re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting

Bet the over. 179 1/2

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We are such garbage in closing minutes

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We outscored them the last 2.5 minutes 10-4

UCONN is getting throttled by St John’s

BYU also looks like a team that I want no part of. They can score in bunches. Play physical and have an attitude.

Rick Pitino in a one game scenario will always scare me. Stay away.

Any of y’all watching the Indiana Purdue game? Indiana has flipped a switch to start the 2nd half. If they always played like this, they’d be a damn good team

I say all that to say Purdue probably still wins by 7+

BYU can drain threes and that is one thing that can help a team go far in the tournament if they get hot at the right moment. They absolutely annihilated Kansas mid week. I just looked and they are not ranked. How that is I will not understand because they are definitely top 25 level. Maybe top 15-20. In a one game scenario, they could easily beat a higher seeded opponent.

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We outscored them the last 2.5 minutes 10-4

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Think you missed his point on this one (along with all the downvoters). Literally the only way to lose the game at the point he made the comment was for Bama to force a shot early in the shot clock (or turn it over early).

Literally hold the ball on offense and make a couple FTs, and it’s virtually impossible to lose a game up 9 points with 2:14 to go when you just got possession. Mark Sears threw a nearly full court pass a couple seconds into the shot clock for a TO in that situation. He did the one and only thing that could actually get us beat at that point in the game. It was one of the lowest basketball IQ plays of the whole season.

Fortunately, he got a steal and drained a 3 right after that…but that doesn’t take away how stupid it is to not run clock and force them to foul you when your up 9 and just got possession of the ball with 2:14 left. That’s really bad coaching, decision making, and adds to some of the bad late game/half possessions this season. We don’t play smart, fundamental basketball when the clock is a key factor.

Hoping Nate just likes allowing the freedom and then using it as a teaching moment in the regular season when an end of game collapse wouldn’t have dire consequences, but if that decision making happens in the NCAAT…I will be screaming at the TV or in the stands because even good high-school teams know how and when to kill clock at the end.

Edit: For you math guys, 2:14 is no more than 4 possessions each unless they start fouling (and that assumes they shoot within a few seconds each trip down the floor). They would have to score 9 points on 4 possessions and we would have to score 0 on 4 possessions for them to just tie it. If we start running our offense with about 7-10 seconds on the shot clock and not give up open 3 pointers on D, the statistical probability of them coming back is very, very low.

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Please keep Rick Pitino and St. John's away from our side of the bracket.

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Nope sorry. 8-seed UConn then 4-seed St John’s