Ncaa Tournament Run?

chrisfisher · April 27, 2007

Given the multi 3 star class JJ recruited this season (McCoy, McCoy, Thompson), plus the now playing Collin Dennis, and the returing Wooden and Williams, anyone care to predict our chances to the big dance? I'll go with a big "Hell Yes!"

emmitt01 · April 27, 2007

Given the multi 3 star class JJ recruited this season (McCoy, McCoy, Thompson), plus the now playing Collin Dennis, and the returing Wooden and Williams, anyone care to predict our chances to the big dance? I'll go with a big "Hell Yes!"

I'll go with a big "the talent is there." Midseason I'll change my answer to a big "Who brought the lynch mob?", around conference tourney time I'll change it to a big "You guys are giving me tired head with this 'fold' crap" and by the end of it all I'll probably have a big "I told you so...just like this year."

Edited April 27, 2007 by emmitt01

MeanGreen61 · April 27, 2007

Think I'll wait on declaring the start of a basketball dynasty at NT. The Belt wasn't exactly a strong conference in '06-'07 & we didn't even win our division.

CMJ · April 27, 2007

The potential is there to win 20 games, the regular season title, and the postseason tourney title. But I'm not gonna predict jack in April. :lol:

e-bone ver2.awesome · April 28, 2007

This team definitely has the talent to give it another run in the 07-08 season. But that has been the case for the past several years. Hopefully our coaches and players learned what it took this year to pull it together and win the games that count at the end of the season. It would be nice to see 20+ D1 wins and a regular season title, as well.

CMJ · April 28, 2007

It would be nice to see 20+ D1 wins and a regular season title, as well.

We did have 20 D1 wins.

e-bone ver2.awesome · April 28, 2007

We did have 20 D1 wins.

I guess I should have said "20+ D1 regular season wins and a regular season title, as well", but that seemed a little redundant. Suppose I'll have to start doing stuff like that though to shake my "hater" title bestowed upon me by the kids.

Basically, I want UNT to be in a position to play in a tournament without having to win the conference championship. Non D1 games and 3rd place division finishes don't do that. The team did what it had to do last season, now let's see them take it up a notch.

CMJ · April 28, 2007

I don't disagree with you e-bone, but the Belt as a whole hasn't gotten an at large selection in about a decade I believe(feel free to check, I'm not sure). Unless a non power conference school has some wins over the Big Boys(and when I say Big Boys, I mean top 25 Big Boys, not just average Power league schools), they're more than likely not gonna get an at large selection. There is of course the chance the league suddenly jumps up the rankings, and we can get two bids like the CAA or something.

Other than that it's pretty much win the conference tournament 20 wins or not.

Edited April 28, 2007 by CMJ

e-bone ver2.awesome · April 28, 2007

I mentioned I would like to see us be in a position to play in a tournament, not just the tournament. Winning the regular season championship will get us into the NIT. Winning the regular season championship and having a good non conference record against D1 opponents will get us into the bubble team debate. Make it or not, at least give yourself the chance.

CMJ · April 28, 2007

I hear ya. I'd take the NIT too, though we'd probably get something like a 7 seed like USA did. If we could garner a top 4 seed we'd get a 1st round home game. Now that would be something else.

greenminer · April 28, 2007

Think I'll wait on declaring the start of a basketball dynasty at NT. The Belt wasn't exactly a strong conference in '06-'07 & we didn't even win our division.

Who said dynasty? We're just dreaming about going dancing again next year.

e-bone: I thought there was a new rule allowing any team that won their regular season title but lost in the conference tournament was granted an invitation to the NCAA? Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

CMJ · April 28, 2007

e-bone: I thought there was a new rule allowing any team that won their regular season title but lost in the conference tournament was granted an invitation to the NCAA? Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

They get an auto to the NIT.