I wonder if the Wilcher family made the trip out to Nevada… if so you will probably hear his screaming banshee mother even over the TV broadcast. She was the most annoying fan at the RAC over the last 10 years, and that includes the idiot that sits behind me and never shuts up, and is never right 😂Game is 3:30 pm. Same time as football game vs Mich State. Ugh. !
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CJ Wilcher - ex Nebraska player- plays for A&M.
Not sure if I follow the logic, I thought they would determine the home team based upon results. I believe the end RU was at first two games was the Home team end. Both A&M and RU are 3 seeds but not sure which was ahead of the other for Home team purposes, if that’s even how it works, not sure.We should have same bench, since A&M was visitor in game 1, we have been home team twice.
Isn’t CJ like 40 years old at this point?I wonder if the Wilcher family made the trip out to Nevada… if so you will probably hear his screaming banshee mother even over the TV broadcast. She was the most annoying fan at the RAC over the last 10 years, and that includes the idiot that sits behind me and never shuts up, and is never right 😂
Thought I read 1st through 4th get bonus payouts. ($500k, $250k, $150k, $100k). Regardless, no extra payout for this game.The winner of the Championship Game get 1.5 million. Everyone got a
1 million just to play.
Not sure if I follow the logic, I thought they would determine the home team based upon results. I believe the end RU was at first two games was the Home team end. Both A&M and RU are 3 seeds but not sure which was ahead of the other for Home team purposes, if that’s even how it works, not sure.
Zap, couldn't agree more on confidence. If you have talent & ability, confidence is the other key ingredient. Confidence allows you to play loose.Ranked team, a few days off.
Dylan and now Ace will be confident, can’t explain to you the importance of confidence.
Dylan’s had a slow start last night and still was able to dominate.
A win against T AM will catapult this team into a legit top half of the B1G team… easy NCAA qualifier
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7th in the nation in rebounding but they are not exactly a great offensive team and they dont shoot free throws all that well.
RU is going to get killed on the boards..thats a given. We have strengths though. We have the 2 best shotmakers on the court and if we can force turnovers and extra possessions that will put us in position to win
Looks like the most physical team we have played
They blew a 10 point lead with under 10 minutes left vs Oregon and lost by 10...a 20 point
True for both, but Derkack especially. There’s a reason he got more open looks than anyone. That’s who the D wants to shoot.If they went 1-3 then we still lose (lost by 5).
Also, if they shot 25% on Tuesday night we lose (We won by 1).
The point is expecting 3pt shooting to get better with Williams and Derkack taking them isn't a good strategy.
This is the exact type of game where we need Ogbole to come up bigBiggest issue with aTm is that they are FEROCIOUS on the glass, which is a terrible matchup for our rebounding-challenged team.
The Aggies are out-rebounding their opponents a whopping 45-32, and they have four absolute DAWGS who attack the boards relentlessly.
- 6-8, 250 Henry Coleman - averages 11.3 ppg and 7 rpg (4 OREB) in just 21 minutes
- 6-7, 220 Andersson Garcia - averages 6.1 ppg and 7 rpg in 25.6 minutes
- 6-9, 250 Pharrel Payne (yes, the Minnesota transfer) - averages 6 ppg and 5 rpg in 17.6 minutes
- 6-7, 220 Solomon Washington- averages 4.9 ppg and 6.3 rpg in 21.8 minutes
This is not even counting their top two scorers, 6-4 Zhuric Phelps and 6-0 Wade Taylor, who average 4.2 rpg and 4.0 rpg, respectively.
We are going to get DESTROYED on the boards unless Pike instills a game plan to sacrifice runouts for defensive rebounding. WE MUST DEDICATE OURSELVES TO TEAM REBOUNDING.
The good news is that aTm is not a good 3-pt shooting team. They are only averaging 31.4% from deep (53-169). So we will also have to sacrifice a little perimeter defense for crashing the defensive glass once a shot goes up, and just hope the Aggies don’t get too many second-chance kickouts and have an off night from deep.
If you emphasize everyone getting a body on someone and blocking out, then I think the opposite may be true.3 point scoring more likely to improve than rebounding.
Just my take based on what I’m seeing as a whole in the defensive end. We have to extend the D to stop 3. And we extend to try to force turnovers, which has been going well. But that doesn’t leave you in a good position to rebound. But we’ll see. I have a lot of faith in Pike.If you emphasize everyone getting a body on someone and blocking out, then I think the opposite may be true.
Football takes a ridiculous 4 hours for about 12 minutes of real action while basketball takes 2 hours for 40 minutes of action. I know which one I am watching and which one I am taping. It will actually be easy to watch the whole basketball game while recording the football game and after hoops ends switch over to the taped beginning of the football game and forward through it. You should catch up right about on time for the end of the football game.
I worry after this topsu turvy week that we won’t be as motivated to play. How do we match up?
i would like to see jmike stay on the bench tonight. totally out of control when he has the ball.I didn’t say defended. I said denied the ball. Focus on that will require his teammates to be excellent passers to get the ball back to him. My bet is JMike, Dercack etc take the shot they shouldn’t.
what time will you go to the bathroom ? lol geez no one cares about your itinerary.The 12:30 time slot works out perfectly for me.
Can check out of hotel, store the luggage, walk over to MGM, catch 2nd half of 1st game, RU game, watch end of MSU at TAP, catch 4pm game, maybe some of last game, out on Red-eye to Newark..
If we had beaten Bama, might have had to switch to midnight or later flight to JFK..
Figuring most A&M fans flew back for football..
If we don’t give too many 2nd chance points, we should win this one..
i would like to see jmike stay on the bench tonight. totally out of control when he has the ball.