Matt from A700

You right, my bad.

Losing on a Monday and having to sulk in this defeat all week sucks. Second straight loss for the first time this season makes it more anxiety-inducing. Need these next three vs. Tulane, Rice, and Tulsa before our Florida trip.

Andy Kennedy told his guys not to foul on the last possession because he knew we had no plan.

Bracing myself for another heartbreaking finish.

We are a good defensive team overall but other teams still get a few easy, uncontested shots every game. We get none.

Terrible terrible three possessions. 0-2 at the free throw line, jump ball on what should have been a foul call, and a blown layup. WHY MUST WE MAKE EVERY GAME COME DOWN TO THE LAST MINUTE

He definitely yells at refs but he always seems to know the limit before getting a technical. Maybe he should go overboard one of these days.

When's the last time he's taken a 3?

I think it's definitely something Ross should think about. We have one confident shooter in the starting lineup. That is not good.

Hate that we gave up the lead. Although we are playing more our pace than what transpired in the first half of the meeting in Denton. Our guys are obviously not very confident on offense. Is that the result of playing such a slow pace? We get so few possessions - does that put too much pressure on the team to overthink every shot opportunity they get?

Liked our pace after the first media timeout.

If we have already witnessed our guards peak...

Before this weekend I was thinking the same for us after the way UAB lost in Denton.

5/13 for me. Super Pit, UNT (x85) Tudor Fieldhouse, Rice (x2, x3 next week) Koch Arena, Wichita State FedEx Forum, Memphis Convocation Center, UTSA I am a state highpointer (I've summited 34/50 so far), so getting up to Philadelphia for a game against Temple is intriguing as it would allow me to collect two more high points (DE, NJ). I had planned to go for football but cancelled after the football game at UTSA. Hopefully we'll get an @ UAB game on a Saturday someday soon, as I'd like to take in that rivalry in Birmingham one day.

Well, the Luka Doncic news kinda takes the sting out of yesterday's loss for me - you know, in a "kick me in the balls while I have a migraine" type of way.

I wasn't betting on us to win out, but losses at UAB and MAYBE Temple were the only ones I would excuse.

I can adhere to that. I'm not a monster.

Tuesday's game in San Antonio will still give us the tiebreaking win and first place if we win. Need to show up and finish the game.

I didn't realize it. I definitely give today's crowd credit for staying in the game. Mou made the first shot of the second half and it felt like everyone was in it and believed in the comeback.

@CMJ, respectfully, you can suck it. We're gonna need to change some things up if we want to beat UAB on the road Monday night. So I'm starting the game thread this time. DEAL WITH IT!

Everyone has bad losses throughout the season. Sucks it had to be UTSA, who is not a good team, in front of our biggest crowd. But while some find it easy to say "just like UNT" to shit the bed in front of a good crowd, again, I remind you this is probably the first loss for basketball in front of a big crowd since the 2022 NIT game against Virginia. We're still a combined 21-2 at The Pit this year. But it makes me sick those two losses are against SMU and UTSA. I don't care how bad UTSA is, they should be a game that is circled on our calendar each year as a must-win.

Perfect tailgate weather.

With the ACC news this week, looks like the American is safe for now. The PAC-12 is not getting a media deal any better than the American, and apparently multiple networks have already passed on the Pac. Knowing this now, this my current preferred path for the AAC: Add Texas State and James Madison as all-sport members. This gets your football league to 16 members. Separate into divisions. There's an easy path to stay at eight conference games or go to nine. Add VCU and Dayton as non-football members. This gets your basketball league to 18 members. You can play one rival twice, and everyone else once. Give programs 10-15 year deadlines to upgrade/build new facilities that are lacking - looking at UTSA, Rice, and FAU's high school gyms.

I want to agree with that, but have never been inside that building so I don't know if it's possible. I definitely would like to convert it into our own women's arena like Memphis has, if it's feasible. Also, I didn't read the clubhouse article till the end of the day and noticed the clubhouse will include the patio. Inside sources indicate this is the right field party deck we've been waiting for. I can't wait to see renderings of that. Once that grandstand is finally expanded we will be hosting conference championships in Denton.

We better. The loss last year is probably the worst I've taken in at The Pit.