Falcons Hoop Predictions....Game by Game....

So, my annual exercise in humility begins again. Here I am--before the season--predicting the results of each and every Falcon game. I take my medicine...here are last year's picks and results....last year, I had 17 right and 9 wrong which isn't bad, really. I picked that we would go o-for-the-road in the MAC.

Anyway, here's this year's list. A couple points:

• I can't pick the bracket buster because I don't know who we are playing. Get over it.
• I have us 14-14, and 7-9 in the MAC. Even a .500 season is a big improvement for our team.
• We could beat Western Carolina, but if we do, I would have had us 8-4 in the pre-season, and I just don't see that. We could also beat Oakland.
• On the other hand, I have us beating Temple, who is really a poor team. And its at home. We play some bad teams--Temple, Indiana State, Northern Colorado, Eastern Illinois, and Duquesne are all poor teams.

That's how I see the first season of Orrball. I'd love to see it be better. There's a scenario where we gather up all the new coach momentum and put a decent year together, but the closer I look at our team against Wayne State, the more I see how shallow I fear we are. We are farther away than we looked at the end of last year.

1/09/07	vs. Western Carolina	Cincinnati, Ohio	L
11/10/07	vs. Belmont	Cincinnati, Ohio	L
11/11/07	at Cincinnati	Cincinnati, Ohio	L
11/17/07	vs. Morehead State	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
11/24/07	vs. Temple	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
11/27/07	at Furman	Greenville, S.C.	W
12/01/07	at Oakland	Rochester, Mich.	L
12/06/07	at Northern Colorado	Greeley, Colo.	W
12/16/07	vs. Illinois State	Bowling Green, Ohio	L
12/22/07	at Indiana State	Terre Haute, Ind.	W
12/29/07	vs. Eastern Illinois	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
01/02/08	vs. Duquesne	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
01/05/08	vs. Ohio	Bowling Green, Ohio	L
01/12/08	at Kent State	Kent, Ohio	L
01/17/08	vs. Buffalo	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
01/20/08	at Akron	Akron, Ohio	L
01/23/08	vs. Miami	Bowling Green, Ohio	L
01/27/08	vs. Northern Illinois	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
01/30/08	at Ball State	Muncie, Ind.	W
02/02/08	at Western Michigan	Kalamazoo, Mich.	L
02/06/08	vs. Central Michigan	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
02/10/08	vs. Toledo	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
02/13/08	at Eastern Michigan	Ypsilanti, Mich.	L
02/16/08	vs. Akron	Bowling Green, Ohio	W
02/19/08	at Ohio	Athens, Ohio	L
02/23/08	TBD (Bracket Buster Road Game)	TBA	TBA
03/01/08	vs. Kent State	Bowling Green, Ohio	L
03/04/08	at Buffalo	Buffalo, N.Y.	W
03/09/08	at Miami	Oxford, Ohio	L