Arizona and March Madness

[TucsonTruckStop]

The good thing about the Wooden Tourney is that our team learned to not take the small schools for granted.

Penn and Pepperdine played their asses off...and haven't played that well since.  The Cats learned two valuable lessons without earning an "L". 

The NIT Tipoff in New York will be nice next year.  St. John's (again), Cincy and Texas Tech are all decent opponents that play "tough basketball".

The problem is a win in that tourney does nothing, but a loss kills you. Just stop scheduling so many cupcakes at home.

[2012Cat]

We scheduled the top 2 teams in the country and another top 25 in non conference. Scheduling tournaments is a crap shoot. It really wasn't that bad.

[KansasCityCats]

Reynolds would schedule tough opponents if they would actually play in McKale.

Gonzaga, Florida, Baylor, Illinois and a few other programs recent did home and homes. I know for a fact that we've extended invitations to many more that are greedy and want neutral sites.

These big tournaments limit our ability to play top tier competition in hostile environments.

This year's schedule is fine. As 2012 mentioned, playing the top two teams in the country deserved some credibility...even though Baylor won't be at the top for long.

[jumpinjohnny]

As of today, our SOS is positioned in the #22 slot, with a ranking of 8.4

Teams 12 - 16 are tied with a 9.0 ranking.

7 of the top 10 teams are from the Big-10. If we played in the Big-10 our SOS would be a lot higher, and like the schools in that conference, we'd be beat up heading into the dance. We're not, so that information is mostly useless. Still . . .

[TucsonTruckStop]

We scheduled the top 2 teams in the country and another top 25 in non conference. Scheduling tournaments is a crap shoot. It really wasn't that bad.

We got lucky Baylor and Gonzaga turned out to be 2 of the best teams. There is no denying we need more Q1 and road opportunities though. 2 Q1 games and 1 true road game in the Non-conf is not enough. Part of it is the Pac 12. Case in point are these conference intra-play games. The SEC/Big 12 challenge and others. Wish the Pac was better getting out in front of the scheduling problems.

[TucsonTruckStop]

NET - Team (Record): Q1/Q2/Road - Q3/4 L's
9 - Arizona (13-6): 1/3/0 - 0
15 - Stanford (15-3): 1/2/2 - 0
17 - Oregon (16-4): 5/4/3 - 1
18 - Colorado (16-4): 3/5/2 - 1
40 - USC (16-4): 3/5/5 - 1
46 - Washington (12-9): 1/1/1 - 2
57 - ASU (12-7): 1/4/3 - 0
74 - Utah (12-7): 2/3/1 - 2
90 - OSU (12-8): 2/1/2 - 1
109 - WSU (12-9): 1/0/1 - 4
124 - UCLA (9-9): 1/1/2 - 3
166 - Cal (8-10): 0/1/0 - 2

[TucsonTruckStop]

Date: Q1 / Q2 / Road
12/31: 0-2 / 2-1 / 0-1
01/10: 0-3 / 3-1 / 0-2
01/18: 1-4 / 2-1 / 0-3
01/25: 1-5 / 3-2 / 0-4
W..T..F!

[TucsonTruckStop]

Some additional perspective on how bad this season is so far.
Opponent: Q1/Q2/Road
Baylor: 6/4/5 - Are we that much worse than Baylor?
Illinois: 4/2/4 - It's good to see some teams got better.
Non-Tourney Teams
St.Johns: 3/1/1
Providence: 2/3/2
New Mex.St.: 1/0/5

[arxpert]

Some additional perspective on how bad this season is so far.
Opponent: Q1/Q2/Road
Baylor: 6/4/5 - Are we that much worse than Baylor?
Illinois: 4/2/4 - It's good to see some teams got better.
Non-Tourney Teams
St.Johns: 3/1/1
Providence: 2/3/2
New Mex.St.: 1/0/5

I have no idea why you are even on a UofA Fan Forum