Miami lost to Mount St. Mary’s today.

@sam_vecenie

Miami (FL) basketball has now won 4 of its last 22 games, with its only wins being over Fairleigh Dickinson, Binghamton, Coppin State, and Presbyterian. That's zero top-250 wins in its last 22 games going back to last season.

Feels like it's time for Larranaga at this point.

Even 9 conference wins would get us to 20 (if you count the D2 game in our record). 

For me, a successful campaign would first and foremost be to not play in the first round Pillow Fight games.

Second would be for us to win A tournament game (Caputo has yet to do so).

Third, would be to win 2 tournament games (that hasn't been done since 2007).
 

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

As incredible (and sad) as this may sound, if GW defeats Lafayette (Ken Pom of 254), it will be the second best win of the season (Illinois State sits at 167).   I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but I cannot believe that running up a gawdy record against a bunch of patsies (our SOC now sits at 360, 5th worst in the country) is helping us prepare for a conference schedule in which the lowest ranked team is Richmond at 208 (and with a game at Richmond, likely a loss for us).  We definitely seem to be moving in the right direction as opposed to last season, but if we do another belly flop in the conference, I hope the school seriously reconsiders its scheduling philosophy going forward. 

There was a possibility of a nice experiment with Loyola Chicago (whose Non-Con SOS is only 7 spots better than us), but unfortunately the injury bug has hit them hard. 

The reason I thought it would be a good experiment is because overall their KenPom SOS is equivalent to ours, but they were able to sprinkle in games against Princeton, South Florida, and San Francisco amongst the cupcakes. Does playing 1-2 extra games against better opponents make much of a difference in getting ready for conference play?
 

It's a shame that ODU, like Temple, threw away their basketball history in order to chase football.

Free Quebec wrote:

Joel Joseph wrote:

wishing to be 135 instead of 145 - depressing! shows how far we have fallen as a program.

That said, it’s tough. Much harder to get to postseason than it was a decade ago for us. Between the portal and NIL, everything changed for schools at our level - and to our misfortune, it happened when we were at our lowest. If it happened 20 years ago when we still had buzz, who knows where we’d be. But it didn’t.

So my expectations are lowered. And if your attitude is that our ranking doesn’t matter if we’re not an NCAA or NIT team - one year after we ranked 203rd - then rooting for GW isn’t going to be any fun for you so I suggest you get a new hobby.

To give you a sense of just how much harder it's gotten in this era of not only NIL but conference realignment, check out this tweet from the 3 Bid League podcast

Rough math here but probably headed for:
28-32 Big Ten/SEC/Big 12
22 Auto bids
2 WCC
1-2 AAC (prime bid thief spot)
We’re probably looking at 10-15 total bids for the combined group of ACC/Big East/MWC/A-10, which is a very tight number

The year we last made the tournament, 2014, there were 4 bids to the AAC, 6 ACC, 6 A10, 4 Big East, 2 MWC.  So from 2014 to 2025, there are likely 5-6 fewer bids for the ACC/BE/MWC/A10.  No way does our 2014 team get into the tournament if they are playing in 2025 and it's likely they wouldn't make the NIT either.  
 

Gross game.

Only two highlights of the night:

Nice to see so many GW fans make the trip.

David Aldridge is a real deal fan of his AU Eagles and was pumping up the crowd all night

Post game presser: https://youtu.be/sikuMVLp7SQ

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