Strengths/Weaknesses for next year.

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What will be the drastic differences between next years roster than last season?

What's the expectations for the offense and defense?

It's CCM's 3rd year. I would assume that he has 80% of HIS guys, right?
 
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Dominate downlow. No double teams on Stokes should free him up. Richardson will make a jump. Hubbs will have a solid season. Only question is at PG. defense should be strong I think. Higher scoring definitely. Ultimately a 7 or 8 seed in the NCAA
 
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Dougie_D said:
What will be the drastic differences between next years roster than last season?

What's the expectations for the offense and defense?

It's CCM's 3rd year. I would assume that he has 80% of HIS guys, right?
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We should be better at every position except PG (as it stands). McRae should be improved, same for Richardson, Hubbs replacing Mcbee is an obvious improvement. Stokes will hopefully improve and have more room to work, and Maymon is an improvement over hall obviously.

The expectation should be to make the tournament with realize ease IMO.
 
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The key will be replacing Golden.
I won't expect as much with a Freshman point.
Then again, ask me after Atlantis.
Another stumbling start out of the blocks and I see us under achieving all season.
Come out guns blazing and it could be an interesting season.
 
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calban said:
The key will be replacing Golden.
I won't expect as much with a Freshman point.
Then again, ask me after Atlantis.
Another stumbling start out of the blocks and I see us under achieving all season.
Come out guns blazing and it could be an interesting season.
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If we don't add Barton I think we should expect Thompson to just manage the games. Hopefully he can learn quickly. Luckily he's faster and more rangy than Golden so he should have a easier time breaking presses and such Atlantis will tell us where we are like you said.
 
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I'm expecting a petty soft OOC schedule, so that should give our young pg plenty of time to grow up. It will also gives us opportunites to stump our toe against high rpi teams that can come back to bite us later in the year.
 
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johnnybravo said:
I'm expecting a petty soft OOC schedule, so that should give our young pg plenty of time to grow up. It will also gives us opportunites to stump our toe against high rpi teams that can come back to bite us later in the year.
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I'm thinking the OOC will be pretty soft as well. Atlantis, @wichita, @xavier, vs. Virginia is about it for good OOC it looks like.
 
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SJAVol32 said:
I think 10 wins before SEC play will have us in great position
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Depends on what the 3 losses are. When I said soft...I mean really soft. If we beat the 2 - 4 NCAA tourny teams in our OOC schedule, that means we will have 2 or 3 bad losses already. If we beat all the cupcakes, then it will look like all our losses will be against the decent teams. With our OOC schedule this year, I'm thinking more than 2 losses will have our backs up against the wall again.
 
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We do have the opportunity have to give Mr. Wiggins his first loss. Kansas will be top 5 team when/if we play them. That one win could be the difference between a 10 seed and a 5 seed at the end of the year.
 
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johnnybravo said:
We do have the opportunity have to give Mr. Wiggins his first loss. Kansas will be top 5 team when/if we play them. That one win could be the difference between a 10 seed and a 5 seed at the end of the year.
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Not sure I agree one win is a difference between a 10 and a 5 seed. Maybe 10 and 8 seed.

As for 2-4 NCAA teams OOC, we will play probably 3 NCAA teams alone in Atlantis. Then Wichita, Xavier, Virginia should all be NCAA teams, I'd say we will play 6-7 NCAA teams OOC.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Not sure I agree one win is a difference between a 10 and a 5 seed. Maybe 10 and 8 seed.

As for 2-4 NCAA teams OOC, we will play probably 3 NCAA teams alone in Atlantis. Then Wichita, Xavier, Virginia should all be NCAA teams, I'd say we will play 6-7 NCAA teams OOC.
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Wiggins is going to be the poster boy for the NCAA this year, IMO, so KS will get a huge amount of exposure this year. KS has a good opportunity to be a #1 seed. With one of their few losses to TN could be huge for us at the end of the year. I haven't seen the brackets yet for the tourny in Atlantis, but I would expect TN would have to play KS in the finals. So, a win would not only be over KS, but also a championship.

IMO best case would be 6-7 NCAA tourney team. But I'm not sold on VA being a tourney team at this point. They do not lose a lot this year, but I don't expect upsets over NC and Duke again this year. I don't think they come out of the ACC and make the tourney.

Wichita State loses a lot this year. Yeah, they made the final 4, but they also have only seen the NCAA tourney 3 times in the last 20 something years. With losing what they did and having to just about win their conference tourney to go, I'm not so sure they get in either.

Xavier should be in and we may play them twice.

I expect TN to get one of the easier opponents in the first round of the Atlantis, so I do not expect their first game at least to be an NCAA tourney team. There are only 2 teams in the tourney that went to the tourney last year. I don't think UTEP, WF, or USC to be there. And TN then would have to be in the finals to get a chance at 1 maybe 2 teams that will be there.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
I'm thinking the OOC will be pretty soft as well. Atlantis, @wichita, @xavier, vs. Virginia is about it for good OOC it looks like.
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Don't care how "soft" a schedule looks, UT has, with few exceptions, been soft mentally on the road. Look at UGA this past season. No way is UVA a soft team on the road. They beat dook last year without a full team. Wichita and Xavier will be much the same because they have coaches that instill tough-minded, gritty teams. 0-3 against these 3 is not an indictment against UT/Zo.
 
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johnnybravo said:
Wiggins is going to be the poster boy for the NCAA this year, IMO, so KS will get a huge amount of exposure this year. KS has a good opportunity to be a #1 seed. With one of their few losses to TN could be huge for us at the end of the year. I haven't seen the brackets yet for the tourny in Atlantis, but I would expect TN would have to play KS in the finals. So, a win would not only be over KS, but also a championship.

IMO best case would be 6-7 NCAA tourney team. But I'm not sold on VA being a tourney team at this point. They do not lose a lot this year, but I don't expect upsets over NC and Duke again this year. I don't think they come out of the ACC and make the tourney.

Wichita State loses a lot this year. Yeah, they made the final 4, but they also have only seen the NCAA tourney 3 times in the last 20 something years. With losing what they did and having to just about win their conference tourney to go, I'm not so sure they get in either.

Xavier should be in and we may play them twice.

I expect TN to get one of the easier opponents in the first round of the Atlantis, so I do not expect their first game at least to be an NCAA tourney team. There are only 2 teams in the tourney that went to the tourney last year. I don't think UTEP, WF, or USC to be there. And TN then would have to be in the finals to get a chance at 1 maybe 2 teams that will be there.
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UTEP may be a tourney team. They return some good players from a winning record and had a very good recruiting class. I believe they have an NBA level player- Washburn. WF should be better and USC has Enfield. Not sure how good they will be but most likely better than they have been.
 
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VolGee4 said:
UTEP may be a tourney team. They return some good players from a winning record and had a very good recruiting class. I believe they have an NBA level player- Washburn. WF should be better and USC has Enfield. Not sure how good they will be but most likely better than they have been.
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Neither WF or USC will make the big dance this year. The only reason UTEP may have a chance is because Memphis is leaving CUSA. That conference is now horrible. Only one team will make the dance from CUSA this year, so I guess UTEP may have a good a chance as any of the others. According to the bids, they will have to take at least one.
 
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johnnybravo said:
Neither WF or USC will make the big dance this year. The only reason UTEP may have a chance is because Memphis is leaving CUSA. That conference is now horrible. Only one team will make the dance from CUSA this year, so I guess UTEP may have a good a chance as any of the others. According to the bids, they will have to take at least one.
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Probably so about WF and USC. Didn't mean to insinuate that they were tourney teams. But UTEP will probably be good regardless of conference. It certainly helps that they are in a bad league. Floyd is bringing in a 5 star- I believe the first in the program. Floyd is a good college coach.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Probably so about WF and USC. Didn't mean to insinuate that they were tourney teams. But UTEP will probably be good regardless of conference. It certainly helps that they are in a bad league. Floyd is bringing in a 5 star- I believe the first in the program. Floyd is a good college coach.
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Well, if we play them, hopefully they will be good enough to help our RPI, but I hope we don't see another OSU type team that plays lights out at the beginning of the year.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Probably so about WF and USC. Didn't mean to insinuate that they were tourney teams. But UTEP will probably be good regardless of conference. It certainly helps that they are in a bad league. Floyd is bringing in a 5 star- I believe the first in the program. Floyd is a good college coach.
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By the way, your previous post didn't read like you were insinuating WF or USC makes the tourney. You merely said they should be better. I do agree with you about Tim Floyd. The OJ Mayo stuff aside, the guy is a winner. I dont know if he has ties to CA, but he recruits the heck out of that state.
 
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GoobieVol said:
By the way, your previous post didn't read like you were insinuating WF or USC makes the tourney. You merely said they should be better. I do agree with you about Tim Floyd. The OJ Mayo stuff aside, the guy is a winner. I dont know if he has ties to CA, but he recruits the heck out of that state.
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Thanks. I agree. I do not know enough about the Mayo situation, but apparently, Floyd resigned and was not fired because he felt the former AD was using him as the scapegoat. That is why Haden made a courteous call to Floyd this last hire because he wanted it known that Floyd was not the real problem. Of course, I don't believe that they were really interested in hiring him. He does recruit well.
 
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calban said:
The key will be replacing Golden.
I won't expect as much with a Freshman point.
Then again, ask me after Atlantis.
Another stumbling start out of the blocks and I see us under achieving all season.
Come out guns blazing and it could be an interesting season.
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I don't get the "stumbling out of the blocks" thing people keep trying to apply to last season. They lost to Okla St, Memphis, Georgetown and Virginia in the OOC slate. Of those 4 games only the Virginia loss was borderline and that was on the road. UT's problem last year was 2 losses to UGA. Those 2 losses are the ones that derailed UT's NCAA hopes, not losing to 3 tourney teams and a bubble team (on the road) in the OOC. I guess I could toss Arkansas in there but most people don't hold losing to Arkansas on the road against a team.
 
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zansdad said:
I don't get the "stumbling out of the blocks" thing people keep trying to apply to last season. They lost to Okla St, Memphis, Georgetown and Virginia in the OOC slate. Of those 4 games only the Virginia loss was borderline and that was on the road. UT's problem last year was 2 losses to UGA. Those 2 losses are the ones that derailed UT's NCAA hopes, not losing to 3 tourney teams and a bubble team (on the road) in the OOC. I guess I could toss Arkansas in there but most people don't hold losing to Arkansas on the road against a team.
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I understand what you're saying, and agree to an extent, but if we beat UVA at their place we likely are dancing regardless of those UGA losses. So I guess the thought is, while yes those were good teams, you've got to win a game or two OOC against good teams to outweigh any conference slip up. Cause let's be honest, most teams slip up at some point in their conference, it happens all the time.
 
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zansdad said:
I don't get the "stumbling out of the blocks" thing people keep trying to apply to last season. They lost to Okla St, Memphis, Georgetown and Virginia in the OOC slate. Of those 4 games only the Virginia loss was borderline and that was on the road. UT's problem last year was 2 losses to UGA. Those 2 losses are the ones that derailed UT's NCAA hopes, not losing to 3 tourney teams and a bubble team (on the road) in the OOC. I guess I could toss Arkansas in there but most people don't hold losing to Arkansas on the road against a team.
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Beat a couple of good OOC teams early and you're much less likely to be sitting on the bubble in March.
Bruce was a master at it. Problem with most of his teams, they fizzled late.
 
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calban said:
Beat a couple of good OOC teams early and you're much less likely to be sitting on the bubble in March.
Bruce was a master at it. Problem with most of his teams, they fizzled late.
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Pearl was good at getting an early season upset, that is true but not getting one early (like Martin) doesn't mean you stumbled early just means you lost to teams you were supposed to.

All things considered I think last years ooc result was to be expected (8-4) if you look at the rosters of the teams involved and where the games were played.
 
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