Around the American 2022-23

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Monday results:
- Wichita State over Grand Canyon by 12 (neutral)
- ECU falls by 4 to Indiana State (neutral)
- Tulane falls by 9 to Nevada (neutral)
- USF falls by 15 to UAB, moving them to 0-5 (neutral)
- Temple falls by 6 to St. John's at the Barclays Center

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ECU over Toledo
Wichita State falls to San Francisco
Tulane over Rhode Island
USF over St. Joe's
Richmond over Temple
SMU loses in OT at home to Louisiana

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Thursday - Memphis falls to Seton Hall on a buzzer beater

Friday - Memphis over Nebraska by 12, Tulsa crushed by Oklahoma State

Saturday - Houston beat Kent State by just five, 49-44

[Geaux Juan]

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Thursday - Memphis falls to Seton Hall on a buzzer beater

Friday - Memphis over Nebraska by 12, Tulsa crushed by Oklahoma State

Saturday - Houston beat Kent State by just five, 49-44

ECU lost to Old Dominion by 21 yesterday

Today's notables:
- Memphis over Stanford by 8
- UCF falls to Miami by 2

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Another tough night in the AAC

- USF falls to UMASS
- ECU falls to previously winless South Carolina State (first career win for Erik Martin)
- Wichita State falls in OT to undefeated Missouri

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Some other recent AAC results:

Wednesday - Temple won by 16 at future UC opponent La Salle, SMU lost by 19 at Texas A&M

Saturday - #1 Houston beat Saint Mary's 53-48, Tulane lost by 5 to Fordham, Temple by 10 over VCU, Tulsa lost by 11 to Oral Roberts, Memphis by 11 over Ole Miss, Wichita State fell by 5 at Kansas State

Sunday - UCF needed OT to beat Samford

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Some AAC results from the last week:

#1 Houston fell at home to Alabama on Saturday
SMU lost to Arizona State and TCU to fall to 3-7
Temple loses to 20 to Penn, snapping a 4-game win streak
Memphis beat #11 Auburn by 9 in Atlanta
UCF is 7-2 (no major wins) and is led by potential first rounder Taylor Hendricks, a 6'9 freshman averaging 15.6 and 7.1

[swilsonsp4]

Here are the current kenpom.com rankings for the eleven AAC teams. What these numbers show is the shallow depth of quality in this conference this season. For comparison purposes, there are 363 D1 teams this season.

• Houston: #2 overall; #22 offensive efficiency; #2 defensive efficiency
• Memphis: #26 overall; #43 offensive efficiency; #26 defensive efficiency
• UCF: #58 overall; #116 offensive efficiency; #31 defensive efficiency
• UC: #73 overall; #50 offensive efficiency; #92 defensive efficiency
• Wichita State: #89 overall; #191 offensive efficiency; #39 defensive efficiency
• Tulane: #94 overall; #88 offensive efficiency; #110 defensive efficiency
• Temple: #113 overall; #110 offensive efficiency; #127 defensive efficiency
• SMU: #182 overall; #236 offensive efficiency; #130 defensive efficiency
• USF: #188 overall; #258 offensive efficiency; #124 defensive efficiency
• Tulsa: #198 overall; #224 offensive efficiency; #170 defensive efficiency
• ECU: #200 overall; #169 offensive efficiency; #242 defensive efficiency

UC, WSU and Tulane are the only AAC squads with better offensive than defensive efficiency.

By contrast, B12 schools are clustered at or near the top: KS #4, TX #5, BU #15, WV #17, OK St #34, TTU, #37, OK #38, TCU #43, IA St #46, KS St #52.

As a side note, except for that flushable performance at NKU, the Cats’ three other losses came to powerful teams in terms of offensive efficiency: AZ #1, tO$U #4, XU #9. Even in the second scrimmage, against Purdue, UC faced the #5 offensive team.

[Lobot]

Something that I don't see mentioned here is that Larry Brown left the Memphis staff for health reasons last week.

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Some AAC results from the last week:

#1 Houston fell at home to Alabama on Saturday
SMU lost to Arizona State and TCU to fall to 3-7
Temple loses to 20 to Penn, snapping a 4-game win streak
Memphis beat #11 Auburn by 9 in Atlanta
UCF is 7-2 (no major wins) and is led by potential first rounder Taylor Hendricks, a 6'9 freshman averaging 15.6 and 7.1

Some recent AAC results:

Memphis fell at highly ranked Alabama by 3 on Tuesday, but beat Texas A&M by four on Saturday
UCF won by 11 at Ole Miss on Wednesday (Ole Miss then beat Temple by 8 on Saturday)
Houston won at highly ranked Virginia on Saturday by 8
UCF lost to Missouri on a wild buzzer beat on Saturday
ECU won versus South Carolina by 8 on Saturday
Wichita State lost by 10 at home versus Oklahoma State on Saturday

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Some recent AAC results:

Memphis fell at highly ranked Alabama by 3 on Tuesday, but beat Texas A&M by four on Saturday
UCF won by 11 at Ole Miss on Wednesday (Ole Miss then beat Temple by 8 on Saturday)
Houston won at highly ranked Virginia on Saturday by 8
UCF lost to Missouri on a wild buzzer beat on Saturday
ECU won versus South Carolina by 8 on Saturday
Wichita State lost by 10 at home versus Oklahoma State on Saturday

Some recent AAC results that stood out to me:
- 12/20: Temple lost at home to Maryland Eastern Shore
- SMU dropped 2 of 3 in the Diamond Head Classic (losses to Utah State, Hawaii)
- Wednesday AAC openers: Houston over Tulsa by 39, UCF over Wichita State by 7, Temple wins by 2 at ECU

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Temple is 3-0, Houston is 2-0, SMU is 1-0
Wichita State and USF are 0-2, Tulsa 0-3
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/standings

Temple backed up the UC win with a close road win versus USF last night
Tulane bounced back from its UC loss with wins versus Memphis and Tulsa

[Lobot]

Intrestesting results last night.

Houston had trouble at home with USF. They were playing without Jarrace Walker however.

UCF looks like a borderline tournament team this year. They took down Memphis in double OT last night.

Tulane cameback to beat SMU in Dallas last night.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ype/2/group/62

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USF finally broke into the AAC win column, pulling away from a depleted ECU in Greenville, 81-70. The Pirates were without the services of Javon Small, who lit up UC for 23 Wednesday night, but tweaked his knee.

In the second game of the day, both visiting Memphis and Temple launched brick after brick. At one point in the second half, the two teams had combined for 7/49 shooting from beyond the arc. Midway through the second half, the Owls pulled up by nine, only to see Kendric Davis come alive, sparking a comeback for a 59-56 Memphis lead.. Eventually, Damian Dunn hit a trey that tied the game at 59 with just a few seconds remaining. After Penny called TO at 02.1, the Tigers inbounded under their basket to Davis, who hit a running jumper at the horn. Final: Memphis, 61-59. The Tigers were missing three players because of injury, although DeAndre Williams and Davis played.