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James White ended up at New Orleans because their head coach was an assistant at ole miss when he was there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTqURHMEUL8

https://x.com/workinithoops/status/18786...?s=46&mx=2

Absolutely crazy stats Yax has put up the last 2 games.

It’s nothing short of criminal that Yax, AK, and the entire team pretty much farted around for half of this season.

Games tonight:

UNT @ ECU. UNT could do us a solid in the standing by losing this one. The spread is only UNT -3.5.

Charlotte - wichita state - doesn't appear to matter much, both teams have cratered since conference play started and are 0-4 & 0-3 in the conference, respectively.

UTSA @ Rice - Rice is 2-2 in conference and we play them on the road later, which is always a tough place to play. A Rice loss would be good for us for the standings.

The only thing I care about at this point is optimal seeding in the conference tournament. We still have a very small chance to win the conference regular season. That would be a huge boon to end this season, given the colossal failure the first half of the season was. Anyways, it's all probably for naught, given this group, but it's nice to have some excitement about the basketball season again, even if it's short lived.

We are still in it all the way through the 14th of January!

(Today 07:54 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Games tonight:

UNT @ ECU. UNT could do us a solid in the standing by losing this one. The spread is only UNT -3.5.

Charlotte - wichita state - doesn't appear to matter much, both teams have cratered since conference play started and are 0-4 & 0-3 in the conference, respectively.

UTSA @ Rice - Rice is 2-2 in conference and we play them on the road later, which is always a tough place to play. A Rice loss would be good for us for the standings.

The only thing I care about at this point is optimal seeding in the conference tournament. We still have a very small chance to win the conference regular season. That would be a huge boon to end this season, given the colossal failure the first half of the season was. Anyways, it's all probably for naught, given this group, but it's nice to have some excitement about the basketball season again, even if it's short lived.

Unless something changes for the worse in a fairly significant way, I'm going to hold on to hope we can go on a run in the conference tournament even if we don't have the seed we want, simply because I think this team could easily beat anyone in the conference on any given day. I'm going to pretend at the same time that I don't also know this team could run the regular season table and earn a 1 seed and lose its first tourney game by 30 after leading by 20 at halftime.

My optimism going forward is built on five factors: (1) If nothing else, AK seems to have finally decided to lean on Yax to remember he's the alpha and explain what that means, and Yax is absurd when he's aggressive; (2) Tony Toney is Irrational Confidence guy right now, and that's the best kind of confidence in a guy as athletically gifted as he is (no good team has ever existed without a guy like TT who has that one crazy season that makes no sense based on everything that's happened before); (3) Vasquez is hungry, you can see it, and he'll settle in and be the critical go-to perimeter scorer as we get deeper in the conference season, and even when he's making mistakes I love the edge he brings to the team (he's the only one out there who seems like he's ready to fight at any moment, and no good team has ever existed without a guy like that either); (4) McGhee has figured some things out and seems like he's going to be just a really good and smart basketball player down the stretch (with the added bonus that he has to be one of the physically strongest guards in America); and (5) Butta's stroke is too pure for him to be this bad all year.

The preseason was frustrating, but anybody who's been a UAB for 48 (?) years like me knows it wouldn't be UAB sports if we didn't initially fail to meet expectations and then exceed the subsequently lowered expectations, and then scuffle a bit, and then do something dramatic to capture the nation's attention, only to ultimately squander that attention in the most embarrassing way possible. The poster for this lifelong experience features the 2004 team in St. Louis as Mike Anderson is ejected from a 100-74 loss to Kansas for walking onto the court to confront an official (in a live ball situation) after the dramatic wins over Washington and Kentucky when most of America was rooting for us.