Game 20: #10 Houston @ TCU (W 79-70)

The thing that’s interesting about this is it doesn’t really address matchups. Honestly Tech is a nightmare matchup for us because of Toppin. Their #1 scorer is a forward and when teams have a scoring big against us who can pound the ball inside and draw fouls, that’s our major weakness. Not all of these teams we’re projected to lose to have this issue. Most of these outside of Iowa State are guard heavy and we can attend to shut those down with perimeter defense and clogging the lane preventing guards from getting to the rim. While I definitely think we lose 1-2 of these, I don’t think we lose all of them. Arizona at home is going to be an interesting one. I wanna see A. How strong AZ actually is. And B. If we’re mature enough for the challenge.

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-9 but thats mainly bc i don’t see the defense playing bad for 3 games in a row

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One of the better remodels. Yours’ is in that category too tho. In fact, I think Fertitta definitely looks better imo. I like the low ceiling, schollmaier still has the dome roof.

I don’t like those roofs as a general rule, but they actually did a pretty good job w/ it. That’s probably what makes it seem bigger to some.


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Nice Jumbotron. Im a stickler on those. Lots of outdated ones still hanging around.

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I feel sorry for TCU tonight, never fun to face UH but especially true after a loss

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Again…bet the over

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Well, they did win in ‘23, right after the Iowa State loss.

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Does Punch not start or is he still out?

Coaches see McFarland everyday at practice so I am pretty sure they have a handle on the situation. Guy hasn’t played in two years due to severe injuries and operations so I would assume his situation is under close scrutiny

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I heard we’ll never win it all without getting a big from the G league :confused:

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It’s crazy when you go into an arena that still has old pixelated jumbotrons… they could literally mount an 80" screen and it would be better…

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Anybody remember the video game Pong, by Atari? That is what I thought of when I saw the word pixelated.

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Only if you load it off a cassette tape onto a trash 80

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I hate 8pm starts…

@Kyle_Be_Coogin

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Trying to keep working until then but it’s getting ugly…

And now I just realized tip-off isn’t until 9 and I have a damn meeting at the same time… thought it started at 8 EST!!!

If AI could just take these damn meetings for me… :wink:

That means I’m going to have to record the 2nd half & watch it after the damn meeting… FML!

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The defense was bad against Arizona St? Lmao I must’ve missed that

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Seems like you have a late meeting every game night! Who do I need to call about this?

Taiwan…

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I hear ya. I do like them better when they are away games and I can head to bed after the game.

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