Texas @ NC State, 8:15pm, ESPN2 ACC/SEC Challenge

[UTexasFight 9758]

Hahahaha

and they swallow the whistle at the end 

Edited December 5 by UTexasFight

[MirrOlure 15087]

Hell yeah!!!

[tx 3 putt 78278]

Just now, LonghornSean said:

Shocked a foul wasn’t called there

[Zeus 6717]

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[Degenerate Gardner 4122]

I’ll take it.

[billfromlaketravis 11741]

You deserve this NC State and ACC after those bullshit commercials. 

[Horns RD Standard 76]

Defense wins the day there. Especially down the stretch. Good gutsy win

[tx 3 putt 78278]

D showed up the last minute

free throw shooting was nowhere to be found. 

[Blotto 23877]

that's just beautiful basketball, that's what that is. 

[Dr Fear 1286]

That last dunk with under 1 second covers the -2.5 lol.

[Hermanator 7519]

Great defensive possession to end it. Got the win. 

[Rickylovesweed 15193]

I hope Shedrick learned something this game.

If your guy can't shoot then sag and sit in the paint. Stop getting caught on the perimeter and defend the rim like he did the last 8 minutes.

[ztejas 44096]

Nice win. I don't care what their early kenpom ranking is, NC St is a good P4 program and was desperate for a W.

There's a lot of stuff Texas needs to clean up but I'll be patient as long as they keep winning. 

[jw4381 3187]

Skabadabing

[BigTEAMLittleme 256]

We’ll take the road win.  🙌

[Pancho 45943]

Needed that win because the SEC is going to be tough.

January 29th - 👀👀

[Js1 86414]

Just now, BigTEAMLittleme said:

We’ll take the road win.  🙌

And we didn’t embarrass in the challenge when the SEC is crushing the crap out of the ACC

[Grande Mart 527]

1 minute ago, LonghornSean said:

Shocked a foul wasn’t called there, but right call

Yeah, surprised the refs didn't call it, but on the replay looked like great defense with the wolfpack guy trying his ass off to draw a foul jumping into Shedrick. Great defensive play

[Firemans4Horn 18486]

“Texas should feel fortunate to escape tonight”
 

 

 

it was a -2.5 line and a back and forth game. Not like we got lucky or came back from a 20 point deficit. 

[Js1 86414]

Shedrick looked like a middle blocker for the vball team on that last play 

[Rickylovesweed 15193]

Just now, ztejas said:

Nice win. I don't care what their early kenpom ranking is, NC St is a good P4 program and was desperate for a W.

 

Yeah, they're a bubble team if you watched them last week. They were in those games against Purdue and BYU on a neutral court.

This will be a Q1 win at the end of the year. 

[UTexasFight 9758]

1 minute ago, Dr Fear said:

That last dunk with under 1 second covers the -2.5 lol.

Earlier, UConn -3.5
UCONN up 2, 0.7 left. UCONN with the ball and inbounds.
Baylor fouls immediately, clock runs out.
They review and put 0.4 back on.
UConn drains both FTs. Up 4.
3/4 court hail mary by Baylor hits both sides of the rim and falls out.

I can’t imagine being a college basketball bettor 

[mrhorn 1427]

Horns made the shots when needed and D stepped up. Ugly win is a win. Lots of work to do to gel as a team and settle into their roles.
Let’s practice some free throws once in a while, but congrats to the fellas.

[MuellerHorn 4560]

2 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Yeah, they're a bubble team if you watched them last week. They were in those games against Purdue and BYU on a neutral court.

This will be a Q1 win at the end of the year. 

100%. These teams don’t need to be world beaters to improve our résumé. Wins over bubble teams, especially on the road, really help. Like you said, it should be a Q1 win. 

Edited December 5 by MuellerHorn

[MotownHorn 1880]

W 🤘🏼

[troph 25004]

Nice win. Saw some good stuff on both sides, much better than last week.

[Hookem2147 21683]

Good night from 3 (8 for 17). Right now we are pacing ahead of last year’s team from deep and that was one of the better 3 point shooting teams we’ve had.

It was good to see Pope hit some big shots. I think he is close to finding his groove.

[Firemans4Horn 18486]

Tre Johnson is a top 5 pick. He can create his own shot. If we can get the other guys looks off of that and get some output defensively from our 5’s and make free throws we’ll be ok. 

[tx 3 putt 78278]

2 minutes ago, mrhorn said:

Horns made the shots when needed and D stepped up. Ugly win is a win. Lots of work to do to gel as a team and settle into their roles.
Let’s practice some free throws once in a while, but congrats to the fellas.

 

lot to improve on, for sure

defense the last minute sealed this game, that's a very good thing to see this early in the season

[Hookem2147 21683]

If Karaban doesn’t play for UConn on Sunday I think we win that game. They have not been a good defensive team all year.

[MirrOlure 15087]

Who else watched the speech?

Fuck. I lived it as it happened. Still…:

[Rickylovesweed 15193]

Just now, Hookem2147 said:

If Karaban doesn’t play for UConn on Sunday I think we win that game. They have not been a good defensive team all year.

Yeah them beating Baylor doesn't tell me much.

Baylor should probably be 4-4 if not for a bogus call against St. John's. This the weakest Baylor team in some time. 

[dcar00 14867]

P4 win on the road.  we win very ugly but ugly wins work.  It does help when our opponent is worse at FT's than we are.

[Js1 86414]

3 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Yeah them beating Baylor doesn't tell me much.

Baylor should probably be 4-4 if not for a bogus call against St. John's. This the weakest Baylor team in some time. 

Baylor also lost Roach to concussion protocol in that game. Felt like that’s when it turned against them

[ChickenSandwich 9898]

26 minutes ago, Zeus said:

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Hit the line. You want him on the floor at the end of games but the FT shooting is a liability 

[Lonestar88 5102]

9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Baylor also lost Roach to concussion protocol in that game. Felt like that’s when it turned against them

VJ Edgecombe was out too.

[Js1 86414]

2 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Hit the line. You want him on the floor at the end of games but the FT shooting is a liability 

Dude also has an issue with driving and not knowing what to do. Feels like he has a couple bad turnovers doing that 

[MuellerHorn 4560]

25 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Earlier, UConn -3.5
UCONN up 2, 0.7 left. UCONN with the ball and inbounds.
Baylor fouls immediately, clock runs out.
They review and put 0.4 back on.
UConn drains both FTs. Up 4.
3/4 court hail mary by Baylor hits both sides of the rim and falls out.

I can’t imagine being a college basketball bettor 

I’d love to go to Vegas just to people watch bettors lose their shit over wild swings like this. Definitely going to do it some year for the first weekend of March Madness. 

[Zeus 6717]

27 minutes ago, Dr Fear said:

That last dunk with under 1 second covers the -2.5 lol.

[NBHorn7 205]

Really needed to have kept the ball in Johnson's hands down the stretch like we did in previous games. He is money from the line. Pope really short armed that free throw, barely got to the rim. Luckily it didn't cost us. Thought they had called foul on Texas on NC St's last possession. 

It was funny watching Weaver; it looked like he was just going to dribble out the clock, then decided to dunk it, and that did cover the spread. Last few possessions for Texas were bad, need to play smarter, as others have said the SEC really isn't that much of a step down in basketball, or maybe not a step down at all.

[shakahorn 1654]

54 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

Who else watched the speech?

Fuck. I lived it as it happened. Still…:

I watch it every single time it comes on.

[Rickylovesweed 15193]

30 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

Really needed to have kept the ball in Johnson's hands down the stretch like we did in previous games. He is money from the line. Pope really short armed that free throw, barely got to the rim. Luckily it didn't cost us. Thought they had called foul on Texas on NC St's last possession. 

It was funny watching Weaver; it looked like he was just going to dribble out the clock, then decided to dunk it, and that did cover the spread. Last few possessions for Texas were bad, need to play smarter, as others have said the SEC really isn't that much of a step down in basketball, or maybe not a step down at all.

I didn't mind the ball in Pope's hands.

Tre was turning the ball over and Pope is like a career 87% FT shooter. He's a great FT shooter which makes that attempt even more wild. 

[ChickenSandwich 9898]

Love Larry but he doesn’t need to start. He gets over his skies often and out of control. 6th man maximizes his strengths 

[txexlonghorn23 54]

Anyone else see that Tre looks like Snoop from The Wire? 🤣 My buddy told me that earlier and it is wild.

[Rickylovesweed 15193]

This is what we need from Kaluma with our rebounding issues at the 5. It also makes me think Kaluma needs to play the 5 more with a small lineup. Kaluma roams too much on the perimeter offensively and is better on the low block anyways.

I would like to see more of Kaluma at the 5 and Codie at the 4 that they tried tonight for a couple minutes. Too bad Kent is hurt or we would almost certainly be seeing a lot more minutes with Kaluma at the 5 and Kent at the 4. 

 

Edited December 5 by Rickylovesweed

[Hank_Hill 19489]

1 hour ago, txexlonghorn23 said:

Anyone else see that Tre looks like Snoop from The Wire? 🤣 My buddy told me that earlier and it is wild.

Ehhhh

[ztejas 44096]

1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

This is what we need from Kaluma with our rebounding issues at the 5. It also makes me think Kaluma needs to play the 5 more with a small lineup. Kaluma roams too much on the perimeter offensively and is better on the low block anyways.

He's a good shooter and ball-handler though. I'm fine with him spacing the floor and being dynamic on O. 

The small-ball stuff is going to be dictated a lot by who the opponent puts on the court I think. 

[MotownHorn 1880]

Do we know if/when Kent is coming back? Seems like a real key to the team. More so than Mark, whose return I thought would be a lot more helpful than it's been.

[HookEm 2484]

This team could use a guy like Jericho Sims or even Christian Bishop in the worst way.

[KingBobo81 546]

Do we know if/when Kent is coming back? Seems like a real key to the team. More so than Mark, whose return I thought would be a lot more helpful than it's been.

A week or two ago Gerry indicated it would be a while and could result in a possible redshirt situation.