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(01-20-2025 11:17 AM)Frank Grimes Wrote: What I do like is we haven’t played in 5 days or whatever, so I would think the guys are excited to get out there and play well. If they only had 2-3 days off that road swing, I’d be more nervous.
That said, this team has surprised me before in good and bad ways, so we’ll.
That's true. We do have a rest advantage, home advantage, and scouting advantage, since we've been able to focus solely on them since Wednesday.
That being said nothing really surprises me anymore with this group of players and this coach.
Another thing that has gone overlooked is that we don't have much depth at all. We only have 8 legitimate players, since the serial quitter left us. Yax was getting into foul trouble a lot earlier in the season. If that starts to happen again, will we be able to win without our super star?
Yax and CC down to Big Brad is already a big drop off. Yax and CC down to Shaver or Myles or whoever else is a cataclysmic cliff of a drop off in talent and ability.
I think our guard/small forward depth is pretty good, but we really only have 3 big men, and one of them is a waif. That will probably bite us hard sooner or later.
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Update on KenPom’s top five AAC players:
Haggerty, Memphis
Lendeborg, UAB
Lorient, North Texas
Mashburn, Temple
Dainja, Memphis
Lendeborg, Lorient, and Dainja are all 6-9. Haggerty and Mashburn are guards, and both have scored in double figures every game. Mashburn is playing lights out!
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Through the first six AAC games: North Texas, Tulsa, Tulane, FAU, USF, and UTSA.
Player | Points | Rebounds | Assists | Turnovers | Blocks | Steals | UAB Rating |
Yax | 103 | 64 | 36 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 202 |
Cole | 82 | 52 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 146 |
AJ | 77 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 105 |
Toney | 64 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 96 |
Butta | 57 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 93 |
McGhee | 52 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 71 |
Moore | 39 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 60 |
Brad | 19 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 40 |
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How many times has UAB men’s basketball won at Memphis?
Twice
When?
January 2, 1999; UAB 91 - Memphis 83
January 16, 1993; UAB 50 - Memphis 47
UAB’s record at Memphis?
2-24
UAB-Memphis History
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I was 2 months old.
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Charlotte hosting USF right now. 37-36 CHA at the half
North Texas Hosting Temple at 7
UAB Women’s basketball up on Rice 24-17, coming out of Halftime
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South Florida 61 @ Charlotte 69. Charlotte gets their first AAC win.
Temple 67 @ UNT 76
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UNT beating temple by 11 at home. I honestly think they may be the best team in the conference right now.
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The ladies survived in OT. 2nd half was ugly. Molly made some key defensive plays and baskets when we were in droughts to not let the game get out of hand. Sara picked up some weight on the offensive side too.
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Wichita State 53 @ Memphis 61. The Shockers collapsed down the stretch.
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Wichita choked that game away. It was theirs to win. They looked like us with a big lead - it was hard to watch.
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Gonna be tougher without McGhee. Memphis will go Zone to collapse on the bigs. Andy will have Yax play as a point forward, which will lead to rebounding issues(less second chance shots). Toney, Butta, AJ gotta hit when they take outside shots.
Funny stat: I saw Tyren Moore is 55% from 3 on the road
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Do we know for sure that McGhee is out?
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I guess and hope not. But i thought somebody said they read he said he had 2 tears in his foot on IG
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To illustrate just how embarrassingly, fire-the-AD, bad our OOC schedule was - as were our losses against said terrible competition...
I was playing around on barttorvik just now.
I simulated UAB winning out the rest of the regular season, and winning the conference tournament - playing FAU, Temple, and Memphis. Our projected NET at 27-7 is only 77.
Even simulating in 2-3 losses, our NET is only projected for around 50.
Even though our abysmal start should never be swept under the rug or rationalized away, the AD and Coach AK hamstrung this team from the start. Are we even trying to be a big time program? I thought AK believed in the Bartow Standard. This piss poor schedule was not the Bartow Standard. Losing so much with that poor schedule is not even the Ehsan standard.
Be better. That schedule should never happen again, or why are we even wasting our time?
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Samford went to Cornell, Arizona, and Michigan state. I don’t believe all three of these teams would have refused to play us, and if samford can do it, and we can’t, we have huge problems.
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Last season they played at Purdue, at VCU, and hosted Belmont due to a 4 game H&H
Year before that they played at Depaul(even they were really bad it's still a big east team) and at UCF. I can go on and on when it comes to their scheduling under Bucky. Yes, they've hosted their fair share of D2/NAIA games but those away games certainly cross those out
It helps a lot when the AD and Coach are on the same page like they are at Samford, hell the president goes to every game. When Mark is gone we should look into Newton as new AD
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That kind of goes to my point I was making with my post about the numbers.
If we can’t schedule to the level of Samford, why are we even playing? Why did we join the AAC? Why do we make the appearance of trying to be a real program, if it’s all just window dressing?
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