Oso planning to go pro
I get DePaul, but Seton Hall after last night? At the start of the year I thought we would sweep Georgetown, get swept by Xavier, UConn and Creighton, and split with everyone else.The only change I'd make from watching the first few games is that unless Villanova gets Whitmore and Moore back (at a decent level of effectiveness), we could sweep them as well.
I will go on record today to say we beat Baylor - our defense will be closer to mid season form and we handle Baylor who won't be prepared for it.
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Seton Hall's roster construction is a lot stronger than anticipated. A lot of talent there.It looks like it might be1. Creighton2. UConn3-11. Everybody else
Weeeelp
Flip flop 1 and 2 and that's still probably accurate.1. UConn2. Creighton3-10. Everyone else11. Georgetown
Now with Whitmore in the lineup, I might bump Villanova up.
Radford - WCentral Michigan - W@Purdue - LLIU - Wvs. Mississippi St. - Lvs. Georgia Tech/Utah - WChicago St.- WBaylor - LWisconsin - WNorth Carolina Central - W@Notre Dame - LCreighton - W@Providence - LSeton Hall - W@Villanova - L@St. John's - WGeorgetown - WUConn - W@Xavier - LProvidence - W@Seton Hall - L@DePaul - LVillanova - LButler - W@UConn - L@Georgetown - LXavier - L@Creighton - LDePaul - W@Butler - LSt. John's - WOverall: 16- 15 (18-16 counting BET)Big East Record: 9-11Big East Tournament Seed: 8Big East Tournament Result: Loss in the SemisPostseason Tournament and Seed: NIT 4Postseason Result: Loss in 2nd game of NIT
A win on Saturday and Marquette gets to my predicted 16 regular season wins a few months early.I went in with no expectations and just took a guess on where they'd fall with returning production, but I am blown away. I thought this team would fight and steal some from the likes of UConn and Creighton and drop a few to the likes of DePaul and Georgetown, but never anticipated getting consistent results like this.Brew and others might be dead on with their predictions of 20+ wins. Credit to your keen eye to retention and development.Whew!
Your predictions are pretty good to this point. You just have them falling off a cliff from here on out. Shaka has said they’ve been very intentional about understanding why they finished poorly last year and are hopefully taking steps to ensure the team is built for a strong finish this year.
We haven't avoided the Feb./Mar. swoon the last however many years which is kinda why I chose to go that route with the predictions. I'm confident that as you've indicated above, this group is focused on preventing that. Couldn't be more excited to see how they attack it.
I think, and hope, you are right. But, they have looked tired down the stretch in recent games including last night. Kam said as much in the post game interviews after the game last night. TBD. 11 BE games to go before the post season.
I mean anything could happen from here on out. I wish we had Wrightsil available for a little more sturdiness behind Oso, but Benny G has provided a rim protecting presence and stretch 5 ability at times.At the very least, this team is aware of how this program has finished seasons. We are 9 deep...everyone is tired this time of year, but we have able bodies. I'm confident that their efforts can yield better results.
Marquette is basically 1-3 in Big East play since they aren't beating UCONN (can't guard Hopkins, you definitely can't guard Sanogo/Clingan).Seton Hall is bad, but they are good enough to beat Marquette and make it hurt. Gotta avoid a loss on Tuesday. Might make the trip to Milwaukee for that one.
Lol.
What's LOL is the time you spend going through posters histories to try to find erroneous posts. What's also LOL is you are too big of kitten to make any predictions or contribute to the actual basketball discussion as your general M.O. here is to inflame. Sad.
From time to time, I picture what this team would be with a healthy Wrightsil and a healthy Ellis who had progressed like the rest of the returnees.
I actually predicted MU to beat UConn and Creighton each once.Me saying UConn was 2 guaranteed losses was because they started 13-0 with every win being by double digits. What I failed to realize when posting was just how good Marquette was.I had us at 13-7 to this point, but I was WAY off in terms of what kind of results I thought they'd get this year. I anticipate being heavily wrong over this 2nd half of the conference schedule...big deal.
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Prediction Threads are meant for some to be right and some to be wrong.I have no problem admitting I was wrong.