(03-29-2021 07:31 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  IDK,,, if the AAC were to win the NCAA and NIT would that put it in the running? If so it would be the 2nd NCAA and NIT Championship in its 8yr history.

The AAC was 7th in conference RPI, that's how good the conference was, nowhere near the best. Houston is an excellent team, but a conference is not a team. When UNLV won the 1990 national title, that didn't make the Big West a good basketball conference. It wasn't.

http://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/20...ferencerpi

But congratulations to the Cougars, first F4 since Thriller and Purple Rain and Can't Slow Down ruled the pop charts. And since I was a teenager, LOL.

(03-29-2021 08:12 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:52 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:31 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  IDK,,, if the AAC were to win the NCAA and NIT would that put it in the running? If so it would be the 2nd NCAA and NIT Championship in its 8yr history.

Probably not the best conference, but it would be an impressive accomplishment. Difficult to be the best hoops conference with only 2 of 11 making the Tournament.

True but that’s a matter of committee bias and disrespect. No offense but when two conferences get a total of 16 bids the perceived little guys have to pay the price. Hint no conference is so good that they merit receiving 9 bids, and the first two rounds proved as much.

Somewhat. The broader point holds true even if the AAC had gotten 3 invitations...3 of 11 is still not a deep conference in hoops. The AAC had much better depth a half dozen years ago. In basketball, the AAC is not a little guy.

(03-29-2021 08:43 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 08:12 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:52 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:31 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  IDK,,, if the AAC were to win the NCAA and NIT would that put it in the running? If so it would be the 2nd NCAA and NIT Championship in its 8yr history.

Probably not the best conference, but it would be an impressive accomplishment. Difficult to be the best hoops conference with only 2 of 11 making the Tournament.

True but that’s a matter of committee bias and disrespect. No offense but when two conferences get a total of 16 bids the perceived little guys have to pay the price. Hint no conference is so good that they merit receiving 9 bids, and the first two rounds proved as much.

Somewhat. The broader point holds true even if the AAC had gotten 3 invitations...3 of 11 is still not a deep conference in hoops. The AAC had much better depth a half dozen years ago. In basketball, the AAC is not a little guy.

If they fix the bottom half of the conference they will be. Top half is legit but the bottom just drags them down.

(03-29-2021 08:32 PM)esayem Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:31 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  IDK,,, if the AAC were to win the NCAA and NIT would that put it in the running? If so it would be the 2nd NCAA and NIT Championship in its 8yr history.

I said this before the tournament started, Memphis was a tournament team. It’s just the committee selects teams on overall resume not how they’re playing at the end. I’m not sure why November and December matter as much but they do.

Thanks for the kind words about Memphis, esayem. Always appreciated.

(03-29-2021 08:46 PM)Hoya Hoya Hoya Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 08:43 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 08:12 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:52 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:31 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  IDK,,, if the AAC were to win the NCAA and NIT would that put it in the running? If so it would be the 2nd NCAA and NIT Championship in its 8yr history.

Probably not the best conference, but it would be an impressive accomplishment. Difficult to be the best hoops conference with only 2 of 11 making the Tournament.

True but that’s a matter of committee bias and disrespect. No offense but when two conferences get a total of 16 bids the perceived little guys have to pay the price. Hint no conference is so good that they merit receiving 9 bids, and the first two rounds proved as much.

Somewhat. The broader point holds true even if the AAC had gotten 3 invitations...3 of 11 is still not a deep conference in hoops. The AAC had much better depth a half dozen years ago. In basketball, the AAC is not a little guy.

If they fix the bottom half of the conference they will be. Top half is legit but the bottom just drags them down.

This is 100 percent correct. The AAC almost always has three to five NCAA/NIT caliber teams. And then the rest of the teams border on bad. However, this year saw a bit better balance.

(03-29-2021 07:43 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:19 PM)esayem Wrote:  Oral Roberts was the Cinderella. They beat a 2 and a 7 and were a few inches from the Elite 8.

Oregon State won a major conference tournament to get in the Dance.

The clock struck midnight...got it

Precisely ... most often, the clock strikes midnight when the Cinderalla team hits the Sweet Sixteen. Though the fact that every once in a while the clock doesn't strike midnight until the Elite Eight does help keep up the suspense.