Games of Interest (2.15.20)

[loca2874]

I am not feeling well today so this will be short.

Todays Games

AAC Games

Tulsa (86) at South Florida (118)
Houston (26) at Southern Methodist (72)

Rest of GOI

Houston Baptist (344) at Lamar (286)
Arkansas Little Rock (139) at UT Arlington (125)
South Dakota (171) at Oral Roberts (160)
Eastern Kentucky (301) at Austin Peay (145)
Southeastern Louisiana (343) at Nicholls (185)
Coppin State (322) at South Carolina State (325)
Vanderbilt (147) at Florida (38)
Arkansas Pine Bluff (346) at Southern (318)
Arkansas State (195) at Texas State (128)
Mississippi State (51) at Arkansas (42)
Colorado State (99) at Wyoming (297)
Kansas State (91) at Texas Christian (93)

NET Rankings Through February 14

Houston (26) No Change
Wichita St (47) No Change
Cincinnati (48) No Change
Memphis (59) No Change
SMU (72) No Change
UConn (74) No Change
Tulsa (86) Down 2
Temple (108) Down 2
South FL. (118) Up 2
UCF (124) No Change
Tulane (186) No Change
ECU (212) Down 1

Quadrant Tracker

Q1

Win

UConn (A) - W (74)
Houston (H) - W (26)

Loss

Arkansas (A) - L (42)
Cincinnati (A) - L (48)

Q2

Win

Memphis (H) - W (59)
Wichita State (H) - W (47)

Loss

UT Arlington (A) - L (125)
Kansas State (A) - L (91)
Colorado State (N) - L (99)
UConn (H) - L (74)
UCF (A) - L (124)

Q3

Win

Austin Peay (H) - W (145)
Vanderbilt (A) - W (147)
Boise State (H) - W (90)
Temple (H) - W (108)
ECU (A) - W (212)
Tulane (A) - W (186)

Loss

Q4

Wins

Houston Baptist (H) - W (344)
Southeastern LA (H) - W (343)
South Carolina State (H) - W (325)
Arkansas Pine Bluff (H) - W (346)
Oral Roberts (H) - W (160)
ECU (H) - W (212)

Loss

Arkansas State (H) - L (195)

 

[Gold*]

SMOOOO is going to pull it out.

 

[Gold*]

Idiotic foul by SMU on a desperation three. Tie game.

 

[Henry Kendall]

SMOOOO is going to pull it out.

Noooooo

 

[Gold*]

Noooooo

Overtime. Sampson coaching circles around Janko.

 

[Henry Kendall]

I bet it feels weird to smoo fans to get beat by a guy named Sasser.

 

[Gold*]

Sasser is next great Houston guard.

 

[Gold*]

I bet it feels weird to smoo fans to get beat by a guy named Sasser.

I dunno. Their Sasser beat them plenty of times.

 

[Henry Kendall]

We are going to have to play better three-point defense Wednesday or else it could get ugly.

 

[Gold*]

Yeah. They don’t have the shooters they had had the last couple of years. But everything usually goes wrong when we play there.

 

[Henry Kendall]

Wow SMU just got a huge gift and then the three. Completely blown call

 

[Gold*]

Wild game. Houston had Grimes and Hannibal the cannibal foul out. SMU doesn’t guard Sasser. But has like four or five big time weapons.

 

[tulsahurricane0530]

Guys knee touched out of bounds while he had the ball

 

[Gold*]

SMU pulls it out. Not enough time for Houston to shoot.

 

[Henry Kendall]

Smoo cheerleaders are goofy looking with those flag bows in their hair. Now back to the game

 

[Gold*]

Guys knee touched out of bounds while he had the ball

Issue is when timeout is called. Seems like they should have given it to him.

 

[tulsahurricane0530]

Issue is when timeout is called. Seems like they should have given it to him.

I agree with that. Looked like he was trying to call timeout before the knee touched. Ref must just be looking at the knee

 

[Gold*]

Sasser misses the game winner. SMOO is all of a sudden a contender. Houston not playing well right now.

SMU’s defense is just not good. But worried that they will do to our zone.

 

[Henry Kendall]

Thank you smoo. Weird, in spite of the win I still don’t find anything too impressive about them. Seriously doubt we win Wednesday, think we will beat ponies on Saturday however.

 

[TU_BLA]

Gold* said:

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Issue is when timeout is called. Seems like they should have given it to him.

I agree with that. Looked like he was trying to call timeout before the knee touched. Ref must just be looking at the knee
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So technically the timeout is not automatic, it must be acknowledged by the referee. Typically in situations like that the referee is focused hard on the out of bounds line. Most players make the mistake of only trying to call time out by signaling with their hands and not vocalizing it as well. I actually didn’t think that was a bad call.

Some of the offensive foul calls were questionable, one late on SMU was brutal.

 

[nevadanatural]

Mixed feelings about this game. The smoo win means we’re tied with Houston in the loss column but it also gets smoo within one game of us. Of course the most important game is the next one, in this case Houston, but now the smoo game becomes much bigger.

 

[TU_BLA]

Arkansas loses to Miss St, Houston Baptist lost, Colorado State won.

 

[Henry Kendall]

Well we get smoo at home without a return game, so I am happy with the outcome. Plus I think we match up better with them than Houston.

 

[loca2874]

Mixed feelings about this game. The smoo win means we’re tied with Houston in the loss column but it also gets smoo within one game of us. Of course the most important game is the next one, in this case Houston, but now the smoo game becomes much bigger.

This will also knock Houston out of a Q1 win for us

 

[loca2874]

NET will be interesting tomorrow

 

[hotterthanyourhusbandTU]

SMU is by far the most talented offensive team in the AAC. They score well at every position.

If they’re hot, they’ll just shoot over our zone.

Getting an early lead will be critical. They have the ability to jump on teams.

 

[I.I.]

This will also knock Houston out of a Q1 win for us

Winning the conference is more important and we now have a chance (I know it is slim) to get a share without any help needed from others. If we beat Houston there it knocks them farther out of a Q1.but I will take our win any day.

 

[Henry Kendall]

Looking at the remaining schedules, we have important road games against Houston and Wichita. But our remaining schedule is probably the most favorable, Cincinnati is about the same. Houston looks to have the most difficult upcoming schedule, at least on paper.

 

[Gold*]

I agree with that. Looked like he was trying to call timeout before the knee touched. Ref must just be looking at the knee

Here’s my thing. If you’re going to let certain things slide, like Jankovich and Sampson standing on court when their team has ball on offensive side and effectively creating an extra screen, then let little things slide that have big implications. It was close enough with no discernible unfair advantage to Houston. The officials over thought that one.

 

[drboobay]

nevadanatural said:

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Mixed feelings about this game. The smoo win means we’re tied with Houston in the loss column but it also gets smoo within one game of us. Of course the most important game is the next one, in this case Houston, but now the smoo game becomes much bigger.

This will also knock Houston out of a Q1 win for us
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Are you sure? It was a road loss to a top 100 team by 1 pt. so not positive they will drop much.

 

[TU 1978]

This will also knock Houston out of a Q1 win for us

Are you sure? It was a road loss to a top 100 team by 1 pt. so not positive they will drop much.[/QUOTE]
In the end, this NET crap is irrelevant.

 

[loca2874]

Are you sure? It was a road loss to a top 100 team by 1 pt. so not positive they will drop much.

You are right and I’m not sure about anything with this anymore lol

 

[quincy101]

This will surprise no one, but our beloved TW gave TU a whole 6 column inches-"from staff reports" on a very good road win in Sunday paper, while the gooners' loss to KU gets half the front page. Just disgusting! (although Scoop does a lengthy article on Bruce Howard's career from the git-go which was nice).

 

[I.I.]

Looking at the remaining schedules, we have important road games against Houston and Wichita. But our remaining schedule is probably the most favorable, Cincinnati is about the same. Houston looks to have the most difficult upcoming schedule, at least on paper.

SMU may have he most favorable schedule of all. The game with us is a tiebreaker and maybe even more important than that.

 

[I.I.]

This will surprise no one, but our beloved TW gave TU a whole 6 column inches-"from staff reports" on a very good road win in Sunday paper, while the gooners' loss to KU gets half the front page. Just disgusting! (although Scoop does a lengthy article on Bruce Howard's career from the git-go which was nice).

And the Tulsa World did not even proof it as they misnamed USF Houston in the article. But even then it may get a larger space than USF does in the Tampa paper.