re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

We’re not losing Sears. He’s not an NBA guy and he’s a hometown kid with eligibility remaining. He’ll get an NIL boost because of the exposure he’ll receive in March and being our main guy next season.

I also personally believe he values getting his degree and exhausting his eligibility before moving overseas. He’s a very good college player but the idea of him leaving early for the pros needs to be put to rest.

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I like Gates. Seems like a good dude and they play a fun style of ball.

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The guy stays in the refs ear!...sign of a good coach.

Clowney not having any of Miller's trying to run away with the freshmen player of the week awards in the conference.

Starts the week:
17 points
14 rebounds
0 turnovers
1 steal
1 assist
6-11 from the field/5-7 from the line
29 minutes


Yea he was in their ear but our guy does that too. I think the refs let them vent for the most part. Watch that line though....

I don't mind the occasional tech from the coach. It wakes the team up more than it ends the game.

Purdue sucks other than Edey

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Yea he was in their ear but our guy does that too. I think the refs let them vent for the most part. Watch that line though....

I don't mind the occasional tech from the coach. It wakes the team up more than it ends the game.

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As I said,"it's the sign of a good coach"

Start of the Season through the Gonzaga game - national ranks
Overall rank - #11
Record : 9-2
Defense - #23
Turnover Rate - #314
Defensive Turnover Rate - #338

Post-Gonzaga game - national ranks
Overall rank - #1
Record : 8-0
Defense - #1
Turnover Rate - #80
Defensive Turnover Rate - #239

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I posted yesterday that I thought this was the key. If we can keep the turnovers in that 8-10 range like we have been, I think we'll have a shot in every single game. The UCONN and Gonzaga games were mostly lost due to -9 and -12 turnover margins.

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If we keep turnovers in that range you discussed then we're almost unbeatable by teams that aren't Top 15-20 level teams, and really good but not elite teams are going to have play top level games (probably at home, and probably with a favorable whistle) to beat us. Which is why so many people look at our makeup, roster and structure and say we are built to be a good tournament team. Whereas Tennessee and the way they play is vulnerable to a bad matchup against a hot shooting mid major, we just aren't. Doesn't mean we can't lose a game, but we'd have to play outside of what has become our normal performance to lose to some of the "scary" type mid-major teams in the NCAAT.

Our turnovers in those early games legitimately cost us 8-12 pt margins in all of those games we played. Without them, our floor is just astronomically high due to everything else we do so well on both ends. And as we all said at the time, they all felt so unnecessary and silly. It FELT correctable, and it has been corrected. Just gotta hope we continue it.

Only a 3% chance to even finish third on 1/22 is pretty good.