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Thursday, January 20th, 2022
9:00 PM
Fifth Third Arena
ESPNU

The Golden Hurricanes (6-9, 0-4 AAC, NET #161, KenPom #132) were predicted to finish 7th in the AAC (one spot below the Bearcats) but have failed to win games so far this season - especially close games - where their record is 1-7 in games decided by 5 points or less.

Despite recently having two players ruled ineligible for the spring semester, Tulsa narrowly lost to Houston at home this past Saturday 66-64. Tulsa fought back from a 17-point halftime deficit to get the Cougars lead down to a single point with 11 minutes left. Houston built the lead back to 12 points with 4 and a half minutes left before Tulsa responded with a 12-2 run over the final minutes that ended with a missed buzzer beater 3.

Tulsa's rates as an average and balanced offensive (#148) and defensive (#145) team per KenPom and their most notable team attribute is their poor ability to rebound.

Their best player, 6th-year 6-7 forward Jeriah Horne, is the type of player who has given us fits over the course of the season as he shoots 40% from 3 and makes 82% of his free throws.

The Bearcats are 8-point favorites.
 
Queens_NYC said:
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
9:00 PM
Fifth Third Arena
ESPNU

The Golden Hurricanes (6-9, 0-4 AAC, NET #161, KenPom #132) were predicted to finish 7th in the AAC (one spot below the Bearcats) but have failed to win games so far this season - especially close games - where their record is 1-7 in games decided by 5 points or less.

Despite recently having two players ruled ineligible for the spring semester, Tulsa narrowly lost to Houston at home this past Saturday 66-64. Tulsa fought back from a 17-point halftime deficit to get the Cougars lead down to a single point with 11 minutes left. Houston built the lead back to 12 points with 4 and a half minutes left before Tulsa responded with a 12-2 run over the final minutes that ended with a missed buzzer beater 3.

Tulsa's rates as an average and balanced offensive (#148) and defensive (#145) team per KenPom and their most notable team attribute is their poor ability to rebound.

Their best player, 6th-year 6-7 forward Jeriah Horne, is the type of player who has given us fits over the course of the season as he shoots 40% from 3 and makes 82% of his free throws.

The Bearcats are 8-point favorites.
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Put Newman on Horne and hope for the best.

If they can keep up with Houston (excuse alert) they can keep up with us on a good night so we gotta stay fired up for 40 minutes again.

I hope we figure out who is the right big or two to use early on rather than just splitting the minutes up 4 ways at 15 each. Something has to give.
 
Queens_NYC said:
Tulsa's rates as an average and balanced offensive (#148) and defensive (#145) team per KenPom and their most notable team attribute is their poor ability to rebound.
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Great preview as always.

On paper we should match up very well with Tulsa. Their only real strength is creating turnovers, and we are very good at taking care of the ball. They are very bad at shooting defense and defensive rebounding. On offense they have a lot of their shots blocked but don't get to the free throw line much. They shoot a lot from midrange. They are very small on the interior. All of that plays right into our hands.

The offense runs almost exclusively through Jeriah Horne and 6'3" UTA transfer Sam Griffin, who have the highest usage rates. Both shoot it well from three and the free throw line, but they take a lot of midrange jumpers which brings their overall efficiency down to just above average. Neither player creates a lot of assists, but they also don't turn it over much.

6'3" 5th year senior guard Darien Jackson is their most efficient scorer by far. Jackson gets to the rim a lot and converts 66% there. He very rarely shoots from midrange and will occasionally attempt a three at 35%. 6'4" 5th year senior sharpshooter LaDavius Draine is another player to keep an eye on. He didn't play many minutes until the last couple games, when he went 5-7 from three. Draine is a career 38% 3pt shooter on over 500 attempts. He made 47% on 156 attempts as a sophomore.

Tulsa has six players with steal rates of 2.5 or better, so everyone will need to be focused on ball control at all times. I think if we limit turnovers and MAW/Newman can control Griffin/Jackson, we should win easily.
 
sedziobs said:
6'3" 5th year senior guard Darien Jackson is their most efficient scorer by far. Jackson gets to the rim a lot and converts 66% there. He very rarely shoots from midrange and will occasionally attempt a three at 35%. 6'4" 5th year senior sharpshooter LaDavius Draine is another player to keep an eye on. He didn't play many minutes until the last couple games, when he went 5-7 from three. Draine is a career 38% 3pt shooter on over 500 attempts. He made 47% on 156 attempts as a sophomore.
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So the scouting report here is to play off of Jackson a bit and don't fall for pump fakes. Play up on Draine and don't give him any space. That's what I'll be paying attention to tonight. The high usage guys are going to do their thing, but we need to shut down their efficient scorers.
 
Hensley off the bench before Madsen as a sub for Newman. Seems like Mason's minutes just keep dropping.

Seems like Lakhin is still out.

Koval didn't read the scouting report, twice in a row he helped off Horn and Horn burned us both times by hitting the open three.
 
Too many turnovers so far and Jackson is getting to the rim. Effort is good though and we're hitting threes.
 
Great effort all around. Ody and Madsen mixing it up on D. MAW is making some uncharacteristically poor decisions.
 
We're on fire from three but we're giving up way too many layups and committing too many turnovers. We need to clean that up in the second half unless Davenport & DDJ make another 9 threes.
 
MAW really struggling tonight, uncharacteristic turnovers and has gotten beaten one-on-one by the drive on defense a couple of times.

DDJ and Davenport are a combined 9-11 from three, everyone else on the team is 0-5.

Horne is 3-4 from three and 5-8 from the field. But almost all of his buckets have come when we've switched a big on to him and he's beaten them (or the big helped off him). Davenport has locked him down when he guards him. Stop switching and just keep Davenport on him.
 
I' afraid that Tulsa will easily get back in the game if DDJ and Davenport go cold but hopefully we tighten up the defense and hold our lead.
 
I believe this is the second time in 4 games that Davenport has started out 7-8 from the three point line. The announcers seem not to be aware of what he did in the Memphis game. Against Memphis he went "cold" and missed his last two threes. When Davenport gets hot he can't miss.
 
We just broke our season record for turnovers (15) with 11:30 to go in the game.

I guess if we win by 20 points then all will be forgiven.
 
Queens_NYC said:
We just broke our season record for turnovers (15) with 11:30 to go in the game.

I guess if we win by 20 points then all will be forgiven.
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15-26 from three covers up a lot of mistakes. I'm sure Wes will harp on the mistakes when it comes time to watch film though.
 
Phenomenal 2nd half. Really hard to see how that Tulsa team nearly beat Houston but maybe I'm not giving us enough credit.

Hopefully we really are starting to turn the corner as a team.
 

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