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Official Buffs Dance Resume Thread

Darth Snow said:
Mission accomplished in OOC. Time to heal the bruises and get ready to go **** some **** up in the P12.
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Indeed 11-2 lost the 2 games that were considered no hopers but got the needed RPI bumps out of them - we are in good shape now for the Pac-12 schedule.

10-8 or 11-7 plus a win in the Pac-12 tourney gets us to teh dance.
 
No college basketball games being played on Christmas Eve.

Friday (Christmas Day), there are 4 games and 3 of them are significant for the Buffs:

New Mexico vs Washington State (11:00)... Wazzu has a chance in this one, but it would be an upset
BYU vs Northern Iowa (1:30, ESPNU)... UNI is good (#42 RPI) and would be a great win for BYU that would push them toward Top 50.
Auburn vs Hawaii (4:30, ESPN2)... Hawaii surprisingly good this year (#62 RPI, almost beat OU & damn tough on the island). Big game for Auburn's resume that would push them back toward Top 50.

I can't stress enough how big it would be for the Buffs to add a couple Top 50 wins (including a road win) to its resume. Both BYU and Auburn are risks to fall out of the Top 100, too, which would be a disaster.
 
Could have used a 'signature win' in the OOC. I wonder how we would look to the committee if, say, we lost to BYU but won against ISU or SMU. The bell's rung now and we finished much better than I predicted, so I'm not unhappy, but I still don't trust the committee.
 
Disappointing that we really could have won either of those losses with a couple of things falling the Buff's way.
 
OUBuff said:
Disappointing that we really could have won either of those losses with a couple of things falling the Buff's way.
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Those things are the difference between being a top 25 team and being a team hoping for a bit to the tourney. To reach the next level we need to figure out how to win our share of those tight games against top opponents, so far we haven't.
 
Buffnik said:
I can't stress enough how big it would be for the Buffs to add a couple Top 50 wins (including a road win) to its resume. Both BYU and Auburn are risks to fall out of the Top 100, too, which would be a disaster.
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Hopefully P12 will offer this opportunity - seems it would be best to have about half very good teams and half weaker to keep several in the Top 50 RPI. Too many good but equal teams will beat each other down.
 
No games today (Saturday).

Only game tomorrow is Furd padding the record against a non-RPI D2 squad.
 
Once again, Tad did a masterful job with the OOC schedule, in spite of the usual obstacles (including his stubbornness when it comes to roadies or 2 for 1s or whatever with top programs). Tad is certainly open to criticism in some areas, but his knowledge and manipulation of the rpi factors and being able to produce a resume favorable OOC usn't one of them, IMHO.

The Buffs two big RPI wins were not wins at all. They got a bigger boost than any of their wins just by showing up against Iowa St and SMU. A win in either would have been huge, but still a great RPI boost getting off the bus.

The two "losses" were UNC and Nicholls. Nice to get a break and go 12 deep, but those two nearly offset the SMU and ISU games. Not sure how I feel about these.

The Buffs had four more games that they just needed to get off the bus that have no material effect on RPI but get 4 in the W column. Despite some hand-wringing in the game day forums, CU was never going to lose at Coors against AFA, UNO, Portland, or Hampton.

That leaves four games where the Buffs had to take care of business. A loss to BYU, Auburn, CSU, or Penn St would not have been resume killers, but we would not be top 30 going into conference play and would not have much room for error in conference. They took care of business.

So, as Darth said much more succinctly, "mission accomplised". Tad and the Buffs did whay they needed to do. Bring on the PAC!
 
OP updated with current RPIs and rankings.

Buffs and the Pac-12 had a positive week. Need those OOC opponents to win big in conference play now.
 
Nicholls lost at Houston today. Doesn't really hurt.

Tonight are a couple testy ones:

CSU-Bakersfield @ ASU (7:00, PACN)... CSU-B is 8-4
Davidson @ Cal (7:00, PACN)... Davidson is 8-2 and a good test for Cal, which is favored by 9.5

also...

College of Idaho at #21 Utah (7:00, PACN)... D2 cupcake
UCSB at Washington (9:00, PACN)... should be a cupcake with UCSB at 3-7, but Washington could actually get challenged here
 
Belmont beat Valpo, which came in #19 RPI. Their drop moves the Buffs up to #22.

In other news, ASU struggled to a 1 pt halftime lead, Cal is destroying Davidson, and Utah is doing the expected in its cakewalk game.
 
Cal, Utah and ASU got their wins.

Cal jumped up to RPI #66... which is only good for 10th in the Pac-12. This conference season is going to be allsome.
 
As feared, UW **** the bed against UCSB and dropped the home OOC finale.
 
We've got one big game today and then a bunch of garbage.

#17 SMU at 8-4 Tulsa (3:00, ESPN2)
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Regis at CSU (3:00)... D2 game
Western State at AFA (6:00)... D2 game
Western Oregon at Oregon (7:00, PACN)... D2 game

Some really good other games on tonight, though.
 
SMU got the win with a very strong performance.

Wednesday games we care about:

Penn State at #4 Maryland (3:00, ESPN2)... Maryland favored by 16, but I think it will be closer than that
Coppin State at #11 Iowa State (6:00)... cupcake city, as Dickie V says
 
SMU will likely be favorites in every game for the remainder of the season, a touchdown or more in all but three or four. They have a chance, albeit a small one (like 4-5%) to be 30-0, have the #1 RPI, and not qualify for the tournament.

There are so many reasons that I would love to see this happen.
 
scoob said:
SMU will likely be favorites in every game for the remainder of the season, a touchdown or more in all but three or four. They have a chance, albeit a small one (like 4-5%) to be 30-0, have the #1 RPI, and not qualify for the tournament.

There are so many reasons that I would love to see this happen.
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I won't be surprised if it does happen. Just like their game with CU, they are going to treat every big matchup on their schedule like it's for the championship because for them it kind of is.
 
Buffnik said:
SMU got the win with a very strong performance.

Wednesday games we care about:

Penn State at #4 Maryland (3:00, ESPN2)... Maryland favored by 16, but I think it will be closer than that
Coppin State at #11 Iowa State (6:00)... cupcake city, as ****ie V says
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Penn State was up by 8 at halftime. Holding on to a 4pt lead with 12:25 to play.
 
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