They’ve been inefficient from two (force a lot of bad attempts), concede a lot of clean look threes (breakdowns) and are just average at rebounding.
Texas could not miss and Xavier had their two best players on the bench all half and they aren't even up 10.
Fair enough. I guess I mean just two 11 seeds playing eachother and the last at large teams in. Nothing I see so far has surprised me.
In all seriousness, love the color vs color matchup with the burnt orange and navy.
I feel very differently about this. Tomi hasn't performed the best defensively against strong, athletic frontcourt players, and from what I can see, Texas definitely has such players. We'll see though. I hope that you're right and I'm wrong.
Per Nate Silver:
Right, but who knows who gets our Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight games.
They could give us problem never said they couldn't. It will be on us-if we play well, we should win against either. If not we all know what can happen.
Xavier is shooting 45.5% from 3 and Texas is shooting 50%. Not a lot of daylight between those two percentages.
It would still be hugely disappointing, even if we join a long line of other disappointments.
Not just three. Xavier has missed tons of other great looks compared to Texas making very tough twos.
Mega conferences — 14 teams from SEC, 8 from B1G and 7 from Big 12 don’t leave much for NIT. Add in 5 or 6 teams opting not. At least a few of those were P5 teams. And then the Crown siphoned out some P5 schools. Result is two watered dow tournaments.
Arguably so are we….
Getting healthy? Yes. Toughest conference? Not arguable at all, IMHO.
The difference in my mind is that we haven't been able to play both Morez and Tomi at the same time recently. I think that makes a big difference. No offense, but I hope I am right too! lol
