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ESPN talking Tulsa!

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Overachieving: Tulsa. Frank Haith's program started the week tied atop the American standings with Houston, both with 6-1 records in league play. Tulsa followed last week's 40-point win over Memphis with a 79-75 road win over UConn on Sunday. This year, Haith's squad added seven newcomers, which is probably why it was picked to finish 10th in the American. But junior guard Brandon Rachal (14.8 points per game) leads the best defensive team in the league (23.4% clip from beyond the arc for opponents). From 10th in the league to the NCAA tournament? It's possible.

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Underachieving: Memphis. After last week's 40-point loss to a Tulsa team that had previously lost to Arkansas State, Colorado State and UT Arlington -- all sub-100 teams in the NET rankings -- by 24 points combined, the wheels fell off Penny Hardaway's bandwagon. The Tigers, who have lost four of their past six, could miss the NCAA tournament after entering the season as the co-favorite in the American with Houston. Yeah, James Wiseman's departure after playing in three games before his subsequent suspension hurt the program. But they're one of the league's worst offensive teams, committing turnovers on nearly one-quarter of their possessions and making just 64% of their free throws. This is bad. And it might get worse.
 
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And the ESPN talking heads are the ones who are critical of the NCAA for suspending Wiseman. Really? This is the same thing Reggie Bush and his family did. They got paid so they could move. Except in this case, not only was it a booster that paid for the Wiseman family to move to Memphis to get him to commit to Penny's AAU team BUT also commit to UM, the dude who paid them is now the head coach. How did Penny get off that easy?
 
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I know it has us overachieving but it kinda cracks me up. They talk highly about us above and then the very next one the list an underachieving because they lost to us and the reasons why it is embarrassing lol.
 
Dick Vitale was the only one who gave us votes in the AP Poll this week by ranking us 23.
 
Palm still has Memphis in but us out. His logic seems to be there are bad .NET/RPI losses but getting handed a 40 point loss while being doubled up and going 0-2 as #20 is OK. He was really dismissing all other polls in his column.
Get a win Saturday and he’ll have to add us.
 
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Palm still has Memphis in but us out. His logic seems to be there are bad .NET/RPI losses but getting handed a 40 point loss while being doubled up and going 0-2 as #20 is OK. He was really dismissing all other polls in his column.
Get a win Saturday and he’ll have to add us.

What does Lunardi’s hairpiece say this year?
 
Face Palm has always been an embarrassment to the game of basketball.
 
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