Final Four Sleepers

[mofome]

what under the radar teams do you think have a shot at making a run this year. Xavier looks pretty tough imo.

[mofome]

asu is a team thats got a stud freshman guard in Harden, some other talented youth, a pretty good and proven big man in Pendergraph...another sleeper type team come tourney time.

[DrunkenLullaby]

asu is a team thats got a stud freshman guard in Harden, some other talented youth, a pretty good and proven big man in Pendergraph...another sleeper type team come tourney time.

...if they can make the tournament. Gonna lose aLOT of road games in the Pac10 this year....and that's not a knock on their talent.

[mofome]

...if they can make the tournament. Gonna lose aLOT of road games in the Pac10 this year....and that's not a knock on their talent.

yeah, the pac-10 should be fun to watch this year. college basketball is finally in full swing.

[2Pac]

I like both of those that you just stated - ASU and Xavier.

[LT Profits]

I like YOUR Volunteers!

[jjgold]

Going to be hard to knock off

NC
UCLA
Memphis

Just to start, all loaded

[Willie Bee]

I like YOUR Volunteers!

I liked them from the get-go, some thread over in the college hoops forum from back in October I believe.

Guess it all depends on how you define a 'sleeper' right now. If Butler counts, I'll kick them into the mix. Arizona State or some other school from the PAC-10 (maybe USC?) has a good shot once they get into the dance. Think they're a much stronger/deeper conference than a lot of people are thinking.

[BigBollocks]

Good call JJ, Memphis wins the national championship

[2Pac]

UNC will have a rough time with teams like Clemson - I was not impressed with the interior defense of Hansbrough + friends.

[bigboydan]

I'm sticking with the same team that was my sleeper last year.

Vanderbilt

[mofome]

I liked them from the get-go, some thread over in the college hoops forum from back in October I believe.

Guess it all depends on how you define a 'sleeper' right now. If Butler counts, I'll kick them into the mix. Arizona State or some other school from the PAC-10 (maybe USC?) has a good shot once they get into the dance. Think they're a much stronger/deeper conference than a lot of people are thinking.

i have a few sides with people about this one. ive got the vols going further than mem and ucla in different side bets. i hope we're right about them!

[mofome]

Good call JJ, Memphis wins the national championship

my problem with memphis is their ft shooting. of the 7 kids with the most ft attempts on the team, 7 of them are shooting under 70% on the year.

[Louisvillekid1]

Louisville

[BigOrangeTitans]

I really like vandy here too.
Also love Ole Miss!

[EaglesPhan36]

Rhode Island
West Virginia
Florida

[zerocage]

Xavier
nothing else comes to mind

[rjt721]

Sleeper: BYU. The MWC is annually among the most underatted conferences. BYU will be this season's UNLV.

I picked UCLA, Michigan State, Memphis and Tennessee as my Final Four teams before the season started, and nothing I've seen to this point has changed my mind.

[mofome]

Sleeper: BYU. The MWC is annually among the most underatted conferences. BYU will be this season's UNLV.

I picked UCLA, Michigan State, Memphis and Tennessee as my Final Four teams before the season started, and nothing I've seen to this point has changed my mind.

if morgan continues to play like he ahs the last few games, msu will be a tough out come march. got to love izzo with a team this talented.

[harsh506]

idk how far but watch valpresso

[CHALKbreaker]

Biggest sleeper out there is MARQUETTE folks.
There back court is as good as it gets with James, and McNeil.
They go 12 deep on the bench, and Coach Carean is one of the true under rated coaches in the country. He made a run to the final 4 a few years ago when literally all the team had was Wade..This years team is MUCH better.


I realize they lost to WV last game, but you'll have all sorts of teams beating up on one another in the big East. Come tourney time watch out for the Warriors...errrr. Golden Eagles!

[Razz]

Someone from the A-10. Sorry I can't be more in-depth, but this conference is the real deal. There are three legitimate Sweet 16 teams - UMASS, Xavier, and Rhode Island - and Dayton isn't half bad either. I'd give UMASS the slightest of advantages over the others, because of schedule difficulty and the fact that I love Travis Ford.

Also like ASU. They've been my biggest moneymaker in any sport since about the midway point of last year. Speaking of absolutely fantastic coaches, Sendek is out of this world. (Penn State is another, sort of similar team to ASU, though not quite ready to make the same leap of which ASU is capable)

I love what I've seen from Utah. I realize BYU, New Mex, and UNLV get more attention from the MWC pundits, but I think this Utah team is every bit their equal. The Utes almost won at UW and at Gonzaga, nearly impossible tasks, and won at a very good Cal team. They have the big man Nevill and very good guard play.

Oklahoma is, from what I've seen, the second best team in the Big XII, and very capable of a deep tournament run. To go back to that recurring theme, Capel is one of a handful of elite young coaches who are vastly improving programs that looked to be dead. The weird loss to Stephen F. Austin took them off the national radar, but neutral court wins over Arkansas, Gonzaga, and West Virginia - the last in double OT in West Virginia - put them strongly on my radar. This is a team that rebounds the ball as well as anyone, and the very difficult schedule will have OU primed for postseason play.