win tomorrow and we're almost a lock for the big east tourney

[spiral97]

just realized that...
if we win tomorrow our record will be 8-2.. even if we lose out from that point on, we'll be 8-8.  If each of the bottom four teams win out, they will all have 8-8 records.

We would win the tie-break over all of the current bottom four teams except cinci because we beat each of them (assuming the win tomorrow night).  The tie breaker would then depend on cinci's record against the top team in the big east vs. our record against them - since we do not play cinci.  Some one asked a while ago.. here are the complete tie-break rules.

Course, we don't have to worry about losing out anyhow

On a slightly related topic.. did some checking and cinci has not had a losing season in conference or overall in the past 5 seasons.. (as far as the data I could see - anyone know beyond that?) last season they were barely .500 in conference but still not a losing season... this season, they are one loss away from guaranteeing a losing conference season (currently at 1-8) and 3 losses away from guaranteeing a losing overall season (currently at 10-13).. with 7 games to play yet... 4 of which are on the road (where they are 1-5) and 2 of their 3 remaining home games vs. ranked teams (where they are 0-3).. not looking good at ALL for them... this is quite sad for a perennial contender.. and I actually miss the competitive games against them.  I hope they return to form soon.

[4everwarriors]

at this point would be a bigger upset than a popular vote not to return to the Warriors nickname.

[Eye]

Zero losing seasons going back through 93-94 both overall and in conference for UC. Said this to a buddy of mine who's a UL fan a few times this year. If I knew a diehard UC from 15 years ago, I'd actually feel a little bit sorry for them this year for what Zimpher (sp?) has done to that program.

[COS98]

They are a bunch of thugs and have a fool replacing a jackass as their coach.  Let them lose the rest of their games...unless a win can help MU in some way.
Oh and I forgot to say it's too bad they are having a tough year and hope their off probation with the local authorities in the near future.  Go Warriors.

That was quite refreshing.

[spiral97]

lol - how do you REALLY feel about em COS?    thanks for the laugh!