Where's Our Next W...

[NavinRJohnson]

Negative? How about realistic. what have you been watching the past two months. 2-8 against ranked teams is pretty poor. 11-7, not happening.

Well, lucky for us, they only have 2 ranked opponents left on the schedule. As far as those losses to ranked opponents go (Duke, UW, @Vandy, @Pitt, @UofL, @ND, UConn, @Vill), which of those should they have been expected to win? I see maybe two.

[drewm88]

I think that train sailed a long time ago.

If you're going to be so negative, why don't you just make like a tree and get out of here? We need your pessimism like we need a screen door on a battleship.

[drewm88]

No way do we win at Georgetown. This team will finish 9-9, I hope.

We're 5-5.

Remaining games:
@UConn
@Gtown
@USF
@Hall
Cinci
STJ
Hall
PC

Which 4 (or more) do you see us losing?

I think we go 6-2 and finish 11-7.  The main reason things seem so bad is because our first half BE schedule was packed. The teams we've already played are 52-39 in conference. The teams still to come are 34-46.

[79Warrior]

We're 5-5.

Remaining games:
@UConn
@Gtown
@USF
@Hall
Cinci
STJ
Hall
PC

Which 4 (or more) do you see us losing?

I think we go 6-2 and finish 11-7.  The main reason things seem so bad is because our first half BE schedule was packed. The teams we've already played are 52-39 in conference. The teams still to come are 34-46.

I think we go 1-3 on the road and 3-1 at home.

[Buzz Williams' Spillproof Chiclets Cup]

The teeth of the schedule has passed, which IMHO was our last 8 games.

@ Pitt
Notre Dame
@ Louisville
DePaul
@Notre Dame
Connecticut
Syracuse
@Villanova

That's 7 games against nationally ranked teams, 4 of them on the road, and we went 3-5 overall.

From here, the schedule gets a lot easier. Not to say they'll be easy games and this team will cruise, but I'd rather go to Tampa to play South Florida than go to the Joyce Center or that Bandbox in Philly.

4 games at home against relatively weak opposition.
3 winnable games on the road
And a trip to UConn (where we won last year against an admittedly weaker UConn team)

Even the annual bad loss and losing to UConn would still put us at 11-7. The win over Syracuse did a lot to ease my doubts about this team, but make no mistake, I think we will probably finish 10-8, and may need to win a game at the Garden.

[Marquette84]

why don't you just make like a tree and get out of here?

"It's *leave*, you idiot! "Make like a tree, and leave." You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong."