OT: Tulsa Destroys Memphis 80-40!

[Ts5034]

That is a shocker. Tulsa is now 5-1 in the AAC and probably the best team in the league based on their resume alone. They beat Houston already, and now Memphis. Now, we play the top 2 teams in the AAC back to back with Houston on Thursday, and Tulsa in Hartford Sunday.

 

[4TheCycle]

After this week Huskies can be 3-3 in the AAC and 2 games back from Tulsa.

 

[bendm]

yet somehow they lost to UT Arlington which i had never heard of until tonight

 

[Husky68]

I saw the Tulsa vs. Tulane game this weekend and Tulsa has 3 super athletes on their team. That team can get after it. Tulane gym is small and I was sitting in the 1st row under the basket. Tulsa had very precise passing, good and strong cuts on offense, strong hands and grab the ball on rebounds (like Caron). This Tulsa game will be a real test as to how mentally and physically tough Hurley has gotten UConn.

 

[Austin316]

for some reason no one ranked in college basketball knows how to win on the road this year

 

[XLCenterFan]

I have some bets on semi-longshots to win the big dance this year, and what a year for upsets!

 

[JCSuperstar]

A medically induced coma on 2/6 might be healthier for me than watching us lose in Tulsa again this year.

 

[8893]

Dooooooooooomed

 

[NYConnMan]

It looks like they've been extremely lucky with opponents 3p% so far and their opponents have shot a LOT of 3s. I don't know about college, but in the NBA opponent 3p FG% is one of the most random stats there is (meaning it seems to be determined more by luck than skill). It will be interesting to see what happens when they experience a regression there.

 

[Stainmaster]

Let’s see if Hurley and Haith can make it the full 40 this time around.

 

[HooperScooper]

It looks like they've been extremely lucky with opponents 3p% so far and their opponents have shot a LOT of 3s. I don't know about college, but in the NBA opponent 3p FG% is one of the most random stats there is (meaning it seems to be determined more by luck than skill). It will be interesting to see what happens when they experience a regression there.

So you're saying a team's defense has nothing to do with how well or badly its opponents shoot the three?

 

[NYConnMan]

So you're saying a team's defense has nothing to do with how well or badly its opponents shoot the three?

For the most part, yes I am.

 

[HooperScooper]

For the most part, yes I am.

Ken Pomeroy should tell all the coaches so they don't spend any time working on defending 3 pointers.

 

[ElGuapo]

Great.
I just bought 14 tickets to this Sunday's game for a group of us to attend for my son's 14th birthday.

 

[NYConnMan]

Ken Pomeroy should tell all the coaches so they don't spend any time working on defending 3 pointers.

It's not Ken Pomeroy - it's just about every single statistical analysis. The reason being that most 3 point attempts are already open. This is why opponent 3p attempt % is a better measure of 3p defense than opponent 3p FG%. Tulsa allows more 3p attempts than 340 other teams in D1, they have just been extraordinarily lucky.

If you have any data refuting all of the above evidence, please feel free to provide it.

 

[UConnStats]

It’s not a big name like Towns, but Jeriah Horne played his freshman year at Nebraska while Hunter was there, transferred to Tulsa, and will be eligible to grad transfer this year. I think he’d be a great addition.

 

[bendm]

Jeriah Horne

6'7 220 PF averaging 12 and 5, aka a grown man, yes please.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

for some reason no one ranked in college basketball knows how to win on the road this year

L=5G <( 5G + Z)
G = Guys
Z= Zebras
L = Loss

 

[willie99]

I remember when

 

[Austin316]

L=5G <( 5G + Z)
G = Guys
Z= Zebras
L = Loss

 

[FatHank]

yet somehow they lost to UT Arlington which i had never heard of until tonight

I can shed some light here for you. UTA has made the tourney before and its a good sized school in Arlington, TX which is in between Dallas and Fort Worth. A friend of mine graduated from there. Not a juggernaut but they have some stick from time to time.

 

[FatHank]

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Keymaker level stuff in the Matrix for sure.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Ken Pomeroy should tell all the coaches so they don't spend any time working on defending 3 pointers.

It certainly has an impact on good shooters but we’ve seen guys who would shoot 25% alone in a gym in practice go crazy on us. There’s a fair amount of luck or being “in the zone” as Jordan talked about. I’m in favor of knocking any guy who’s made two in a row to the floor. Hard. Disrupt that rhythm. But that’s a little old school.