Another week of basketball is in the books are here are the Power ranking after Week 10. Some very big games this week featuring the two best teams in the conference as SMU travels to Cincinnati on Thursday night. Also Houston/UCF will play this week. Plus, the worst teams meet in the league...South Florida/Tulane on Wednesday.
1. Cincinnati 13-2, 3-0: The fighting Cronins stay in the top spot after a win over Houston. Cincinnati got a big game from Kyle Washington who scored 19 points and played their vintage Mick Cronin defense. The game was never in doubt as the Bearcats got the win 67-58. NEXT WEEK vs. SMU, @ East Carolina
2. SMU 14-3, 4-0: The Ponies are 4-0 after an easy home victory over Temple 79-65. The Owls tried to get back in it, but it was to little to late. Then it was dunk city as Semi Ojeleye and company pounded South Florida 84-65. In all 14 of there wins no opponent has broken 67 points. NEXT WEEK: vs. Cincinnati, @ Tulane
3. Memphis 12-4, 2-1: Tubby Smith and Memphis got their first and second win of AAC play and both were won in dominate fashion over UConn and Tulane. Something about this teams feels different with Smith than it did Josh Pastner. Any way, Dedric Lawson showed once again why he is the best player in the American. NEXT WEEK: @ Tulsa, vs.USF
4. Houston 3-1, 12-4: It was a close call, but Houston narrowly escaped Tulsa 64-61. This was a big win because Rob Gray was out with the flew and anytime you have that is putting up 20 points a game not playing, your going to struggle a little. The Cougars held their own on the glass with Tulsa and knocked down their free throws. On Saturday they fell for the first time in AAC play 67-58 to Cincinnati. Coogs hung strong, but they could not stop Kyle Washington and the Cincinnati defense was too much in the end. NEXT WEEK: @ ECU, @ UCF
5. Central Florida 3-1, 12-4: Tacko Fall didn't score this entire week and that is not good. The 7'6 big man was held scoreless over ECU, but the Knights got an ugly 48-45 home win. KenPom called this the worst game of basketball this year...UCF could get away with Fall not scoring against ECU, but not against UConn as UCF simply just got waxed. BJ Taylor was the only bright spot against the Huskies. Central Florida can still get an at large bid, but this was the UCF team everyone thought we would see at the beginning of the year. NEXT WEEK: vs. Houston
6. Temple 1-3, 10-7: After beating Florida State and West Virginia to start the year, those 2 wins were thrown away with a 0-3 start to conference play. This week they fell to SMU 79-65. Temple went on a little run late and got it back to single digits, but the game was never in danger. On Saturday they blew out ECU as expected to get their first conference win, but Temple cannot have any more bad losses. They are in a deep hole starting 0-3.
7. Tulsa 1-1, 7-7: It was great effort, but Tulsa could not pull out a win against Houston. It was a big chance to get a solid win with Rob Gray out, but Tulsa simply could not hit a shot late in the game. Frank Haith has a very young team so the expirence in close games will help the next couple of years. Plus, Tulsa has a very favorable schedule in the next coming weeks. NEXT WEEK: vs. Memphis, @ Temple
8. UConn 1-3, 6-9: After falling to Memphis on the road, the Huskies came back with a blow out win over a solid UCF. We will see what Kevin Ollie's team can do from here on out. All UConn fans want is for them to get healthy and the conference tournament to start. NEXT WEEK: vs. Temple, @ Georgetown
9. East Carolina 1-3, 9-8: Earlier in the week I wrote this piece asking if it was time for Jeff Lebo to be fired. ECU was crushed by Temple 81-62 and the Pirates are starting to move backward after starting the conference season with a win. Also BJ Tyson continues to struggle after that sensational freshman year he had a down sophomore year and that continues now. NEXT WEEK vs. Houston, vs. Cincinnati
10. South Florida 0-3, 6-8: Murray Bartow is now the top man is South Florida after Coach Antigua was fired. Bartow had a tall task in playing SMU in Dallas. Bulls hung tough and hit 10 three pointers, but it wasn't enough. All in all, it was a decent showing from Bartow. NEXT WEEK: vs. Tulane, @ Memphis
11. Tulane 0-3, 3-12: Once again the Wave were blown out this week against Memphis 80-59. There is no way to go around it, Mike Dunleavy's team is just bad, but give him a couple of years and Wave basketball may be somewhere. Other than that, not much positive coming from the Big Easy with just 3 wins. NEXT WEEK: @ USF, vs. SMU
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