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Amb3096 said:
Why's that? If anything, UK losing is good for Tennessee so they can stay in striking distance for #4 in the SEC standings.
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Because it drops A&M a full game back. They are a likely contender for one of the top four spots. If they lose to Kentucky and we can potentially pick up a win over A&M it puts us in a much better spot.

Vandy and LSU are both likely losers in their next games out against SC and MSST respectively. That puts us in a great position if we can beat Florida and Alabama. The tough part of our schedule is yet to come, but if we get through these must win games we are in business.
 
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If Carter doesn't play look for Kentucky to win. If she does who knows will depend on how she plays. LSU never beats them if she doesn't get the injury and miss the second half of the game.
 
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I think 12 and 4 gets you in the top four and I think we almost have to win all the home games to get there. Road games left at Auburn, at Florida, at South Carolina, at Arkansas, at LSU, at Vandy. The hope is to take down Florida, Auburn, and hopefully Vandy as the ones we should win and tossups vs Arkansas or LSU. I think the SC game is out of our reach this year at their place. Home games Ole Miss, Alabama, Texas A&M, LSU, MIss St,. Vandy. We need all six of those three should be definite wins and the other three depends on how we play because we could win all six or go 3 and 3. The ultimate would be to go 14 and 2 which I think is possible but very hard to achieve.
 
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Arizona State will be ranked tomorrow. There will be a lot more attrition as all of these Pac 12 teams knock each other off. The Pac 12 could wind up not getting any #1 seed. UCLA had a close call with Colorado today which will give the pollsters pause, and Oregon had a dogfight with Arizona.

Looks like SC #1 tomorrow and Baylor #2. (Both put a big hurt on their opponents today.) Anybody's guess after that. It all depends on whether you rank teams based on how bad their loss was, versus the quality of their wins. Stanford has a couple of good home wins, but that road loss to Texas hurts. Oregon and Oregon State lost on the road -- but to a previously unranked team with some bad losses. (And though they would like you to, you can't forget the Ducks home loss to Louisville.) UConn lost to a highly-ranked team -- but on their home court, and they haven't beaten a top 15 team. UCLA is undefeated, but struggled with an unranked team today but has no impressive out-of-conference wins and hasn't played either Oregon team or Stanford yet (though they did manage to beat Arizona State by 2 at home). And where do Louisville, West Virginia and NC State figure in, each having some decent wins but each with a loss to an unranked team? And how about a shout out for Princeton -- one loss by two points to Iowa (currently in double OT with Indiana where a win would make them co-leader in the Big Ten) and they'll probably run the table and be the #5 seed in the NCAA Tourney that nobody wants to face.

Notre Dame lost by 34 at home today. I don't think they'll even make the NIT this year.
 
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Darth_Vol said:
Just stop. UConn doesn't even have a deep starting 5. They have 4 great players, that's it. And when one of them craps their pants, like ONO did in this one, Geno has no one available to pick up the slack. As a result you have 3 players doing 95% of the scoring, and a 16 point loss...
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I believe UConn has 3 great players instead of 4.
MSUDuo said:
Hard to answer really. If HCKH was still here do I think we'd be 13-2 and #18/19 in the country? No, I don't.

But I think we would've been MVC preseason favorites and preseason top 25 and had players chosen for All-MVC Preseason. I think we'd be looking good for years to come.

We are a different team under Coach Mox. We will obviously know more in 2-3 years but a lot has to be said for picking up where Harper left off.
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"Hard to answer really. If HCKH was still here do I think we'd be 13-2 and #18/19 in the country? No, I don't. ". Intentionally or unintentionally, the quoted comment is a slight knock on Coach Harper, "different" equates to "better". IMHO
 
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