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Jason Edwards scored 31. The rest of the team COMBINED scored 24. Kinda hard to blame a guy for not being a “closer” when he’s the one doing enough to make having a “closer” relevant

How did we get so bad at free throws?

this Pryor kid has to be the only person who looked at Chris Anderson and said..."ya, that looks cool...but maybe make my tattoos dumber"

Incoming…

Actual court mops have been ordered btw. Really annoying it took a player getting injured to do so.

The injuries are really hurting us. I think we win 2 of the games in this 4 of 5 stretch with a full roster.

We got to 52 points with 5:36 left in the game. Only scored 3 more the rest of the way. Poor free throw shooting was to blame but also, as great as Edwards was today, USF defended him very well in the second half, especially in the paint. Nobody else stepped up to provide offense.

I agree with @MeanGreen13 on this one. We have several young LBers on the team. I am optimistic they will get the best 3 on the field and be improved from last year. The defensive line scares the 💩out of me at the moment. I thought the needed to go out and add 2-3 285-310 Lb juco dl prior to Moore leaving. Now they are extremely low on numbers and size. We aimed for the stars right out of the gates. Going after 2 juco guys that went P5… then didn’t go after anymore. I felt like there was a handful of guys we could have got that would have been better than nothing. That is my biggest complaint at the moment. @Sanoe Valente and I are podcasting tonight and I will go into more details.

prophetic, huh?

If that’s a flagrant let’s just stop playing ball.

He was a lethal garbage time shooter last year.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind owning the NIT. Making it our tournament. With as much going on with the separation of the conferences in football, it's going to happen too with basketball. It would be nice to think of the NIT as the national championship for G5.

After thinking about the LB room more, there are a few things to be optimistic about. Jordan Brown is a solid LB. Ethan Wesloski played a lot last year. He showed improvement throughout the year and was the third leading tackler. JJ Jean Louis has the frame to play right away. He had a lot of decent offers out of HS. I hope he steps up and plays right away. We will need the 2 Juco transfers Chavez Brown and CJ Garnett to be solid contributors this year. They primarily played special teams last year. We also need young guys like Matthew Moore and Dietrich Moore to be in the fold as well. They both had impressive high school film. Matthew was a stud at his HS. Hopefully his redshirt year helped him get stronger. Dietrich was getting a lot of attention his JR year before he was hurt. I'm still worried about the DL room. They better hope a FCS or FBS bounceback commits this spring.

I have never seen a UNT team so afraid to shoot. It's as if no one wants the ball. Stone comes particularly to my mind, but I also saw some others give up looks when they were wide open.

When a defense ranks near the bottom of the entire FBS, major changes needed to be made, both in players and coaches. It was a disaster from game one to the end of season. Not making a DC change or adding 3x the amount of defensive players just says history will repeat itself again...

Well, turn about is fair play. Don't throw stones, etc. We are now in the same boat. The difference is, I don't think they have issues because of injuries....

The disparity and the efforts made to recruit offensive linemen compared to defensive linemen is borderline scary. I know I keep beating the proverbial dead horse, but this shows where Morris's priorities lay, and they're not even close. I will push for Morris and hope he does well, but if, in the end, he does not survive as our head coach, there are not going to be a lot of questions about why this happened. One of Leach's bad traits that I wish Morris had not picked up was his lack of emphasis on defense or the belief that his offense would consistently score enough. Also, as I've said before, it's getting harder for me to dump on Caponi when it looks like he is not given the support he needs to recruit players.

Edwards has been PHENOMENAL. Not many teams are winning games in the American missing their 2nd and 3rd best offensive players. Especially with a roster as defensive-minded as ours. There was NOBODY else on the court for us last night that can create their own shot. Nobody. And yet Edwards kept us in the game. Buggs can hit open 3’s. So can Scott, who can also hit a runner when he isn’t being guarded. Once or twice a game, Allen can back his man down and get a bucket. Walker might be good for a putback or two. But only Edwards, Rubin and CJ can put the ball on the floor and get to the basket. If you are missing two of those guys, it is not going to be good in the American. This season is still a fun ride. We can make noise in the conference tournament. And considering the staff/player turnover & injuries, a deep NIT or CBI run is still a successful season.

So it took losing a starter who slipped on a sweaty floor before we upgraded from towels to mops? It was bound to happen eventually, I guess. Injuries happen, I get it, but this? Who knows, maybe mops would not have made a difference in this case, but come on. Anyhow, a nice bounce back on the attendance front with 4,316. FTs hurt, but neither team lit it up from the charity stripe. Our team lives outside the arc and 1-9 (11.11%) in the second half is what did us in. We still have 4 more home games (1 more regular season home game than the previous seasons) to get our Super Pit mo-jo back and finish strong.

Memphis isn't ranked though?

Thanks. Well, we have a plethora of safeties as well. Of course a PWO is pretty risk free. I noticed TX St. picked up a transfer DL out of MI St. that I don't think we ever offered. We really needed that transfer out of Rice. Hopefully, someone, or a few someones, will show up soon.

I hope we return as many as we can and replace the ones who leave accordingly. Ideally Jones gets his “covid year” and returns to have one finally year with Scott. We replaced Allen with another transfer post who has a year left. Then look at Dixon, Morgan, and Moore and you if they can’t contribute upgrade them.

no reason to panic about anything really, i think we've seen some great performances while shorthanded, against really good teams. it is what it is, i think this team is built to really compete next year

AScott’s offensive regression has been tough to watch. Luckily his defense is so incredible he’s still a positive on the court.

Boy we can’t close to save our lives.

Someone has to step up and help out offensively. Edwards can't do it all himself. Buggs only took three shots, and Allen took four. In a shorthanded game like this, those guys need more attempts.

this is just dumb. what do you think college coaches coach?

It’s pretty remarkable how bad we are at closing out games in the end where we lead nearly the entire game.

That call was trash and cost us 4 pts

One of the most important parts of this second half is we only have 2 team fouls with 8 to go.

NT 48 -------- USF 45 8:04 to go Edwards is the first NT player with back to back 30 point games since Tristan Thompson.

USF 43 -------- NT 40 10:58 to go Edwards with 26 and we need all of them.

We might be witnessing the worst offensive game of Aaron Scott’s career tonight.

The University of West Florida has some ugly jerseys.

we have floor mops!

I wish they would update the music in the Super Pit. They've played the same 5-10 songs for the last 15 years. I know it has little to do with the attendance but this felt like a good place for my one complaint.

100%, the injury bug has cropped its ugly head. Look at any other team, even NBA, when you lose 2 starters, you aren't winning games against top of the conference. It's hard enough to win them full strength. To that point, if you look at the way we are still in games with these injuries, says a lot about our resilience and coaching. I believe in Boss Hodge.

Well, three straight losses sucks. After tonight, we're tied with Memphis for sixth place in the conference at 5-4. If we can't get in the Top 4 and earn a double bye, seeds 6-7 would be next favorable for fan attendance. https://theamerican.org/tournaments/?id=294 The sixth seed would play the winner of 11/14 on a Thursday at 8pm, and the #3 seed on Friday at 8pm. The seventh seed would play the #10 seed on Thursday at 6pm and the #2 seed on Friday at 6pm. Also worth noting, after the 11-14 seeds play two games on Wednesday night on ESPN+, all remaining games are on linear ESPN between ESPN2 and ESPNU, leading up to the championship game on Sunday, March 17th at 2:15 p.m. on ESPN Main.

The kid from Allen is a PWO and they are moving him to safety. But I agree with your concern about DL

He may not, but when you score 30 points, I feel like it shouldn't always be on one guy. I will say, he drew the foul in the SMU game to pretty much seal that one. It's tough to rely on one guy night in and night out. We got spoiled by TP.

Well... NIT? Consolation AAC ? What's the goal now? I bleed Green as much as the rest, but I will be the realist every game. 3 straight loses, 2 at home. What's our goal?

That question has been asked since he has got here. when I see him on the court I know we are in trouble.

Edwards is elite at the rim

I understand the logic behind it…. But having been on all ends of it in one way or another it shouldn’t affect anybody. Crowd noise is crowd noise rather on the road or at home if you can get through that mentally it will be better for you. People get loud and cheer at every game. Take it all the same along with the silence as well.

Fastest Moore has ever been put in a game.

Out: Rubin & CJ - ?? In: Moore & Cotton (should get some minutes) - ??

Any injury updates?

whoever gets to share that 3-bedroom apartment in sky is always gonna be treated to a nice stew.

That's what happened when the Pit Crew graduated. Someone tried to resurrect it years later, but then they graduated too, I believe. Wish they'd change the name back, because Maniacs is really lame.