Official Season Predictions Thread

[jacobkdoyle]

If we lose at Temple I won't be a happy camper. They suck, as always.

Yeah it's really tough to predict every game. I thought we'd lose at X and at UCLA before the season started, with AAC losses being at Wichita State and one other random one. At this rate, at SMU looks to be every bit as hard as Wichita State. So many variables in college sports that are impossible to account for so far ahead of time.

[juckerrules]

Originally Posted by jacobkdoyle

If we lose at Temple I won't be a happy camper. They suck, as always.

Yeah it's really tough to predict every game. I thought we'd lose at X and at UCLA before the season started, with AAC losses being at Wichita State and one other random one. At this rate, at SMU looks to be every bit as hard as Wichita State. So many variables in college sports that are impossible to account for so far ahead of time.

I would not be at all shocked to see a 3 loss team win the AAC outright

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by juckerrules

I would not be at all shocked to see a 3 loss team win the AAC outright

Yah 2 losses wins it. 3 either wins or ties more than likely.

[Jon Rycek]

Originally Posted by justinhub2003

I love that your stalking my posts as if I’m the enemy of the Bearcats. You got me pinned as negative poster. The reality is I’ve been disappointed with scheduling and disappointed with how we played against Xavier and Florida. That’s it.

I mean I predicted we’d have 2 losses In non conference and we did. Winning on the road in this conference won’t be a cake walk like last year. UCF held smu to 56 points in there own gym and they don’t have bj Taylor back. Smu has a home court record just as good as ours. Houston is going to be really tough. Wichita state rarely loses in Koch arena, and we never play well @temple. Tell me where I’m off base?

Winning on the road against good teams is really ******* hard.

I mean, are you going to predict that we only take 2 losses? I’ll gkadly hope your right, but I’m a realist. I want to protect home court, and steal a few road wins

Actually I came here to look for cincyguy13 predictions, don't flatter yourself. However when I did see your first post, I got a good chuckle.

[justinhub2003]

Originally Posted by Jon Rycek

Actually I came here to look for cincyguy13 predictions, don't flatter yourself. However when I did see your first post, I got a good chuckle.

Dude you predicted going 3-1 in our 4 game stretch. I predicted 2-2. I dunno what’s to chuckle about except you being wrong already. Add In that you said we get a 2-3... we’d have to go undefeated the rest of the way to get that.

Your an optimist and I’m a realist. I mean we’re a good team but the conference is full of good defenses that travel. My prediction was not even in the slightest bit at all negative. Running through any conference is hard, but especially so with the improvements of Houston, UCF, WSU, Tulane and even UConn Is much improved

[Jon Rycek]

Originally Posted by justinhub2003

Dude you predicted going 3-1 in our 4 game stretch. I predicted 2-2. I dunno what’s to chuckle about except you being wrong already. Add In that you said we get a 2-3... we’d have to go undefeated the rest of the way to get that.

Your an optimist and I’m a realist. I mean we’re a good team but the conference is full of good defenses that travel. My prediction was not even in the slightest bit at all negative. Running through any conference is hard, but especially so with the improvements of Houston, UCF, WSU, Tulane and even UConn Is much improved

7 losses, realist
4 losses optimist.
Guess we will see who's the realist in the end.

[justinhub2003]

Originally Posted by Jon Rycek

7 losses, realist
4 losses optimist.
Guess we will see who's the realist in the end.

Kenpom predicts 25-6

And he has us as the 12th best team in the country. I’m not off base.

Do I hope we do better then that? Sure. But from what I’ve seen, our on court performance isn’t better then last year. And competition is much better.

I will gladly be wrong and hope we run through the conference

[justinhub2003]

On another note;

Would anybody have ever guessed that UC’s Offense would be rated worse than last years offense and that our defense would be rated better?

If anything we all would have predicted the opposite.

Last year uc’s offense finished at 34th and this year we’re at 47th with only 4 games against good teams.


We are playing a full 2 seconds faster on offense (a huge job to be honest) however we haven’t learned how to be efficient at that speed. Our offense this season is better every nearly every way except one crucial one: TO%.

If we can get our TO% closer to 16% we will have a very good and most likely top 25 offense

[cincrulz11]

Originally Posted by justinhub2003

On another note;

Would anybody have ever guessed that UC’s Offense would be rated worse than last years offense and that our defense would be rated better?

If anything we all would have predicted the opposite.

Last year uc’s offense finished at 34th and this year we’re at 47th with only 4 games against good teams.


We are playing a full 2 seconds faster on offense (a huge job to be honest) however we haven’t learned how to be efficient at that speed. Our offense this season is better every nearly every way except one crucial one: TO%.

If we can get our TO% closer to 16% we will have a very good and most likely top 25 offense

its really just the turnovers. we are shooting better from 2 and 3. offensive rebounding % is up too.

[WAITE HOYT 2]

I know it's been mentioned a bit but does anyone think that the fact we are really playing our home schedule on a neutral floor has anything to do with some of our shooting struggles?