No. 13 Baylor (4-1) takes on No. 11 Tennessee (5-0) in the championship game of the Baha Mar Championship Friday, Nov. 22 at 8:30 p.m. CT. The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network.
KenPom Prediction: Tennessee 74, Baylor 71
Torvik Prediction: Tennessee 72, Baylor 70
Haslametrics: Tennessee 76, Baylor 73
IowaBear said:
It's hard to find positives with 2 ass beating of this proportion this early and another coming in 2 weeks vs UCONN. It's gonna be one of those seasons where we win a few shootouts against ok/good teams and get absolutely wrecked by the elite teams
Yep. We're basically streaky. Shot 14% from 3 against Gonzaga, 29% vs. Arkansas, shooting 23% tonight. But shot 50% vs. St. John's. So we'll be fine the nights we're on. Otherwise, could get run out of the gym by any legit team.IowaBear said:
I said it last night. But it really does feel like the staff goes into each game hoping to outgun the opponent. They sure as **** don't go in thinking defense is gonna win them the game.
The part that worries me is that we have unintentionally gamed the system. People think this is an efficient offensive team because of the stats when in fact we've gamed the stats by what we did with Sam Houston and Tarleton and that won't hold up against someone like Tennessee, KU, ISU, UH, etc.IowaBear said:
Will we though? We shot as you said 50% from 3 and squeaked out a miracle vs a SJ team who finishes 6th in the B12. We're going to constantly be I. Tight games (when we're not getting blown out) because there's zero ability to string 3,4,5 stops together. It's 1 easy bucket after the next.
KU, Iowa St and UH are all a notch way above everyone else in the conference.IowaBear said:
That's been the problem for multiple years. Incredibly streaky shooting with minimal consistency. I just don't see us beating any of the conferences top dawgs barring a complete 180. Granted you never count Drew out.
Big12Fan2024 said:
I would just hide the women and children when we go to Storrs. Our slow reaction on D to ball movement combined with UConn's incredibly fast ball movement is gonna result in a lot of wide open shots for them. If they're hitting them then we will likely have another Gonzaga game or game like this on our hands.
What did he say? Since we have only 8 guys who can play, I don't see how any of them could lose significant minutes.Big12Fan2024 said:
After listening to Drew it sounds like significant changes are coming to the starting lineup, playing minutes and overall strategy as it should be. There are a couple of guys who need to be low minute role players only or purely situational guys. This is unfortunately a year when the starters have to all play 30+ minutes.
Drew was fair to everyone and gave all of them an opportunity to show what they have through 6 games which is roughly 20% of our season already.
If you have ever played a sport you will know fatigue is a real thing. All of these things can be true at the same time. We were clearly exhausted playing a 7.5 man rotation 24 hours after an emotional double-overtime game. At the same time, we are a bad defensive team. But our physical and emotional exhaustion made us look much worse than we are.IvanBear said:
I don't buy this we were tired. We're a bad defensive team and our offense is based on throwing up prayers and hoping omier rebounds.
Baylor’s schedule has been a GAUNTLET thus far:
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No. 3 Gonzaga
No. 11 Tennessee
No. 20 Arkansas
No. 22 St. John’s
And they still have to play UConn before conference play. Shoutout Scott Drew for scheduling an elite non-con.
For a team starting 2 transfers and a freshman,… pic.twitter.com/oukZLwOJhX
