Who Dey Time
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Got the early Friday game....here is the schedule.
http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5998
http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5998
UC-Texas 12:15 Tip on Friday
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Thegreatone
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The dreaded noon tipoff. YIKES
JasonS
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Not concerned. UC will be ready to play.
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UC's record for afternoonish games(Games 12pm-6pm):
5-6 (W - Radford, Villanova(2x), Seton Hall, GTown /// L - Xavier, St Johns, WVU, Rutgers, Marquette, USF
Record for noonish games:
2-2 W-Villanova twice...L - Xavier, USF
5-6 (W - Radford, Villanova(2x), Seton Hall, GTown /// L - Xavier, St Johns, WVU, Rutgers, Marquette, USF
Record for noonish games:
2-2 W-Villanova twice...L - Xavier, USF
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Crap. Now I'll have to sneak away from work.
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Not going to matter. I think the Bearcats come out strong. I don't think UC will lose in this tournament because they didn't show up. I think the Louisville loss has left a bitter taste in their mouth. It's a great lesson in climbing the mountain. Don't be happy with just being there and don't get over confident. Will not surprise me to see a sweet 16 run.
The entire panel of The Experts picked UC over Texas.
The entire panel of The Experts picked UC over Texas.
How many times do they need to learn a lesson? This wasn't the first time they were "over confident"
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No, but it cost them something.
that is true and extremely frustrating. how many times can these guys get way overconfident and not learn?
however, if focused, we should beat texas. then, fsu is tough- but they turn the ball over 24% of their possessions. with our ability to turn teams over, i think we have an excellent chance to feast on this.
Professional teams often get overconfident after a big win. I'm not surprised that college kids felt a bit overconfident after beating the so-called greatest Syracuse team in history on their de facto home court, especially with the next in line being a team they have already beaten just weeks earlier. I was more frustrated with some of the late game execution than I was with the team coming out flat.
I posted this on other board, but going off of some of their other statistics I also feel this is a good match up. Texas lives at the FT line. The rate at which they get there is 27th best in the county and they score nearly 25% of their points per game from the line (12th highest rate). Conversely our opponents rarely get to the line (321st) or score a majority of their points from the line (315th). Keep Texas off of the foul line and I'm not even sure Brown can score enough points to pull off the victory.
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We lost to Louisville because of our nerves, being tired, and their defense.
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The players said they didn't come to play. Gates said he sensed a difference in the team before the game. I believe it was Cash who said in the second half the players realized UL wasn't going to give them the game. Call it what you will, mentally they weren't ready.
Yancy Gates – “I could tell the difference in the way we were getting ready for the game. We didn’t have the same focus we had when we first got here. We weren’t prepared to play a hard game until the second half and we paid the price for it.”
Cashmere Wright – “We started to play with heart (in the second half). Before that, we weren’t playing with our hearts. We were playing off the last game. In the second half, we realized that they weren’t going to give us the game, we had to take it, but it was too late.”
Mick Cronin: "We have a tendency to get over-confident at times. I thought that was an issue for us."
Q. Mick just said that you guys admitted to him that you were overconfident. Did you think that was a problem?
Yancy Gates: Yeah, I was the one that said it. I could tell the difference in the way we was getting ready for the game today. A lot of people didn't have the same focus as we did when we first got out here, and I think because we won our first two games, they were so tough and we won them the way we did, we kind of felt like Louisville was going to come in here and kind of give it to us, but I think it was the reverse, we came in here and gave it to them because we weren't prepared to play a hard game until the second half, so we paid the price for it.
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UCalum08
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Someone correct me if I am wrong. Tip is 12:15 ET. Isn't that a 11:15am game in Nashville time which is central?! That's damn early but regardless I am confident in the cats for these first two games!
Bingo. The final scored looked closer than that game was, but that was UL's best performance (especially on D) of the season. We weren't beating them that night.
The players and coaches can believe whatever they want, and I hope they do. But I don't personally think it would've mattered much how we played. Some times you just get someone's best punch and lose. It happens.
Ironically I think our "hard play" coincided with Parker getting the ball more and taking it to the hoop. He is the only guard we have that can finish consistently at the hoop and get there with regularity. I can't understand for the life of me why we weren't getting him the ball more in the first half.
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Agreed.
This was a much different L'ville team. Classic Pitino tournament team.
As far as being tired, I think that's BS. Louisville had to play on Wednesday as well. THEY didn't look tired when they were handing us our collective asses Saturday night.
Also because Cash Wright dribbled the ball out of bounds attempting the through the legs dribble.
How many times has UC lost the opportunity at the end because a player dribbled the ball out of bounds off his leg (Dixon, Charles Williams) or through his legs. 1-7 from the foul line did not help either.
I hear you and read the comments but I think this is just the natural talk that comes out after a loss. Louisville just played harder. Does this mean that all the other favorites that ended up losing like North Carolina and Kentucky also didn't come to play?
When shots don't fall early, it gets a team down. Don't discount either the amount of energy that was spend going to double OT against Georgetown and the emotional win against Syracuse.