It my be helpful if we just take a deep breath and back away from the keyboard for a little while.
It my be helpful if we just take a deep breath and back away from the keyboard for a little while.
Ok...I stand corrected, it is an auto bid to the NIT for a regular season title
I think the NIT auto bid is something the NCAA implemented after they purchased the NIT.
https://www.ncaa.com/championships/b...postseason-nit
This is all new to me.
Just checked the RPI and UTA is now tied with Iowa at 149. So technically we are 2-4 against the Top 150, 0-4 against the Top 148.
it looked like we had a different game plan - maybe trying to stay out of foul trouble or something - because our guys looked like they were thinking out there and not just doing. if a guy got a step by them it was obvious we were giving up an easy lay up as opposed to a contested one.
Pressuring or trapping 10' outside the three point line has never worked for us against Ga State. I think we actually need to compact the coverage a little to provide help with drivers. I think we would do better against them with something like a match-up zone, but that just me.
Just never made the right adjustments to get enough stops to go on a run. I agree, we needed to get out of that man pressure and either play straight man, or I like your idea of the match up zone.
Very interested to see how they respond. We will know what kind of character we have after Saturday.
This game just goes to show you how AWFUL the SUN WORST is...maybe we can buy a bid to the LHSAA tourney in the private school class...
The other team wants to win too.
I agree with Mike that we should have stopped the high trap earlier. I'm all for aggressive defense and I would like to see us play that a bit more but we were not getting turnovers and they were hitting the open shots created by beating our double team. I'm also not sure why Ced didnt have more of a green light in the 2nd. The kid was stroking in the 1st.
Saturday will tell us a lot about this team.
I did speak about those things. That's how apparent our lack of defense was last night. We scored 92 points while not playing all that great but shooting close to our averages in all aspects, the difference was the defense and easy shots we gave up both on the perimeter and in the lane. Points in Paint was shockingly bad.
I have to agree with this. You look at our winning margin and we are double digits positive in our wins. You look at our losses and we are similar differential but in the opposite direction. You would think that a team that is 20-3 would have been pretty competitive in OOC games against teams like Wyoming and Ole Miss. Even playing Clemson you would hope for a little more of a contest although they are a legit ranked team.
I expected us to lose soon in conference. I argued with those who even talked about winning out. That really wasn't in the cards, however, i didn't expect us to defend like we did on that stage with a pretty seasoned team. We really didn't have much poise. We were blowing open layups and Marquetti looked like he was peeing his pants every time the ball left his hand.
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