Crimson Red Sports

We all know, by now, that the Tide did not get invited to the Big Dance this year. What everyone has to accept is this was no one's fault by the TIde BB team, not the refs, not the NCAA Committee, but the fault of the team. The team failed miserably in November & December and lost to cupcakes it should have crushed. Plus, Coach Grant scheduled a high school level of talent to play early in the season. Teams such as:

UAH (exhibition game we won by 5 points)

Florida A&M
Troy
Alabama A&M
South Alabama
Southeastern Louisiana
Lipscomb
Peppedine
Toledo

This has happened before when Gottfried scheduled a bunch of cupcakes, but after being snubbed by the NCAA, he started playing better teams and we started making the Dance. I think the team exceeded Grant's expectations and we will be MUCH better next year.


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This is all true.

How far in advance are these games scheduled?  I am guessing it's not like football (years)?

The schedule also included Iowa, Seton Hall and Providence that are normally strong teams that happen to be weak this year. We also lost the first game in a stong field in Puerto Rico that put us in the weaker losers bracket. The barn and LSU had RPI's over 200. Arkansas was considered a bad loss.

On paper prior to the season our schedule did not look bad.

I have a whole other slant on it.

I think the fact that we were 5-3 against the SEC East was ignored because the West was so weak.

BB games are mostly scheduled on a yearly basis, unless you have a game home & away series with a team, like we did with Purdue. Coach Grant can definitely put together a very good schedule next year if he wants to. BB is very flexible with a different schedule possible every year.

The game was in the Virgin Islands and the field was weak. We lost all three games there, all cupcakes. Seton Hall hasn't been good in a while. We are playing in the Puerto Rico Tipoff in 2011 and the field looks very strong. Teams include:

Wichita State  24-8 in 2010
Maryland    19-14
Purdue     25-7
Temple     25-7
Iona      22-11
Colorado    21-13

This is a good-looking field and one more team is to be added.

I firmly believe we might be so good next year, the OOC sched won't matter, and like I mentioned earlier if we add Trevor Lacy (I just looked, ESPN's #1 SG in the country) the selection committee will be BEGGING us to go to the dance

The OOC always matters because it will afect not only our selection for the NCAA Tourney and your seeding in the tourney. Much easier to be a 3 seed instead of a 9 seed.

No I know it matters MD, but what I mean by that is if you win enough in conference or go on a long winning streak & have few losses look at SDSU, they get a 2 seed because of the long runs they went on w/o losing that gets you noticed. Bama will be so much more improved next year, just wait & see, this team will be hungry & mad ready to smash every team they play, Bama has too many young guys to forget what happened this year & CAG is a motivator

We need to play a good schedule and end up with an RPI of 25-35 to ensure we don't get overlooked again. We will have an outstanding team next year, if Greene returns. If he leaves early, we can be good, but it will be a struggle. We need him for the inside power game. I expect Mitchell, Releford, & Hankerson to be better outside shooters next year.

I Ditto this. Although my little heart is sad we will be better. RTR!

I doubt San Diego St. would be making any long runs if they had to play UK, Florida, Miss. State, Georgia, Ole Miss, & Alabama during the season.