We have the 2nd biggest non BCS fanbase and sell out a 50k seat football stadium before the season even starts. I don’t think finding a couple thousand fans to watch hoops will be a problem if we have an NCAA caliber team like ESPN thinks we are. Our football is top 40 nationally in attendance, and baseball is top 20… Our conference is about to upgrade adding teams like UNLV, New Mexico, Nevada, etc, and we have a new $16 million basketball dollar practice facility on the way. Even as terrible a history as we have in hoops and we are still are averaging with in about a 1000 fans of you guys.
Fox Sports has an article up now where they say Migel Paul can be one of the best point guards in the nation next year. He had 28 points and 12 assist in the last game, in the conf tourny vs an at large NCAA team. The guy’s legit, and adding Akeem Richmond will certainly help.
We have the 2nd biggest non BCS fanbase and sell out a 50k seat football stadium before the season even starts. I don’t think finding a couple thousand fans to watch hoops will be a problem if we have an NCAA caliber team like ESPN thinks we are. Our football is top 40 nationally in attendance, and baseball is top 20… Our conference is about to upgrade adding teams like UNLV, New Mexico, Nevada, etc, and we have a new $16 million basketball dollar practice facility on the way. Even as terrible a history as we have in hoops and we are still are averaging with in about a 1000 fans of you guys.
Fox Sports has an article up now where they say [size=18pt]Migel Paul [/size] can be one of the best point guards in the nation next year. He had 28 points and 12 assist in the last game, in the conf tourny vs an at large NCAA team. The guy’s legit, and adding Akeem Richmond will certainly help. [/quote]
Paul’s just a guy that was in Missouri’s regular rotation as a freshman and helped them get to the Elite 8. Adding a guy that averaged about 10 points a game on a 27 win A10 team as a freshman doesn’t hurt either.
We return 4 starters, and were 2-8 in games decided by 5 points this year. The way we finished it’s not that big of a stretch to see us being pretty good if we just win more close ones next year.
Do you even look at your schedule before you spew your verbal diarrhea on our forum? Your team was 14-15 at the end of the regular season and that INCLUDED three Div-II teams and a NAIA Team. So really you were 10-15 at the end of the regular season. I don’t care what rando kid you added from MIZZ-WHO. Unless you added someone that happens to be a young Michael Jordan it wont matter.
Did the article also mention how he lost at home to Charlotte [size=3]76-64[/size], by freshman lead PG Pierria Henry? Or that Henry’s 5’9" back up lit Paul up, going 4-4 from 3 point land? What about how Paul had 4 turnovers in a home loss to Charlotte, with a final score of [size=3]76-64[/size]?
Lost on a technicality. We were clearly the better team, but rules are rules. Their fallback after neither team making the NCAA/NIT was RPI. ECU’s was higher. Another example of the flaws of the RPI.
If you really think you had the better team by March you are kidding yourself. Last year was another example of how a good coach takes a team with new faces and improved as the year went on. We peaked in March again, not early December, which is when I want to be playing our best ball. You had a 110 spot lead mid season, and almost a 40 RPI spot lead with 2 weeks left just to give you an idea of what directions the teams were going in the big picture. With basically everyone coming back there is plenty of reason for hope about next year and expect the way we improved and finished to carry over.
