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Defensive rebounding has been a big weakness of ours in conference play.

Here's hoping Presley will have some real offense.

I did. Plenty of times.

Lot of bodies hitting the floor this game.

Jeff, you're like Ignatowski with his wall of TVs to run the play by play on different games.

I still think Shedrick is not a good target for a low bounce pass and never has been.

We just might have a functioning Mark tonight.

Wake 77 SMU 66 And that's why I have never bought SMU as a tournament team. Still winless against the field, and it just lost by double digits at home to a bubble team.

Who is that #21?

He has made the effort on the offensive end. He just has too much trouble holding guys off on the defensive end.

Will they be louder than the Tennessee fans last month?

ACC game will run over by about 20 minutes.

We've played 2 games against Kentucky in forever. We shot a combined 36/119 from the field in those 2 games.

With 27 rebounds, 5 blocks, and 4 steals. Hell of a recruiting pick-up by Richard Pitino at New Mexico, but UNM couldn't keep him once P5 NIL came calling.

Missouri is tearing Georgia a new one in the second half, outscoring UGa 44-23 in the half so far with 4:15 to go.

ISU really missed Momcilovic

BTW, NCAA released its first top 16 for the tournament. Duke is the only non-SEC team in the top 6.

WVU couldn't pull it out against Baylor. WVU is on a steep decline despite the recent road win over Cincy. Still has road games against Tech and BYU. Speaking of Cincy, it is down 33-30 @ ISU with 3:39 left first half and ISU trying to complete the and one.

Pitt won a had-to-to-stay-alive home game over a bad Miami team, but it didn't look good in doing so and won't win any points for it. Currently has one vote in the matrix. A&M decided to run away from its A&M-ness and dressed in grey unis with a single T on the front to go with the SEC logo. The back has a small logo between the shoulders of an A slightly higher and overlaying a T. Maybe an M is in there somewhere, but I couldn't see it. It has been a game of runs. Arky started 8-0 but fell behind 17-12. A&M has led most of the way since, but Arky tied it at 50 before A&M went on another run. 69-61 Agroids final. Vandy blew out to a 13 point lead in the first half @ Tennessee. 52-50 Vandy now with 11:18 left.

Your basic hs star te, wr, de, s, p, k

The interesting thing about UCLA's win last night was that it was UCLA's first win this year outside of the Pacific or Mountain time zones. It lost to UNC in NYC and lost conference road games to Nebraska, Maryland, Rutgers, and Illinois. It won conference road games against Oregon, USC, and Washington, and a nonconference game against Arizona in Phoenix.

Bubble is weak. We have 3 q1 wins. I do think we will lose out if there is a close call between us and another team with a stronger OOC schedule. There are several other SEC teams on the 10 or 11 line in the matrix-- OU, Vandy, Georgia, Arky. All these teams can still play their way back out. Arky goes to A&M. Vandy goes to Tennessee. Georgia hosts Missouri. OU hosts LSU. In what could be a bid deciding game in the Big 12, red-hot Kansas State goes to BYU today. KSU has come out of nowhere by winning 6 straight, including wins over ISU, KU, and Arizona, and it is now appearing on many first four out or next four out lists, and it even has a vote to get in from one bracketoid. BYU is currently the last team in tournament according to the matrix, but it has played the second easiest schedule in the conference so far.

I took a break from this for a while, because I do get down when we lose. We are currently an 11 seed in the Matrix. I'm not convinced we'll earn a tournament bid, especially if Kaluma misses any length of time, but it's not like the teams currently on the wrong side of the bubble and chasing a bid have a lot to brag about. The first four out in the matrix are Wake Forest, SMU, Indiana, and UNC. Wake is 1-6 in q1 but 4-0 in q2. It beat Michigan in nearby Greensboro in what the NCAA net called a neutral floor. Wouldn't matter. Q1 game regardless. Since then it has done nearly nothing before eking out a 77-76 win at home over UNC. It is 4-0 in Q2 games, so it has that going for it. NET 65. SMU is 0-4 in Q1 games, but it is 5-1 in q2 games and has a NET 37. SMU has zero wins over the field. It did beat Pitt by 20 in its last game, but before that its best win was a neutral site win over LSU. SMU hosts Wake today in what could be an elimination game. UNC is NET 50 with a 1-10 record in q1 games, 5-0 in q2. It has nothing worthwhile left on schedule until a season ending road game against Duke. It has lost 5 of its last 7, the wins being an ot home win over conference doormat BC and a one point home win over Pitt. UNC beat UCLA in NYC, and it beat SMU by 15 in Chapel Hill for its two best wins. Several of the losses were very close losses to top 20 teams. The recent 20 point loss to Clemson wasn't one of them. Indiana is NET 57 with a 3-11 record in q1 games, 3-0 in q2. It is just 2-8 over the last 10 games, but the wins were terrific (@ tOSU, @ Michigan State). None of the losses are particularly bad, except for the margins (threee by 20+). It couldn't come back against UCLA in Bloomington last night despite UCLA missing two straight front ends and giving IU the benefit of a pair of ft and the ball after a UCLA guard threw an elbow while being fouled in the press. It gets 8 days off and will host Purdue on the 23rd. So we're still in a good position to make the tournament if we get healthy and play better. I don't think we have ever looked worse than we did against Alabama in our last game. We had some horrible halves, like first the halves against Auburn, A&M, and Kentucky, and second half against Florida, but our last game was a catastrophe from the opening tip. I don't think making the tournament will save Terry's job. I've said for months that he needed to make the tournament, win a game there, and show other indications of the program's health, and I don't think we're getting there. But I want us to make the tournament and wins games. Sue me.

Yeah, like Hugh Freeze. Oh, wait. He's the head coach at Auburn now.

He is recruiting mid major D-I for the first time this year, unless the late spring scramble in 2024 counts. Drake received no commits in the fall. It managed last spring to pick up only one three star but outside top 300 hs recruit, one unrated hs recruit, and one unrated juco according to 247sports. Manyawu has been a pretty good pick-up from the portal, and Combs has contributed, but Drake is doing nearly everything this year with McCollum's D-II bunch, and most of them go away after this season.