Kris is breaking UH basketball news on his stream on the Houston Roundball Review:
The series between Auburn and Houston hasn’t officially been finalized due to the firing of Pez and the interim out of town.
Oct 27th, Exhibition game between Houston and Texas A&M for charity is taking place at TSU Arena
The Las Vegas tournament game between Houston and Alabama might move due to Duke vs Kansas taking place on the same day at the same arena.
Texas A&M is in the Vegas MTE, We could end playing them twice…i was hoping to meet them in the MTE, now im hoping we meet Creighton
hope the charity exhibition is televised
also pez wasnt fired right away, he techincally wasnt let go till today, did he just chose not to sign as a form of protest?
but outside of potentially having to play them again later in the season (which i dont like- there will not be a bigger upset alert radar than that game… playing a team 4 times in a short win, when they reurn everyone)
but A&M as a scrimmage opponents is actually elite…its a a great early test that adresses a ton of our weakness
can uzan defend wade taylor? might not have a tougher matchup all year
can we rebound? elite offensive rebounding team- might not have a touger rebounding challenge all year
they played us close in both recent games and return so much, they will be familiar with our system now - there wont be a shock factor like with new opponents, it will be about improving the system
there likley will not be a more motivated scrimmage opponent - we ended their season, we are neighbors, in a game that came to the wire… and that last game single handledly gave wade taylor most of the backlash he has gotten… they’ll be motivated
it’ll be a packed house to simulate a real game
this will be an elite barometer of our weaknesses, improvements of offense… and quantifyier on if mccarthy/mercy should redshirt - wont affect eligibility
Love it.
Why at TSU? They could just have it at Fertitta. It’s across the street.
Are tix on sale ?
Can’t wait for the concessions at TSU.
@UHCoog Kris Gardner said this scrimmage was for charity.
To use the Toyota Center, honestly i dont how big the crowds will be for a scrimmage
I think a smaller, cheaper arena makes sense
Total attendance maybe: 3-4K is my prediction
Anytime the Coogs and Agy play the place is going to be packed or very close to it.
Why Toyota? Does Auburn basketball draw that well??
we signed a 2 year contract with the event organizers…
Houston vs A&M/ Texas vs LSU were the year 1 opponents … we were the only ones commited for year 2 at the time… there was likely an expectation for some bigger name …particularly in the other game
the fact we have to do a nuetral in alabama next year, shows concessions had to be made to even land them
I mentioned Fertitta though. Not Toyota. Fertitta is smaller than HP&E (TSU).
My bad. I wonder if Fertita is being used for Volleyball that day? Good question
no body is ever fully prepared to play a CKS defense. A$M may have fouled us out last game, but that was some on officials, they were gassed.
Some teams like TT and KSU, when down 30+pts in fourth just mailed it in.
I guess that we can apply this to the rest of the Big 12, right?
Not necessarily, A&M is basically returning its entire roster and we were their last game
Returning a lot of player and finding success late in our last games is a good sign that the shock factor of our traps is gone
Most big 12 are flipping rosters, most of them didn’t didn’t figure us out on our last games either… Iowa state is the only big 12 that I think checks both boxes
They also got to play us twice. I hope they have a good year. It should be a fun game.
But if I was an Aggie fan I would be concerned about Phelps and Taylor in the backcourt. Ifthey’re on they’re on. But they could also both just start shooting A&M out of the game.
Obviously they need to shoot more consistently for A&M to find consistent success.
But the best thing going for them is Obaseki continues to play at a high level.
But they’re scary because they can be hot
Nice! The day after the Utah football game.
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