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Man, if only this had been around when I enrolled at UT in 1977.

We scheduled 6 non-conference games against the bottom 25 teams in Pomeroy. We should all tell CDC--Never again.

Yeah, or we could even play a notch above. Sam Houston State, UTEP, UT-Arlington, and whoa! North Texas. Even if SFA is down this year, there are a lot of decent programs in the state that we could play instead of utter crap like Arky PB, Chicago State, Delaware State, etc.

Yeah, I saw Johnson assisting Mark from the get-go. We faced a relatively weak opponent, but it is always good to see 19 assists on 34 made fg instead of Eric Carmen basketball.

Future on the floor--Vinson, Codie, Pryor, and Weaver.

Nah. I never spent my time on the floor flying to the rim to finish or draw contact. I spent most of my career as a pick-up game player laughing that I was picked first by captains over clearly better players solely because they trusted me to bring the ball up and DISTRIBUTE. That was my main thing. Basketball is such an easy game when the point guard keeps eyes open and looks for the guy who is openest and closest to the basket. Duh.

yeah, my typing sucks these days, especially late at night after spending most of the day hacking out a brief.

Weaver with back to back assists. Love it.

Nic Codie proving that interior mores are not his strength.

No. Being able to jump does not make a basketball player. Just ask Carlton Cooper and Ovie Dotson, Dotson's pseudo-career with the Globetrotters notwithstanding.

I had big calf muscles after riding a bike in hilly Fayetteville, NC, that was limited to the two highest gears. I could jump unlike most white boys. Just not in sand. Was a good blocker in gym volleyball, but just couldn't get off the ground in sand for some reason. If you can find kids who lived in Clarksville in 1980-81, ask them about "the leaping white boy."

I wonder how many of us predicted that with 11:32 left in the game Onyema would be our second leading scorer but have only 1 rebound. No, I don't. None of us guessed that.

He took a shot to his arm late in the game against MVSU. He did get a couple of minutes in games since then, but no meaningrfull time, and he was really good on the floor when he played this year. Maybe it's an injury. Maybe he's just not in the plans this year if Codie can function. I don't know. And Mark, if I'm your source, then you are rudderless. I have no connections to the program. I'm just a stat-head who watches a lot of basketball.

Apparently. That will let him get a medical hardship if he doesn't play again, but I'm thinking a player with his potential and growth curve won't stick around 5 years, so I'd rather see him playing than not.

Up 25 after NMSU came out of a wild scramble with the ball for a gimme. Terry uses the use it or lose it timeout. 52-27 at the half. Texas up 19-7 on the boards. NMSU shooting 50% overall, but it has 9 turnovers, and Texas has attempted 6 more fg and is shooting 60+% from the field. Joke of a game.

Shed corrals the lob, creates a little room, gets the layup. Defense not so hot now. Shed stripped after next lob into the paint.

Mark is red hot. 3/3 including 2/2 from 3. Make that 3/4, 2/3 after he doesn't get the foul

Nice ball fake by Kaluma

Don't tell me Shedrick re-injured his shoulder trying to make that steal.

nice block by Shedrick.

Helluva turnout tonight.

My comments about NMSU and this game from the other thread: NMSU is our last remaining non-conference opponent in the Pomeroy top 200, thanks to its upset victory on the road against in-state rival UNM to come out of a 5 game losing streak, the last being a 78-70 loss at home to Abilene Christian, which is decidedly not a quality team this year. NMSU has the fouliest bunch of big men in the country. Two Tshimangas and a Nnamoko, three guys who have combined for 70 fouls in 266 total minutes this year. They combined for 12 fouls in 30 minutes against Dayton. Neat trick that. They do rebound well when they aren't knocking opponents over, and they make it hard to shoot inside, but best shot blocker Nnamoko missed the UNM game. NMSU can't shoot from anywhere and doesn't force turnovers, so if we can hold our own on the glass and make a decent % of ft (always challenges with this team), this shouldn't be that hard of a game to win.

NMSU is our last remaining non-conference opponent in the Pomeroy top 200, thanks to its upset victory on the road against in-state rival UNM to come out of a 5 game losing streak, the last being a 78-70 loss at home to Abilene Christian, which is decidedly not a quality team this year. NMSU has the fouliest bunch of big men in the country. Two Tshimangas and a Nnamoko, three guys who have combined for 70 fouls in 266 total minutes this year. They combined for 12 fouls in 30 minutes against Dayton. Neat trick that. They do rebound well when they aren't knocking opponents over, and they make it hard to shoot inside, but best shot blocker Nnamoko missed the UNM game. NMSU can't shoot from anywhere and doesn't force turnovers, so if we can hold our own on the glass and make a decent % of ft (always challenges with this team), this shouldn't be that hard of a game to win.

I'm not. From the beginning, I said I think Texas will win. I just think a lot of people here are being way too dismissive of a good team.

Laugh all you want. A&M lost to Auburn and by 24 to South Carolina. Michigan lost to 6-6 UDub. Florida lost to Miami by 24. Vandy lost to Georgia State. Arkansas lost to a team that went winless in the Big 12. Kentucky lost by loads to Louisville. OU lost to LSU by 20, was in a 2 point game with Houston for nearly the whole second half, and lost at home to South Carolina by 26. I defy you to find a credible ranking system (poll, computer, what have you, other than the suspect ESPN "Power Index") that has any of our opponents this season other than Georgia ranked above Arizona State. They unanimously have ASU in the top 15, and most have ASU higher than that. I'm talking Sagarin, Massey, Colley, Congrove, Anderson&Hester computer rankings as well as CFP, AP, and Coaches Polls.