How Many Wins Do We End Up With This Season?

[shoxlax]

[SubGod22]

Looking at the schedule I see 12 to 15 wins.

[WuShock16]

I said 15-18.

We are already at 7 wins. We have 6 games against 200+ NET opponents (as of December 10). If we can't sweep those and snatch a few more to get into the 15-18 range (AT THE VERY LEAST), then we need to shut down the program.

[forevershockerfan]

Preseason I picked us 10-8 and 5th in Valley. Still hoping Cortes becomes eligible. Overall, I selected us in the 15-18 slot. The 3-8 place finish will be interesting and up for grabs with those 6 teams being similar in talent IMO.

[shoxlax]

Preseason I picked us 10-8 and 5th in Valley. Still hoping Cortes becomes eligible. Overall, I selected us in the 15-18 slot. The 3-8 place finish will be interesting and up for grabs with those 6 teams being similar in talent IMO.

Did we switch conferences?

[Stickboy46]

Did we switch conferences?

To be fair .. we might actually finish 5-8th in the Valley too this year...

[molly jabali]

Was South Dakota State this years' Alcorn State? If so, 15 or more MIGHT happen...BUT....
-NO DEPTH
-can't take nights off with low energy
-one nagging question...how could Germany been(so far, anyway) such a miss?

I'll hang up and listen off the air....

[asiseeit]

Any worse than 5th in the AAC makes it a bad season - we should win 15-18 but 15 is more likely than 18

[shock-it-to-me]

Yeah ibte

[SubGod22]

How are there people who see this team winning at least 12 more games?

10 or less? Dooms dayers
11-14? Realists
15-18? Optimists
18+? Delusional

[Stickboy46]

Gonna look at remaining games with their current KP Rank

For reference WSU is currently 109 in KP.

Likely Losses
45 - KSU
10 KU
34 Memphis
20 @FAU
34 @ Memphis
20 FAU

Likely Wins
206 ECU
300 UTSA
196 Tulsa
161 Temple
229 Rice

Toss Ups
102 SIU
85 UNT
161 @ Temple
151 @ USF
78 SMU
191 @ Tulsa
206 @ ECU
122 @ Charlotte
171 UAB
104 @ Tulane

Basically didn't put any away games in likely wins and instead are either losses or toss ups. For home games, most were toss ups unless it was one of the dominant teams or the extreme bottom dwellers.

So looking at the likely wins and losses it would move us to 12-9. So if we just split the toss ups we are at 17-14. So probably more wins that I initially expected when I opened this thread. That's because the AAC is actually well worse than I was thinking.

EDIT: Sorry if anyone got tagged by accident due to the forum thinking I was tagging people instead of just typing an away game lol

[shock-it-to-me]

With Cortes 18 wins
without 14 wins

[ShockTalk]

The funky splits in league schedule could have an impact on our record. Looking at the current team records in our league, the bottom 6 teams so far in the non-con are Charlotte, North Texas, UTSA, UAB, South Florida, and Rice. I did not look at their strength of schedule so far. Nevertheless, we only play 1 of those 6 teams 2 times.

At the top so far in the non-com are Florida Atlantic, Memphis, Tulane, and Temple. We play all of them twice except for Tulane.

After playing SIU, our next 5 games include KU, Temple, Memphis, and FAU. Even with Cortes added, that could be rough on a short rotation.

[Kung Wu]

I'm thinking somewhere between 7 and 20.

[MadDog]

Was South Dakota State this years' Alcorn State? If so, 15 or more MIGHT happen...BUT....
-NO DEPTH
-can't take nights off with low energy
-one nagging question...how could Germany been(so far, anyway) such a miss?

I'll hang up and listen off the air....

No doubt Germany has been a huge miss. The expectations for a grad transfer is they should be playing a lot and he’s playing walk on minutes. If you’ve actually seen him play in person you would see he is not very strong, gets easily pushed away from the basket, and just doesn’t play hard. I think it’s interesting that Bob Hull on one of the pregame shows sort of let the cat out of the bag when he stated the coaches were noting he had huge limitations as early as the closed scrimmage with Iowa. I think we’d all like to see him play and contribute but credit to the coaching staff for not playing him.