While Ohio State is still undefeated and Centenary is still winless, there was something I wanted to point out that caught my eye. A few posts up, on January 2nd, the University of Central Florida was one of the 7 last undefeated teams, and I believe they were ranked inside the Top-25 for the first time in school history. Well since January 5th, they have lost 7 straight games and are sitting in last place in Conference USA. What happened?
It looked like they should be one of the top teams in the CUSA. It is a bit mysterous what happened. Their losing streak should be 8 games, except their game at CUSA leading UTEP on Feb. 2 was postponed because a winter storm knocked out power in El Paso, and the arena did not have power or heat.
They are still getting good games from Marcus Jordan and sophomore Keith Clanton, but nobody else is helping much. Heralded juco transfer Dwight McCombs, who Bradley looked at and passed on, has been a total bust. The 6'8" power forward who averaged 22 ppg and 13 rpg and was the #4 rated juco player in the country last year is averaging just 3.6 ppg and 2.9 rpg.