Oh man, if the Horns aren't ranked after this, there must be a conspiracy...

After losing to Oklahoma?
Explain yourself.

 

There are plenty of less deserving teams ranked . . .

 

I had a dream that RM95 actually came up with a take.

OU is ranked #4 for a reason, you know.

It's also not easy playing on a half-day's rest.

 

How far do you think the Horns will go this year?

Anything short of a Sweet Sixteen bid will be a disappointment.

Get ready to be disappointed. The only trip the Horns will be taking after next weekend is back to Austin. They won't lose a heartbreaker, I'm calling it right here, they're gonna get blown away by someone. I have a feeling.

Hey, so I hear spring practice has gotten underway?

 

I don't think anything short of the Sweet Sixteen is a dissapointment, not when the team is so young, if we still had Owens and Evans, yeah, I'd expect Sweet Sixteen - but I just want this team to be competitive.

 

Huh? Their current four best players are freshmen and sophomores. They've been without their best player for most of the year. They're not even ranked (undeservedly however). How is not making the sweet sixteen a disappointment?

 

I'm interested to see where they'll be seeded. They seem to be to be a Top 30 team or so.

20-11

Losses: 5 to Top 6 teams (2 in OT) (OU, OU, OU, KU, Gonzaga), 3 more to Top 25 teams (AU, OSU, IU), 1 loss to middle teams (Utah), and 2 losses to terrible teams (KSU, A&M)

Big Wins: 2 vs. Top 25 (OSU, Stanford), 5 more vs. Top 50ish (TT, TT, MU, MU, UNLV)

All in all, I think they could be anywhere from 20th to 30th in the country, which would equate to a 6-8 seed. I think they'll get a 7 seed, personally.

I think they should definitely win the first round game and have a real shot at beating the #2 seed in that scenario (Cinci, Oregon?, Alabama, Pitt seem to be the likely candidates).

 

They did try hard, they just didn't play well, and Oklahoma is a better team and took them out of their game.

 

Oh, the famous "their effort sucked" argument. Good one ZRB. Can you prove that? Dozens of teams may be playing on a half-day's rest, but how many of them went up against the #4 team in the country? They couldn't make shots, plain and simple. You're going to tell me James Thomas and Mouton simply weren't trying? Bah.

 

Thats not lack of effort - thats just playing poorly.

Say what you will about this team, but they always play hard. They don't always play well. But they always play hard.

 

Let's see which of these two explanations for UT's loss today sounds more reasonable:

1) Knowing they were facing losing 3 times this year to the same team, and playing for a chance at the Big 12 championship game, they decided "heck, let's just not try today"

or

2) UT played a tough game against Missouri late last night, then had to come out and play the #4 team in the country at 3pm the next day.

As always, we'll let the audience decide.

How is taking the #4 team in the country to overtime classify as 'getting their asses kicked bad'?

Convenient how Stanford, Tech, and OSU are overrated for the purposes of this discussion.

 

That doesn't have anything to do with effort though - when Deginald Erskin lost that ball on the fastbreak in the second half, that wasn't lack of effort, it was that he just didn't play well.

They tried hard, but they played poorly, because OU is a better team and a team that matches up with Texas extremely well(they do everything we do, just better).

I don't expect to beat the No. 4 team in the country on the road, I ask that they play hard, and they did.


As far as OSU, w/o a healthy Maurice Baker, they're nothing. Baker is the straw that stirs that drink.

 

Ah, but add one for beating Missouri with a hot Kareem Rush in a hostile environment and it evens out.

 

Regardless of whether or not you think they played hard today, this game proved that they are not deserving of a top 25 ranking...like it matters anyway. I don't care if they were playing the #4 team in the nation with a little bit less rest than them, they played like ass, and most of it was not the result of the fact that they were playing the #4 team.

So you think top 25 teams never play bad / without effort?