Games of Interest (1.12.22 - 1.14.22) Temple at home

[loca2874]

ITS GAMEDAY!!!

Tulsa finally gets to hit the hardwood and today it is to take on Temple. We have been moving up in the NET but with Temple at 123 a win today could give us a big jump.

There is almost the whole conference playing today. Lots of great basketball.

Last game is with Boise State taking on Nevada.

The Womens team moved up 3 spots to 89 in the NET with their win against ECU last night.

Women are back to winning, we need to get the men back to it as well


GO TU!!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Temple	123	at	Tulsa	173	6:00 p.m.	ESPNU
Memphis	257	at	UCF	73	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
East Carolina	52	at	Cincinnati	62	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
South Fla.	144	at	SMU	97	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Tulane	155	at	Wichita St.	66	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Rest of GOI

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Saint Joseph's	123	at	Rhode Island	173	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Southern Ill.	48	at	Missouri St.	127	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Boise St.	131	at	Nevada	101	9:30 p.m.	FS1

Rankings

Rank	Trend	Team	Record		Rank	Trend	Team	Record
4	Down 1	Houston	14-2		48	Even	Boise St.	9-4
52	Down	Memphis	9-5		101	Up 1	Rhode Island	8-4
62	Even	UCF	9-4		119	Down 1	Oral Roberts	8-6
66	Up 1	Cincinnati	10-5		122	Down 1	Utah	8-8
69	Up 2	Wichita St.	9-5		144	Down 2	Southern Ill.	8-5
73	Even	SMU	11-4		151	Up 2	LMU (CA)	6-5
123	Down 1	Temple	9-6		209	Even	Oregon St.	3-11
132	Down 1	Tulane	6-7		237	Up 2	Air Force	8-5
155	Down 1	East Carolina	10-4		241	Up 1	Alcorn	4-11
173	Even	Tulsa	6-7		311	Even	Little Rock	3-8
257	Down 1	South Fla.	5-9		338	Even	Northwestern St.	1-13

Quad Tracker

Q1	Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
	Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Win	Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 136-240
none	Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
Loss
Boise St.
Memphis (A)
Q2
Win
None
Loss
SMU (H)
Oral Roberts
Q3
Win
Rhode Island
Southern Ill.
Loss
LMU (CA)
Utah
Q4
Wins
Northwestern St.
Oregon St.
Little Rock
Alcorn State
Loss
Air Force

 

[nevadanatural]

No “and 1”? You must have been in a hurry.

 

[nevadanatural]

When Horne and Chapman are both in at the same time it’s the battle of the beards.

 

[loca2874]

No “and 1”? You must have been in a hurry.

I was in a hurry. Last week at work and had to do dinner.

 

[nevadanatural]

Good to see Chapman score. He looks really good in warmups but I’d like to see his show that athleticism in games.

 

[loca2874]

UCF is killing Memphis right now in Orlando

 

[loca2874]

Rhode Island up on Saint joes 58-56 with 13 remaining

 

[mcane]

And another flop down the stretch
Maybe the worst team since Phillips

 

[I.I.]

UCF is killing Memphis right now in Orlando

Memphis shot about 30% from the free throw line. No enthusiasm in their team at all. But the pundits love them.

 

[mcane]

Schadenfreude
Wichita joins TU at 0-3 losing to Tulane 68-67 in the Round House
First ever program win for the G wave over the poor Shockers

 

[I.I.]

Schadenfreude
Wichita joins TU at 0-3 losing to Tulane 68-67 in the Round House
First ever program win for the G wave over the poor Shockers

That's a group of fans that will not tolerate bad basketball. Not after their recent success.

 

[mcane]

Maybe they will be so ticked off they won’t fill our arena
After we win 2 years ago I loudly yelled
Don’t come back

 

[I.I.]

It was going to be embarrassing to have more Shocker fans than TU fans at DonRey. With a bad record they may stay at home. Just like we stay at home now.

 

[loca2874]

Yesterday was a heartbreaking loss as we could have beat that team. There was a lot of careless passws and ball handling. Horne and Griffin are our best players and they had a very bad off night. If they could have caught fire then we would have blown Temple out of the building. They both had horrible shooting games.

The best Tulsa team right now, and its weird saying it, is the womens team. They have dropped 2 games but they were close and winnable. They do not play again until January 19th when they travel to Tampa, Florida to take on the #24 USF Bulls. Hopefully they are watching tape and getting the game plan together to get a road win. I am glad they moved on from Mossman.

There are only 2 games today as 1 was canceled. Arkansas State and Little Rock had their game canceled. “Per Sun Belt Conference policy, games that cannot be played due to COVID-19 will be canceled and considered a no-contest and will not be rescheduled. The minimum threshold required to compete is seven (7) student-athletes (scholarship or non-scholarship), plus one full-time coach. If a team meets that minimum threshold, they are required to play. Teams may choose to play with less than the minimum threshold.”

Oregon State takes on #5 USC. And LMU takes on San Francisco. The West Coast Conference teams are really not that bad. These should be some interesting games to watch if you are staying up that late.

AND 1

After the LMU game on December 7th we won our next two games which were within 9 days of the LMU game. We thumped Alcorn State pretty good and were trending in the right direction. The Alcorn State game was December 16th. We finally played again on December 21st against SMU after having two games canceled (Colorado State and North Texas) during that 12 day stretch. Took the loss to SMU and then 5 days later lost by 3 to Memphis on the road. That game was 8 days ago and we had to pause due to COVID. These guys started practicing again either Monday or Tuesday. Preparing for a team and then having to prepare for another team along with the pauses do take its toll. I don’t want to make excuses but they were not ready last night to finish that game.

Horne had 15 points on 3-16 (19 %) shooting with 1-7 (14%) from deep as well as 8-11 (73%) from the line. Horne never shoots this miserably even if he has a bad first half he has a good second half. He had a bad game altogether. Griffin had 8 points on 2-9 (22%) shotting with 0-5 from deep and 4-4 from the line. These guys do not shoot like this period. Draine kept us in this game with 12 points on 4-5 shooting with 4-4 from deep. As a team we had to shoot 41.4 percent in the second half just to get our game percentage to 35 percent. IF we shot our noramal game percentage of 42-45 percent we would have destroyed Temple last night, but we didn’t.

Some of us can blame Frank for a lot of things. In the end the players have to execute and make their shots. They wer short on a ton of layups. Horne had a slam that came back on him. If he had put it in with the “And 1” we would have dropped the lead to 1. Players still need to make it happen and I am a believer that yesterday was rust. Our next game is Saturday against Houston at the Reynolds Center. I hope they knock the rust off before Saturday.

Unless a miracle happens, and it can, we will have to win the tournament to get in the NCAA. With 3 Conference losses that will be a long and hard row to hoe.

GO TU!!!!!

AAC Games

Team	Ranking		Team	Ranking	Time	TV
None

Rest of GOI

Team	Ranking		Team	Ranking	Time	TV
Oregon St.	215	at	#5 USC	18	10:00 p.m.	ESPNU
LMU (CA)	160	at	San Francisco	35	10:00 p.m.	CBSSN
Little Rock	311	at	Arkansas St.	148	Canceled

Rankings

Rank	Trend	Team	Record		Rank	Trend	Team	Record
4	Even	Houston	14-2		44	Up 4	Boise St.	10-4
55	Up 7	UCF	10-4		100	Up 1	Rhode Island	9-4
58	Down 6	Memphis	9-6		119	Even	Oral Roberts	8-6
67	Down 1	Cincinnati	11-5		123	Down 1	Utah	8-8
77	Down 4	SMU	12-4		144	Even	Southern Ill.	8-6
87	Down 18	Wichita St.	9-6		160	Down 9	LMU (CA)	6-5
118	Up 5	Temple	10-6		215	Down 6	Oregon St.	3-11
124	Up 8	Tulane	7-7		236	Up 1	Air Force	8-5
150	Up 5	East Carolina	10-5		240	Up 1	Alcorn	4-11
188	Down 15	Tulsa	6-8		311	Even	Little Rock	3-8
256	Up 1	South Fla.	5-10		337	Up 1	Northwestern St.	1-13

Quad Tracker

Q1	Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
	Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Win	Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 136-240
none	Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
Loss
Boise St.
Memphis (A)
Q2
Win
Rhode Island
Loss
Oral Roberts
Q3
Win
Southern Illinois
Loss
LMU (CA)
Utah
SMU (H)
Temple (H)
Q4
Wins
Northwestern St.
Oregon St.
Little Rock
Alcorn State
Loss
Air Force

 

[loca2874]

Oregon State has been leading this whole game. up 30-25 with 4 minutes left in the half over USC.

 

[loca2874]

Oregon State up 42-37 at half

 

[loca2874]

San Francisco is beating the brakes off of LMU.

 

[loca2874]

USC is on a 14-4 run to take the lead 59-57 with just over 10 minutes left in the game

 

[loca2874]

Alatishe just fouled out of the game with 3:40 left. second leading scorer for the beavers tonight

 

[loca2874]

USC on a 6-0 run to take a 5 point lead with just over 2 minutes left in the game.

 

[loca2874]

San Francisco hammered LMU 97-73

 

[loca2874]

Poor shooting in the last 2 minutes kept Oregon State from winning this game. Boogie Ellis is playing for USC.

 

[loca2874]

No games today

GO TU!!!!!

AAC Games

Team	Ranking		Team	Ranking	Time	TV
None

Rest of GOI

Team	Ranking		Team	Ranking	Time	TV
Oregon St.	215	at	#5 USC	18	10:00 p.m.	ESPNU
LMU (CA)	160	at	San Francisco	35	10:00 p.m.	CBSSN
Little Rock	311	at	Arkansas St.	148	Canceled

Rankings

Rank	Trend	Team	Record		Rank	Trend	Team	Record
5	Down 1	Houston	14-2		46	Down 2	Boise St.	10-4
52	Up 3	UCF	10-4		102	Down 2	Rhode Island	9-4
57	Up 1	Memphis	9-6		117	Up 2	Oral Roberts	8-6
67	Even	Cincinnati	11-5		128	Down 5	Utah	8-8
80	Down 3	SMU	12-4		145	Down 1	Southern Ill.	8-6
88	Down 1	Wichita St.	9-6		166	Down 6	LMU (CA)	6-6
118	Even	Temple	10-6		207	Up 8	Oregon St.	3-12
126	Down 2	Tulane	7-7		237	Down 1	Air Force	8-5
146	Up 4	East Carolina	10-5		243	Down 3	Alcorn	4-11
188	Even	Tulsa	6-8		312	Down 1	Little Rock	3-8
257	Down 1	South Fla.	5-10		337	Even	Northwestern St.	1-13

Quad Tracker

Q1	Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
	Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Win	Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 136-240
none	Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
Loss
Boise St.
Memphis (A)
Q2
Win
None
Loss
Oral Roberts
Q3
Win
Southern Illinois
Rhode Island
Loss
Utah
SMU (H)
Temple (H)
Q4
Wins
Northwestern St.
Oregon St.
Little Rock
Alcorn State
Loss
Air Force
LMU (CA)