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  1. bierce
    Here's an interesting one-- Colorado State leads currently projected 9 seed Utah State 48-22 at the half. I don't think Colorado State can win an at-large bid with 5 noncon losses, including home against UC Riverside, but if it wins this game, then it will be 7-1 in Q1-2 games and be in a position to possibly tie for the regular season MWC title if New Mexico loses one more and Colorado State can win out, which would also give it a q1 win @ Boise State.
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    OU lost 87-84 after 3/4 length of floor heave went off the backboard. I thought it was jobbed a bit at the end. Forsythe was fouled driving baseline with OU down one, no whistle, but he was called for chucking the ball over the backboard. Ole Miss with a breakaway on the inbound pass, but Murrell fumbled it, pinned it against his side while trying to dribble, took a couple of steps that way, dropped the ball, picked it up and started dribbling. Apparently that was OK. But the OU guy trying to foul was called for a flagrant for grabbing Murrell's shirt as he went by. Murrell made both, and OU was left needing to steal the inbound pass and hit a court length three. It managed half of that. Not crying for OU. Bubble getting softer and softer today.
  3. bierce
    Q3 loss for Nebraska after a great comeback to take the lead with 9.4 seconds left. It had forced a ten second violation and scored on the ensuing possession to take a one point lead. Minnesota quickly ran down and hit a three with 4.1 seconds left. Nebraska tried to counter but missed from about 35 feet at the buzzer.
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    I like Hoiberg, but I'm rooting against Nebraska from here on out for the half-time show of making babies crawl on the court to their parent or bottle of milk or whatever other carrot was held out for them. Several were bawling.
  5. bierce
    Minnesota started second half on a 9-0 run to build lead back to 44-26. New play for every coach's playbook. Guard up top and outside the arc overthrows a lob to a big man in the paint. Big man can just get a hand on it to deflect down the baseline to teammate open in the corner. Teammate drive baseline, and as the defense collapses, passes back to the first guy still standing up top well outside the arc and drains the three. I put it up there with the inbounds pass from one baseline off the opposite backboard for the teammate to get the carom and drop in the short open jumper.
  6. bierce
    Nebraska is digging a hole for the third straight game against non-tournament teams. It came back against Northwestern, but it couldn't catch Penn State. Now it is down at home 30-17 to Minnesota.
  7. bierce
    So Car 50 Arky 20 with 12:10 left. Wow. UNC won 92-73. Like I said, not a needle mover, but other teams can move down with losses while UNC stays put, so someone might drop below it.
  8. bierce
    So Car 16 Arky 3 with 10:31 to go in the first half. Arky shooting 1/11.
  9. bierce
    Not without more losses by either team, because any bubble team currently projected to be an 11 seed that wins 2 of 3 games is likely to stay in the field. Then the first round of the SEC tournament will play large with the committee. Georgia has three winnable games (@Texas, @ So Car, home vs. Vandy). It could go anywhere from 0-3 to 3-0 in that stretch. OU has three lose-able games (@ Mississippi, home vs. Missouri, @ Texas), so I think it is much more unlikely OU gets a couple of wins by regular season's end.
  10. bierce
    As I predicted, we are not in the field according to the matrix this morning. 21 brackets have not updated since the Arky game. We are on 18 of them. 85 brackets have updated since the Arky game. We are on only 28 of them. Last four at larges are now OU, Georgia, tOSU, Indiana. Boise State is hot on our heels, getting on 23 of the 85 updated brackets. Beating Seton Hall by only 4 hurt Xavier. UNC just ended the first half on a 14-2 run to go the lockers up 46-31 over Miami in the only game happening now with a team in last 8 in or first 8 out. UNC has played well of late, but none of the games were needle movers.
  11. bierce
    I think we are coming to a consensus that it is a near certainty. I hope CDC regularly updates any such list. That he has one doesn't mean we should restrain our tendencies to conjecture wildly about future events. Isn't that why sports message boards were invented?
  12. bierce
    Gotcha. I think Murray would be even better, since he has spent years recruiting for UConn, so he's well-versed in recruiting at this level.
  13. bierce
    Yet you keep rejecting the idea of hiring a young guy who doesn't have P5 head coaching on their resumes.
  14. bierce
    And I still say the best hires over the last 7 years have proven to be Hurley, Oats, Lloyd, Otzelberger, Scheyer, Golden, and maybe May and McCasland will be soon added to the list. None of them had P5 coaching experience before taking their current jobs. You get the right young guy, give him support, step back, and watch it happen.
  15. bierce
    I'm not keen on adding a 60 year old who has been away from the college game but 20 years, but there are only 20 coaches in NBA history with more wins and a higher winning percentage than Snyder, factoring games as of last night. Hard to call that nothing special.
  16. bierce
    Golding has one thing on his resume that Terry doesn't, and that is building a program from D II and getting it into the tournament 2 of 3 years, maybe 3 straight were it not for the 2020 tournament being canceled, but I don't think it was getting past SFA in 2020. He did quite the excellent job at ACU. However, Golding's biggest drawback has been the zero improvement in the UTEP program over a four year period. At 49 years old and having made no progress with a mid-major nowhere for 4 years, he should be miles behind Wade, Murray, McCollum, Pitino, and even Olen and Odom, as a candidate to move up from the mid-majors or an assistant's job this spring.
  17. bierce
    Or make things nearly impossible for a team playing at the level Texas is playing. It would have to win 4 in a row, which would mean winning @ Miss State, beating OU again, then winning two games in the SEC tournament in Nashville, probably against Georgia/Vandy (maybe Arky) then against Tennessee/Missouri. Pomeroy would give that about a 3 percent chance of happening.
  18. bierce
    We were on just 13 of 38 brackets that updated yesterday plus CBS (updated this morning). We still appear in the field according to the matrix, but only because other brackets haven't updated. As soon as they do, we'll fall behind Indiana Georgia, and tOSU.
  19. bierce
    Correction: As more brackets have updated this morning, Texas is appearing on 2 of the first 10 I checked. Not really surprising at this point despite the narrowness of the loss. Other bubble teams won and moved up. We didn't and moved down.
  20. bierce
    Vandy, tOSU, SMU, Indiana, Boise State, and Arkansas (alas) won Texas (alas), WF, and OU lost. Texas appearing on no more than 1/2 of the brackets updating this morning, and generally as one of the last 2 in the field when it does appear. Texas-Georgia winner might be in the field. Loser will drop out again. BYU won, but I didn't include it as a bubble game, since BYU had climbed to the 8/9 line after torching Kansas and winning @ Arizona. No games of interests tonight or tomorrow unless you are of the opinion someone like UC San Diego, VCU, or Drake can look up at large bids by winning out regular season, creating what I call fiddler crab conferences. Almost entire bubble playing Saturday, including double bubble game Texas hosting Georgia.
  21. bierce
    And LaSalle Thompson.
  22. bierce
    I suspect it isn't looking too sharp. Part of the problem with the current team is misfit-toyitis, and if he really is the recruiting coordinator as part of his general managing role, then he has to take some of the responsibility for this. But if we are moving on from Terry, and I suspect it is likely that we will, then I think Haith and Ogden will also be shown the door, and the Rick Barnes assistant era will come to an end at Texas.
  23. bierce
    Dumb. We'll replace him at the end of the year in all likelihood, but firing him now just means Frank Haith becomes interim coach, and he's the guy who is already directing the offense, so what have you gained? Nothing. Either that, or you bring in an outsider, and nearly everybody quits, and we wind up playing walk-ons for the rest of the year. And there probably isn't a coach out there who is thinking of moving up who isn't waiting to see what happens in Austin before agreeing to a new job, so there is no reason to pull the plug until the season is over.
  24. bierce
    Because they are
  25. bierce
    That's what it looked like. Was called a flagrant. Not a play on the ball. At least not the one that is the normal subject of a basketball play.
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