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This has nothing to do with why Abou was missing. If he had a family emergency, then he had to go, and that is understandable. Family is important. But concerning the Sissoko vs Abou debate on the field: In theory Abou is further along. he is technically better, knows where he oughta be and has that hook that can be really nice when it works and it may feel like the ceiling and floor should be higher than Sissokos. Except of late he failed to be decisive way to often, and performing much closer to his floor than his ceiling someqhat frequently. opponents sometimes almost dared UNT to go to him on a 1 on 1 alone at the hoop. Meanwhile Sissoko has been working on raising his ceiling, and performed like it fairly frequently.

on pace for 80+

Wow. You are planning to do ASU even dirtier than UNT did with coach Mac. I am impressed. To be clear UNT didn't really do anything wrong when it comes to Mac and ASU, but i feel folks at ASU were somewhat unhappy to learn UNT saw itself as powerful and money-abundant enough to take their coach whenever it wants and then go and execute on it without ASU being able to do anything about it. Said something about the hierarchy of things.

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I am not sure what to make of the Wyoming game. I do wonder however who the 4th OOC game in 2024 will be. NT needs a home game with an FBS, as there are already two away games and the only home game SFA. I hear Oklahoma isn't playing that much in Texas that year (probably once) and only has two OOC home games scheduled so far, so space to come one more time to Texas in OOC 😉

If there were to be a hire after this season, I think UNT could really do worse. The man really deserves respect. But I also think it could do better.

I would looove to see the +/- Have a feeling I know what they will show, but sometimes those feelings are wrong.

20 horrible minutes (firs ten in each half). The effort -even of those players that had a bad night- was great. Credit also needs to be given to UAB. whenever UNT was about to get there, they responded. Also made pretty much all their FTs down the stretch to put it away. It will be an NIT home game I would strongly assume.

Can't fault the effort by any of the guys. Just the control and understanding at times.

I am greedy man. After being down by 20 I should probably be happy that it is only -7 at the half. But with 50 secs to go it sure felt like they could cut it to about 3.

Sissoko having more minutes than Ousmane so far. And with how they both played in this game, that is the way it should be.

get it to about ten in this half, and it can be done. Also, if UAB keeps fouling like that, there will be additional problems for them.

wow. I did think it could only get better after the first 7 minutes. But it has only gotten worse.

Too early. I trust that this team can climb back into a game.

Ousmane needs to come out. He is letting the UAB defense eat his lunch, when that is absolutely not necessary. Maybe coming back in later he'll be better

FIFY. I think that love mostly vanished when he left for -of all places - UT

FAU is really trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,, but to be fair MTSU is giving it a mighty push.

wow refs teeing up an injured MT bench player for something he said. I feel they could have done that without the technical

welll... what do I know. Looks like FAU wants to turn this back into a match. Lead back down to 6

Looks like MTSUs basketball season is about 20 minutes from its end. Very hard to imagine they come back from this deficit against FAU. Well, maybe they play in the CBI or somesuch.

Two consecutive beat downs have UNT back up to 36th in NET (jumping 6! spots from yesterday to today). currently 41st in KenPom. If they could also beat down UAB -a lot tougher to do than to do it to WKU and LaTech obvjously - I just think it could actually really propell them into the at-large range, as it would probably also improve the Kenpom quite a bit. Why that hope: https://bracketologists.com/visualizations/net-kenpom-scatter If you look at the scatterplot of where teams are and what kind of ranking was good enough for ALL teams ranked better in the past 3 years, you see UNT really close to that cut line now. For example: in 2021 and 2022 no team ranked 38th or better in NET was left out.

If i were the AD I would probably tend to pull the trigger this year. It was a horrible year, and even JMs best years it never really felt as if she was about to win the conference. She has made the semi-final twice, never advanced to the final, never been a top three seed either, i.e. never really contended for a regular season title either, never even won division (when that was a thing). Her teams were seeded outside the top 10 more often than in the top 4. Also, we may not know what JMs ceiling is, but even the best case scenario still doesn't feel like an NCAA bid in the next 2 years. Given how long she has been at this, that kind of is below the line, and it is probably time to throw the dice on somebody new. But I get the hesitancy by some. it always seems like there is reason to believe that next season is gonna be better, and after two decent seasons, this season feels a bit like an aberration. However it could be just as likely that the two prior years were a bit of a longer outlier and she has just trouble developing players and team chemistry.

It probably doesn't matter for UNT in terms of the NCAA tournament (and i don't think we really had a bid stealer there yet). However when those lower rung conferences have the regular season winner upset, that usually means a NIT bid goes away. Not that UNT shouldn't get an NIT bid anyway, as likely 10-15 such upsets would have to happen for that to affect UNT other than who they are playing should they end up in the NIT.

If it is really 22 million with the current 10 team lineup, then at least one school is gonna refuse the grant of rights. And that will create a domino effect. And if the membership changes you can guarantee that tv companies are gonna have clauses in this one where they get out of it or reduce payment very substantially if current members leave, because it is too likely to happen and they have to protect themselves against that risk. At that point the money will probably end up being a lot closer to the AAC than to the Big12.

So there are trackers for this kind of thing. https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/team/north-texas-mean-green/2022 https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/grid The guy who voted for UNT was David Jones from Pennsylvania. He is not afraid to go against the grain a bit it seems from his ballot. https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/pollster/david-jones/2022/week-18