OTF Premium Texas basketball 2026-27 season thread

[Gerry Hamilton]

Some decent exhibition game watching tonight 

 

[Gerry Hamilton]

CBS Sports predicts the preseason top 25 poll

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ap-top-25-college-basketball-rankings-preseason-poll-florida-duke-illinois/

[Califashorn75]

The SEC is loaded.  We have to protect home court and snatch a few from the away games. I predict huge crowds this year. Time to open the upper deck. 

[SL Xpress]

18 minutes ago, Califashorn75 said:

The SEC is loaded.  We have to protect home court and snatch a few from the away games. I predict huge crowds this year. Time to open the upper deck. 

Not dragging Coach Miller, but the non conference home slate is dogshit. There won't be enough momentum with home crowds until the conference season rolls around for anyone to be discussing opening up the upper deck.

Also, Florida is January 2, before students get back on campus. Which is a real shame. I'm sure it will be sold out, but it won't be ideal without the students.

[Gerry Hamilton]

25 minutes ago, Califashorn75 said:

The SEC is loaded.  We have to protect home court and snatch a few from the away games. I predict huge crowds this year. Time to open the upper deck. 

The SEC race is going to be very interesting… there will be 2-3 really good teams that will go 11-7 in league play 

[LonghornFan4Ever]

Some good discussion about Texas around the 40:24 mark.

[Gerry Hamilton]

38 minutes ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

Some good discussion about Texas around the 40:24 mark.

Thank you 

[harveycmd]

I don't get this Florida is great talk. No team goes far in the tournament without high level guard play. Not only are the Florida guards not high level, but they are also objectively mediocre to bad. Haugh is not some great player. He's a wing that can't shoot consistently and can't defend his position. They can rebound and play good paint defense. They can pressure bad guards into turnovers. That doesn't win titles.

[Gerry Hamilton]

 

[Gerry Hamilton]

51 minutes ago, harveycmd said:

I don't get this Florida is great talk. No team goes far in the tournament without high level guard play. Not only are the Florida guards not high level, but they are also objectively mediocre to bad. Haugh is not some great player. He's a wing that can't shoot consistently and can't defend his position. They can rebound and play good paint defense. They can pressure bad guards into turnovers. That doesn't win titles.

I don’t disagree on Gators guards … especially if B. Fland doesn’t shoot it better . Aberdeen helps the cause 

But they need their front court to dominate every nite against high-major competition 

Todd Golden will coach it up offensively for 87-88 per game average … think that is what counting on. But those tournament games that are played in 70’s and come down to last 3 mins will be interesting again 

[harveycmd]

5 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

I don’t disagree on Gators guards … especially if B. Fland doesn’t shoot it better . Aberdeen helps the cause 

But they need their front court to dominate every nite against high-major competition 

Todd Golden will coach it up offensively for 87-88 per game average … think that is what counting on. But those tournament games that are played in 70’s and come down to last 3 mins will be interesting again 

Golden is obviously an outstanding coach. It's roster construction that's a problem. Unless Golden can hit threes and defend athletic wings, there's another postseason meltdown coming that these media guys simply refuse to acknowledge. This isn't likely to be a big problem except for a few regular season games and the tournament.

[Gerry Hamilton]

1 hour ago, harveycmd said:

Golden is obviously an outstanding coach. It's roster construction that's a problem. Unless Golden can hit threes and defend athletic wings, there's another postseason meltdown coming that these media guys simply refuse to acknowledge. This isn't likely to be a big problem except for a few regular season games and the tournament.

Yep

[Gerry Hamilton]

SMU closed door scrimmage at 11

[Hornio]

29 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

SMU closed door scrimmage at 11

How good are they this year?  I thought for sure they’d fire Andy Enfield after the end of last season.  He seems like a mess personally too

[MarkInAustin]

are stats from closed scrimmages available - anywhere?

[Nathan B]

I did ask for scrimmage updates at half of the football game! Knew where that one was headed. 

[Caden Kuykendall]

@Gerry Hamilton any update on the scrimmage?