BillySee58

They're making the tough ones too. We look outmatched on that end of the court right now

Exactly. Temara has zero confidence right now and Duffy doesn't look that far behind. And Lawson is not half the offensive player against a zone that he is against man.

Second half not going great. Cmon, guys

AJ!!

Really need these free throws today, AJ

Glad to see they are turning things around at a really good time

Exactly. If that is the case, the coach is doing a real disservice to his athlete. It's really sad how many high school coaches don't know the recruiting process, and/or don't understand college football (i.e. Refer to G5 schools as Division II, which I have seen numerous times) yet are in a position where the athletes and parents usually know less and look to the coach to guide them in the process.

Depending on which free throws we make, we likely get two more because I believe we missed the front end of the one and one two or three times. So that's more like 13-18 which is an additional 6 points, matching how much we lost by. Your point definitely still stands that the turnovers were a bigger issue, especially considering how well we were shooting, but the free throws were especially detrimental when you factor in missing the front end of the one and one.

Really good to see Smart finishing on his drives. That had been his only real weakness offensively. He was shooting the same inside the arc as he was outside the arc until recently. Very good development in his game, and makes defenses respect him when he puts the ball on the floor, where the weren't previously.

Man, really needed these results on that road trip. Way to go, ladies!

Bingo. Great effort, though. We're about as far as long as we could have hoped at this stage in year one without Gibson, Tikhonenko and J Simmons. Big homestand coming up. Let's make the Pit feel like it did back when we were last this good.

Simmons missed a layup and had a bad pass resulting in a turnover. Outside of that he played really solid post defense and was good on offense too. Impressed. Need to cut out those turnovers and do a better job making guys other than Potts and King beat us. We return 5 starters next year. MTSU loses their top 3 scorers and I haven't been that impressed by their other guys today. Hopefully this game will signal a passing of the CUSA torch

Sloppy passes and Potts and King can't miss. At least we are shooting well right now

Good article. This was the case last year at Arkansas State as well. If only we could start shooting threes as well as last year's Arkansas State team did, we'd really make ourselves dangerous come tourney time.

7-4 in conference. The last two seasons we were a combined 2-16 in conference play on the road. This year alone we are 4-2 in conference play on the road.

Nope

So many of our turnovers have been unforced errors this year. Many by Lawson and Holston, including now. Really need to be cleaning that up soon.

33-21 at halftime. Was looking like that would be one of our better and more impressive halves of the year until those last 4 or 5 minutes where we were very sloppy with the ball

23-7 under 8 in the first half. Starting to capitalize on offense. Good to see Smart come alive there

Some really bad passes and outside shooting by us are the only reasons this wasn't a 20-0 start. Hope that doesn't come back to bite us

Solid start. If we can get Smart going, and our 3s falling, this game would be ours to lose

Looking good! Hopefully this gets them going!

You're correct. An important note is that in order to backcount a scholarship to fill an empty spot from the previous class, the player being backcounted has to enroll in the spring or earlier. In example, if you signed 23 in 2018 and wanted to sign 27 in 2019, 2 of your spots would need to be on high school players graduating a semester early and enrolling in spring 2019, JUCO players enrolling in spring 2019, or FBS transfers enrolling in either fall 2018 or spring 2019. Those players would all normally count towards the 2019 class, but their initial counters could go back towards the 2018 class.

Gotta say, this is a very unique way of hashing out one of the oldest arguments in recruiting. I'm impressed

I don't. Just showing with and without them in case what is being reported regarding those three does not come to fruition. I count blue shirts with the recruiting class they are truly a part of, and not the class their initial counter is technically counted towards, in order to keep the events of each recruiting cycle apart from the others.