Same starting five. Should be a good test for our offense and defense. Charlotte likes to play it slow and defend and their offense is going to primarily come from Jon Davis. If we struggle with him like we did with Zack Bryant last week, could be a long night.

Rice up 21-18. We've given up 18 points in 10 minutes to the 330th ranked offense in the country which isn't fun.

33-24 with 3:02 left in the half. Better spell on defense.

Rice 37 - 26 at half. Davis has half of Charlotte's points. Martin with 10, Murphy 9, Williams with 7 boards.

Davis is killing us. Now has 21 after scoring first 8 points of 2nd half.

UNC-Charlotte within 2, 41-39, Davis with 23.

Davis has 23 of 39. Charlotte has basically no options on offense apart from him. Just make anybody else shoot the ball.

Lovely half from us. Charlotte up 17-4. 2-12 FG. 4 turnovers. Charlotte shooting 70%. Incredible against a really bad team.

Now down 41 - 43. We're shooting just 31% from the field. What an awful 3Q.

Now 27% in the second half with 8 turnovers. We're at 0.380 PPP. Against Charlotte (who has 1.14 PPP on offense despite being lethargic on that end).

Rice retakes the lead 53-52 at the 5:00 mark of 2H.

56-53 Charlotte at the under-4. Seems like nobody except Murphy came to play today.

Drat, didn't realize this was @Charlotte till I logged in here.

Lame. I'm in Charlotte.

61-60 Rice, 46 secs remain.

Rice ball

Ako hits a 3 to put us up 3 and then Davis hits a layup to bring Charlotte within 1. If we let Davis take the big shots to beat us down the stretch we deserve to lose the game (we probably still deserve to regardless).

(01-31-2019 08:36 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  56-53 Charlotte at the under-4. Seems like nobody except Murphy came to play today.

??? Martin leading scoring with 15, and Adams came alive late.

Up by 3 with 9 seconds left. Do we foul to avoid the 3?

(01-31-2019 08:48 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 08:36 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  56-53 Charlotte at the under-4. Seems like nobody except Murphy came to play today.

??? Martin leading scoring with 15, and Adams came alive late.

This was before Ako's last 6 points (when he had 8 points and 3 TOs), but yes, Rob has had a better game than I thought.

We better pickup the guy full-court, that’s for sure.

And we didn't get hosed by the homer clock operator or the refs