Ranking our Remaining 7 Games...

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CST Bear
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by most winnable to most difficult

7. v Texas
6. @ WV
5. v KU
4. @ TCU
3. v UH
2. @ Tech
1. @ BYU

I think 4-3 is attainable, 5-2 would be great...6-1 wins us the top seed (if we beat UH)

What say you?
guadalupeoso
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7. @WVU
6. Texas
5 @TCU
4. @BYU
3.v KU
2. @Tech
1. v UH

None are easy though. Could see us losing any one of these. I understand that BYU is a tough enviornment, but I don't think their team is near as good as KU, Tech, or UH. But we haven't been great on the road, so tough call.
IowaBear
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Wv is the easiest game left. They are horrendous. And I don't care that they beat Ku. KU sucks donkey balls away from Lawrence. If we want any chance of staying in the title race Saturday is a must W. And frankly we should win that.
The rest are crap shoots. I like our chances vs Texas at home. Still think we drop 3 more
Quinton
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7@ WVU
6 v Texas
5 @Tcu
4 v Ku, Self will be ready and they will probably be healthier. But we typically split with Ku home v home
3 v Uh, close to Ku but Sampson will be gunning hard for this one and they always play hard.
2 @Tech
1 @Byu

Road trumps raw opponent strength in my view. Not really high on Tech but their home environment is very difficult to perform in. @ Byu is clearly the toughest.
BUCANDOIT82
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No way we turn it over in Waco like we did in Kansas.
Crawfoso1973
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It sounds cliche, but just focus on the next one. Any game is winnable or loseable in this conference.
IowaBear
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Id still put Houston at 1. I actually think we match up quite well with BYU. The key I've seen from watching them is making them uncomfortable right away. They jumped on teams early in Provo much like KU does in Lawrence.
Than again I could see us laying an egg Saturday in Morgantown so anything's possible
Quinton
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I think @ byu is significantly harder than home V Houston. I expect to win every home game including Houston. Every decent team they've played on the road has gone down to the wire.

Ball handling is critical. We hit corner 3s at a very high clip and they are there against Houston. Not a given but road games are just so much harder. I barely look at matchups when getting blitzed early on the road is almost an expectation at this point. Would love to be wrong

BearlyBeloved
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Crawfoso1973 said:

It sounds cliche, but just focus on the next one. Any game is winnable or loseable in this conference.
And the people said, "Amen!"
TXBEAR_bf
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Too bad we don't have old guard playing against Cryer to make it personal. Pretty much all new guys with zero history.
Bear living in the woods of Bend Oregon
historian
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4. We have split with Kansas every year since 2020. They were all home wins except 2020 when we got our only win at Allen Field House. In my mind, that's a special statistic. I don't know if any other Big 12 team can claim that. Probably not.
bear2be2
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One thing people frequently fail to take into account with Scott Drew teams is that we rarely have a large drop-off from home to road. In fact, we're largely the same team both places. That can be frustrating at home because we usually drop a game or two we shouldn't every year. But it's a really good thing away from Waco because we almost always have one of the league's best road records.

Even this year, while we've lost a few road games in league play, every single one of them was a one-possession game we could have won.

If you look across the league virtually everyone else has had games where they've gotten run off the court away from home. That rarely ever happens to us. We also rarely run teams off the floor in our home gym. But that gives us a chance in every game remaining on our schedule.

If we continue our trend of playing better basketball, I like our chances of finishing strong. We seem to be peaking at the right time.

historian
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Good point. In that sense we are somewhat like Kansas with a history of winning road games in league play. Not this year!
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