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IF this team beats OU...
ThomasFremont
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...and assuming they don't shit the bed in conference play, that should all but guarantee a protected seed in the tourney.
Which means opening round games in either Seattle or Portland.
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2012-11-12/preliminary-round-sites-announced-2014-2015-ncaa-tournaments
Which means opening round games in either Seattle or Portland.
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2012-11-12/preliminary-round-sites-announced-2014-2015-ncaa-tournaments
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4-05-0 road/neutral record (thanks Key Arena!) and the UTEP and SDSU wins this is easily one of the strongest non conference resume's we've ever seen out of Romar. That Oklahoma game looms very large. If we can get a strong 27-30 minutes out of Upshaw I think we win that one at home. Great time for the Dawgpack to get their shit together.A protected seed doesn't actually seem out of the question, which is nuts. I did not have that high of expectations for this year's team. Upshaw is a fucking difference maker.
A sign of a good team is holding their shit together even when playing poorly. I'd say vs eastern we didn't see a great defensive game, and our shooting was once again failing us. That being said, they found a way to make buckets at the end of the game. Watching anderson rip someone to the hole and finish while getting hammered was a thing of beauty. Upshaw going out and hitting FT's after starting a crips 2/10.
NWG pulling that 3 was incredibly out of left field, and his reaction was fucking priceless. The anderson shot, the nwg dagger was what gave confidence to DJ to just pull up. Confidence and swagger spread on teams, just as much as discontent and being a fucking pussy(yes i'm pointing at quite a few recent UW teams) can go from one person to another.
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What?!
Oklahoma can score and it will be a good test for us. I tend to think that we struggle scoring ... so a team like Oklahoma really can cause us problems.
I'm still a little lukewarm on our prospects as a whole because I don't think we're a Top 10-15 team in the country. However, we do play good defense and definitely look like a tournament team.
I think uw is probably a notch below a top 20 team and a notch above a bubble team. Somewhere in the middle
However, if they can take care of their business, they could end up the year as a 4 seed if everything breaks right (read into that win their games that they should at home in conference and avoid the bad road losses).
If they lose to Oklahoma this weekend, go at minimum 7-2 at home during conference, get splits in the Bay Area and Mountain Road Trips, avoid the trap of losing games to USC, Wazzu, and Oregon State, and split the road games between Oregon/UCLA, that's a 13-5 team in conference and a 24-6 team heading into the Conference Tournament ... so possibly a 25-7 team going into the NCAAs.
Given that the PAC is down a bit this year, that would strike me as a 6 or 7 seed. Lose a few more games during the year and you're probably in the 8-9 game or a 10 seed.
There wasn't a single at-large team in last year's tournament that had single digit losses that was on the bubble come tournament time.
That is not not cold by March standards.
Going undefeated in OOC will be huge for this team because I don't really see them as being dominant in league play until they find a consistent shooter.
Conference has a lot of middling NIT teams this year. Win good percentage of home games and split basically on the road - that's doable with this team.
Biggest difference in this team YoY is that they understand their identity