03-31-2017, 09:10 AM | #1 |
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Wichita State Added to AAC
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/s...tic-conference
and https://www.si.com/college-basketbal...issouri-valley If the AAC mucks this up they are idiots. IF they get into the AAC and its as soon as next year, we add a legit top 10 roster to the league (they lose no one). Next year we would have UC, UCONN, WSU, UCF at the top of the league with SMU and Temple right behind. If Tulsa and Memphis can keeping improving, we will be left with just 3 bad teams In the league |
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If this turns out to be true it's a great power move by the aac. All the bad perception aac has dealt with of late only uc and smu making the tournament, everyone openly trying to leave , I just think this move would be perfect. Between uc, uconn, temple, Wichita state, Memphis, smu, schools on the up swing like Houston, ucf, and Tulsa there's literally no reason the AAC can't be one of the best basketball conferences in the country.
With the aac finally having real stability for 1st time which is so important and adding a 12th member for every sport but football (their baseball program is also very good) I just think this move makes too much sense. In a perfect world we also add Dayton, Vcu etc but this is great news. i think the aac is finally going to live up to its potential |
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I know Im certainly not saying they are on the upswing, but young teams do improve.
I do like that wheeler kid and him and Etou will both be seniors next year. I just expect them to progress instead of regress. They could be fringe top 100 with just some mild improvement. |
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SMU Loses: Semi, Ben Moore & Sterling Brown. Thats a lot of points and rebounding to lose. UCF will return Tacko (IMO he returns), BJ Taylor, AJ Davis and Add Aubrey Dawkins who is a lights out shooter and easily replaces Matt Williams. I loved the way BJ Taylor came on in latter part of the season and in the NIT for UCF |
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FWIW, Lunardi has UCF as a bubble team for next year's tourney. I know it's absurd. I agree. But he talked about the 2018 tourney during the NIT games. Last year at this time he had 3 of the 4 1 seeds right. Somewhat impressive.
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When is the meeting scheduled in April for them to decide on Wichita?
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