Thought the same, but by the time we scraped by A&M a few weeks later, that magic had gone-- I remember being really really frustrated by how hard everything looked against A&M. At the time, I thought it was me. The way the rest of the season went, though, just proved I was instinctively onto something.
Corpus Christi was the harbinger, but that was just one game and as bad as we were that day, we still had some good performances to come. But starting with the A&M game, the way that team played basketball wasn't the least bit joyous, free, or aggressive. We were somehow rushing and late at the same time. Aggressively making errors, tentatively blowing open opportunities. It's the most Jekyll and Hyde season I've ever seen out of a team that didn't have an obvious reason for it (e.g., a one-man team whose best player gets injured, like Tate Armstrong at Duke or Jay Burson at Ohio State).
hey thanks for the memories, thanks for bringing it up, ASS