Will Houston be severly impacted by the loss of JoJo Tugler to season-ending injury

[Drumguy]

Per the Athletic: No. 1 Houston loses Tugler for season in blow to title chances

They seem to think it could impact their title hopes!

 

[Hey Adrien!]

AND Ramon Walker was declared out for the year too not too long ago either.

With those injuries, Houston has been playing more lineups with Dunn at the 4, whose more of a 2/3…wonder how their frontcourt depth issues will affect their offensive rebounding, which is their bread and butter.

Houston now down to just 8 healthy scholarship players.

 

[BGesus4]

Per the Athletic: No. 1 Houston loses Tugler for season in blow to title chances

They seem to think it could impact their title hopes!

Oh damn that’s too bad. He was a stud defensively.

 

[Waquoit]

Tugler?

 

[jibsey]

Houston looked pretty scary to play.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Houston looked pretty scary to play.

Not so much with a sparingly used freshman now as their only frontcourt backup.

UConn #1, Purdue #2, and then anyone’s guess who’s the third best team…it’s not Houston anymore.

 

[formerlurker]

Tugler?

I barely know her.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I’m curious to see how Sampson handles this. His style of D is a) prone to fouling, and b) very high energy. There’s just no way they’re able to keep up that defensive performance playing two guys in the front court for 36+ minutes a game but I’m not sure what depth they have left.

 

[dogpause]

Could change seeding too.

 

[Waquoit]

I barely know her.

FYI, back in the day the straight man got 60%

 

[formerlurker]

FYI, back in the day the straight man got 60%

I wasn't even sure that's what you meant but it's immediately where my brain went. That's good stuff

 

[GHSWolverines]

AND Ramon Walker was declared out for the year too not too long ago either.

With those injuries, Houston has been playing more lineups with Dunn at the 4, whose more of a 2/3…wonder how their frontcourt depth issues will affect their offensive rebounding, which is their bread and butter.

Houston now down to just 8 healthy scholarship players.

I would be more worried about Tennesse

 

[uconnfan68]

Per the Athletic: No. 1 Houston loses Tugler for season in blow to title chances

They seem to think it could impact their title hopes!

Wow, big loss from the little I’ve seen. He played like I hoped Samson would.

 

[Dove]

Ahhh, well.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Not so much with a sparingly used freshman now as their only frontcourt backup.

UConn #1, Purdue #2, and then anyone’s guess who’s the third best team…it’s not Houston anymore.

Tennessee is 3rd.

 

[bendm]

Houston and Tennessee were the only teams that scared me. I was hoping Houston would be #1 overall and Tenn would be the 4th #1 so they'd be on the same side of the bracket and we'd be with Purdue.

 

[bendm]

AND Ramon Walker was declared out for the year too not too long ago either.

wow so theyve now lost 3 of their top 10 guys to start the year: arceneaux, tugler, and walker. as you said now they just bring Dunn and Wilson off the bench who are both Gs.

the epitome of brutatlity

 

[huskyharry]

They have Kansas at home on Saturday, may get a better idea of how limited they may be then.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

I would be more worried about Tennesse

I'm not. Castle would shadow Knecht and Tennessee offense looks totally different when Knecht is not as much of an impact player.

 

[MDHuskFan]

I'm not. Castle would shadow Knecht and Tennessee offense looks totally different when Knecht is not as much of an impact player.

Our greatest matchup advantage if we somehow play Tennessee is that has Rick Barnes

 

[gtcam]

With Kelvin Sampson at the helm, Houston will be fine
A few years back he lost 2 starters and still led his team to the final 4
Toughness is what he teaches
Sound familiar?

 

[CTBasketball]

With Kelvin Sampson at the helm, Houston will be fine
A few years back he lost 2 starters and still led his team to the final 4
Toughness is what he teaches
Sound familiar?

Nothings tougher than the AAC travel schedule.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Houston and Tennessee were the only teams that scared me. I was hoping Houston would be #1 overall and Tenn would be the 4th #1 so they'd be on the same side of the bracket and we'd be with Purdue.

? You don't see UConn vs. Purdue as heavyweight center v center title match!

If I'm the selection committee you set that up as the potential biggest ratings.