Call Your Shot Big East Edition

[RushmoreAcademy]

20-0

[Herman Cain]

11-9. Which is where I was when season started

I was at 8-3 Non Conference and they delivered that

I think the team is tracking well

[MU82]

82

You count on one hand the games lost that he should have won. That was his trademark and something he held as a benchmark. Now, if you want to say he played down to competition, that happened many times a season. Many games were won with 3-5 minutes of high quality ball. Aside from his final season, there are not many games you can rattle off that he lost against lower competition.

You know a lot more about the Al era than I do, Goose, so I defer to your knowledge.

Shaka's not Al. And Luke, Butch, Bo and Dean ain't walkin' through that door to help this particular group go 8-0 against those 4 teams. But point taken.

[NCMUFan]

12-8

[Lennys Tap]

Though I think professional statisticians would say the chance is better than 0.0%, again, we agree. Even Buzz and Crean and KO and Al teams that were a lot less flawed than this one lost many games they were "supposed to win."

Doesn’t take a professional statistician to figure probabilities and of course the probability of us sweeping those 8 games isn’t 0.0%. If estimating that we have a 70% chance of winning those 4 home games and a 40% chance of winning those road games is fair but our chance for an 8 game sweep is .7x.7x.7x.7x.4x.4x.4x.4  which equals less than a 1% (.614656%).

So BLM isn’t wrong that it’s an extremely long shot (about 175-1) - so not impossible but virtually so.

[Goose]

82

Like Rico said, Al is dead. Great memories and games to talk about with people who care. All I care about is the Shaka era. I do enjoy reminiscing about the Buzz era and most here have been fans that long. It would be pretty cool if Dean walked through the door. Bo looks long in the tooth to me.

[dgies9156]

Nattering nabobs of negativism.

All of you. Except Goose!

We will be fine. Let’s see how our guys respond to last night and how they grow from it.

[Scoop Snoop]

Nattering nabobs of negativism.

All of you. Except Goose!

We will be fine. Let’s see how our guys respond to last night and how they grow from it.

OK Spiro. My guess is that many here do not get your reference.

We'll be OK. Fine? Depends upon your definition in terms of W/L. So what's yours Dgies?

[Oldgym]

9-11

[Shooter McGavin]

10-10 and we are in the first four play in games.

[Mr. Nielsen]

10-10

[ATL MU Warrior]

We’ll win between 6-8.  No chance of 10+. Assuming we lose to Nova at home (there will be more home losses) who is this team beating on the road? 

[Shooter McGavin]

We’ll win between 6-8.  No chance of 10+. Assuming we lose to Nova at home (there will be more home losses) who is this team beating on the road?

The answer for which team they will beat on the road is any team besides UConn and Villanova.  Will that other team have to have a crappy game?  Yes.  But no one in this league is unbeatable at home or away.   Whether it happens or not, who knows?

[rocky_warrior]

Doesn’t take a professional statistician to figure probabilities and of course the probability of us sweeping those 8 games isn’t 0.0%. If estimating that we have a 70% chance of winning those 4 home games and a 40% chance of winning those road games is fair but our chance for an 8 game sweep is .7x.7x.7x.7x.4x.4x.4x.4  which equals less than a 1% (.614656%).

Your estimates are only a little generous.  St. Johns and DePaul aren't the pushovers that Scoop fans would like to believe.  Currently Torvik's computer gives us a 0.1972632711168% chance of going 8-0 against them and Butler/GTown.  So there's a chance! 

[Uncle Rico]

Your estimates are only a little generous.  St. Johns and DePaul aren't the pushovers that Scoop fans would like to believe.  Currently Torvik's computer gives us a 0.1972632711168% chance of going 8-0 against them and Butler/GTown.  So there's a chance!

#DoneDeal

[rocky_warrior]

Oh, and put me down for 9-11, which would be slightly overachieving in my book.

[bilsu]

11-9. Which is where I was when season started

I was at 8-3 Non Conference and they delivered that

I think the team is tracking well

8-3 non-conference is better than what I expected. However, they were very close to being 6-5. The players do seem to have a knack for winning the close games, but sometimes that evens out over the entire season.

[BCHoopster]

1-9 on the road, 5-5 at home

[BM1090]

11-9.

Butler x2
Georgetown x2
Providence
Creighton
UConn
DePaul
SJU
SHU
X

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

7-13

[mug644]

9-11. With two unanticipated losses and two awesome wins.

I think the range is 8-12 to 11-9. I don't see the team choking or exploding any more than that.

[dgies9156]

OK Spiro. My guess is that many here do not get your reference.

We'll be OK. Fine? Depends upon your definition in terms of W/L. So what's yours Dgies?

Crazy boomer here!

We are going to win some we should not win and maybe lose some we should not lose.

Optimistically 12-8.

[Viper]

I’m not a big Shaka guy, but I do think he can get this team to 10-10 in the BE. If MU takes a win in the conf tournament, 19 overall wins might earn a dance invite.

[The Equalizer]

11-9.

Butler x2
Georgetown x2
Providence
Creighton
UConn
DePaul
SJU
SHU
X

This seems about right.

[MU82]

9-11. With two unanticipated losses and two awesome wins.

I think the range is 8-12 to 11-9. I don't see the team choking or exploding any more than that.

Believable range, and logical explanation.