Only a matter of time. Jay’s eyes light up when talking about Eli, dont they?
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We have definitely used walk ons and redshirts for pregame material before.
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Seriously, what I wanted to post: JWilly described iMac’s status as “day to day.” If that’s the case, that doesn’t sound like they’re expecting him to miss much time, and if there’s any question at all about his health, I would think he doesn’t play tonight. Much more important to get him rest and let him heal. We should be able to win without him.
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I actually know nothing about our opponent tonight. Who has the deets?
My general vibe without any information is that it’s a trap game with potential tired legs, missing iMac and looking ahead to fort Myers.
Plus the universe is likely looking to give us something real to complain about
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Summarizing for those like myself who to this point hadn’t looked into our opponent:
Texas Southern on the season is 0-2 with losses to:
@New Mexico (1-1) 92-55
@Arizona St (1-1) 63-52
Starting 5:
G PJ Henry SR / 5’10 177 lbs - 9.5 ppg - 3 rpg - 1.5 apg - 21.1 FG%
G Jonathan Cisse SR / 6’1 160 lbs - 9.5 ppg - 2.5 rpg - 4 apg - 23.1 FG%
F Jahmar Young Jr SR / 6’11 240 lbs - 6.5 ppg - 5 rpg - 1 apg - 55.6 FG%
F Kenny Hunter JR / 6’8 236 lbs - 4 ppg - 7 rpg - 1 apg - 44.4 FG%
F Shaqir O’Neal SO / 6’8 201 lbs - 5 ppg - 3.5 rpg - 1 apg - 60 FG%
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All I know is their offense is really bad. We shouldn’t have any trouble but then again, you never know.
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Johnny Jones and Shaq’s son.
But yeah, can we please stop doing the “why is this Cory thing a big deal?”**. You all KNOW why this is a big deal. Non-UVa college sports folks who talk about UVa this year are talking about Ryan Dunn and Cory Alexander. If you all want to blame me (and everyone else who’s discussing this here) for that, yeah, sure fine. Go for it.
** No, of course not! That’s what we do. We raise issues, and then we discuss whether those issues should be raised. I get it. I get it. But do I? I don’t know.
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Both Torvik and KenPom forecast Texas Southern winning the SWAC again, so we may be playing a tournament team, which is the kind of thing Danny Neckel can spin into a stat late in the year.
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226 on Kenpom. Tarlenton 212 fyi
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TAR and TS in a race for least creampuffy cupcake on the schedule. I’m going with TAR, but might be TS
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Texas Southern has been a 16 seed a few times under Jones
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Ummm … is this a typo? 6-11, 140?
Lol, unfortunately yes - 240. They seem like a pretty big team
yeah, I get it. But I have 3 “I don’t care” categories:
- I don’t care
- I don’t care and I don’t know why you care
- I don’t care and I don’t know why you care and I feel the need to discuss this
I guess I don’t understand why this falls into category #3 for you and others, esp. given we are less than 24 hours from Cory telling his story, AND Cory will be doing color tonight (at least that’s what I heard)
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yep - corrected Also had typed Texas State, glad theres an edit feature
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Thought that movie was terribly overrated
Oh, I will go off on such a Lydia Tar tangent that you’ll all be begging me to discuss Cory-gate again! Ha- ha! (okay, I promise not to…)
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Hmmm big bodies, quick guards. Three consecutive tourney appearances.
We are 43.4% on the year from three (and opponents only 26.1%). Missing our best floor spacer / marksman. Things going to equalize at some point.
Texas Southern covers tonight folks.
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What’s the line?
A: looks like between 22.5 and 23.5. My prediction: iMac doesn’t play and we still cover. But my predictions are usually bad
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Counterpoint: Their highest 3P% ever under Jones was 32.1%, which was good for #284 in the nation in 2018-19. Last year they were #361 out of 363 teams. Looks like a low variance kind of opponent, like (Lydia) TAR.
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The great thing about Tár is that it is overrated and really good.
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