Originally Posted by Smitty10
Hofstra maybe. (But we won one in that tournament and a win against Hofstra most likely meant 2 losses following that to Clemson and Auburn so since we got one win against Ohio, then the net win total stays the same). So basically we get win against Hofsta instead of Ohio and get two losses to Clemson and Auburn instead of Hofsta and Old Dominion.
Miss St. Probably since Kostas started and only scored 2 for us.
UMass at Home. No. XW played 25 minutes and got us 11 points, pretty close to expectations.
UMass on the road. Yes. He gave us only four minutes and we needed more than that and we most likely wouldn't have petered out in OT or even had to play OT.
VCU on the road. I say yes on this one just for the fact that if anyone could have eaten up some minutes for the starters, we win.
So I see two to three extra wins. However, keep in mind that XW scoring doesn't get added on to the score as some of those theoretical scores would be in place of someone else's actual scoring.
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Good points, Smitty10. In light of those observations, I’ll say we would have been 3 wins better if last year’s XW had shown-up for those games, as MSU, UMass at UMass, and VCU at VCU would very possibly have gone in our favor. So 17-13 heading into DC, and possibly an NIT berth. Certainly not 23-7, though. We would have needed an XW who gave a shizzit and a Big Steve (RIP, #5) to see a 9-game improvement from where we are now.
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