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Three possessions, two of them crappy by us to start this half. Got Kaluma trapped in the corner. Got the pull up by Mark. Got no good looks on #3. Need to get the offense going.

Nice pull up by Mark.

That he is. He's also a senior who completely punted Mississippi's last possession in the first half against Missouri. I was left wondering how many new a-holes our posters would have torn Terry if Larry had done that.

I like Pryor. I liked him as an under the radar recruit. I saw a guy with hops and a nice shooting touch from the perimeter who could become a force later in his career. I failed in my attempt to explain that to posters elsewhere about 19 months ago.

Typical Texas game. We're up 4 on the road against a ranked team. And we have posters who only chime in when the other team scores. Damn, people. We won consecutive games against top 20 teams. We're ahead on the road against a ranked team. Try to see at least a little good in there, will you? I know I've criticized the bad plays when I saw them--Larry dribbling off his foot, Kent throwing a rebound away, Kaluma bricking a horrible shot, etc. This team isn't perfect. No team plays perfectly all game long. We're winning so far. Don't hate on that.

Kaluma--get out of my way or get knocked to the floor while I score.

Codie couldn't get it to fall from point blank range.

Kent can't finish inside. It's sad. I hate to see it and report on it. But he just can't.

Tough foul on Mark. He spent the whole possession keeping a big man away from the basket, and he gets called for trivial contact boxing out for the rebound.

Horrible shot by Kaluma

PRYOR!

19-9 on the boards so far. If this continues, then will Beard talk about what a great rebounding team Texas is in post-game q and a? Or will he admit his team is crap at it?

Which we have. Now 3/10.

We're 1/8 bta. That doesn't bode well.

Glad to see Kent get rebounds. Not glad to see him throw them to the opponents.

yes.

Pope apparently taught Larry how to dribble off his foot.

A well deserved return of the favor after Onyema wrestled for the loose ball underneath and kicked out to Johnson.

Who was that whirling dervish in the paint? It was Ze'Rik!

Shoulder into Shedrick's sternum. No foul. Two more bump backs. Finally called Shedrick when Mississippi player puts a shot up. That's wrong, but that's how basketball is called.

Nice pass from Mark to Kaluma. These guys are working together 10x better than they did when Mark first became available.

I'll definitely take 80 -20.

Great feed to the cutting Pope. too bad he missed it. I'll take 60-30.

Do we know anything about Kaluma's status?

I guess I should complete the picture of bubble impacting games with Nevada (77) @ Boise State (52). MWC profiles much like it did last year. NET rankings are a little worse across the board, but the OOC results are very similar. San Diego State had the only really big win OOC, and it is again taking some lumps in conference play. A few other teams have two or more wins OOC against Pomeroy 40-100 types. Then a team like Colorado State, which did nothing OOC, goes on a run to shoot up the conference standings. St. Mary's must have gotten tired of losing 2 games per year to MWC teams, so it scheduled only two games against them this year. Lost both, so that didn't work. So here's my question. What will the committee do this year if 5 or 6 MWC teams finish in the top 50 NET? Granted, Nevada and Colorado State have a lot of ground to make up to get there, but let's say Colorado State stays hot, finishes with the sweep over Nevada and gets in or near the top 50. The committee took a lot of heat for putting 6 MWC teams in last year, but the worst of them was the autobid winner, so it was really 5. Only San Diego State was seeded better than 8th, and it made the S16. Utah State won its first round game convincingly over TCU in a 8/9 game. Everyone else lost first round games, but they were all double digit seeds, Nevada had 7 seed Dayton on the ropes before collapsing at the end of the game to lose by 3, and Colorado State won a play-in game by 25 points. So I tend to think the committee got it right and seeded properly last year, even if St. John's might have had a reason to complain, but anything that makes Pitino mad works for me. Getting back to my question, will the committee hold the MWC's collective failure to advance last year against it this year? Once again the conference strength is just below the worst of the P5, but it doesn't have a huge lead over the next best conference the way it did last year, thanks largely to the WCC getting much stronger by adding Oregon State and Washington State.