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Here's the AP Top 25 released yesterday: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankingsI am having a hard time determining the level of difficulty of our ACC schedule vs. the rest of the league. Although I think this is among the harder league schedules because we get home/away with both Virginia and Duke.
I'm ready for basketball.
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I am having a hard time determining the level of difficulty of our ACC schedule vs. the rest of the league. Although I think this is among the harder league schedules because we get home/away with both Virginia and Duke.
I'm ready for basketball.
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Responding to your post here so as to not keep bumping the Coleman thread.We absolutely could go 15-15 this year. Or something like that. I just don’t see how that’s what someone would predict given how much of our roster is back and how we played when they were together last year. If you go 10-3 in the preseason losing to most of the really good teams and 11-9 in the ACC, again losing to the really good teams, that’s 21-12 and 14 times out of 15 gets you into the NCAAT given that strength of schedule. And that type of result would really be (IMHO) zero improvement from last year...it would just mean we were healthy and had all our players this year.
I’d really love to see us hit 12-8+ this year. As long as you win all your games against the bottom half of the league it doesn’t take much more to get there, and I feel like we have the personnel to do that.
Tough to get used to Notre Dame being "ranked" so low. Even Louisville at 26, UNC at 28 and FSU at 30 feels low.Couple of quick notes. There are 4 fewer games than last year - 27. You are going to see teams close to .500 making the Tourney this year given most teams will have fewer 'buy' games.
GT only has 2 really bad teams on the schedule - FAMU and Del St.
Mercer is not that bad - probably on par with NE and Ga St is better than either of them.
UAB now has Andy Kennedy as Coach and was 19-13 last year and the game is at UAB
This is arguably one of the toughest schedules GT basketball has played.
Just for one man's opinion, here is Matt Norlander's CBSSports 357 for college basketball for all the teams we play
5 UVA
10 KY
12 Duke
26 L'ville
28 UNC
30 FSU
48 Miami
53 Syracuse
58 Clemson
59 NC St
60 GT
65 VT
82 Pitt
90 ND
95 Ga St
103 BC
121 Wake
139 NE
157 Mercer
203 UAB
342 FAMU
353 Del St
GT will have the opportunity to earn its way into the Tourney.
I cannot argue with 6-1 OOC, but 13-7 in the ACC will be a stretch.27 games
6-1 OOC
13-7 ACC
1-1 ACCT
20-9 overall
6 seed in NCAAT