SLUDrew Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I know we are in and have also heard Syracuse, KU, UCLA, and Ohio State as rumored participants. What an opportunity for the Billikens to make an early season splash next season. http://www.cbeclassic.com/teams/2012-participants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Be prepared to be a little disappointed. http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22254 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prebilliken Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I don't get how this field is dissapointing. 3 BCS Teams so far and us as host schools. Its a beggining of the season tournament... Did you expect it to line up as: Duke, KU, Mizzou, UNC, SLU. Game on. This is solid. Something to salivate over during the summer. Let's make noise and let's make noise early. Go Bills! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I don't get how this field is dissapointing. 3 BCS Teams so far and us as host schools. Its a beggining of the season tournament... Did you expect it to line up as: Duke, KU, Mizzou, UNC, SLU. Game on. This is solid. Something to salivate over during the summer. Let's make noise and let's make noise early. Go Bills! No other BCS teams are going to get added so those 3 are it. Its disapointing because we had been told Syracuse and UCLA would be in and that one more Big 12/10 would be added. Then we heard that Kansas was in it. So we thought it would be Kansas, Syracuse and UCLA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVACH13 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I think it is a great field. We will play Texas A&M first. Hopefully meet KU in the finals. Great for RPI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseAndGrind Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I think it is a great field. We will play Texas A&M first. Hopefully meet KU in the finals. Great for RPI. I don't mind it, but this is a case of expectations not being met. I'm happy we may get to play KU, but A&M isn't exactly Syracuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I'm disappointed based on Rick's comments that he thought UCLA and Syracuse would be in it. Washington State and Texas A&M don't quite measure up to those two unless UCLA continues to struggle next year and Syracuse falls off a cliff, the latter of which is highly unlikely. Unless we get to play Kansas in this thing, it probably won't do much more than the 76 Classic did for us this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVACH13 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Baby steps my friends... Baby steps. CBE > 76 Classic. No questions asked. I can't believe everyone is disappointed in possibly playing KU. One of the most historic programs in the country, only 4 hours from Chaifetz. Rough crowd.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 It's only disappointing because it was rumored that we would play UCLA and Syracuse. I like this field and there is no reason why we shouldn't beat Texas A&M. Hopefully a good game with Kansas could start a regular series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I think it is a great field. We will play Texas A&M first. Hopefully meet KU in the finals. Great for RPI. Playing a 12-17 team does not help RPI, and it does not matter what conference they are in (that helps THEIR RPI not really the team that plays them). Playing Vermont this year helped more than Villanova. The tourney is fine as it has Kansas but unless there is some improvement in the other teams next year it will not "help" RPI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prebilliken Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 The odds that 'Cuse and KU would be in a preseason tourney were highly unlikely. Cuse usually plays in the Preseason NIT at the Garden... Or at a vacation destination spot. I want my beloved Billikens as far away from the disgusting antics of the UCLA Bruins as they can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Playing a 12-17 team does not help RPI, and it does not matter what conference they are in (that helps THEIR RPI not really the team that plays them). Playing Vermont this year helped more than Villanova. The tourney is fine as it has Kansas but unless their is some improvement in the other teams next year it will not "help" RPI. Give me a game against Texas A&M any day over a team like Vermont. I don't care what the RPI says, it still catches your eye when you look down a schedule at the end of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextYearBill Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Give me a game against Texas A&M any day over a team like Vermont. I don't care what the RPI says, it still catches your eye when you look down a schedule at the end of the year. A&M was #22 in the nation at one point this year. Sh*t team but gets cred on its name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 We still owe A&M after the azz whupping they put on one of Sodie's teams a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy03 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 We still owe A&M after the azz whupping they put on one of Sodie's teams a few years ago.Gotdamn that was ugly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Gotdamn that was ugly -oh my, i had tried to forget that one!!! that was indeed ugly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 We can all agree DE will be the MVP of the tourney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckFayton Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 This is great. Start the season mid-20s ranking, beat KU and move up to the teens... then Murray-state it the rest of the year because we'll be making the rest of the a10 look like the OVC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 We can all agree DE will be the MVP of the tourney Average a Double Double with at least one Triple Double. Count on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Syracuse falls off a cliff, the latter of which is highly unlikely. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7649441/syracuse-reports-possible-drug-policy-violations-ncaa Womp womp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Baby steps my friends... Baby steps. CBE > 76 Classic. No questions asked. I can't believe everyone is disappointed in possibly playing KU. One of the most historic programs in the country, only 4 hours from Chaifetz. Rough crowd.... Key word being "possibly". If we're on the other side and don't have the same first-round result, we don't get them. A&M and WSU aren't any better than the teams we played in the 76 Classic, and won't be great next season. Plus, doesn't this CBE Tournament also include two "buy" games at our gym? So we could potentially wind up with two low-RPI teams and two of the weakest BCS-level teams. That doesn't do much at all. Ideally, we'd play either WSU or A&M in the first round, win, and get KU in the final. KU in the first round would be all right, but we probably wind up with the worse of WSU or A&M in the consolation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I'm just excited about getting to see the Bills play in KC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 do we know who we would play for the "pre cbe?" Those 4 teams are just the 4 host I think they're 6 other really small schools. Atleast that's what happened with mizzou. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 The KC games are on a Monday and Tuesday? That kind of sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Would much prefer a tropical environment for an excuse to take a vacation and catch some Billiken basketball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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