All the RPI/SOS stuff aside, they're not bad, and in the top half in the A-10. The A-10 might be down this year, but it's been a 2-4 bid league for a few years, so it's still a top-10 RPI league. Watch them play, and they're pretty solid. Given how bad they've been, that counts as on the rise for me.

All fair points bshott44. I'm gonna go see them play later in the year. I'm looking forward to it!

Tonight 2/2:

Biggest game of interest in my mind is URI at VCU on ESPN2. Top 2 teams in the A10 going head to head.

Unless you're watching Ivy League hoops, there's not a ton of other games of interest tonight.


Saturday 2/3 -- not as many massive Top 25 match-ups this Saturday, but still some good ones:

Toward the top of the AAC at noon:

Houston at UCF (ESPNU)
UC at UConn (ESPN2)

Butler at noon on FS1 hosting Depaul.


2pm:
UD at UMass for the local interest
Texas Tech at TCU (ESPNU) - huge game for TCU to keep at-large status intact.

4pm Bama at Florida on ESPN

6pm - USC at UCLA on ESPN2

6:30
Oklahoma at Texas

8:15
Michigan State at IU



There are several top of conference games in the Mid-Majority Saturday:

In the SoCon - 2pm - Winthrop hosts Radford

In the Missouri Valley - where everyone is pretty close:
2pm - Missouri State at Loyola
4pm Evansville at Illinois State

At the top of the America East - Vermont visits UMBC on ESPN3 - 4pm
At the top of the A-Sun FGCU visits Jacksonville on ESPN3 - 6pm
In the Colonial, C of C visits Hofstra (who we saw in Charleston) - 7pm
Yale visits the Palestra and Penn -- 7pm on ESPN3
UAB at ODU -- 7pm on ESPN3
UNLV at Boise State -- 8pm on CBSSN


And then Late night out west there are three pretty good ones where the top 4 in the WCC face off, and the top of the PAC12 face off.

9pm - Saint Marys at San Diego
10pm - BYU at Gonzaga
10:30 - Arizona at Washington

I haven't seen Loyola other than that win at Florida, but I agree - they'll have to win Arch Madness to get in. I hope they do. I think it's been awhile since they've gone dancing.

With URI, ya never know. On the road at the Seigel Center, on a Friday night is a tough place to play.

Personally, of all the non-MAC games this weekend, I'm just hoping the Bearcats go up to UConn and smash the Huskies. I won't hold my breathe though, as Storrs and Hartford aren't usually kind to them.

As a Bearcat fan since I was young, I agree that UC should be beating teams more handily at times. This year's team is very, very talented. That Houston game showed me a few things that tells me they're able to beat top teams. They extended the lead without Gary Clark, plus Jacob Evans created chances off the dribble and from behind the arc, and he hit the glass. They play D better than all but 10-15 teams in the country. Lastly, outside of the major blue bloods of college hoops, there are few teams in the country deeper than Cincinnati.


As for URI, no question they're a notch above the rest of the A10 this year.

I think that would be a great game to schedule. Plenty of Bobcats in the area. A good one for one of they could make it happen.

Our former commit Tariq Owens had 17, that might have been a career high for him against. Duke.