It’s Oklahoma (3/21/25 @ 9:25p on TNT)

[JB75]

Good that’s perfect now I can enjoy all day Thursday first round and Friday first round till later didn’t want them getting knocked off early Thursday and be depressed the whole weekend lol

 

[Deepster]

Good that’s perfect now I can enjoy all day Thursday first round and Friday first round till later didn’t want them getting knocked off early Thursday and be depressed the whole weekend lol

Way to be positive.

 

[gsmooth]

Good that’s perfect now I can enjoy all day Thursday first round and Friday first round till later didn’t want them getting knocked off early Thursday and be depressed the whole weekend lol

That's the way I look at it, too. Plus with Hass, Youssef,and Samson on Ramadan the time works for them.

 

[RuffRuff]

Way to be positive.

This season is a gravy post NC year - and what we have in front of us is an opportunity. As long as this staff/team goes out and coaches and plays their tails off, and gets beaten and doesn’t beat themselves, I’ll enjoy every second of what we have left. I’m pumped.

 

[bendm]

This season is a gravy post NC year

As long as it isn’t Duke

 

[mauconnfan]

Let’s beat the Sooners somehow. Haven’t seen them a lot but a couple times I saw them they don’t shoot it well but get to the rim a lot and attack. Love to see some zone and make them shoot because we can’t guard them, just being honest. It would be a good year to get to the Gators. They’re a whole nother story lol, yikes. They offensive rebound like mad and are huge. Guards are real good, they will win it all!!

 

[UCTitleTown]

From my OK State buddy "OU very average. If you shut down their freshman PG (Fears) they have a hard time scoring"

Guarding a penetrating guard hasn't exactly been our strong suit this season and no Clingan to cover up for missed assignments.

 

[RuffRuff]

 

[UCan3]

We've played guys like Ashworth who initiate contact at every opportunity. Eliminate those goofy reach ins 30 feet from the basket and we'll be okay. I'd like to see us start by feeding Tarris and work on an inside out game. It was easier with Cam and Tristen creating for Donavan but I think we can make it work then mix in perimeter and motion. They won't know what hit them at that point.

That’s the wildcard to me… maybe the biggest one…

We appear to be the target of BE refs who call everything and then make sh@t up when they need to and call very little on our opponents.

Interesting to see us now play 5 on 5.

That doesn’t mean were suddenly transformed into top 5 team but we may be pleasantly surprised by the end of next week.

 

[bendm]

It’s the worst bracket I can remember

 

[RuffRuff]

A win vs OU ties is with Duke for second most consecutive NCAA wins of all time, behind UCLA, who no one is ever catching. Tied for most consecutively in the modern era, field of 64. I’d like to have that.

 

[CTBasketball]

Throw the ball up let’s play. Forget the metrics.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

They said that 2014 vs Florida and in the final vs the twins

We had two incredible perimeter guard defenders…They didn’t say that back then lol

 

[Fan1978]

I think it was ESPN analysts that said OK plays 3 point guards and that is bad for us. They also really like Florida to make the Final 4 so a tough draw for us.

Brandon goodyne fairfield transfer starts, he is a 3 point specialist so they are incorrect

 

[navery12]

 

[RuffRuff]

Not sure I’m loving the BL from Dan Hurley in this one

 

[87Xfer]

So they’re good at drawing FTs and guards penetrate off the dribble well. What else do we have?

That sounds like a matchup nightmare

 

[Dove]

Paging OKLAHOMA ERIC.

We got this...

 

[Elitehuskies]

This may be a good game where both Samson and reed can both play extremely with rebounds, easy lob and dunks. If our guards keep their hands up and not get blown by we can do very well.

I would still love to see Samson and Reed combo on the court. But we have to have guards that box out and grab rebounds.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Throw the ball up let’s play. Forget the metrics.

Not to date myself, but I just finished all of the calculations on this:

We can win this tournament!

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Not sure I’m loving the BL from Dan Hurley in this one

This is completely indistinguishable from every other press availability he does. We’re really searching for reasons to be miserable here.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

This is completely indistinguishable from every other press availability he does. We’re really searching for reasons to be miserable here.

I'm wondering when we see the first Fire Hurley thread.

 

[AntG168]

I'm wondering when we see the first Fire Hurley thread.

If we lose to Oklahoma they will be plenty here lmao

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Looks like for whatever reasons, OK takes and makes a bunch of left-corner 3's. They look fairly inefficient at the rim.

Do they play really good perimeter D? Opponents shoot well below-average almost everywhere around the 3pt line...

Though I've always appreciated the value of our high-hedge, this year it can leave us more vulnerable to switch-related corner 3's. Something to look out for (thank god the coaches and players read all these threads )

 

[uconnbill]

The negative nannies are going to be miserable this week