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CoKane

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We're under a month away from the tip off of the IUPUI game. What do we think happens this year? Going with the following

Buy games - Win them all. Especially pound the **** out of Milwaukee please

Major non conference games - Beat Iowa and St Johns. Unsure what we do against Missouri but we'll probably drop one we shouldn't so I'll pick that one. In the PK I'll say we upset Villanova the same way we got Xavier and Memphis, lose to UNC, and ill leave the last game as a toss up as IDK what to make of any of the other 4.

Non conference record - 11-2(3 once we hit the SEC game)

Conference - We start 1-4 with an OU road win. Then Texas comes to town. Pissed off Gabe returns and leads us to a win. We finish 8-10. Make the tournament as a 9 or 10 seed.
 
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CoKane said:
We're under a month away from the tip off of the IUPUI game. What do we think happens this year? Going with the following

Buy games - Win them all. Especially pound the **** out of Milwaukee please

Major non conference games - Beat Iowa and St Johns. Unsure what we do against Missouri but we'll probably drop one we shouldn't so I'll pick that one. In the PK I'll say we upset Villanova the same way we got Xavier and Memphis, lose to UNC, and ill leave the last game as a toss up as IDK what to make of any of the other 4.

Non conference record - 11-2(3 once we hit the SEC game)

Conference - We start 1-4 with an OU road win. Then Texas comes to town. Pissed off Gabe returns and leads us to a win. We finish 8-10. Make the tournament as a 9 or 10 seed.
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This sounds reasonable. I honestly have no idea. I think we'll be tough to play, maybe sometimes tough to watch, but I would expect somewhere between 16-20 wins.
 
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I still have to finish my game-by-game guessing exercise ... I start it, then get sidetracked.

Glad to see the thread, for season anticipation.

I'll probably err on cautious side (as I did last season) and hope I'm underselling.
 
My actual prediction is something like 18-14 on the bubble. I'm excited to watch Osun protect the rim.
 
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CycloneErik said:
This sounds reasonable. I honestly have no idea. I think we'll be tough to play, maybe sometimes tough to watch, but I would expect somewhere between 16-20 wins.
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I have no idea either. I think we'll be a tough team, and we'll have to find a way to eek out a bunch of close wins. If we can play defense like last year while being better rebounding and on the break, I think we can make the tournament.
 
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It’s going to be hard for us to match last year. We will play great defense, but someone is going to have to step up scoring wise like Brockington did.

Going with 16-16 with 5 Big 12 wins. I think next years team has amazing potential to be really ******* good.
 
I think our scoring will be more consistent and better than last year due to more (as in quantity) capable scorers, offensive rebounds, and more scoring in transition.

I'm going to say 9-9 in conference and a good enough non-con record to make the tourney
 
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Clone95 said:
I think our scoring will be more consistent and better than last year due to more (as in quantity) capable scorers, offensive rebounds, and more scoring in transition.

I'm going to say 9-9 in conference and a good enough non-con record to make the tourney
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I'm not predicting this team to make the NCAA tournament, but I think you might be right on the scoring part, and specifically the offensive rebounding part. Last year, they were 52nd in the country in offensive rebounding in the non-conference, then had the worst offensive rebounding percentage in the conference in conference play, probably because they were suddenly facing teams that were as tough as them and had more size. I think that played a big part in the offense struggling--they didn't have something to lean on when shots weren't falling. With the additions of Osunniyi, Ward, and Tre King, I think the offensive rebounding could sustain better through the whole season.
 
Fake season: 9-3 (7-0 "buy" games, 1-2 @ PK event, 1-1 against St Johns and Iowa)

Gauntlet: 7-11

16-14 NIT top seed. No Q3 losses and only a couple non-Q1 losses

Lead by the two Bonnies. I'd project us as a tournament team if Gabe improves from a liability on offense
 
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Fake season: 9-3 (7-0 "buy" games, 1-2 @ PK event, 1-1 against St Johns and Iowa)

Gauntlet: 7-11

16-14 NIT top seed. No Q3 losses and only a couple non-Q1 losses

Lead by the two Bonnies. I'd project us as a tournament team if Gabe improves from a liability on offense
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You're forgetting the @missouri game. They weren't great last year I think we can take that one.
 
I thought 20 wins or so and a tourney invite last year based on TJ being getting Big Ten transfers and keeping Hunter.

And while Lipsey may not be out of the chute as good as Hunter.............he is no slouch and expect him to do a lot better than people expect.

I think the transfers while not experienced in day to day Big 12 type of ball will have zero problem adjusting.

So I'm thinking another 20+ win season and about the same seed in the dance invite.
 
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In the last 42 seasons, we've had a losing record 19 times, made the NCAA tourney 20 times, and made the NIT 3 times.

I love a good NIT prediction...its by far the least likely, but yet always a popular prediction!
 
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ClonesTwenty1 said:
I think next years team has amazing potential to be really ******* good.
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Same. I think the 23-24 team is going to be what TJ ball is supposed to look like 100%. Its nice knowing that while shooting will be bad again this year it shouldnt stay like that.

We're getting all those pieces at a great time too because next years league isnt going to be much easier
 
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