Round one to the American.

Houston wins 76-56 at South Carolina.

The other three games will be played Jan 4.

SMU at Vandy
Ole Miss at Wichita St
Georgia at Memphis

Currently, KenPom favors Memphis by seven, Wichita St by five and Vandy by one.

Big SEC challenge games coming up on Saturday. Pomeroy currently favors Memphis and Wichita by 9 and Vandy by 1.

These will be the final nonconference games for the league outside of:

UConn-Nova
Temple-Nova
Temple-Penn

The SEC has a slightly better nonconference record than we do (119-48 71.3% vs 103-43 70.6%). It's a virtual dead heat if we go 2-1 Saturday, and we pass them at 3-0.

Currently, Pomeroy has the American 7th barely behind the Pac 12.

Memphis beat ole piss early this season.

And Memphis chokes at home.

Good win Wichita St.

Let's go Mustangs.

(01-04-2020 08:42 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  And Memphis chokes at home.

Good win Wichita St.

Let's go Mustangs.

Memphis got beat. I'm not sure it was a choke.

Memphis led 47-39 with 15:44 to play. 47 points in 24:16 is nearly 2 points per minute.

Over the last 15:44, Memphis scored 15 points. Or less than 1 point per minute.

The Tigers shot 6/23 from the field and 2/6 from the FT line during that stretch. Committed 5 turnovers in the last 8:11.

A complete failure to execute offensively down the stretch at home. If that's not choking, I don't know what is.

Thankfully, SMU got the road W and the American wins the series 3-1.