Game 26: #5 Houston @ Arizona St; (W 80-65)

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The old Arizona two-step. Knocking off the Cats in their house was clearly the much harder task on paper. By the usual logic AZ St is set up to be a letdown/trap game. But Coach K (the real Coach K, sorry Dookies) has never let us have that kind of letdown in my memory so while nothing is guaranteed I am confident we’ll give the Sun Devils the respect they deserve, and if we play to our potential we should get it done.

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I’ll be there watching!!

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Sundevils home unis pink on black ?

Tight game ASU down 3 to TCU with 53secs to go

100% agree.

Further, if we have to go 1-1 in Arizona this week, even then, we picked the right one to win.

But yup, now it’s time to get greedy! Go Coogs!

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TCU beats ASU 74-70… a wild ending in the last minute with missed FTs and inbound violation by ASU

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Good result here.

Texas Tech plays at TCU Tuesday. Maybe the Horned Frogs :frog: can pull an upset

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The frogs go hard in the last five minutes.

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Watched ASU vs TCU and will probably rewatch it b4 our game and these are my quick thoughts:

Athletic, Tall, Fast

Young, Undisciplined, Out of Control Play

Feeling good about Tuesday game :wink:

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That’s what she said. They are, after all, h—ny toads.,)

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You gotta hand it to Izzo. After all these years he keeps putting his team in the mix. Michigan State a quiet #10 in the country.

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These are the games that make me nervous.

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UH can easily undo Saturday’s win against Arizona with a loss to Arizona St.

Respect your opponent.

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The good thing is we’re established enough that our good wins count for more than our losses

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A CKS team respects every opponent whether it is PVAMU or Arizona State. Now fans otoh are in their own world.

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Better set your DVRs to record ESPNNEWS as well as ESPN2 on Tuesday. Only ESPN thinks a college game will finish in 2 hours. There was less than a minute left in the first half of the Syracuse-UNC game by the time they cut over from Alabama-auburn.

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They should do two and a half hour time slots

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Two hours was a good time. Even with the last minute fouls, you could finish in two hours. But now, we have reviews by the officials whether or not to put 2 tenths of a second on the clock, whether the 30 second shot clock expired, whether a foul is a flagrant foul or not. It all adds up.

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I mostly agree.

But - aside from looking only at our W-L numbers with blinders on - handing a loss to AZ is (at least in the grand scheme) a tad more valuable than putting a loss on ASU given each’s location in the current standings

So I don’t think a loss on Tuesday would “completely” undo this win over AZ. And if you could only choose to win one of these 2 in Arizona, I contend we chose the right one.

Of course, what you say is still 100% the way to approach it for the team. And yup, I think it would feel like a complete wash at this point if we were to lose Tuesday. So - I agree - let’s keep winning!

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