The favorite in Conference USA is Old Dominion, where Jeff Jones is trying to guide the Monarchs to the tournament just two years after a 5-25 season. But the more interesting story to me is Charlotte. With a 2% chance of winning the title, the 49ers check in as the double-digit seed most likely to win its tournament. <\/p>\n
Charlotte ranks 342nd in luck and it appears most of that was accrued in conference play where they posted a significantly positive efficiency margin (1.061 PPP on offense vs. 1.042 PPP allowed on defense) but finished with a 7-11 record. And somehow, in a 14-team league, 7-11 put them in a tie for 11th and 12th. Charlotte lost all four of its C-USA OT contests and all but one of its league losses were by single-digits. Charlotte\u2019s not as good as the top three teams in the conference, but it\u2019s totally hanging out in the wrong part of the conference standings.<\/p>\n
Conference USA took a step forward by issuing a pre-season poll this season, but it took a step backward by deciding to not invite all of its teams to the conference tournament. Southern Miss self-imposed a postseason ban, but Florida Atlantic isn’t participating because C-USA limits the field to 12 teams.<\/p>\n
Conference USA<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n All-kenpom.com:<\/strong> Trey Freeman, Old Dominion (kPOY); Vince Hunter, UTEP; Alex Hamilton, Louisana Tech; T.J. Price, Western Kentucky; George Fant, Western Kentucky.<\/p>\n March 11-14 at Birmingham, Ala.<\/strong><\/p>\n The favorite in Conference USA is Old Dominion, where Jeff Jones is trying to guide the Monarchs to the tournament just two years after a 5-25 season. But the more interesting story to me is Charlotte. With a 2% chance of winning the title, the 49ers check in as the double-digit seed most likely to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Qtrs Semis Final Champ\n 3 Old Dominion 100 75.2 51.0 31.5\n 1 La. Tech 100 82.0 52.6 28.4\n 2 UTEP 100 76.4 33.4 16.5\n 4 UAB 100 65.7 30.3 13.3\n 5 W. Kentucky 82.6 32.3 11.7 4.0\n11 Charlotte 51.2 12.9 5.5 2.0\n 6 Middle Tenn. 48.8 11.9 5.0 1.7\n 7 UTSA 68.0 18.7 4.5 1.2\n 8 North Texas 50.9 9.3 2.7 0.6\n 9 Rice 49.1 8.7 2.5 0.5\n10 FIU 32.0 4.9 0.6 0.1\n12 Marshall 17.4 2.1 0.2 0.03\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"