Looking to January

[wh]

Following a highly successful November (7-1) and an equally impressive December (6-1), it's time to see how we stack up against the rest of the Horizon League.  Following is January's 9-game conference schedule:

Jan   2     at Oakland
Jan   4     Youngstown State
Jan   8     UIC
Jan 10     Cleveland State
Jan 17     at Wright State
Jan 20     at Youngstown State
Jan 23     at Green Bay
Jan 26     Milwaukee
Jan 31     at UIC

[valpotx]

I see a loss at GB, and I am sure that we will have a bad game somewhere else, but given many of our performances this season, how can we not be favored to win the HL after the non-conference slate?  I am picking 8-1, in the hope that we still win a few ugly games, as we did against Ball State and IPFW.  That's a sign of a good team, when you can win ugly.

[justducky]

Going any better than 7-2 will be almost unimaginably difficult and I feel that even going that far leaves my neck stuck out quite a ways!

[78crusader]

6-3

Paul

[historyman]

Going any better than 7-2 will be almost unimaginably difficult and I feel that even going that far leaves my neck stuck out quite a ways!

What are you afraid of?

[SanityLost17]

I think we will lose 2 of the following 3 games.  Not sure which ones, but we all know how hard it is to win on the road in conference.  7-2 in January on our way to a very solid 12-4 conference season. 

@Oakland
@Wright State
@Green Bay   

[a3uge]

7-2 sounds reasonable. The only thing I worry about is the team's ability to win during the hand-checky hack-and-grab games that we see in the Horizon all the time.

[classof2014]

So far we have lost the games that we were supposed to lose, and won the games we were supposed to win, thus we're 13-2. We're supposed to lose in GB so we lose, but everyone else we should beat. 8-1 this month, but anywhere from 9-0 to 6-3 is a possibility.

[vu84v2]

I will take a different direction on 7-2.  Win at GB, but have two hiccups elsewhere.  Agree that anywhere from 6-3 to 9-0 is possible.

[EddieCabot]

My gut says 7-2, but I voted 8-1 because this team has exceeded my expectations every month so far.  How's that for logic?

[Kyle321n]

I've been right so far every month. (Granted last month 2/3s of the voters were right, so take that with a grain of salt). And since I've  predicted one loss each month, I'm going to continue my trend. I think they lose at Green Bay. The 3 game road trip isn't going to be easy so I can see us winning an ugly one at YSU in the middle of that. Hopefully we can win the game we put up a clunker. We were able to do that against Ball St.

[beastkiller]

I said the go 7-2 they lose Green Bay and at Youngstown state

[VUfan]

8-1 Wright Sate loss, GB Close 

[StlVUFan]

Technically, of course, "first half" is imprecise

Interesting that we play UIC and YSU twice in January (and therefore Detroit twice in February).

I figure we lose at Green Bay and there's a decent chance of another loss somewhere, either at Wright State or at home against CSU.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Technically, of course, "first half" is imprecise

I noticed that too--last year it was symmetrical, but not this year.  Wonder why--just too hard to do?

[covufan]

I went with 8-1.  I'd love to see 9-0, baby!