Looking at 2015-2016

[Panther100]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

I care. That ain't good.

Athlon Sports has WSU a 4 seed in the big dance. They don't have any MVC teams in the NIT.

[Panther100]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

Mid-Major teams make big runs when they play older players. This level is about developing talent over time. Tell me what kind of years we had when the Ahelegbe/Koch group were all freshman. How about the Tuttle/Mitchell group?

We've got enough experience without playing all of them to get ourselves to 20-23 wins and a legitimate shot to get in with the schedule we're playing.

McDonnell is the only one of the freshmen with a chance to play. His game is college-ready and he's good enough facing the basket that his lack of weight can be overcome. He's blowing people away in workouts.

Playing Dahl is Ted Friedman all over. Haldeman certainly needs the year to get physically ready. Conrey is a year 3 or 4 contributor. They all will be really good, but I'm not wasting a year when they're 19 when I can play them at 23.

What we play is ten games against Drake, Mo State, SIU, Bradley, U Dub, and 1 in St. Louis. 23-11 is the last bid of the NIT.

[run&blade]

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Big rotations are nice if the talent is truly there to pull it off. I remember Tom Davis having big rotations at Iowa and frankly some of the players sucked.

Don't play 10 or 11 just to do it. If they are so good you have to play them fine but don't have a number set in stone before you see what you got.

WSU is going to win the Valley if Uni plays 5 guys or 20 guys. If uni beats them in St. Louis you can bet the rotation will be shrunk down for post season and not be 11 deep

[Trapped in California]

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All of these scenarios can be blown up if Ron Baker lands awkwardly on someone else's foot in December. The law of unintended consequences will play out in the next several months.

[06panther10]

All of these scenarios can be blown up if Ron Baker lands awkwardly on someone else's foot in December. The law of unintended consequences will play out in the next several months.

Not really. They are pretty loaded. Hard to actually imagine a scenario where they don't win the title with ease.

[unipanthers8907]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

What we play is ten games against Drake, Mo State, SIU, Bradley, U Dub, and 1 in St. Louis. 23-11 is the last bid of the NIT.

I could come up with 22 wins (23 if you count Dubuque which wont affect our RPI either way) in which we are in the at-large NCAA discussion and a lock for the NIT in a worst case scenario:

Wins:
SFA
UNC
@ UND
N. Texas
@ G. Mason
vs. Iowa State
vs. Hawaii
Bradley
@ SIU
@ Missouri State
Drake
Loyola
@ Bradley
SIU
Evansville
@ Drake
Missouri State
Illinois State
Indiana State
@ Evansville
2 wins in STL

Losses:
Colorado State
@ Richmond
@ New Mexico
vs. Oklahoma (Diamondhead Classic)
vs. BYU (Diamondhead Classic)
@ Indiana State
Wichita State
@ Illinois State
@ Wichita State
@ Loyola
another loss in STL to Wichita State

[run&blade]

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I could come up with 22 wins (23 if you count Dubuque which wont affect our RPI either way) in which we are in the at-large NCAA discussion and a lock for the NIT in a worst case scenario:

Wins:
SFA
UNC
@ UND
N. Texas
@ G. Mason
vs. Iowa State
vs. Hawaii
Bradley
@ SIU
@ Missouri State
Drake
Loyola
@ Bradley
SIU
Evansville
@ Drake
Missouri State
Illinois State
Indiana State
@ Evansville
2 wins in STL

Losses:
Colorado State
@ Richmond
@ New Mexico
vs. Oklahoma (Diamondhead Classic)
vs. BYU (Diamondhead Classic)
@ Indiana State
Wichita State
@ Illinois State
@ Wichita State
@ Loyola
another loss in STL to Wichita State

You like uni chances against Iowa State? Iowa State has everybody back for the most part and uni will still be trying to figure it out without Tuttle.

[panther-state]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

Tuttle was never on a team with O'Rear. He was a senior in HS at West Fork in March 2011. Seth played in the post-seasons of 2012, 13, and 15 for the Panthers. He played as a freshman in 2011-12 with Jake Koch, Austin Pehl, Nate Buss (who broke his arm after 2 games), Chip Rank, and Marvin Singleton. That team played in the NIT and went 1-1.

Really? Thought that was his FoY season when O'Rear went down. Or is that just wishful thinking because the FoY that year was originally supposed to be on our team? Sorry to open up semi-closed wounds. Btw, I just answered my own question.

[06panther10]

Media day today, going on right now btw.

[06panther10]

@jeremiahdavis10: #UNIHoops going small. Jesperson at the 4 a lot. Ball going through guards instead of the post.

@jeremiahdavis10: Carlson to serve a three-game suspension. First three regular season games. #UNIHoops

@jeremiahdavis10: Paul Jesperson and Taylor Olson both battling nagging injuries. Both foot injuries. Jesperson on the shelf for 3-6 weeks. #UNIHoops

[Panther100]

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You must not really know what you're talking about....legal troubles? They are out a max of 3 games. We probably would have to win in St. Louis but that's pretty obvious with what we lost. You don't take a red shirt off a guy for 3 games or to try and keep up with WSU, who we couldn't keep up with this year to save our lives.

Four red shirts leaves 10 players for the first three. 1-2 with an absolute pounding by North Carolina. Do you know what your talking about?

[06panther10]

@LukeMeredithAP: N Iowa starting 5 per Jake: Washpun, Bohannon, Morgan, Jesperson at the 4 and redshirt sophomore "Center Bot."

@jeremiahdavis10: No suspension for Aarias Austin after DUI. Jake cited him not yet being a part of the program when it happened. #UNIHoops

@jeremiahdavis10: #UNIHoops going to have a closed scrimmage with Wisconsin during preseason.

@AndrewMLogue: Jacobson also says Aarias Austin is better than expected.

[Panther100]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

I could come up with 22 wins (23 if you count Dubuque which wont affect our RPI either way) in which we are in the at-large NCAA discussion and a lock for the NIT in a worst case scenario:

Wins:
SFA
UNC
@ UND
N. Texas
@ G. Mason
vs. Iowa State
vs. Hawaii
Bradley
@ SIU
@ Missouri State
Drake
Loyola
@ Bradley
SIU
Evansville
@ Drake
Missouri State
Illinois State
Indiana State
@ Evansville
2 wins in STL

Losses:
Colorado State
@ Richmond
@ New Mexico
vs. Oklahoma (Diamondhead Classic)
vs. BYU (Diamondhead Classic)
@ Indiana State
Wichita State
@ Illinois State
@ Wichita State
@ Loyola
another loss in STL to Wichita State

Four red shirts means SFA wins at MCleod. UNC a W????????????? ISU a W?????????

[Born-a-Panther]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

@jeremiahdavis10: #UNIHoops going to have a closed scrimmage with Wisconsin during preseason.

Now that's cool. Have we ever done anything like that before?

[Trapped in California]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

@jeremiahdavis10: #UNIHoops going to have a closed scrimmage with Wisconsin during preseason.

First to 35 wins. That may take 5 halves