Around the American: 2021-22

[RedDog]

Penny continues to recruit great classes but has no idea how to harness them into a team. Its street ball deluxe and occasionally they click, but they are fundamentally poor, just like he was as a player. They are underachieving again tonight at home against SMU, on the heals of blowing a big lead to ECU because they lacked the discipline to close it out. Too bad for the conference, we could use them for SOS if they just played to their talent level. By the way, our SMU win is looking pretty strong at this point.

[GoBearcats31]

Sounds like Rasheed Wallace is no longer an assistant coach at Memphis. Penny says he's in "more of a consultant's role" and seemed to indicate he will not be back. See @geoff_calkins on Twitter.

[swilsonsp4]

ECU just coughed up a 20-point lead at home to UCF & lost in OT, 92-85. Meanwhile, UH took care of USF at home, as expected, 74-55.

[GoBearcats31]

Wichita State's next two games PPD due to health and safety protocols within the WSU program - hopefully non-issue for UC, which just played there on Sunday

[GoBearcats31]

Bubble Watch from The Athletic ($) has UC at least in the conversation - that Illinois win could go a long way if UC can continue to stack some wins together, even though it's looking like a 1-bid league right now: https://theathletic.com/3075120/2022...lready-locked/

[swilsonsp4]

USF got their first AAC win, putting a disinterested UCF away, 75-51, in Tampa.

UH nearly blew a 10-point lead with less than four minutes remaining at Tulsa, as a Hurricane contested layup rolled off the rim at 0.4 seconds. The Cougars held on, 66-64.

[swilsonsp4]

SMU held off Tulane today in NO, 75-66. In a frantic comeback, ECU hit a buzzer beater that banked in from 12' to nip Memphis, who held a 44-30 halftime lead, 72-71. The Tigers had a 10-point lead late, but wilted under constant pressure.

[Gmann]

With these NET rankings there are a lot more ways to drop with losses than opportunities to improve with wins. I am so looking forward to moving to the Big 12 where there are so many more quality wins to be had. I realize we first need to improve the roster to compete at that level but I think WM will do that.