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HookEm

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  1. I don't HATE the strategy, but one of the critical elements of that strategy is that you MUST MUST MUST have good free throw shooters. And far too often we would be a very poor free throw shooting team. Now I have this data courtesy of my new KenPom subscription... UT's Free Throw rank under Barnes: 00 - 264 01 - 269 02 - 177 03 - 77 (Final 4) 04 - 190 05 - 142 06 - 57 (Elite 8 ) 07 - 36 (Durant) 08 - 189 09 - 246 10 - 326 11 - 282 12 - 47 13 - 270 14 - 272 15 - 70 There are some REAL stinkers in there. And it really hindered some of those teams.
  2. I've got no ill feelings towards Barnes. Someday hopefully he gets a statue at Moody. But he has nobody to blame but himself for losing his fastball while at Texas. Everything he has done at Tennessee could have been done better here. Oh well, sometimes you need a reset. It is going to be funny if RT ends up being the most successful coach of the last 15 years while at Texas. Beard, Barnes, and Shaka are all better coaches, but they each had their issues here. Beard's were off the court. Barnes couldn't quite figure out how to get the super elite recruits to buy into his hard ass approach for a full season. If he could have targeted a different player and adopted a Michigan State approach of taking top 20-50 guys and developing them, I think he would have been better off than with all the one and dones. And Shaka just went away from his bread and butter. Every so often we would press and look incredible. Nope nope nope, his stubborn ass had to change his style and we sucked for it. Every one of those guys had an ego and stubbornness that got them into trouble here.
  3. I appreciate the honesty. I however will have zero mixed emotions if we lose to Barnes. F that. I'm hoping he gets upset in round 1 and we don't have to play them.
  4. I assume you are rooting for us to beat him tho.
  5. Yep. For continuity, FAU is #1 (and also #41 in Experience). I would NOT want to play them in the tourney. Wisconsin is #8 in Continuity and #48 in Experience. Creighton is #40 in Continuity and #8 in Experience. Also a team I wouldn't want to play.
  6. We forget that Beard had a similar style to Bennett at Tech (and to a lesser degree at Texas). Incredible defense and extremely slow pace, boring but efficient offense. If he got to 50 points, good chance they were going to win. And if they were ever up by 10 points, it was game over. But... his offense could be really painful to watch at times. I personally liked Beard because he wins AND because I really like watching a smothering team defense. I enjoyed the Virginia vs. Tech national title game quite a bit, but it got a lot of negative press prior to the game predicting it would be a slow, difficult watch.
  7. Another interesting chart... ranking the current teams by experience. I knew we had to be one of the most experienced teams in the country, and turns out we are.
  8. I'm sure they aren't in a normal year. Wish they had similar rankings over a decade.
  9. Finally broke down and spent $20 on a KenPom subscription. Some interesting stuff in here. Looking at home court advantage. Things are going to get a lot easier in the SEC from that perspective. And that doesn't account for the fact that all those big 12 teams hate Texas and have by far their best crowd of the year when they play us. Big 12 - 3 top-5, 12 top-50 #1 Tech #2 West Virginia #3 TCU #14 OU #17 BYU #20 ISU #25 Texas #27 KU #30 Baylor #39 Cinci #41 K-State $48 OSU SEC - 0 top-5, 6 top-50 #13 Miss St #23 Tennessee #24 Arkansas #26 Alabama #33 Auburn #37 Kentucky
  10. He was shitty at UTEP no doubt.
  11. Fair enough. You win. I am now in alignment that if we had an open coaching search we wouldn’t have hired RT based on his history as a head coach prior to Texas. If anyone disagrees, hopefully the two of you can argue it out in private messages. Cool? Can we move on now? Anyone else disagree?
  12. Again, nobody is saying RT is a great coach. Literally nobody. If I'm wrong, then post a quote and I'll admit I'm wrong. To claim that any of us are arguing RT is great is in fact "disingenuous". I have only claimed that he is a "good" coach and I stand by that. Good enough for Texas? Probably not. Fresno using Massey Ratings: After RT - 148.4 During RT - 108.3 (#71 last year) Before RT - 168.1
  13. From 1980 to 2024, OSU has the #27th ranked program by average end of year Massey Rating. Since 2000, that climbs to #25. That puts them in a peer group with Arkansas, Louisville, Marquette, Georgetown and Memphis. They should be able to get a top-tier coach. I would have thought they could get someone better and younger than Alford.
  14. I think we would rather play Virginia. Colorado State is a much more experienced team. 95% of their conference win shares come from seniors. Are efficient scoring the ball, ranking 18th in FG% vs. #257 for Virginia. CSU has beaten some good teams including: #11 Creighton by 20 points! in Kansas City #21 San Diego State by 8 #23 New Mexico by 8 #26 Colorado by 5 Virginia's best win was waaay back on November 11, beating #29 Florida by 3 in Charlotte. Since then, they haven't beaten a single top-30 team. The best they have done is beat #34 Clemson by 1. They have seen a number of good teams, but the results have been ugly. They played UNC to within 10. Duke blew them out. Virginia Tech blew them out. Memphis blew them out. Wisconsin blew them out. I wouldn't be surprised if CSU beats them by double digits tonight.
  15. What's even more insane about this record is that EVERYONE knows about it and bets against him in March, which moves the spread in Tennessee's favor. And he still fails to beat it.
  16. I think we match up better vs. Purdue than we did back in 2022. We couldn't match their size at all. We started Timmy Allen (6'6, 18 min) and Christian Bishop (6'7, 23 min) and both fouled out. Disu only got 9 min. Brock got 16 min, mainly at PF. Andrew Jones (6'4, 35 min) had four fouls as well played most of the SF minutes. If we played again, we would have Disu (6'9) and Shedrick (6'11) getting post minutes and could even throw Dillon Mitchel (6'8) in at SF if we wanted to go big.
  17. Hmmm. Not so sure about this. The committee would have LOVED to match us up as an 8 seed vs. Aggy as a 9 seed. The fact that they didn't tells me we were very comfortably in the 7-seed or better range.
  18. Hare are our tourney seeds going back a 15 years now that this year's seeding has been announced. For as ugly as this season was, we've had objectively better regular seasons than this only 4 times in the last 15+ years (not counting last year). 2024 – 7 seed 2023 – 2 seed ---------------------- 2022 – 6 seed ---------------------- 2021 – 3 seed 2020 (Covid, Likely 10 seed) 2019 – Missed tourney 2018 – 10 seed 2017 – Missed tourney 2016 – 6 seed ---------------------- 2015 – 11 seed 2014 – 7 seed 2013 – Missed tourney 2012 – 11 seed 2011 – 4 seed 2010 – 8 seed 2009 – 7 seed Is a 7-seed good enough? No. Will RT consistently deliver better results than this? Probably not. But it is a little above average for us recently, which means it is going to be very tough to fire RT if he keeps delivering these results. Good, but not great - the worst place we could be as a fanbase.
  19. IF we happen to get past Tennessee (or if they get upset before that), I really think we could beat Creighton. They are the worst 3-seed in my opinion.
  20. In reality, OU and KState would favored over probably 25 of these teams.
  21. Haha F OU
  22. Don’t put it past Barnes looking ahead to Texas and dropping that opening game.
  23. Big 12 will likely get in 9 including both Texas and OU. SEC will likely get in 8... Flip UT and OU over to the SEC and now they have 10 in the tourney and the Big 12 has 7. Yes, the Big 12 is the best basketball conference, but the SEC isn't exactly terrible.
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