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Maybe the most important week of the season coming up.
I know a lot of people have talked about it already on the board, but we need a split. Of course we would take 2 wins, but at least a split gets us to 2-3 in the league, and the schedule gets favorable for a couple of weeks. Lose both and were are 1-4 and in quite a hole in terms of the the conference standings. Win both and we are 3-2, the Texas trip doesn't sting so bad anymore, and we are off to the races.
Early observations on Memphis/Louisville. Memphis is a very streaky team when I have watched them. They have 4 very good senior guards, but they do turnover it over a lot, and I have seen them struggle from the 3 point line in a lot of games. Their front court has really improved since the beginning of the year, and Shaq Goodwin has been playing like a beast lately. He will be a very tough matchup. Will be interesting to see if we can go small in this game to match their guard play. Maybe play Napier, Boat, Kromah and Giffey along with Bridma/Nolan. Memphis will be fired up since they were blown out last time at home by Cincy.
As people have seen, Louisville has struggled against good teams this year. They still scare me. Russ Smith can go off for 30 any game. But he can also shoot you out of a game. Their front court is no longer a strength for them, so I think we matchup well against them. And its gameday at Storrs so Gampel will be rocking.
If we can find a way to steal the game Thursday night, we will have a ton of momentum for Saturday night. If we lose Thursday, I worry we play tight on Saturday.
I know a lot of people have talked about it already on the board, but we need a split. Of course we would take 2 wins, but at least a split gets us to 2-3 in the league, and the schedule gets favorable for a couple of weeks. Lose both and were are 1-4 and in quite a hole in terms of the the conference standings. Win both and we are 3-2, the Texas trip doesn't sting so bad anymore, and we are off to the races.
Early observations on Memphis/Louisville. Memphis is a very streaky team when I have watched them. They have 4 very good senior guards, but they do turnover it over a lot, and I have seen them struggle from the 3 point line in a lot of games. Their front court has really improved since the beginning of the year, and Shaq Goodwin has been playing like a beast lately. He will be a very tough matchup. Will be interesting to see if we can go small in this game to match their guard play. Maybe play Napier, Boat, Kromah and Giffey along with Bridma/Nolan. Memphis will be fired up since they were blown out last time at home by Cincy.
As people have seen, Louisville has struggled against good teams this year. They still scare me. Russ Smith can go off for 30 any game. But he can also shoot you out of a game. Their front court is no longer a strength for them, so I think we matchup well against them. And its gameday at Storrs so Gampel will be rocking.
If we can find a way to steal the game Thursday night, we will have a ton of momentum for Saturday night. If we lose Thursday, I worry we play tight on Saturday.
