Where are you seeing this? I show 1 pm CST tip.
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Yes Sir, you are correct. Was trying do other thgs went I sent. On Arizona gm, only thg that changed is now for sure on ESPN where b4 it was ESPN or E2. The Baylor game is one that changed the time from what UH Basketball sent out earlier today.
edit: It was my follow up response that was wrong when I used Baylor gm time for Arizona gm.
this should be correct :
Arizona â 1:00 â ESPN Feb 15
Baylor â 9:00 - ESPN March 8
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This Baptist preacher will be taking the next day (time change Sunday) off.
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Youâre a Cougar Baptist, so youâll be fine. Maybe a little rambunctious, but fine. Your Baylor brethren will be the ones cursing. 
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Looking at this morningâs NET rankings, I see that SDSU is now a Q2 loss, but K-State is now a Q1 win.
Hereâs a clip from CATS! last night of Galen and DeJon trauma-bonding:
entire show:
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Need that chip, thoughâŚ
By the by our permanent weakness already is on display.
FT shooting.
Only Cryer and Sharp are reliable.
Our starting PG shoots below 70%.
Our March Madness foes will foul everyone else and catch up.
A permanent weakness.
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Really only Uzans FT shooting bothers me. LJ and Sharp are great from the line. Roberts and Francis are at least improved from last year. Arceneaux is serviceable at 74%. Overall this is one of the best FT shooting teams weâve had.
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I contend that as a fan base, there is a Coog free throw concern/stigma that is hard to shake. I know I too remain personally scarred from some critical misses in our programâs history.
However, I question if it really is our âpermanent weaknessâ. Hereâs why I say that:
- I believe our style of play impacts ft% negatively. But not just for us, but to our opponents as well.
- So I think to judge that better how we compare to others (apples to apples) you shouldnât look at UHâs season FT% vs other teamâs season FT%, but instead compare our FT% for versus FT% against (in our games).
I read this recently:
âAccording to recent statistics, the Houston Cougars menâs basketball team has a free throw percentage (FT%) of .723 âforâ (meaning when they shoot free throws) and their opponents have a FT% of .667 âagainstâ them, indicating that Houston generally shoots free throws at a higher percentage than their opponents.
Key points:
⢠Houston FT%: 72.3%
Opponents FT% against Houston: 66.7%â
Again I know itâs a legit fear (and historic), but i think recently, stats show that in the games we AND our opponents are in (typically physical wear-downs due to our style of play), we actually are demonstrating an advantage on FT%.
In our games, they tend to miss 'em more than we do!
To me, the real concern related to free throws is opportunities.
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We have 2 players that shoot FTâs over 90%. Cryer and Sharp.
We have 3 players who shoot over 70%. Arceneaux, Miller, and Wilson. Since Miller does not play we have 2.
Our PG is not one of the above. He shoots 66.7%. And he is the guy most likely to get fouled since he controls the basketball.
Trying to protect a lead our PG has a 1/3 chance to miss.
This is a weakness, easily detected by,opponentsâ scouting reports.
Reasonable to see this as a March Madness problem. In the round of 32 all schools start running into real teams. Close games.
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Yeah the big issue is Uzan sub 70%, everything else is not a massive issue. Only other, âOh God noâ going to the line is Tugler/Lath. Roberts and Francis have gotten to be better than coin flips which is huge.
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Milos is a better shooter than the stats indicate. He will get there.
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His shot looks like he should be a better FT shooter, for sure. But heâs sitting pretty close to his average from last year.
Sure, there is a perception that FT woes are our weakness. Especially as a fanbase that has been traumatzed at times due to heartbreak in that regard.
And of course, our season FT% is going to be on a scouting report and appear to be a weakness compared to other teamâs season FT% which disregardâs head-to-head.
But the degree of impact related to fatigue in our games is too easy to miss for some. And it literally is real in our games (for both teams) vs overallâŚmoreso than most games we are not in.
And the team numbers do not lie. ~73% for us vs ~67% for our opponents. That is an advantage there for us no matter how you slice it (or whyâŚie stigma, fear, timing, pain, etc.). Nobody would want to swap those team numbers with each other and become the team that is lower by 6 percentage points. That IS a clear advantage.
Does that mean we wonât have our season end due to some missed free throws? Of course not - I fear it too. But it literally is not the teamâs weakness proven by the teamâs comparative numbers.
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Weâre one of the best teams in the country. We can win it all. We have a great shot at it and will continue to have a great shot at it for a long time. Itâs all you can ask. Iâm enjoying it.
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Itâs a lot more fun to nit pick âwhatâs holding us back from a championship?â Than what it used to be, âWhats holding is back from being relevant?â And that answer was always everything
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I saw that our SDST loss was downgraded to a Quad 2 loss. By only 2 places at thatâŚrough. and I still donât understand how Net is calculating this because while SDST has one really bad loss (Q3) they have some good wins overall, 3 Q1 wins including one Vs us. And VCU who is 15 places ahead of them has a Q4 loss and their only Q1 win is at Dayton who is right on the edge of Q1âŚI just donât get it.
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the lack of blowout wins is probably tanking their net by a good 10-15 spots
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Just in watching our team we can see weaknesses.
For me, the main motivator to comment on them is a desire to win a National Title.
We have 6 Final Four appearances without a Title.
In those past seasons we have seen opponents pick on our weakest foul shooters, to stop our offense, then get back the basketball. We saw that with PSJ.
It now is easily predictable that March Madness opponents will foul our PG and that he will miss the front end of a one-and-one.
Additionally our starting PF does not score. He is terrific on defense and rebounding. But doesnât score much.
Another killer for March Madness.
Yes, we are aware that Sampson knows all these things. And that some deficiencies are just not correctable.