this proves StillMouthing’s point. Lebo has improved the joke known as ECU basketball.

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why the hell are st bonny and SLU ranked so high? Have i missed something?

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Going to be a weak SOS this year.

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[quote=“Niner National, post:6, topic:25846”]Going to be a weak SOS this year.[/quote]There’s a lot of road games on the schedule. That may help a little.

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If this proves accurate then we have 4 nonconf games against teams weaker than Fordham :-\

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It will probably be more like 6 or 7.

Extremely weak schedule but we may need that. At least we play 3 “name” teams

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It will probably be more like 6 or 7.

Extremely weak schedule but we may need that. At least we play 3 “name” teams[/quote]and two against quality competition in X and T.

The stretch of schedule from late December to the end of January is probably one of the best we’ve had in years.

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[quote=“CheapSeatDave, post:5, topic:25846”]why the hell are st bonny and SLU ranked so high? Have i missed something?[/quote]Most of the predictions have Saint Louis and Bona finishing 3rd and 4th, respectively, in the A-10 this season. Billikens have Kwamain Mitchell back after his suspension last season, while Bonnies return A-10 POY candidate and NBA draft prospect Andrew Nicholson.

Link to the thread in the A-10 Forum: 2011-12 A-10 Men’s Hoops Predictions