I can't believe they lost to East Carolina. Are hopes for making the tourney is pretty much done unless we win our conference, which is probably unlikely since we would have to beat out Memphis. So depressing
I hate Penders because of his big mouth and what he did to that kid at UT so I am happy when he struggles.
UH was out of the tourney on the day of the first game. UH is getting better, but they aren't a touney team...yet.
If they had won out and lost to Memphis(again) in the conference tourney, they would have made the NCAA tourney. You could argue whether they deserved it or not, but they would have gotten in.
But they didn't. They didn't because they don't have the talent to do it...yet. They are improving, and if they continue to improve, they will get there.
But you can't say they were eliminated from day one. You say that about teams like Rice that have won 3 games all season. You don't say that about 20 win teams, regardless of what conference they play in. And just because they didn't win out doesn't mean they were incapable of it or didn't have enough talent. Not capable of beating Memphis? Yes. Not capable of beating the rest of CUSA? Complete BS. I guess Phoenix just doesn't have enough talent to beat the Sixers.
When you lose to teams like East Carolina (ranked 265 in the RPI), particularly late in the season, you aren't a tournament team. The Cougars' next game is against Central Florida (RPI ranked 136). On Friday, UH was ranked 65 in the RPI. The game against East Carolina should drop that markedly. RPI will drop a little further because of Central Florida's bad RPI. You look at RPI because that is what the tournament selection committee looks at. Once all is said and done, UH will probably have an RPI between 75 and 90, depending on wins and losses. That puts them out of the tournament. A bucket here and there, and it would be different. That is the nature of the game. As UH continues to improve, they will start getting that bucket here and there, and they will be in the field of 65 (formerly 64).
Well, I guess there's always the NIT...I suspect without winning the conf. tourney, we're done... Why must we make things so hard on ourselves...
You gotta feel bad for UH. Just last week their baseball team lost in extra innings to Rice (actually led going into the 9th) and Texas. That hurts.
There are 347 division I NCAA basketball teams. That means that the vast majority aren't going to postseason play of any kind whatsoever. This isn't the NBA, where everybody who is worth a damn makes the playoffs. If being one of the upper third of all teams is a slap in the face, you may consider whether you are thin skinned. Also...you didn't go through the Barone years at A&M, did you?
After the season ended (they won only 12 games or so), 4 players had a meeting with the AD to express their displeasure with the state of the program. Axtell said he was thinking about transferring. Penders did not know about this until a few days later. A couple of weeks after the meeting, Axtell gets suspended for "failing to meet academic standards" (something which rarely happens in the offseason, and in the middle of a semester no less...later UT admitted that Axtell was never actually ineligible, and should not have been suspended), and a day later his academic records were faxed to the station & read aloud on the air.
This is just not true. they should finish with a 55-40 rpi even with the loss to east carolina if they win until memphis. they'd have to lose out the season and the conference tournament to get an rpi where you project. Before the loss to memphis they were on pace to record a mid-30 rpi under the same circumstance. they, imo, certainly have the talent to be a tournament team. they are definitely good enough. two things have screwed them up. 1) a terrible, terrible schedule that just didn't give them sufficient opportunities to get enough quality wins. instead of looking at how A&M schedules, they should have looked at how memphis, gonzaga, southern illinois, and the unlv's of the world schedule ooc. 2) they just couldn't win any close games this year. vcu by 1, umass 11 pt half time lead, uab by 2, and east carolina. in all of these games, uh had the lead or was tied in the last minute of the game. They lost every one of them. VCU, umass and uab should all be top 50 rpi teams/and ncaa teams by the end of the season. They lost those close games and with their schedule that left them with no margin for error.
I'm sorry, i meant before the loss to east carolina, they were in position to finish with a mid-30's rpi.
You expect them to jump 10 to 25 RPI spots with the schedule they have remaining? That is just absurd.
