UTEP just beat USM because 70 billion free throws.

(01-09-2020 10:16 PM)Shadow_Son Wrote:  Justice being hurt killed us. Can’t win games with 5 players. Don’t know why I’m surprised at CUSA officiating anymore. Tops haven’t even come close to a technical all year and get two in this game. Have to beat middle Saturday.

First off there are more than 5 players. Tay should have been happy to NOT get a offensive foul called. He used his off arm to shied the defensive player. OFFENSIVE FOUL. Bad calls are part of the game and they go both ways. Dont know what Rawls said but he clearly should have kept his mouth shut. A players has to see the way its being called. Shut your damn mouth and you dont get teed up.

Refs didnt cost Western the game...Western's lack of effort on defense and piss poor offense. No freaking offensive system other than weave and high pick. After that take a shot from 22+ feet.

UAB is awful, just awful and I bet their fans agree with that comment. This is the worse Western 'basketball team' in close to 25 years. Well Stansbury's first team would be in there also. It wasnt much better with Bassey. Slow, no size, not much defense, lot of players that dont want to bust threir ass on every play

(01-09-2020 11:04 PM)Noodles Wrote:  UTEP just beat USM because 70 billion free throws.

Refs fault? I know you didnt say it but you were thinking it LOL

USM is 338th in fts attempted
UTEP 75th

10 of UTEP's FTs came in the last 2 minutes with USM already down 10 points

And the refs are 1st in nuts licked.

(01-05-2020 01:23 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(01-05-2020 12:41 PM)Theflash Wrote:  Won’t surprise me at all if the Toppers go 0-2 on the road this week. Life is tough on the road.

You'd have been better served if the order of your games was reversed. The Blazers are a bit undisciplined, but are big, play hard-nose basketball and will leave your guys bruised and sore.

I was thinking the same thing going in, but MTSU and WKU are bigger rivals and therefore will get better attendance on Saturday. The order for these games will always be the same.

(01-09-2020 10:16 PM)Shadow_Son Wrote:  Justice being hurt killed us. Can’t win games with 5 players. Don’t know why I’m surprised at CUSA officiating anymore. Tops haven’t even come close to a technical all year and get two in this game. Have to beat middle Saturday.

You have 5 guys playing 35+ minutes each in a tough rivalry game. Rawls played the full 40 (and got 1 of the 2 technicals). Body and mental fatigue will cause you to get upset at the refs over calls. Those technicals are on recruiting not enough depth. This is his fourth year at the helm, depth can't be an issue by this point.

(01-09-2020 09:10 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 09:03 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  FINAL:

UTSA - 89
LA Tech - 73

Jackson finishes with 37 points. Wow! This guys is really, really good.

The West looks wide open right now.

Not really. I believe it comes down to UNT figuring out how to close games and Tech learning how to play on the road. The team that figures that out the quickest...

likely is the best team in the west. UTEP is really a unknown to me because they played a UNT (2018-19) type schedule.

But in the end there are no divisions and I would still rate those 2 at the top after 3 conference games. If not for a night of shooting, that will not happen to Western in a long long time, if again in this decade. UNT is 3-0 right now

Im reserving any confidence in us until after I see us play 3-0 Florida Atlantic. I know they havent won any notable games but 3-0 in conference is still nothing to shake a stick at for a school like UNT that just got to .500 on the season, schedule be darned.

I didn't see the North Texas game last night, but having seen a couple of their earlier games I think they have a pretty good team this season. They have decent size and are very athletic. I could see them finishing in Pod 1 if they continue to play hard over the next month or so.

Cusa as a whole is a dumpster fire. I expected UTSA to run away with the league this season, with wku in 2nd, and now I honestly have no idea. You might as well throw darts for who gets the ncaa bid and i doubt they win a game this season.

(01-09-2020 11:08 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 10:16 PM)Shadow_Son Wrote:  Justice being hurt killed us. Can’t win games with 5 players. Don’t know why I’m surprised at CUSA officiating anymore. Tops haven’t even come close to a technical all year and get two in this game. Have to beat middle Saturday.

First off there are more than 5 players. Tay should have been happy to NOT get a offensive foul called. He used his off arm to shied the defensive player. OFFENSIVE FOUL. Bad calls are part of the game and they go both ways. Dont know what Rawls said but he clearly should have kept his mouth shut. A players has to see the way its being called. Shut your damn mouth and you dont get teed up.

Refs didnt cost Western the game...Western's lack of effort on defense and piss poor offense. No freaking offensive system other than weave and high pick. After that take a shot from 22+ feet.

UAB is awful, just awful and I bet their fans agree with that comment. This is the worse Western 'basketball team' in close to 25 years. Well Stansbury's first team would be in there also. It wasnt much better with Bassey. Slow, no size, not much defense, lot of players that dont want to bust threir ass on every play

I'm probably the biggest critic of UAB Basketball at the moment and I will say it's a bit of an exaggeration to say UAB is awful. We're about as average as average can get. We have no outside shooting and our ball handling is very suspect but we do play very good defense and is an outstanding rebounding team.

That said, that last technical foul cost you guys the game in my opinion because the momentum had clearly shifted in favor of WKU. I also didn't understand why Stansy was applying full court pressure with a depleted roster. WKU could have won the game just playing straight up defense and forcing UAB to shoot from the outside.

(01-10-2020 08:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 11:08 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 10:16 PM)Shadow_Son Wrote:  Justice being hurt killed us. Can’t win games with 5 players. Don’t know why I’m surprised at CUSA officiating anymore. Tops haven’t even come close to a technical all year and get two in this game. Have to beat middle Saturday.

First off there are more than 5 players. Tay should have been happy to NOT get a offensive foul called. He used his off arm to shied the defensive player. OFFENSIVE FOUL. Bad calls are part of the game and they go both ways. Dont know what Rawls said but he clearly should have kept his mouth shut. A players has to see the way its being called. Shut your damn mouth and you dont get teed up.

Refs didnt cost Western the game...Western's lack of effort on defense and piss poor offense. No freaking offensive system other than weave and high pick. After that take a shot from 22+ feet.

UAB is awful, just awful and I bet their fans agree with that comment. This is the worse Western 'basketball team' in close to 25 years. Well Stansbury's first team would be in there also. It wasnt much better with Bassey. Slow, no size, not much defense, lot of players that dont want to bust threir ass on every play

I'm probably the biggest critic of UAB Basketball at the moment and I will say it's a bit of an exaggeration to say UAB is awful. We're about as average as average can get. We have no outside shooting and our ball handling is very suspect but we do play very good defense and is an outstanding rebounding team.

That said, that last technical foul cost you guys the game in my opinion because the momentum had clearly shifted in favor of WKU. I also didn't understand why Stansy was applying full court pressure with a depleted roster. WKU could have won the game just playing straight up defense and forcing UAB to shoot from the outside.

Maybe awful in the sense of UAB's program history? Because this is definitely the worst team in UAB history, at least during the KenPom era, and they were still able to beat Western by 10.

(01-10-2020 02:21 PM)Auburn_Blazer Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 08:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 11:08 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 10:16 PM)Shadow_Son Wrote:  Justice being hurt killed us. Can’t win games with 5 players. Don’t know why I’m surprised at CUSA officiating anymore. Tops haven’t even come close to a technical all year and get two in this game. Have to beat middle Saturday.

First off there are more than 5 players. Tay should have been happy to NOT get a offensive foul called. He used his off arm to shied the defensive player. OFFENSIVE FOUL. Bad calls are part of the game and they go both ways. Dont know what Rawls said but he clearly should have kept his mouth shut. A players has to see the way its being called. Shut your damn mouth and you dont get teed up.

Refs didnt cost Western the game...Western's lack of effort on defense and piss poor offense. No freaking offensive system other than weave and high pick. After that take a shot from 22+ feet.

UAB is awful, just awful and I bet their fans agree with that comment. This is the worse Western 'basketball team' in close to 25 years. Well Stansbury's first team would be in there also. It wasnt much better with Bassey. Slow, no size, not much defense, lot of players that dont want to bust threir ass on every play

I'm probably the biggest critic of UAB Basketball at the moment and I will say it's a bit of an exaggeration to say UAB is awful. We're about as average as average can get. We have no outside shooting and our ball handling is very suspect but we do play very good defense and is an outstanding rebounding team.

That said, that last technical foul cost you guys the game in my opinion because the momentum had clearly shifted in favor of WKU. I also didn't understand why Stansy was applying full court pressure with a depleted roster. WKU could have won the game just playing straight up defense and forcing UAB to shoot from the outside.

Maybe awful in the sense of UAB's program history? Because this is definitely the worst team in UAB history, at least during the KenPom era, and they were still able to beat Western by 10.

I would agree with that.

(01-10-2020 02:21 PM)Auburn_Blazer Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 08:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 11:08 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 10:16 PM)Shadow_Son Wrote:  Justice being hurt killed us. Can’t win games with 5 players. Don’t know why I’m surprised at CUSA officiating anymore. Tops haven’t even come close to a technical all year and get two in this game. Have to beat middle Saturday.

First off there are more than 5 players. Tay should have been happy to NOT get a offensive foul called. He used his off arm to shied the defensive player. OFFENSIVE FOUL. Bad calls are part of the game and they go both ways. Dont know what Rawls said but he clearly should have kept his mouth shut. A players has to see the way its being called. Shut your damn mouth and you dont get teed up.

Refs didnt cost Western the game...Western's lack of effort on defense and piss poor offense. No freaking offensive system other than weave and high pick. After that take a shot from 22+ feet.

UAB is awful, just awful and I bet their fans agree with that comment. This is the worse Western 'basketball team' in close to 25 years. Well Stansbury's first team would be in there also. It wasnt much better with Bassey. Slow, no size, not much defense, lot of players that dont want to bust threir ass on every play

I'm probably the biggest critic of UAB Basketball at the moment and I will say it's a bit of an exaggeration to say UAB is awful. We're about as average as average can get. We have no outside shooting and our ball handling is very suspect but we do play very good defense and is an outstanding rebounding team.

That said, that last technical foul cost you guys the game in my opinion because the momentum had clearly shifted in favor of WKU. I also didn't understand why Stansy was applying full court pressure with a depleted roster. WKU could have won the game just playing straight up defense and forcing UAB to shoot from the outside.

Maybe awful in the sense of UAB's program history? Because this is definitely the worst team in UAB history, at least during the KenPom era, and they were still able to beat Western by 10.

Yes, this was what I meant, when I said awful.

(01-09-2020 11:44 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 09:10 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 09:03 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  FINAL:

UTSA - 89
LA Tech - 73

Jackson finishes with 37 points. Wow! This guys is really, really good.

The West looks wide open right now.

Not really. I believe it comes down to UNT figuring out how to close games and Tech learning how to play on the road. The team that figures that out the quickest...

likely is the best team in the west. UTEP is really a unknown to me because they played a UNT (2018-19) type schedule.

But in the end there are no divisions and I would still rate those 2 at the top after 3 conference games. If not for a night of shooting, that will not happen to Western in a long long time, if again in this decade. UNT is 3-0 right now

No we didn’t. Our sos is probably top 3 or 4 in the conference. If anyone played that type of UNT schedule you’re speaking of it’s LT. Their sos is 325.

(01-10-2020 03:28 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 11:44 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 09:10 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 09:03 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  FINAL:

UTSA - 89
LA Tech - 73

Jackson finishes with 37 points. Wow! This guys is really, really good.

The West looks wide open right now.

Not really. I believe it comes down to UNT figuring out how to close games and Tech learning how to play on the road. The team that figures that out the quickest...

likely is the best team in the west. UTEP is really a unknown to me because they played a UNT (2018-19) type schedule.

But in the end there are no divisions and I would still rate those 2 at the top after 3 conference games. If not for a night of shooting, that will not happen to Western in a long long time, if again in this decade. UNT is 3-0 right now

No we didn’t. Our sos is probably top 3 or 4 in the conference. If anyone played that type of UNT schedule you’re speaking of it’s LT. Their sos is 325.

3 non D1 games helps the SOS because they are not factor in. S yes a UNT type of schedule

Angelo State
Humboldt State
Portland
Hawaii
Texas A&M-Commerce
Maryland-Eastern Shore
Maine
Saint Peter's
Oklahoma
Indiana State
Texas-Arlington
New Mexico
Arkansas-Pine Bluff


vs
New Mexico Highlands
New Mexico State
Eastern New Mexico
New Mexico
East Central
New Mexico State
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
North Carolina A&T
UC-Irvine
Houston
Hawaii
Ball State
Boise State

Tech's loss to UTSA dumped their NET Rank from 62 to 86. UTSA was 249 going into that game. I think that snuffs out the last At-Large hope we had.

(01-10-2020 03:39 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 03:28 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 11:44 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 09:10 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(01-09-2020 09:03 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  FINAL:

UTSA - 89
LA Tech - 73

Jackson finishes with 37 points. Wow! This guys is really, really good.

The West looks wide open right now.

Not really. I believe it comes down to UNT figuring out how to close games and Tech learning how to play on the road. The team that figures that out the quickest...

likely is the best team in the west. UTEP is really a unknown to me because they played a UNT (2018-19) type schedule.

But in the end there are no divisions and I would still rate those 2 at the top after 3 conference games. If not for a night of shooting, that will not happen to Western in a long long time, if again in this decade. UNT is 3-0 right now

No we didn’t. Our sos is probably top 3 or 4 in the conference. If anyone played that type of UNT schedule you’re speaking of it’s LT. Their sos is 325.

3 non D1 games helps the SOS because they are not factor in. S yes a UNT type of schedule

Angelo State
Humboldt State
Portland
Hawaii
Texas A&M-Commerce
Maryland-Eastern Shore
Maine
Saint Peter's
Oklahoma
Indiana State
Texas-Arlington
New Mexico
Arkansas-Pine Bluff


vs
New Mexico Highlands
New Mexico State
Eastern New Mexico
New Mexico
East Central
New Mexico State
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
North Carolina A&T
UC-Irvine
Houston
Hawaii
Ball State
Boise State

Six of the ten ooc D1 games were against teams rated 120 or better by NET. We only have two out of 14 conference games vs teams in the top 120. But ok sir they’re identical cuz you say so.

(01-05-2020 08:22 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  Now since only two road teams have won, we also need to look at the “holding serve” standings. (Wins minus home games played). Zero means you’re “on serve”, and 10 teams still are.
+1 is “up a break” (won a road game)
-1 is “down a break” (lost a home game)

on-serve team W-L home games
+1 LaTech 2-0 1
+1 UNT 1–1 0
Ten teams tied at 0
-1 Marshall 1-1 2
-1 USM 0-2 1

After Thursday’s games:
+1 FAU 3-0 2
+1 LaTech 2-1 1
+1 UNT 2-1 1
6 teams tied at 0
-1 USM 0-3 1
-1 MT 0-3 1
-1 Rice 0-3 1

With about an hour and a half till tip, here is the series info I could find from Sports-Reference.

-North Texas and Florida Atlantic have played 18 times. All as conference mates in the Sun Belt and then CUSA.

-UNT leads the all-time series 12-6.

-FAU won both games last season and has won the last 3 overall.

-Last meeting at the Super Pit was February 28th, 2019, a 60-54 FAU win.

-UNT is favored by 7.5 points today.