January 5, 2009
Can Herd avoid the No. 8 spot?

AS I unveil my annual pre-conference season rankings in Conference USA, I guess I'll include Memphis this time around.

A year ago, I only ranked the 2 through 12 spots. There was no need to bother with the Tigers, as they were playing in a different orbit.

That's the way it has been since C-USA was jolted by realignment. A quick review of the carnage left by John Calipari's teams: The Tigers are 54-1 against their league brethren in three seasons, 32-0 at FedEx Forum.

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    Posted By: WVian1978 (10:05am 01-05-2009)
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    Welcome back, loghut. I need to get you an MU sticker for you car...

    Posted By: loghut (6:40am 01-05-2009)
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    Doug, the only reason the CUSA was a tad bit better than the MAC was because it had Memphis. This season Memphis isn't a top twenty five team, so it could be worse than the MAC. After Memphis and maybe SoMiss, the league ain't much, as usual.

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