Bulls take their 1st lead at the 11:18 mark, 16-17. Without Fiedler on the court, Owls offense is a mess.

Owls right the ship and go on 12-0 run. 28-17 with 7:27 to play in 1H.

40-31 at the half. Fiedler and Mason with 11 pts each.

Selby and one makes it 55-43 with about 15 to play.

Couple of Owl turnovers close it to 62-55.

Just tuned in. Saw a couple of useless Owls possessions. Lead isn't safe with such laxness. Will it improve?

Owls leading in turnovers 12-4. Grrr.

(01-12-2024 08:32 PM)aged zebra Wrote:  Just tuned in. Saw a couple of useless Owls possessions. Lead isn't safe with such laxness. Will it improve?

Au contraire mon frere

Owls led most of the way but lost the lead at 2:03 left.

This one’s not over but 71-74 in the last minute and we’re fouling to get them to the line

(01-12-2024 07:24 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Bulls take their 1st lead at the 11:18 mark, 16-17. Without Fiedler on the court, Owls offense is a mess.

Rice scored next to make it 18-17.
Bulls took their second lead at 68-70 with 2:03 left.


And the Bulls are making the FT so 71-78 :21 ticks left

Caught the game on ESPNU. First time I’ve watched this team in a while. Really disappointing loss. They just collapsed as soon as USF found some life.

Owls out shot and out rebounded USF, but 28 USF points off of 18 Owl turnovers along with a nearly 7 minute scoreless drought from the field, lead to another disappointing, but typical, loss - 73-81.

73-79 Rice timeout with :07

I’m not sure I have a play for this situation.

Recommend to try this:
Steal the inbound pass to the open guy for a 3Pt.
If you can do that in 3 seconds then run it again and you’re in OT

Rice's stagnant offense did them in once again despite having one of their better shooting days. Having said that, the refs did them no favors. USF players, particularly their center, was flopping and over-exaggerating the contact on every drive to the basket. Conversely, many of USF's forced turnovers down the stretch could have been called fouls, but weren't. There was definitely some favorable home calls in play there.

Just stick a fork in all 3 of the major men’s programs for attracting any new interest and more importantly retaining any current and past interest.

(01-12-2024 09:33 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  Just stick a fork in all 3 of the major men’s programs for attracting any new interest and more importantly retaining any current and past interest.

Don't worry, Tiki, Tommy has lots of plans to hire great coaches to turn all three programs around; he just hasn't told anyone yet! Or he could be Karlgaard without the "PhD". Who knows!

(01-12-2024 09:33 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Rice's stagnant offense did them in once again despite having one of their better shooting days. Having said that, the refs did them no favors. USF players, particularly their center, was flopping and over-exaggerating the contact on every drive to the basket. Conversely, many of USF's forced turnovers down the stretch could have been called fouls, but weren't. There was definitely some favorable home calls in play there.

Good idea. Let’s talk about the refs and not the fact that the team stinks.

(01-13-2024 09:38 AM)jowls13 Wrote:  

(01-12-2024 09:33 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Rice's stagnant offense did them in once again despite having one of their better shooting days. Having said that, the refs did them no favors. USF players, particularly their center, was flopping and over-exaggerating the contact on every drive to the basket. Conversely, many of USF's forced turnovers down the stretch could have been called fouls, but weren't. There was definitely some favorable home calls in play there.

Good idea. Let’s talk about the refs and not the fact that the team stinks.

Ok.

I’m glad our guys have improved to the point where we *could* gripe about the refs making a difference in any game.

That’s a measurable improvement from the OOC in Nov/Dec

According to Pomeroy, Rice would be the 7th team in the Ivy League.