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Xavier beating UConn by 8 with 11 minutes left and UConn shooting ft. Xavier in double bonus. Xavier with 5 fouls. Dan Hurley hasn't killed anyone.

Yeah. Almost. And I gave Taylor credit on the game thread.

Now that is how you do a fast break SEC style. Offensive team chucks a rock. Carom is headed out of bounds, so offensive team tries to slam ball against defender but misses. Ball heads toward middle of floor where picked up by defensive team that flies down the court and bricks a three, only for cutting player to grab rebound and put it in for a layup? Sometimes ugly is beautiful. Tennessee and Auburn tied.

Looks like Adidas is going down. Sharp shooting 2 with Houston up 6, make it 7, make it 8 with 24 seconds to go. I don't get the love for St. Mary's. It beat a mediocre Nebraska team on a neutral floor. It torched a more mediocre USC team on a neutral floor. It lost Arizona State, Boise State, and Utah State. And it is net top 30? Why for f's sake? Losing to Wazzu right now. We should jump UNC and Georgia in the matrix. If St. Mary's loses, we'll jump it, too. We'll probably move ahead of New Mexico, which barely beat UNLV, but that was in Vegas. Houston 92 Devilspawn 86 final.

Storr just missed a pair of ft. Houston shooting 2 while up 4 with 40 seconds left.

Sharp just slipped in transition d and made the steal with his butt on the floor. Houston turned it over in their own posssession and the jaybirds got a breakaway for the layup and one. Should have just let him score. Houston up 2 with ball, make that up 4 after offensive rebound and putback, with 55 seconds left.

Arky looking like it did in the first half against Georgia, but it pulled that one out. Houston got a steal and a three as time expired to force a second OT against Satan, I mean Self.

Sorry, second q1 win. Beating OU in Norman was our first. We are now 3-5 in q1 games.

Missouri 83 Mississippi 75 Our first q1 win stays a q1 win for now. Third straight loss for Beard. Third straight game Mississippi was grossly outrebounded. I imagine Beard will blow gaskets if that happens in Mississippi's next game.

Missouri trying to hang on, up 9 and shooting ft with 55 seconds left.

It was more of a faint, very faint, hope than an expectation.

Missouri up 7, missed a three, had Bates take a shot to the head, missed the next attempt on the scramble, and Mississippi had about 30 second left. So Pedulla came down and airballed a quick three. Masterful thinking and discipline from a senior. I can only imagine how much s*** Terry would have gotten had Larry done that. 38-31 Missouri at the half. Missouri up 7/1 on offensive glass and 20/12 overall.

Did anyone get a chance to get a comment from Elijah Williams after the game?

I took it to be praise for the coach's ability to motivate his players.

South Carolina pushed MSU into OT, but MSU won 65-60. Vandy beat Kentucky 74-69. Florida nuked Georgia by 30. Georgia falls most definitely out of net top 30 with that loss. SMU, Pitt, and UNC all won. UNC had to come from behind in the last seconds of regulation to tie it and turn BC over on its last possession to force OT.

The refs didn't give the defender enough time to get off the court after the offense changed personnel. Wait. Wrong sport again.

I have to disagree about that. We have 11 games remaining in which we can either play competitive basketball or look like Beard and Trew after a late night discussion at home.

He definitely shot incredibly well today.

I'm more Terry supporter than hater. I'm more optimist than pessimist when it comes to UT basketball. But I'm more realist than dreamer. This game does not save the season by any means. Kudos to Johnson and Mark for big plays on offense down the stretch. Kudos to Larry for getting into the paint as much as he did. Kudos to Terry for getting the team to dig down and fight like hell on d in the second half. But . . . Yeah, I have to say it. We were gifted 4 ft on dumb A&M technical fouls. A&M shot like crap from the line. (I did say I was fine with us fouling Payne, and it worked.) We got away with a lot of fouls in the second half. OK, to be fair they got away with a lot of fouls in the first half, so kudos to Terry and the team wrestling back. But if a few fouls were called, we don't come back. We were utterly destroyed on the boards. If we don't get Kaluma back soon, then we need to find a solution to our rebounding problems very quickly, or this team will most definitely not make the tournament. RIght now we are not only in the field, but we won't have to be in a play-in game. Long way to go in the season, and we won't stay in the field unless we do something about rebounding. A&M got 12 more shots on basket than we did. We can't win many games in which that happens. So great win, but we're not in a great position right now.

Mark Byington. He was James Madison's coach for the last 4 years.

Give the coach an extension! I kid, of course, but my god, Terry got this team to fight like hell in the second half to beat a ranked team while we were short two key players. And we had dozens of posts on the thread dumping on him.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Eighteen offensive rebounds, including for putbacks in their last 2 possessions. If we lose today, that'll be why. But we cleaned up defensive glass that time and hit a three to cut it to one.

Right now I like Mark driving and kicking out to Johnson better than I like the reverse.

50% career ft shooter.