Owls at #97 today.  Ahead of every team in the SEC West (except Mississippi).  Not that it matters, but thought it was interesting to check in on how the SEC was doing after watching that riveting Florida/Auburn game yesterday.

1/28

Polls:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/rankings/rpi/index2

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/polls?poll=5
Ratings:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc1011.htm

http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cb&yr=2011&sub=NCAA%20I&mid=1

For comparison's sake, when South Alabama made the tournament in 2008 as an at-large after losing in the Sun Belt semifinals, they were 26-6 and were 38th in RPI. No way we get close to that, so gonna need to win the SBC tourney, otherwise it's NIT for us!

if this team wins 25 games and wins the sunbelt tourney i'm pretty confident of a 12 seed. the reason is there's so many upsets in and sh!t teams that will win their conference that we'll automatically get the nod ahead of them. per example, if Hofstra, George Mason, Old Dominion, VCU, etc…. if they don't win their conference we'll be taking their spot.

Exit39 said

if this team wins 25 games and wins the sunbelt tourney i'm pretty confident of a 12 seed. the reason is there's so many upsets in and sh!t teams that will win their conference that we'll automatically get the nod ahead of them. per example, if Hofstra, George Mason, Old Dominion, VCU, etc…. if they don't win their conference we'll be taking their spot.

A 12 seed is going to take a top 45 RPI. That's not going to happen for any Sun Belt team this year.

Last year had a ton of lower-tier conference tourney upsets, and a 90-100 fringe RPI was still only good enough for a toss up between a 14 and a 15 seed.

2/16 - And this is what you get…

Polls:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/rankings/rpi/index2

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/polls?poll=5

Ratings:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc1011.htm

http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cb&yr=2011&sub=NCAA%20I&mid=1

Two straight L's will have that effect…….

Same slide as last year.  Gantt needs to become more of a go to scorer, he has the talent.

We need to rip off three wins and that will change everything!

We are still ranked in the top 1/3 of teams in the country!!

If we were ranked that high in football we would be having parades…