M. Basketball. Veterans Bounce Back to Propel Bulldogs to Home Win

[Dwayne From Minden]

Guess I'll have to take your word for it, 'cause maybe he just had an off game yesterday, but I didn't see it.

3 of 7 from the floor (all of the made being uncontested stuffs) and a grand total of 3 rebounds in 21 minutes.

Powell had 6 rebounds in 11 minutes and White had 6 rebounds in 14 minutes, both off the bench.

He did have an off game last night - but he has played well he has the second most made FG's on the team and the 3rd most pts and is shooting at a .620 clip and has the second most rebounds on the team behind McCree

[skilldawg]

I think we have the chance to be a solid basketball team come the end of the year -

Right now we are very young and talented and learning our roles - (even on the HC side)

If McCree would quit settling for the 3 pointer and drive and slash more he could score 20+ and have a double double every game

Bracey's assist to turnover numbers are STAGGERING early in this season

Jean is becoming the offensive/defensive spark this team needs

Omar has a true inside game

Joniah is still getting his legs, but progressing

The Shootin' Guard hates missing shots and the work he put in after the game last Wednesday and the effort he had last night showed that - he HATES failure

Bracey's up to date assists to turnover is 11.5 to 1. 23 assists and 2 turnovers. That truly is STAGGERING for a freshman.

He has fallen to No.3 in the nation behind two Seniors.

No.1 is a Senior Warhawk.... maybe Pawdawg can take one for the good-guys and show up in Fant-Ewing with an air horn��.

[nadB]

There is a reason UMES is 0-6; they are a very poor team. I don't see how our team can improve by scheduling such cupcakes. Our OOC home schedule sucks.

If I was reading it correctly, that win over umes dropped us 16 spots down to an rpi rank of 188 ??

[Dwayne From Minden]

If I was reading it correctly, that win over umes dropped us 16 spots down to an rpi rank of 188 ??

If you listened to the post game Dave and Konk explained how UMES, SLU and Alcorn were on the schedule as part of the deal with The Cal Bears...

[nadB]

If you listened to the post game Dave and Konk explained how UMES, SLU and Alcorn were on the schedule as part of the deal with The Cal Bears...

Looks to me like it was a bad deal; I know we weren't forced to take it.

[Blue Dawg]

Looks to me like it was a bad deal; I know we weren't forced to take it.

Unless we waited until the last second to get a round-robin and all the good ones were taken.

I'll grant that this particular cluster**** was out of our hands. So we thought we might as well schedule the rest of the SWAC just to even it out?

[nadB]

If you listened to the post game Dave and Konk explained how UMES, SLU and Alcorn were on the schedule as part of the deal with The Cal Bears...

Current RPI rankings: UMES 327, SLU 242, Alcorn 328

Guess that and Alabama State 336 was a tone-up for Grambling 283.

[Dwayne From Minden]

If I was reading it correctly, that win over umes dropped us 16 spots down to an rpi rank of 188 ??

Actually we are at 116...

[nadB]

Actually we are at 116...

Source ??

Ah ................... You are confusing RPI ranking with Sagarin ranking.

[Dwayne From Minden]

I did - actually showing at 191 this morning -

That said

Our SOS is the 6th in CUSA at this point at 222 so as bad as it is, it could even be worse

[Dwayne From Minden]

I notice I get "crickets" when I point out that 8 of the 14 CUSA schools have worse SOS than we do...

Personally, I don't want am OOC SOS that is sub 100 -

I want one in the 150 area - 135 to 180 to be exact

And I think it will come within the next few years - when you go BEAT A5 schools on their floor it is TOUGH to get other regional A-5's to give you the same opportunity

Can we do better - YES

Could it be a lot worse? - Absolutely look at our conference peers

Men's Basketball - Conference USA (2016-2017) Conf. RPI Rank: 22 Conf. SOS Rank: 27

Only games against Division I opponents are counted. Teams that made the tournament are in bold This page updates daily. Last updated - Tue Nov 29 09:11:04 PST 2016

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RPI Rk			Conference USA	Conf	All	RPI	SOS Rk	SOS
	+4	12	Middle Tenn. St.	0-0	5-1	0.6793	13	0.6557
	-24	85	Charlotte	0-0	3-2	0.5705	67	0.5723
	+8	92	Marshall	0-0	4-1	0.5686	186	0.4915
	+1	116	Old Dominion	0-0	3-2	0.5410	125	0.5259
	-3	191	Louisiana Tech	0-0	2-2	0.4743	226	0.4658
	-1	210	Rice	0-0	5-1	0.4640	337	0.3540
	-1	225	UAB	0-0	3-3	0.4537	189	0.4895
	-1	274	North Texas	0-0	2-3	0.4146	255	0.4476
		289	UTSA	0-0	2-4	0.4023	289	0.4252
	-3	290	W. Kentucky	0-0	3-3	0.4014	321	0.3852
	+23	295	Florida Atlantic	0-0	1-3	0.3939	231	0.4627
	-6	306	Southern Miss	0-0	1-1	0.3828	341	0.3438
	-11	317	UTEP	0-0	1-3	0.3697	275	0.4374
	+6	318	Florida Intl.	0-0	1-4	0.3658	277	0.4351
2015-2016 Conference USA standings

[Dawg06]

Y'all, it is wayyy too early to get a good gauge on RPI. November RPIs are meaningless. Remember it's about what RPIs will be at end of the season.

[TrueBulldog1962]

Y'all, it is wayyy too early to get a good gauge on RPI. November RPIs are meaningless. Remember it's about what RPIs will be at end of the season.

Don't use logic when it comes to Mike White superfan, nadb.

[nadB]

Y'all, it is wayyy too early to get a good gauge on RPI. November RPIs are meaningless. Remember it's about what RPIs will be at end of the season.

Actually, you can get a pretty good gauge right now when you look at our December schedule and scheduled conference opponents.

[nadB]

Don't use logic when it comes to Mike White superfan, nadb.

I definitely appreciate what MW did for the mbb program here at Tech. What's illogical about admiring 27, 29, 27 and Co-Conference Championship, Conference Championship, Conference Championship and NIT, NIT, NIT ??