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UNT wins, and Rick Stansbury continues to recruit quality players to zero NCAA trips

North Texas won 4 games in 4 days in front of their home crowd. After holding ODU to 55 points, they held La tech and WKU to 48 points in regulation. Pretty obvious not much difference at all between the top 5 or 6 teams in the league. NT reminds me of ODUs team a couple years ago. Not pretty but get the job done. Amazing defensive team. They guard you with their offense in a sense, similar to UVA style. They just play that keep away ball and bleed clock. Props to them.

(03-13-2021 11:27 PM)Prideofalion Wrote:  North Texas won 4 games in 4 days in front of their home crowd. After holding ODU to 55 points, they held La tech and WKU to 48 points in regulation. Pretty obvious not much difference at all between the top 5 or 6 teams in the league. NT reminds me of ODUs team a couple years ago. Not pretty but get the job done. Amazing defensive team. They guard you with their offense in a sense, similar to UVA style. They just play that keep away ball and bleed clock. Props to them.

Well said - this is formula to win boring but effective

WKU so much talent and all they got to show for it is "East Div Champs". Not many MBB teams have an All-American for a few years not not make the NCAAs.

Remember the mid-80 the CAA, Navy with David Robinson. What fun they were to watch. The championship game at Hampton was amazing.

well, in the case of my Washington NFL team.... I hope that the team who vanquished us wins the entire tournament! Go NT Mean Joe Green!

(and Bell III looks like Petey Sessoms.)

Top 6 teams all played closely. Any of them could have won.

Glad it wasnt $tansbury or Marshall.

Congrats to UNT! Tough team. Built to go on a run.

Just for the record, UNT played 4 straight night and went into overtime in game 4 to win. They essentially played 6 players.

Georgetown played 6 guys with the 7th getting a handful of minutes bc of foul trouble.

Just remember that next time someone says so and so cant win the tourney bc they have no depth.

P.S. western Kentucky will always have those regular season CUSA East champion tee shirts.

The top 5 CUSA teams are very similar. The difference is that UNT can shoot the 3.

(03-13-2021 11:43 AM)DaBigBlue Wrote:  You think we were bottom half, we were in the top-25% of a 14 team conference and played pretty well going into the tourney. We had only lost two out of the last 8 games. The game vs UNT, we just needed one player beside Curry to step up or make one more three.

I know kenpom isn't everything, but the CUSA didn't play every team this year (we avoided top seed LT and CUSAT winner UNT) and our kenpom was 7th in the conference. Don't let the E/W split seeds fool you into thinking we were a top 25% team in conference... we weren't.

(03-13-2021 05:16 PM)Obiwan Wrote:  

(03-13-2021 09:56 AM)bluelight Wrote:  

(03-12-2021 07:46 PM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote:  

(03-12-2021 01:49 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(03-12-2021 01:35 PM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote:  Same old sh.t yet again, year after year.

It sucks being right sometimes.

Yeah, you seem really brokenhearted

If it leads to us getting a real freaking coach i wont be upset at all.

I think next year is JJ's final year under contract. With that being, said I predict JJ will leave after next year with Reese, Oliver and Klua leaving. What is left and what is the a better time to leave, when the team needs a new coach to build an empty roster.

That is logical and makes cents

I thought JJ was extended thru 2024

(03-14-2021 08:28 AM)odu09 Wrote:  

(03-13-2021 11:43 AM)DaBigBlue Wrote:  You think we were bottom half, we were in the top-25% of a 14 team conference and played pretty well going into the tourney. We had only lost two out of the last 8 games. The game vs UNT, we just needed one player beside Curry to step up or make one more three.

I know kenpom isn't everything, but the CUSA didn't play every team this year (we avoided top seed LT and CUSAT winner UNT) and our kenpom was 7th in the conference. Don't let the E/W split seeds fool you into thinking we were a top 25% team in conference... we weren't.

Our kenpom ranking was hurt because we did not play them.

NT: Simmons (6'10")
WKU: Bassey (6'11")
Hmmmmm do ya think!

(03-14-2021 08:29 AM)odu09 Wrote:  

(03-13-2021 05:16 PM)Obiwan Wrote:  

(03-13-2021 09:56 AM)bluelight Wrote:  

(03-12-2021 07:46 PM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote:  

(03-12-2021 01:49 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  Yeah, you seem really brokenhearted

If it leads to us getting a real freaking coach i wont be upset at all.

I think next year is JJ's final year under contract. With that being, said I predict JJ will leave after next year with Reese, Oliver and Klua leaving. What is left and what is the a better time to leave, when the team needs a new coach to build an empty roster.

That is logical and makes cents

I thought JJ was extended thru 2024

Yes, we have Jones through 2024.

https://www.odu.edu/news/2019/4/jeff_jon...E4WtGT3aEc

So you're saying Kenpom was wrong and we were better than 7th?

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(03-14-2021 10:03 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  So you're saying Kenpom was wrong and we were better than 7th?

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I don't believe i ever said that. Let me go back and read

(03-14-2021 07:51 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  Just for the record, UNT played 4 straight night and went into overtime in game 4 to win. They essentially played 6 players.

Georgetown played 6 guys with the 7th getting a handful of minutes bc of foul trouble.

Just remember that next time someone says so and so cant win the tourney bc they have no depth.

P.S. western Kentucky will always have those regular season CUSA East champion tee shirts.

Also, just for the record Javion Hamlet was the Tournament MVP.

(03-14-2021 10:09 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(03-14-2021 07:51 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  Just for the record, UNT played 4 straight night and went into overtime in game 4 to win. They essentially played 6 players.

Georgetown played 6 guys with the 7th getting a handful of minutes bc of foul trouble.

Just remember that next time someone says so and so cant win the tourney bc they have no depth.

P.S. western Kentucky will always have those regular season CUSA East champion tee shirts.

Also, just for the record Javion Hamlet was the Tournament MVP.

Score the most points = MVP

(03-14-2021 07:51 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  Just for the record, UNT played 4 straight night and went into overtime in game 4 to win. They essentially played 6 players.

Georgetown played 6 guys with the 7th getting a handful of minutes bc of foul trouble.

Just remember that next time someone says so and so cant win the tourney bc they have no depth.

P.S. western Kentucky will always have those regular season CUSA East champion tee shirts.

Just for the record, NT was fortunate to pull the game out of the fire at the end. They didn't simply have just a ridiculously low 9 second half points with a minute or so to go in regulation simply because WKU's defense was the best defense college basketball has ever seen in the 2nd half. Their shots were off because they were extremely fatigued. Their fans are saying the same thing regarding their team nearly blowing the game due to fatigue.

No, nothing is absolute and someone can always find a case in point where a team prevailed in spite of adversity in one form or another. North Texas proved that last night. Heck, ODU (women) nearly pulled off a win against Charlotte in OT with just 4 players on the floor. Using your logic I guess that just proves that having 5 on the floor is overrated.

The advantages of having size and depth are two things you can't seem to understand for some strange reason. Either that or you just don't want it to be the case for some equally strange reason.

(03-14-2021 10:08 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(03-14-2021 10:03 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  So you're saying Kenpom was wrong and we were better than 7th?

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I don't believe i ever said that. Let me go back and read

You said our rating was hurt because of our schedule. I also inferred that to meaning our rating was inaccurate. What did you mean by that? Doesn’t KenPoms magic sauce accurately rank teams regardless of who they play? Doesn’t matter if we play La Tech and lose or Charlotte and win. What matters is the margin of victory/defeat.


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(03-14-2021 10:46 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  

(03-14-2021 07:51 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  Just for the record, UNT played 4 straight night and went into overtime in game 4 to win. They essentially played 6 players.

Georgetown played 6 guys with the 7th getting a handful of minutes bc of foul trouble.

Just remember that next time someone says so and so cant win the tourney bc they have no depth.

P.S. western Kentucky will always have those regular season CUSA East champion tee shirts.

Just for the record, NT was fortunate to pull the game out of the fire at the end. They didn't simply have just a ridiculously low 9 second half points with a minute or so to go in regulation simply because WKU's defense was the best defense college basketball has ever seen in the 2nd half. Their shots were off because they were extremely fatigued. Their fans are saying the same thing regarding their team nearly blowing the game due to fatigue.

No, nothing is absolute and someone can always find a case in point where a team prevailed in spite of adversity in one form or another. North Texas proved that last night. Heck, ODU (women) nearly pulled off a win against Charlotte in OT with just 4 players on the floor. Using your logic I guess that just proves that having 5 on the floor is overrated.

The advantages of having size and depth are two things you can't seem to understand for some strange reason. Either that or you just don't want it to be the case for some equally strange reason.

I'm with you on depth but you shouldn't blame that second half all on fatigue. WKU punched them in the mouth right out of the break and they lost confidence. They were able to rebound from that in the last few minutes of regulation and in OT. Its not like they suddenly became unfatigued.