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LA Tech at UAB, Saturday 5 March 2022

The Bulldogs are 12-5 and 21-8 on the season. They are 6-4 over the last ten games, which includes two close losses to North Texas. They just beat ODU by 13 points.

It’s been 7 games since Lofton has scored 20 or more points. He only scored 7 Wednesday against ODU.

LA Tech’s best victory is still the early season victory at Santa Clara. Santa Clara is ranked 73rd by both NET and KenPom. Their worst loss was at UTEP.

Rankings

NET
UAB - 55
LA Tech - 104

KenPom
UAB - 53
LA Tech - 100

Massey Composite
UAB - 55
LA Tech - 103

KenPom has it UAB 78 - LA Tech 71

La Tech (104) at UAB (55)

All-Time Series Record: Series tied 9-9 (UAB leads 8-3 in Birmingham)

Last Meeting: UAB 83, La Tech 76 (1/22/22 in Ruston)
Last Meeting in Birmingham: La Tech 72, UAB 58 (1/25/20)
First Meeting: UAB 97, La Tech 79 (12/17/88)

Games played on March 5th: 9-5 (4-1 in Birmingham; 3-2 away; 0-2 in neutral site Sun Belt Tournament games & 2-0 in neutral site C-USA Tournament games.)

UAB is 557-143 (.796) all-time in games played in Birmingham.
UAB is 413-100 (.805) all-time in games played on campus.
UAB is 581-158 (.786) all-time in games played in the State of Alabama.
UAB is 59-29 (.670) all-time in games played against teams from Louisiana.

With this game not affecting our standing, I hope we play a lot of bench players.

I’m not holding my breath though.

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Set a tone and beat them down. We are also playing for an NCAA seeding. WIN!!!

It would be nice if they started calling Jr for all his traveling and offensive fouls.

(03-04-2022 03:54 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Set a tone and beat them down. It would be nice if they started calling Jr for all his traveling and offensive fouls.

It's March baby. Put up or shut up time. I'm done with the negativity, and ready to see this team live up to its potential. We've been so close at so many different points in the season. I'd love to see this team assert itself as the best in CUSA and carry that into the Big Dance with a win or two or three. LFG!

I don't think I've ever seen a player allowed to travel so much outside of an NBA game. It was effing ridiculous.

I think we've been approaching defending Lofton the wrong way. Take him to Saw's tonight, keep his plate filled with bbq, mac n' cheese and banana pudding, then just play 5v4 as he drags his butt up and down the court tommorow.

(03-04-2022 04:02 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  I’d rather go into next week on a winning streak than a loss. Nothing more to say regarding tomorrow

NIT is out of the question unless we are playing for the title on selection Sunday

Really. The two NIT bracketology sites both have UAB solidly in the NIT field. One as a 3-seed, the other as a 4.

https://www.dratings.com/predictor/bracketology/

https://thebarkingcrow.com/nit-bracketology/

HCAK on Three-Man-Front: https://twitter.com/WJOX945/status/1499804045132931077

I am hearing we would be in the NIT if we stumble in Frisco. Let's just win Frisco and not have to think about it.

The only way I see us missing the NIT is losing in our first game in Frisco, which with this team is a distinct and very realistic possibility.. but we should be in.

So what’s happened with Leblanc and his sore triceps knee virus that’s keeping him away from the team for weeks on end? Will we ever see him again in green and gold?

(03-05-2022 10:40 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  So what’s happened with Leblanc and his sore triceps knee virus that’s keeping him away from the team for weeks on end? Will we ever see him again in green and gold?

He is scheduled to emerge Tuesday from his month in the cryogenic egg and should be better than ever.

What time is the game? I see conflicting start times everywhere I look.

2:00. Starts in 6 min according to scoreboard

AD is here in street clothes. Still no sign of LeBlanc. Does UAB run a leprosy colony? If so, maybe he’s there.

Thank you. UABsports website says 230. mmmhmmm

Starting Brown for senior day

For those interested parties that reside outside of Birmingham, is the video coverage of this game being broadcast? Looks like the only CUSA game not on ESPN+

The Lofton Shuffle

I’ll get blasted for this but jelly has been bad since his hot stretch in the beginning to middle of the conference season. Bad shots, bad passes, turns the ball over, poor decision making, pressing, playing out of control, inefficient…

Still our best player by far though lol