SCH890 said:

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I have a piece on @basket_review today about 20-3 Stephen F. Austin, framed around our serious need for a March Cinderella and why they meet key characteristics of previous lovable upsetters. https://t.co/GDbLHXo54w

— Will Warren (@statsbywill) February 5, 2026

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This is a GREAT article. Lots of interesting stuff.

jboy93 said:

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Are you going to be able to purchase single game tickets? The only thing that I see now is the tournament pass which I can't do.

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Yes.

Maybe this has already been posted.

.@SFA_MBB is rolling again.

In Year 1, @MattBraeuer has the Lumberjacks at 20-3, leading the Southland and eyeing an NCAA Tournament return. Read the latest on the Lumberjacks via @treywestoniii here: https://t.co/8smoADnzzh

— Mid-Major Basketball (@midmajorball) February 5, 2026

🚨 NEW MID-MAJOR RANKINGS 🚨@RoccoMiller8 & @SeanPaulCBB's latest rankings following this week's early action! 👀

Mid-Major Show ⬇️https://t.co/Kw04dSVV0J pic.twitter.com/nlxUHOknJq

— The Field of 68 (@TheFieldOf68) February 6, 2026

🔥 SOUTHLAND JOB RANKINGS 🔥

We anonymously polled coaches and asked them to rank every job in the league! 👀

RANKINGS HERE ⬇️https://t.co/lEJuEdDYNg pic.twitter.com/W1XQBOlqzD

— The Field of 68 (@TheFieldOf68) February 10, 2026

Do you think this means that every coach voted for McNeese since they show 18 first place votes for them and none for the others? Of course new facilities and an inside track to the NCAA tournament with home field advantage is pretty attractive.

nacluth said:

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Do you think this means that every coach voted for McNeese since they show 18 first place votes for them and none for the others? Of course new facilities and an inside track to the NCAA tournament with home field advantage is pretty attractive.

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I bet on name recognition. I bet most coaches don't even realize SFA is back in the SLC or even at the quality of play they are at.

SCH890 said:

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nacluth said:

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Do you think this means that every coach voted for McNeese since they show 18 first place votes for them and none for the others? Of course new facilities and an inside track to the NCAA tournament with home field advantage is pretty attractive.

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I bet on name recognition. I bet most coaches don't even realize SFA is back in the SLC or even at the quality of play they are at.

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If I understand the polling correctly, they polled only Southland coaches, so they know SFA quite well.

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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SCH890 said:

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nacluth said:

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Do you think this means that every coach voted for McNeese since they show 18 first place votes for them and none for the others? Of course new facilities and an inside track to the NCAA tournament with home field advantage is pretty attractive.

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I bet on name recognition. I bet most coaches don't even realize SFA is back in the SLC or even at the quality of play they are at.

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If I understand the polling correctly, they polled only Southland coaches, so they know SFA quite well.

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So McNeese's coach voted for himself.

18 voters in a 12 team conference, so some assistants must have voted, too. Seems like a very unscientific form of voting.

Location. You have an airport of quality near as well as rivals that have long records of playing each other. SFA gets short changed by almost every P4 college in the state. UH played us in football last year because Fritz came up through the backwoods of NCAA coaching. Underwood won't even throw us a bone.

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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SCH890 said:

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nacluth said:

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Do you think this means that every coach voted for McNeese since they show 18 first place votes for them and none for the others? Of course new facilities and an inside track to the NCAA tournament with home field advantage is pretty attractive.

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I bet on name recognition. I bet most coaches don't even realize SFA is back in the SLC or even at the quality of play they are at.

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If I understand the polling correctly, they polled only Southland coaches, so they know SFA quite well.

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Ah, I thought it was random coaches. Not just SLC.

migata33 said:

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Location. You have an airport of quality near as well as rivals that have long records of playing each other. SFA gets short changed by almost every P4 college in the state. UH played us in football last year because Fritz came up through the backwoods of NCAA coaching. Underwood won't even throw us a bone.

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I believe our game against UH was scheduled before Fritz was there.

Underwood, like a lot of high majors, won't schedule us because there just isn't much value to. There are a ton of mid majors out there. I'm sure Underwood knows a game against them would be valuable for SFA but for him and his team not as much.

Yes they schedule Mid Majors but I'm sure if he can avoid it, he won't be playing the Lumberjacks outside of the Tournament.

And yet Underwood scheduled UTRGV!

Also keep in mind SFA fired their coach last year. lol

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— SFA Athletics (@SFA_Athletics) February 16, 2026

This is the highest ranking I've seen out there for the Jacks

Mid Major Top 32 - Week 15!

Others considered: Navy, CSUN, USA, UCD, AState, Buffalo, ETSU, App St, UNCO, Merrimack & more.

Watch these programs! pic.twitter.com/XVoPO0RbTR

— T3™️ (@T3Bracketology) February 16, 2026

And well deserved.

Which of these 4 teams do you believe carries the best potential to go on a run if they made the NCAA Tournament? #NCAAB pic.twitter.com/CUKiJae3Sn

— Updog Sports Talk (@UpdogSportsTalk) February 16, 2026

I hope we can live up to some of the hype.

We can! Strong defense, hot outside shooting, strong PG paly and lower turnovers. Rebounds against a bigger team...the xmas factor!

KILL SHOT UPDATE

This graph tracks double digit scoring runs in games (10-0 or better) for teams over the course of the season. Here's all https://t.co/cegyfz8ykZ top 75 teams in terms of runs scored and runs conceded, adjusted for strength of opponent. pic.twitter.com/LktdEaBRZu

— Evan Miyakawa (@EvanMiya) February 16, 2026

Interesting

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SFA moves to No. 10 in the latest @collegeinsider Mid-Major Top 25! #AxeEm x #WinTogether pic.twitter.com/ZLVioJdpPC

— SFA Men’s Basketball (@SFA_MBB) February 17, 2026

jboy93 said:

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I am so happy for CC and Keon. To experience the lows of last year and then the highs so far this year! These two will always be all-stars for buying into the new program and coming back!
This just goes to show that Keller let everything go off the rails. It had to be so bad for these two that I can't imagine. I think Keller secured his assistance coach job status for a while when schools see the turn around that has happened this year! As always...GO JACKS!

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Well, Keller's assistant job so far is on a 4-game losing streak, haha. I feel like Keller's coaching mentality was just finally figured out, and he didn't have any other strategy to implement. It was only PRESS. I felt like it was earlier, when we had shooters, but then Keller took a way-too-hard press mentality and found no one who could actually shoot the ball.

Maybe we had a little identity with Kensmil, just driving on the inside and letting someone foul him and make the automatic 2- or 3-point play. But that wasn't sustainability after he left.

I wish Keller the best. He did a lot for SFA. Had some big wins and some good teams. Hope he fairs well. But I believe both he and the administration knew it was time for a change.

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migata33 said:

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I have not been a Brad fan since he hopped off the plane after the Notre Dame loss and produced crocodile tears at his news conference after accepting the job at OK St. during the flight back from the NCAA tournament. Dude couldn't take a couple days for us all to unpack this monumental season. We all knew he was leaving and deserved a job at a higher level school but he left a very bad taste in my mouth. I always enjoy Illinois losses now like tonight against unranked Wisconsin. Bager up!!

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It seems to also be lost in the Brad Underwood glamour that he took over a SFA team that was 27-5 the year before his arrival? So there was nothing to rebuild as in the case of Coach Braeuer! Just throwing out the facts...

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This is something that people seem to forget. Not only did he not need to rebuild, but during his entire tenure Walkup, Parker, Floyd, Pikney. Most of his key contributors were Kasper's guys. A lot of Brad's actual recruits didn't make huge impacts for the Jacks outside of a couple of big names.

The point being we have no idea how good a Brad Underwood coached team would've done once all of Kasper's players were gone and the team was fully his. He very well could've recruited well enough to keep the success going, but I kind of expect that we were due to for a drop off the year left.

They may have ben Kaspar's recruits but IMO Underwood utilized them better, for example Underwood saw the potential in guard Deshaunt Walker who Kaspar used very sparingly, only recording about 7 minutes a game in 25 games as a junior.

In his final season, as a senior Underwood played Walker in 35 games, recording 22 minutes a game, had a season high 24 points (6 of 9 from 3) at Texas when SFA lead the Longhorns at halftime, and it was tied at 60 with less than 3 minutes in the game. Walker became a very reliable 3-point shooter along with Demetrious Floyd.

Underwood had some good recruits Dallas Cameron, Demetrious Floyd, Ty Charles, Clide Geffrard, Ty Holyfield, Nathan Bain, and Jared Johnson

In the end Keller had the injuries, and too much with the subbing players in and out of the game on every little mistake that may have been made, which I felt hurt the flow of the game, instead of letting them play through it.