GAMES OF INTEREST (11.25.23 - 12.1.23) @ LITTLE ROCK

[loca2874]

ITS GAMEDAY!!!!!!!

Tulsa travels to Little rock to play their first game away from the Reynolds Center. Yooler has 264 KenPom and is 1-4 on the season so far. It is vital that TU gets this win as they are higher on the KenPom and have a better record, of course to lesser talent, but it is on the road. Road wins are needed to make teams great.

Todays Games

Nice little slate of games today. Jackson State travels to DC to take on Georgetown. Incarnate word and UTSA take on each other in the last meeting of the Cardinal/Roadrunner Classic.

East Carolina travels to Fairfax to take on George Mason. While Norfolk State travels to Wichita to take on the Shockers.

The game to watch today at least the first half is the South Carolina State vs Missouri State game. We have already played South Carolina State and Missouri State is coming up in our non-conference slate.

AND ONE

Tulsa starts the day with a 207 KenPom. Using this metric only 4 teams in the non-con have a better rating. Oklahoma St. (Dec 10), Missouri St. (Dec 16), Loyola Chicago (Dec 5) and ORU (Dec 2). These also happen to be our next 4 games after today as well. All of the American teams have a better KenPom than Tulsa except Rice and UTSA.

Bonus: Today is the end of Football season as Tulsa is currently in Greenville, NC to take on the Pirates. I would be there but I have family at the house and I don’t want to hear it from the wife.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Jackson St.	276	at	Georgetown	168	11:00 a.m.	FS2
South Carolina St.	348	at	Missouri St.	97	1:00 p.m.
East Carolina	186	at	George Mason	120	1:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Tulsa	207	at	Little Rock	264	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Eastern Mich.	300	at	Central Ark.	330	2:45 p.m.	ESPN+
UIW	325	at	UTSA	309	3:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Furman	130	at	UAB	99	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Georgia St.	182	at	Charlotte	119	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Norfolk St.	293	at	Wichita St.	102	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Rankings

Rating	School	Record		Rating	School	Record
37	FAU	4-1		43	Oklahoma St.	3-3
38	Memphis	5-1		47	Missouri St.	4-1
73	North Texas	3-2		145	Loyola Chicago	3-3
85	SMU	4-2		187	Oral Roberts	2-3
99	UAB	3-2		270	New Mexico St.	3-4
100	Tulane	4-1		311	Little Rock	1-4
102	Wichita St.	5-1		325	Jackson St.	1-5
119	Charlotte	3-2		332	UIW	3-2
160	USF	2-2		340	Central Ark.	1-5
165	Temple	3-2		346	South Carolina St.	2-4
186	ECU	4-2		357	Mississippi Val.	0-6
207	Tulsa	4-0
224	Rice	1-5
309	UTSA	2-4

 

[TULSARISING]

ITS GAMEDAY!!!!!!!

Tulsa travels to Little rock to play their first game away from the Reynolds Center. Yooler has 264 KenPom and is 1-4 on the season so far. It is vital that TU gets this win as they are higher on the KenPom and have a better record, of course to lesser talent, but it is on the road. Road wins are needed to make teams great.

Todays Games

Nice little slate of games today. Jackson State travels to DC to take on Georgetown. Incarnate word and UTSA take on each other in the last meeting of the Cardinal/Roadrunner Classic.

East Carolina travels to Fairfax to take on George Mason. While Norfolk State travels to Wichita to take on the Shockers.

The game to watch today at least the first half is the South Carolina State vs Missouri State game. We have already played South Carolina State and Missouri State is coming up in our non-conference slate.

AND ONE

Tulsa starts the day with a 207 KenPom. Using this metric only 4 teams in the non-con have a better rating. Oklahoma St. (Dec 10), Missouri St. (Dec 16), Loyola Chicago (Dec 5) and ORU (Dec 2). These also happen to be our next 4 games after today as well. All of the American teams have a better KenPom than Tulsa except Rice and UTSA.

Bonus: Today is the end of Football season as Tulsa is currently in Greenville, NC to take on the Pirates. I would be there but I have family at the house and I don’t want to hear it from the wife.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Jackson St.	276	at	Georgetown	168	11:00 a.m.	FS2
South Carolina St.	348	at	Missouri St.	97	1:00 p.m.
East Carolina	186	at	George Mason	120	1:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Tulsa	207	at	Little Rock	264	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Eastern Mich.	300	at	Central Ark.	330	2:45 p.m.	ESPN+
UIW	325	at	UTSA	309	3:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Furman	130	at	UAB	99	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Georgia St.	182	at	Charlotte	119	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Norfolk St.	293	at	Wichita St.	102	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Rankings

Rating	School	Record		Rating	School	Record
37	FAU	4-1		43	Oklahoma St.	3-3
38	Memphis	5-1		47	Missouri St.	4-1
73	North Texas	3-2		145	Loyola Chicago	3-3
85	SMU	4-2		187	Oral Roberts	2-3
99	UAB	3-2		270	New Mexico St.	3-4
100	Tulane	4-1		311	Little Rock	1-4
102	Wichita St.	5-1		325	Jackson St.	1-5
119	Charlotte	3-2		332	UIW	3-2
160	USF	2-2		340	Central Ark.	1-5
165	Temple	3-2		346	South Carolina St.	2-4
186	ECU	4-2		357	Mississippi Val.	0-6
207	Tulsa	4-0
224	Rice	1-5
309	UTSA	2-4

Jackson state leading Georgetown at the half by 1

 

[loca2874]

Jackson state up 65-62 on Georgetown with just over 11 min to go

 

[loca2874]

Jackson state down by 4 with under 2 min left and they are hurting themselves with these rushed and off kilter shots

 

[loca2874]

Anyone notice that Cooley, the coach from Georgetown, is a large mole on his face away from being Aaron Neville?

 

[loca2874]

Georgetown survives 88-81 over Jackson state

 

[loca2874]

missouri state beat south carolina state 92-74

 

[loca2874]

george mason beat ECU 81-59

 

[Bill Lowery]

missouri state beat south carolina state 92-74

Mo St started off the game 21-0. Played even the rest of the way.

 

[loca2874]

Eastern Michigan beat central Arkansas 74-71

UTSA beat incarnate word 90-80

Charlotte over Georgia state 65-57

UAB over furman 92-86

Wichita state over Norfolk state 80-67

 

[loca2874]

Well yesterday sucked. I still want to know 1. Why didn’t we attack the lane as they had 3 of their top payers in foul trouble at the beginning of the second half and 2. Where was Archie in the last part of the second half and during the overtime? That is troubling. If he was injured I hope it isn’t bad.

Todays Games

Today #19 Florida Atlantic faces Virginia Tech in the Championship of the ESPN Events Invitational at Disney World. That was a good field to be in.

SMU hosts Louisiana Monroe New Mexico State travels to Louisville and North Texas hosts Angelo St.

Last game of the day has The Delta devils on their crusade to lose a lot of games and get paid a lot of money to do that by facing Pacific this afternoon.

AND ONE

College football is winding down. TU’s season is over and the portal will start getting busy within the next couple of days. Bowl season is right around the corner and what does that mean for College Basketball? Everything! More focus is going to be turned to college basketball and the unveiling of the NET. The debut of the NET rankings is going to be December 4th.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
New Mexico St.	255	at	Louisville	151	12:00 p.m.	ESPN+/ACCNet
Virginia Tech	49	vs	Fla. Atlantic	37	12:00 p.m.	ESPN
ULM	288	at	SMU	85	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Angelo St.		at	North Texas	74	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
New Orleans	286	at	Central Ark.	335	2:45 p.m.	ESPN+
UIW	329	vs	Jacksonville St.	205	3:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Mississippi Val.	362	at	Pacific	248	4:00 p.m.	ESPN+

 

[loca2874]

Tulsa went down 3 in the KenPom and Little Rock went up 8 after beating TU in overtime

 

[Bill Lowery]

A good Va Tech team shot 11.8% from 3-point and lost to Florida Atlantic by 34.

 

[loca2874]

A good Va Tech team shot 11.8% from 3-point and lost to Florida Atlantic by 34.

Just like when Memphis played UNC. Memphis had a whopping 16 points in the first half and was slaughtered by UNC

 

[loca2874]

FAU over Virginia tech 84-50

Louisville over New Mexico State in overtime 90-84

North Texas over Angelo state 79-50

SMU over Louisiana Monroe 70-57

 

[loca2874]

Jacksonville state and incarnate word is headed to overtime tied at 65

 

[loca2874]

New Orleans beats central Arkansas 79-74 after some bad play down the stretch by central Arkansas

 

[loca2874]

Jacksonville state and incarnate word is headed to overtime tied at 65

Oh I stand corrected there was a foul by incarnate word right before the buzzer and Jacksonville state made two free throws to win it at the end of regulation 67-65!

 

[loca2874]

Wow New México state had to play with 4 players in OT

 

[loca2874]

There were no games yesterday so I took the day off from the3 post.

Todays Games

There are seven games on the slate. Little Rock tries to go for 2 wins straight taking on Ball State.
Oral Roberts travels to Manhattan to take on Kansas State
Chicago State goes to Loyola Chicago
New Mexico State is on their road of playing all of the Non D1 schools in New Mexico.

Full Schedule is below.

AND ONE

KenPom has been matching for the most part what the NET was last year. The NET debut’s next week on December 4th. We will see how TU matches up with the wins that we have. Hopefully we will have another win by the time the NET is released.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
South Carolina St.	347	at	Furman	131	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Ball St.	226	at	Little Rock	257	6:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Oral Roberts	183	at	Kansas St.	41	7:00 p.m.	BIG12/ESPN+
Chicago St.	348	at	Loyola Chicago	125	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
McNeese	122	at	UAB	99	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Jackson St.	278	at	Arkansas St.	180	7:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Univ. of the Southwest	#N/A	at	New Mexico St.	252	8:00 p.m.	ESPN+

 

[loca2874]

Howard took Cincinnati to overtime but lost 86-81

 

[loca2874]

Furman beat South Carolina state 86-78

Little Rock beat Ball state 90-64

 

[loca2874]

Loyola Chicago is up 55-48 with just over 2 min left in the game

 

[loca2874]

Oral Roberts and Kansas state are going into overtime tied at 72

 

[loca2874]

Jackson state is trailing Arkansas state 51-50 with 12 min left in the game

 

[loca2874]

Loyola Chicago wins 62-53 over Chicago state

 

[loca2874]

Kansas state over ORU 88-78 in overtime. Game was closer than the score says

 

[Dawg.pound22]

McNeese ran UAB out the gym. Close first half, then McNeese put together an excellent second half McNeese is a really good team

 

[URedskin54]

Christian Shumate had 21! rebounds tonight against UAB

 

[Dawg.pound22]

McNeese ran UAB out the gym. Close first half, then McNeese put together an excellent second half McNeese is a really good team

I also never thought I'd say McNeese 3 times in one paragraph 🤷

 

[TU1NNJ]

I also never thought I'd say McNeese 3 times in one paragraph 🤷

McNeese - isn’t that Irish Sausage 😉

 

[loca2874]

I know I didn’t post yesterday so this makes up for it. Last night the following happened.

Tulane beat Prairie View 98-77
Temple beat La Salle 106-99 – there was no defense in this game.
Wichita State beat Richmond 80-68
Missouri State beat Evansville 90-78 to open conference play
Charlotte Lost to Davidson 85-81
The SMOO lost to Dayton 65-63 at home
Loyola Marymount beat Central Arkansas 90-63

Todays Games

American Conference heavy today. The only non American game is Creighton visiting Oklahoma State.

Liberty visits Florida Atlantic
Everyone’s favorite Lamar takes on UTSA.

Full Schedule is below.

AND ONE

Henry Kissinger passed away yesterday at 100 years old. 5 more months and he would have been 101. Jewish Refugee who fled Nazi Germany. Served in the US Army for 3 years during WW2, Secretary of State under two presidents and served as the National Security Advisor. He was the Chair of the 9/11 commission as well as the Chancellor of William and Mary. Everyone has their own opinions of him and his politics but he served the American people.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Liberty	40	at	Fla. Atlantic	21	5:00 p.m.	ESPNU
South Fla.	162	at	Hofstra	115	6:00 p.m.	FLOHoops
UNCW	133	at	East Carolina	224	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
UT Martin	246	at	Rice	227	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Creighton	16	at	Oklahoma St.	92	8:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lamar University	295	at	UTSA	306	8:00 p.m.	ESPN+

 

[TU_BLA]

I know I didn’t post yesterday so this makes up for it. Last night the following happened.

Tulane beat Prairie View 98-77
Temple beat La Salle 106-99 – there was no defense in this game.
Wichita State beat Richmond 80-68
Missouri State beat Evansville 90-78 to open conference play
Charlotte Lost to Davidson 85-81
The SMOO lost to Dayton 65-63 at home
Loyola Marymount beat Central Arkansas 90-63

Todays Games

American Conference heavy today. The only non American game is Creighton visiting Oklahoma State.

Liberty visits Florida Atlantic
Everyone’s favorite Lamar takes on UTSA.

Full Schedule is below.

AND ONE

Henry Kissinger passed away yesterday at 100 years old. 5 more months and he would have been 101. Jewish Refugee who fled Nazi Germany. Served in the US Army for 3 years during WW2, Secretary of State under two presidents and served as the National Security Advisor. He was the Chair of the 9/11 commission as well as the Chancellor of William and Mary. Everyone has their own opinions of him and his politics but he served the American people.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Liberty	40	at	Fla. Atlantic	21	5:00 p.m.	ESPNU
South Fla.	162	at	Hofstra	115	6:00 p.m.	FLOHoops
UNCW	133	at	East Carolina	224	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
UT Martin	246	at	Rice	227	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Creighton	16	at	Oklahoma St.	92	8:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lamar University	295	at	UTSA	306	8:00 p.m.	ESPN+

I'll address Kissinger first. I've seen some pretty harsh criticism of him since the news broke yesterday. Is it his association with Nixon and that whole fiasco that paints what he did in a more negative light than others? We've enabled some pretty horrible atrocities in this world based on "the best interest of the United States...", some worse than what Kissinger had a key role in, but while those individuals got their share of blame, it was mostly a momentary thing whereas the vitriol towards Kissinger has persisted for 50 years.

To the basketball...Dayton is pretty damn good. So is Missouri State. It's hard to gauge Temple right now. They can score for sure but I don't think they can defend all that well in the games I've seen. I think the AAC is going to be a lot better than people initially thought despite the loss of Houston and Cincinnati from the league.

Creighton is going to crush OkState

 

[loca2874]

I'll address Kissinger first. I've seen some pretty harsh criticism of him since the news broke yesterday. Is it his association with Nixon and that whole fiasco that paints what he did in a more negative light than others? We've enabled some pretty horrible atrocities in this world based on "the best interest of the United States...", some worse than what Kissinger had a key role in, but while those individuals got their share of blame, it was mostly a momentary thing whereas the vitriol towards Kissinger has persisted for 50 years.

To the basketball...Dayton is pretty damn good. So is Missouri State. It's hard to gauge Temple right now. They can score for sure but I don't think they can defend all that well in the games I've seen. I think the AAC is going to be a lot better than people initially thought despite the loss of Houston and Cincinnati from the league.

Creighton is going to crush OkState

Losing Houston was a big hit to the conference. Cincinnati, ehhh maybe. They almost got beat by Howard here in DC the other day. Right now only 2 teams are under .500 and that is UTSA and Rice. The OOC records so far look very promising. WSU is at 7-1 right now with some 4-1, 5-1 an 4-2 in the mix. Hopefully we will continue to trend up and the conference can still be competitive despite losing Houston and Cincinnati. Wonder if this will help getting Washington state and Oregon State as they are now the PAC 2

 

[ctt8410]

So far, the conference has been worse than I expected overall. Which may be good news for us. But almost certainly looking at only 2 NCAA bids this year.

 

[loca2874]

 

[TU_BLA]

Not basketball, but an interesting article on Kissinger from Rolling Stone. They don't hold back. I wasn't aware that he essentially played both sides of the aisle. He did some really shady and certainly didn't care who got hurt or died as a result

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies

Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Henry Kendall]

Meh I’ll pass reading this article.

 

[lawpoke87]

Meh I’ll pass reading this article.

As will I…..Rolling Stone 😂😂. Might try the WSJ for those wanting a fairly balanced article by a respected source.

Opinion | Henry Kissinger’s Century

As national security adviser and secretary of state, he combined grand strategy with indefatigable ‘shuttle diplomacy’ and an ability to read his foreign counterparts.

www.wsj.com

 

[lawpoke87]

So far, the conference has been worse than I expected overall. Which may be good news for us. But almost certainly looking at only 2 NCAA bids this year.

I agree. Expect we have two teams above 60 in the NET when it’s released.