Green Lantern

It does suck that the lone home loss in a remarkable 15-1 campaign was to 1 of like 3 teams in the league you simply couldn’t afford to drop one to. A more “reasonable” home loss to middle of AAC team or above and we’re still squarely in the bubble conversation. Memphis, UNT and UAB are all NCAA Tournament caliber teams.

Well Atin going off for 42 capped a fun home season at the Pit. Good crowds and energy in the building these last two games. That first half was a real slog with all the media timeouts and stoppages in play. Really felt clunky with no rhythm to be established. Number 1 for Charlotte really gave us problems anytime Mou wasn’t on the floor. Would have liked to see us rebound a bit better, but was impressed several times with our rim protecting defense - especially Lorient. Guy is just a great athlete. Lets beat Temple and take care of business in Ft. Worth. See y’all down there next weekend!

Honestly the attendance thing is a little overblown this year. Difference last year is that we had a better slate of teams at home with SMU (close to 7200) and Memphis (close to 6,000) both playing at the Pit bringing the season average up last year. Outside of those it’s been pretty similar. Still wish it was better. Oregon State this season could have been a well attended game but the only way they agreed to it was to bury it in the Thanksgiving week break while the students were gone. Then we did nothing creative to market it to the local community who MIGHT have been able to take advantage of their time off with family to enjoy a good game against a name opponent. Oh well.

Yes. Another gritty win tonight for our Mean Green! Props to WSU for a hard fought game. Was very impressed with their aggressiveness and physicality. Quality off ball movement. They made us earn this one. Should also note that they had a nice visiting fan contingent. Imagine what that would be like if they found their program form again. Really like being in a conference with them.

Great Florida road swing! Pumped we got both of these games, capped by our most complete AAC game of the season.

Me not caring how we get out of the State of Florida with another win as long as we pull it off. “We don’t care how you get here folks, just get here.”

For sure. If we get out of the State of Florida with 2 W’s I’m going to be a very happy fan.

I’d like to hear more about this “new college basketball landscape”.

Way to tough out a close road W. Fought through the foul trouble situation. Again - not the cleanest game but very gritty.

Yes our guard play is most definitely an area of concern as we approach the AAC Tournament.

We did. I can live with this one much more than the UTSA fiasco. But on that last possession, guard play/decision making reared its ugly head again. Something to keep an eye on.

It really wasn’t. Likely, probably not. Possible before the fart and fall down against a shitty UTSA team, yes. Bare minimum, a couple more wins would have kept the program in the conversation for braketologists to plaster all over social media & probably getting a few votes for the AP and Coaches Top 25 polls. Not hang the banner type stuff, but still something for a progressing program. @Censored by Laurie’s point about our trajectory not really having changed - needing to win Ft Worth is true. I just feel way worse about our neutral court chances than I did prior to Saturday. Our guard play has become (maybe it always was) very worrisome.

It is hard to go unscathed in league play, no denying that. UTSA is not good, also no denying that. They just got run by like 20 against FAU. Fans are going to be pissed (myself included) that we had to have this game, at this time, to play some of the worst basketball of the GMac/Hodge era. It just feels so North Texas. Probably unfair cause basketball comes through more regularly than just about any sport we have - but it is what it is. Honestly, these past several games I’ve become increasingly concerned with our guard play. Today was a massive red flag in that regard. Then layer on the fact that UTSA managed to neutralize Sissoko today, and it gives me concern about the ceiling on this thing.

Absolutely pathetic showing. Horrendous decision making with the basketball all night. Careless turnovers. What a waste in front of a good crowd. You don’t deserve to be in NCAA Tournament discussion with a loss like that. Inexcusable.

An absolutely horrific half of basketball. Embarrassing effort.