East Carolina

jacobkdoyle · Feb 11, 2016

Game is Saturday at 4 PM EST on ESPNU.

ECU is 10-14 overall and 2-9 in AAC. They just lost last night at home to Tulane (100-92 3OT). ECU is 1-4 on the road in AAC. The win was @Memphis (84-83). Road conference losses have been to Tulsa (55-43), Temple (78-60), UCF (89-69), and UConn (85-67).

They are #186 in KenPom...#165 in AdjO, #228 in AdjD, and #199 in AdjT.

I think we'll be -16ish.

East Carolina 57
UC 77

jacobkdoyle · Feb 11, 2016

Hoping for a Cobb outburst. It'd be nice to see him drop 20. Would also like to see another big rebounding game from Ellis. Caupain getting in double digits in assists again would be nice as well.

UCBearcats · Feb 11, 2016

jacobkdoyle said:
Hoping for a Cobb outburst. It'd be nice to see him drop 20. Would also like to see another big rebounding game from Ellis. Caupain getting in double digits in assists again would be nice as well.

I'd really like to see us get off to a fast start in this game. The first halves of the last few games have been pretty ugly and against decent competition (Memphis) it cost us.

This team needs to figure out a way to start better. Regardless, ECU is a very bad basketball team and we'll roll them.

UC - 73
ECU - 54

jacobkdoyle · Feb 11, 2016

UCBearcats said:
I'd really like to see us get off to a fast start in this game. The first halves of the last few games have been pretty ugly and against decent competition (Memphis) it cost us.

This team needs to figure out a way to start better. Regardless, ECU is a very bad basketball team and we'll roll them.

UC - 73
ECU - 54

Yeah in the last 4 games the first half average score has been:

UC 30.5
Opponent 33.5

We were losing at half v UConn and Memphis. We were up 7 on South Florida bc of a late spurt. And up 1 on UCF.

justinhub2003 · Feb 11, 2016

I think we will start much better at home.
Really want us to push the pace, and beat these guys early. These guys beat us last year on there gym, in probably what was the worst game we played all season. Just need to destroy them in every aspect.

Looks like they have a few guys who can shoot the 3. We will need to Stop Caleb White and Bj Tyson. I just dont even want this game to be close. We need a huge blow out where we keep them under 55 points

On another note:
I really hate the scheduling for next week's huge games.
Why do we play on Saturday then not again til THurs and then back again on Saturday.

We seem to have been dealt those kinda turn arounds on big games (@memphis and against Uconn).

jacobkdoyle · Feb 11, 2016

justinhub2003 said:
I think we will start much better at home.
Really want us to push the pace, and beat these guys early. These guys beat us last year on there gym, in probably what was the worst game we played all season. Just need to destroy them in every aspect.

Looks like they have a few guys who can shoot the 3. We will need to Stop Caleb White and Bj Tyson. I just dont even want this game to be close. We need a huge blow out where we keep them under 55 points

On another note:
I really hate the scheduling for next week's huge games.
Why do we play on Saturday then not again til THurs and then back again on Saturday.

We seem to have been dealt those kinda turn arounds on big games (@memphis and against Uconn).

I think the AAC "Showcase" game with ESPN is on Thursday night. Anytime we play a good team, its likely to be on Thursday. Although the Tulsa game next Thursday is on CBSSN. So I dunno what's up with that.

justinhub2003 · Feb 11, 2016

This is a team capable of pulling an upset as I just remembered they beat Memphis and Temple back to back.

Against Temple, they only shot 41% and hit only three 3 pointers, and lost the rebounding war... and yet what was impressive in this win for them was that they forced 14 temple TO's and temple is ranked one of the best teams in the country at taking care of the ball.

Against memphis they shot 48% and hit 11 3 pointers, and again forced 16 memphis TO. but again was pretty much dominated on the boards.

Looking at ECU on Kenpom, offensively nothing sticks out as being either being really good in one category nor really really bad minus getting there shot blocked a lot. And not having a very good effective FG%.

Defensively, its much worst for them as there D is one of the worst in the country and is rated as the worst in the American conference.

We need to score 80 on these guys and just keeping the pressure on them

jacobkdoyle · Feb 11, 2016

http://www.gobearcats.com/collegesportslive/?media=522497

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justinhub2003 · Feb 11, 2016

Just realized how many shots Gary clark has been blocking the last 6 games.

He is averaging 2.83 blocks per game over his last 6 games.

He hadn't had a game with 4 blocks all season then all the sudden had 4 against memphis twice, uconn and UCF...

Blocking shots is all about timing and it seems Gary has really been looking for block shots and timing them well with out fouling as he is averaging just 2 Fpg in that same stretch.

jacobkdoyle · Feb 11, 2016

justinhub2003 said:
Just realized how many shots Gary clark has been blocking the last 6 games.

He is averaging 2.83 blocks per game over his last 6 games.

He hadn't had a game with 4 blocks all season then all the sudden had 4 against memphis twice, uconn and UCF...

Blocking shots is all about timing and it seems Gary has really been looking for block shots and timing them well with out fouling as he is averaging just 2 Fpg in that same stretch.

I think my favorite block of his lately was when he blocked a 3 in the UConn game. Don't remember who was shooting it, but Clark almost lost the shooter and had to beeline over to the corner and made a sweet block after the guy released the shot. Great recovery. Maybe Evans's competitiveness is rubbing off on him.

UCalum08 · Feb 11, 2016

jacobkdoyle said:
http://www.gobearcats.com/collegesportslive/?media=522497

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I love how he is asked about the parity in college basketball right now. His answer was pretty candid. He said, If someone asked him 20 years ago if local schools like Xavier and Dayton had the same, if not better facilities and money being pumped into the basketball programs as UC, he would have never believe it. But that is clearly what is happening. Shows how behind UC's funding for bball really is.

WAITE HOYT 2 · Feb 11, 2016

UCalum08 said:
I love how he is asked about the parity in college basketball right now. His answer was pretty candid. He said, If someone asked him 20 years ago if local schools like Xavier and Dayton had the same, if not better facilities and money being pumped into the basketball programs as UC, he would have never believe it. But that is clearly what is happening. Shows how behind UC's funding for bball really is.

Neither has a football program they are trying to build. I wonder if someday the football program will return the investment and help fund the other sports. Anyone know if the football program made money this year?

Bearcat513 · Feb 11, 2016

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

That is from 2014, can't find a 2015 one. UC is #52 with revenues of $59 million to $55 million in expenses.

justinhub2003 · Feb 11, 2016

WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Neither has a football program they are trying to build. I wonder if someday the football program will return the investment and help fund the other sports. Anyone know if the football program made money this year?

In terms of football,Forbes did a calculation of wins per dollar spent and UC was the best in the country. We accumulated the most wins with the least amount of investment

WAITE HOYT 2 · Feb 12, 2016

justinhub2003 said:
In terms of football,Forbes did a calculation of wins per dollar spent and UC was the best in the country. We accumulated the most wins with the least amount of investment

Wow!! Would not have guessed that.

UCalum08 · Feb 12, 2016

justinhub2003 said:
In terms of football,Forbes did a calculation of wins per dollar spent and UC was the best in the country. We accumulated the most wins with the least amount of investment

Not surprised. There's not to many universities that do more with less better than UC. We have been in the top half of that category for a few years now it seems.

WAITE HOYT 2 · Feb 12, 2016

UCalum08 said:
Not surprised. There's not to many universities that do more with less better than UC. We have been in the top half of that category for a few years now it seems.

would like some of that money to make its way into the Basketball budget. Looks like its happening with the upgrades on the way. Getting into a P5 conference should make us very profitable.

jacobkdoyle · Feb 12, 2016

***East Carolina ***

WAITE HOYT 2 · Feb 12, 2016

Sorry Jake!!! Big Game! Cats need to put East Caralina's record aside and play as if it is a play in game. A loss will kill their chances of making the Touney

jacobkdoyle · Feb 12, 2016

WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Sorry Jake!!! Big Game! Cats need to put East Caralina's record aside and play as if it is a play in game. A loss will kill their chances of making the Touney

No need to apologize.

East Carolina

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