re: tOfficial Gamecocks Basketball Thread 2018-19

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How is saying we won't make the ncaa tourny but maybe the nit being sourpusses? Its called reality. Our ooc record screwed us. We are 5-1 which is positive but we haven't faced kentucky nor tenn either. 10-8 with at least 3 to 5 more losses isn't getting us to the dance.

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This

Just making predictions isn't anything bad.

Lets us make our assumptions. If we are wrong we will eat crow.

5-1 is good but I want to be better.
Over here I talk with logic, on the rant I'll run around beating my chest that we are 5-1

You literally said "Best we can hope for is NIT"

Thats being a sourpuss because IN REALITY like IBG said, best we can hope for is the NCAAT. Duh?

NIT is a sure thing i would think unless we tank.

Id put us around a 30 percent chance of making it, 35 if we beat OK state. Certainly better than "Best we can hope for is NIT" imo.

Which is always in the cards since winning the SEC tourney is an auto bid

I kinda think Bryant reminds me of a slightly shorter Chris Silva, but without the fouling. He does foul, but not in the machine-gun fashion that Silva has been known to do. And he is after all a freshman.

But I agree the best we should HOPE for is national titles, but realistically after last season, and the way this team looked to start this season, reaching the NIT would be a major positive, and a step in the right direction for this team.

But I will gladly accept reaching the NCAAT if at all possible: the team has gotten top 25 ranking votes and bracketology consideration in recent days, so lets see where this all takes us. I know that past tournament selection committees have taken how teams finished their seasons into strong consideration in picking teams - if we're able to finish with a .500 or better SEC season, in a supposedly stronger SEC this season, and not just bow out in the SECT after one game, we may sway some of those folks into our camp. One game at a time....

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in a supposedly stronger SEC this season

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This is actually what scares me

And I think this Big12 SEC challenge is pretty huge.

I know we don't have some of the better teams in it, but some wins where we shouldn't are big.

And Hopefully we don't have any upsets (like WVU beating UT)

I say we dance!

12 losses we are out, and we need some good wins to make up for it. 11 losses, 2 wins in SEC Tourney, and maybe another ranked win?

Beat Tennessee and its an auto bid

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I know hindsight is 20/20 but this Morant kid left basically unnoticed.

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Does our staff even attempt to recruit in the state?

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Does our staff even attempt to recruit in the state?

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to be fair, that article says we gave him a look.
Not sure if this means a scholarship was offered

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According to Tee Morant, 13 Division I programs made official courtships for Ja, including Frank Martin's South Carolina Gamecocks. (Tee Morant said Clemson was interested, too, but didn't have an available scholarship on the table.) Regardless, most schools only came calling after Murray State found him.

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I know rankings aren't the end all but he wasn't even rated and from that article played for a less known AAU team without a shoe company backing them.


if all that story is true about him (being that good in AAU with Zion) he should have played for a much better AAU team.