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Shot terribly in the first half, shot well in the second half, and was the guy called for the fouls that drew the technical from Hurley early in OT and caused the dismay at the end of OT.

24 in both polls

Missed the second ft. UConn comes up and is fouled with 2.2 left. Missed second ft on purpose. UConn got the weird bounce, but perimeter player was guarded and put up an airball. Memphis 99 UConn 97

Quick foul. Everyone on UConn acting with disbelief. But they're good at that.

Cisse called for a blocking foul with 8.5 left. Diarra was in no position to shoot at the time. Diarra made both. Memphis calls its final timeout without trying to inbound. Mistake. Should have kept the timeout in case can't get it inbound.

And Dan Hurley, who had been begging for it all game, got hit with a technical foul with the game tied at 92 and Memphis to already shoot a pair for McNeely going over the back. Hurley deserved it. This game would be over had Dain Dainja not brainfarted and make a little retaliatory push after UConn's Johnson fouled out by pushing Cisse to the ground on a deadball situation, but UConn just hit a couple of ft to make it a two point game. Memphis ran a lot of clock and will shoot ft with 13.2 left, but Hurley is trying to lobby for an offensive foul because Carter trying to twist around made contact with his elbow to Ball's face. Called incidental because Carter's elbow stayed within the cylinder of his body. Memphis made both, up 4.

UConn just closed regulation with a 15-3 run to tie it with .9 seconds left. Memphis did a poor job against pressure and didn't even try to run its offense in the half court, preferring to run clock and drive 1 on 5 near the end of the shot clock.

Memphis up 73-62 with 5:30 left, ball, and in the double bonus. Just fouled while shooting a three. Hunter has hit 7/10 threes.

UConn-Memphis tied at 40 at the half. Hunter hit 3/5 threes and qb'd Memphis's final possession by driving and dishing to Dainja for an easy layup. UConn got 29 points from its bench. Stewart and Reed shot a combined 13/17.

Dainja, one of four former Big 12 players in Memphis's top 6 playres, has lost of lot of weight from his Baylot/Illinois days. He gets up and down the floor pretty good now, and has some post moves. Memphis out to an early 13-8 lead. Could be 16-8 were it not for missing 3 of last 4 ft attempts.

And all we have is a Friday game against Delaware State. Sigh. At least we'll get to check out upcoming opponent NC State playing Purdue and then either BYU or Mississippi.

Maui tournament starts today. Who the hell drew the bracket? The tournament has 3 teams in both Pomeroy and AP top ten, and two of them (Auburn and Iowa State) play each other in the first round? Meanwhile, the two weakest teams in the tournament (Colorado and Michigan State) also face each other in the first round. Weird. Memphis-UConn and Dayton-UNC are the other two first round games. With the advent of so many 16+ team conferences, these tournaments are allowed to have more than one team from a given conference. Weird bracketing is not unique to Maui. The "Players Era Festival Power Tournament" (I guess blow a raspberry for the acronym) has its two best teams (Alabama and Houston) playing each other in the first round tomorrow in Vegas. The other interesting game today featuring an SEC team is Xavier against So. Car. in Fort Myers.

Exactly. His returns have been scary at times, but the reward over this season has been many times the penalty of the risk.

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Wow, refs. Ignore Agroid grabbing receiver by the collar, the call offensive PI on the next play.

Why not just have a tug of war to decide OT? Is having ties in regular season really a problem? No.

Really don't understand Agroids calling timeout with 16 seconds to go and Auburn scrambling to get a play off on third down. But Agroids will be Agroids. Laughing at Agroid lineman on sideline calling for grounding when Auburn QB chucked the ball out of the end zone from near the sideline. Looks like OT.

Looks like TEMU figuresd a work-around of the subscriber requirement.

Nebraska is bowl eligible for the first time since 2016. And they should think they are still relevant, why exactly?

So, who of us predicted two weeks ago that neither BYU nor Colorado would be in the Big 12 title game?

Guaranteed? No. Probable? Yes.

Or it could be a ND blowout win with Army lacking Blanchard and Davis.

Colorado was the biggest fraud of any of the possible P4 conference playoff teams. It played the easiest schedule in the Big 12, played none of the conference title contenders, lost 2 of three games it played against teams with a .500 record in conference, and lost by 18 to a barely bowl eligible Nebraska team. What a pity North Dakota State didn't have a second left to run a play from the CU 4 at the end of the season opener.

Sark being Sark on 4th and 1.

I'll take 56-0, but I think I said that early in the Arkansas game.