So how good were the "experts" picks ?

[Ixiah]

If you know of any others feel free to add them. Seems like the main mistakes made this year was not guessing the collapse of UConn and SMU. Also the overachieving South Florida. One oddity I noticed was with Tulsa - most everyone seemed to be putting them in roughly the right spot but for some reason #8 just was not selected.

Here are the final conference rankings:

1. Houston 16-2
2. Cincinnati 14-4
3. UCF 13-5
4. Temple 13-5
5. Memphis 11-7
6. WSU 10-8
7. South Florida 8-10
8. Tulsa 8-10
9. Connecticut 6-12
10. SMU 6-12
11. East Carolina 3-15
12. Tulane 0-18

You might say a big thanks to Tiger1983 at csnbbs,com who gathered a lot of these together. Would have posted this over there but I forgot my password.

https://csnbbs.com/thread-858248.html

I have also added a few others.


Colors:
Blue = correct
Green = missed by 1spot
Yellow = missed by 2 spots
Red = 3 or more

Have fun :)

Ix


Athlon Magazine

1. UCF
2. Houston
3. Cincinnati
4. Temple
5. WSU
6. UConn
7. Memphis
8. SMU
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

Lindy Magazine

1. Cincinnati
2. Houston
3. UCF
4. WSU
5. SMU
6. UConn
7. Temple
8. Memphis
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

Street and Smiths Magazine

1. UCF
2. Cincinnati
3. Houston
4. UConn
5. Memphis
6. WSU
7. SMU
8. Temple
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

Busting the Brackets

1. UCF
2. Houston
3. Cincinnati
4. Memphis
5. UConn
6. WSU
7. SMU
8. Temple
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. USF

Sporting News

1. Cincinnati
2. Houston
3. Memphis
4. UCF
5. UConn
6. WSU
7. Tulsa
8. SMU
9. Tulane
10. Temple <=== WTF ??
11. ECU
12. South Florida

Sports Illustrated

1. Cincinnati
2. UCF
3. Houston
4. Temple
5. UConn
6. WSU
7. Memphis
8. SMU
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. East Carolina
12. South Florida

ESPN Power Rankings

1. UCF
2. Houston
3. Cincinnati
4. UConn
5. Temple
6. WSU
7. SMU
8. Memphis
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

CBS Sports

1. Cincinnati
2. UCF
3. Houston
4. UConn
5. Temple
6. SMU
7. Memphis
8. WSU
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. USF
12. ECU

These are their analyst predictions just before the conference play

https://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...s-at-mid-term/

Gary Parish

1. Cincinnati
2. Houston
3. UCF
4. Memphis
5. Temple
6. UConn
7. SMU
8. WSU
9. Tulsa
10. South Florida
11. ECU
12. Tulane

Matt Norlander:

1. UCF
2. Houston
3. Cincinnati
4. Temple
5. UConn
6. SMU
7. Tulsa
8. Memphis
9. WSU
10. South Florida
11. Tulane
12. ECU

Kyle Boone:

1. Cincinnati
2. Houston
3. Temple
4. UCF
5. SMU
6. Tulsa
7. UConn
8. WSU
9. Memphis
10. South Florida
11. Tulane
12. ECU

Jerry Palm < == Got to give him some credit - these were good picks

1. Houston
2. Cincinnatti
3. Temple
4. UCF
5. Tulsa
6. South Florida
7. Memphis
8. WSU
9. SMU
10. UConn
11. ECU
12. Tulane

Chip Patterson:

1. Houston
2. Cinncinnatti
3. UCF
4. UConn
5. Temple
6. Memphis
7. SMU
8. WSU
9. Tulsa
10. South Florida
11. East Carolina
12. Tulane

NBC Sports

1. UCF
2. Cincinnati
3. Houston
4. SMU
5. WSU
6. UConn
7. Temple
8. Memphis
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

Andy Katz

1. Cincinnatti
2. UCF
3. Memphis
4. Houston
5. Temple
6. Tulsa
7. SMU
8. UConn
9. WSU
10. USF
11. Tulane
12. ECU

Jon Rothstein

1. UCF
2. Cincinnatti
3. Houston
4. SMU
5. Temple
6. UConn
7. WSU
8. Memphis
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

Mark Gainnoto (USA Today)

1. Cincinnati
2. UCF
3. Houston
4. Memphis
5. Temple
6. SMU
7. UConn
8. WSU
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. South Florida
12. ECU

David Borges (UConn writer)

1. Houston
2. Cincinnati
3. UCF
4. UConn
5. SMU
6. WSU
7. Temple
8. Memphis
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. USF

AAC Coaches (Pre-season)

1. UCF
2. Cincinnatti
3. Houston
4. Memphis
5. UConn
6. Temple
7. SMU
8. WSU
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

Barstool Sports

1. Cincinnati
2. Houston
3. UCF
4. Temple
5. WSU
6. UConn
7. Memphis
8. SMU
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. South Florida
12. ECU

Hero Sports

1. Cincinnati
2. Houston
3. WSU
4. UCF
5. Temple
6. Memphis
7. UConn
8. Tulane
9. Tulsa
10. SMU
11. USF
12. ECU

Three Man Weave

1. Cincinnati
2. SMU
3. UCF
4. Temple
5. Houston
6. WSU
7. UConn
8. Memphis
9. Tulsa
10. USF
11. ECU
12. Tulane

Ken Pomeroy

1. SMU < === The ABSOLUTE worst prediction
2. Cincinnati
3. Houston
4. UCF
5. WSU
6. Temple
7. UConn
8. Memphis
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

AAC Blogger Poll

1. Cincinnati
2. UCF
3. Houston
4. WSU
5. Memphis
6. UConn
7. SMU
8. Temple
9. Tulsa
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

https://www.theuconnblog.com/2018/11...ens-basketball

D1CoachCorner.com < == 7 bad picks .. the "champ" at getting it badly wrong

1. Houston
2. Memphis
3. UCF
4. SMU
5. Tulsa
6. UConn
7. Cincinnati
8. WSU
9. Temple
10. Tulane
11. ECU
12. South Florida

T-Rank

1. UCF
2. Houston
3. Cincinnati
4. SMU
5. UConn
6. Temple
7. Memphis
8. Tulsa
9. WSU
10. Tulane
11. South Florida
12. ECU

College Sports Madness

1. Cincinnati
2. UCF
3. Houston
4. WSU
5. SMU
6. Memphis
7. UConn
8. Tulsa
9. Temple
10. *** South Florida *** < == They did not go down this low - places 10-12 are best possible result from remaining teams
11. *** ECU ***
12. *** Tulane ***

[abdullah_sharif]

predictions are like prostitutes...

gives the fans something to talk and get excited about when nothing else is going on and a chance for the applicable company to show off their advertising.

...that’s why they play the games...

[ShockTalk]

Picking WSU 3rd or 4th is either not paying enough attention to the massive turnover in players or not giving the AAC enough credit as a conference.

Not sure how some of those could have had SMU as high as they did.

No doubt USF was the surprise team and only fell out of the top half late in the season.

While Houston was generally picked high, few had them to win it.

[OregonShocker]

Missing badly before conference play is worse than pre-season (pre-transfer/elegibility). That said, looks like anyone on this board could be a professional analyst if they wanted.