After the Marquette game everybody was sky high, some were predicting a 3rd place finish, some were predicting 20 wins, and a few even posted that we could contend for the conference title. However, I respectfully disagreed and I instead predicted that we would “peak in the middle of the season and then fade down the stretch.”
The season is now coming to an end and our team has done exactly what I predicted that we would do, as we peaked in the middle of the season by winning our most games against D1 opponents in the middle 10 games of the season and we have also now faded down the stretch by losing 7 of our final 8 games. During my prediction I had also referenced the probability that injury would impact our depleted roster as we reach the end of the season, which has now also happened with Efe.
Anyways, I guess congrats to the guys who responded to my post at that time by disagreeing with me.
Link:
https://utep.forums.rivals.com/threads/think-were-ready-for-cusa-play.8822/#post-113330
The season is now coming to an end and our team has done exactly what I predicted that we would do, as we peaked in the middle of the season by winning our most games against D1 opponents in the middle 10 games of the season and we have also now faded down the stretch by losing 7 of our final 8 games. During my prediction I had also referenced the probability that injury would impact our depleted roster as we reach the end of the season, which has now also happened with Efe.
Anyways, I guess congrats to the guys who responded to my post at that time by disagreeing with me.
Per my post in the Marquette thread(which I added below), my prediction is that we will peak in the middle of the season and then fade down the stretch. A 3rd place finish seems a bit too ambitious to me, but I would certainly love to see it.
“Just a random thought; but I wonder if our basketball team this season will end up like our football team and they will peak in the middle of the season and then fade down the stretch? One would think that this is very likely as we are playing so many freshmen and freshmen will often hit a “freshman wall” towards the end of their first season as they aren’t used to a full D1 schedule yet. Plus we have such a short rotation, that it might be natural that our young guys could continue to get more and more banged up the longer that the season goes on. I remember that this happened during the season that Aaron and Alvin Jones were brought in to play. UTEP played it’s best ball with a short rotation during the middle of that season and then they just ran out if gas towards the end of the year, ironically losing to a Rodney Terry team. I would love to see a straight arrow of continued improvement for the entire season, but just want to give a cautious heads-up that maybe we shouldn’t get too disapointed this particular year if some of the above happens.”
Link:
https://utep.forums.rivals.com/threads/think-were-ready-for-cusa-play.8822/#post-113330