Honestly, I didn't think UH was anything special. They certainly don't seem to be at the level they were the last two years, I'll put it that way. They got hot in the 2nd half obviously. But if Murphy doesn't turn his ankle, if we didn't keep Fiedler in too long, and if we made our free throws down the stretch, we could have won that game. Rice is certainly streaky this season - both good and bad.

I agree that we can make some noise in the conference tournament. But we do need to go deeper into the bench. Starting this weekend, with 3 games in 3 days. The bench is what's going to carry us for a deep conference tournament run (looking way ahead), so we may as well get them the minutes now.

BTW, the Harvard grad transfer didn't dress tonight. Maybe someone already has mentioned that. I'll need to go back through this thread.