Uphill battle, Houston is very tough at home this year. Ours guys battled.
These two teams may be the top 2 in the conference? Both have to mostly win out.
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These two teams may be the top 2 in the conference? Both have to mostly win out.
We needed to be great and we didn't quite get there. That said, make one more 3, one bunny and a couple more fts and it comes down to the wire. We don't quit and I love that about this team.
The loss hurts, especially in the conference race but there's still a lot in front of us. Rest up and avoid a hangover game Saturday.
The loss hurts, especially in the conference race but there's still a lot in front of us. Rest up and avoid a hangover game Saturday.
A big part of that was what was being shot at that point in the game though. They were taking (and making) a lot of 3s.
This is spot on. We have to worry about ourselves. Make free throws and layups and win the turnover battle which we obviously did not tonight. Houston is good and so are we.
Great effort, we started slow, but came on strong. Free throw difference UH 24/32 while ISU was 10/15, we out rebounded UH 39 to 30, 9 of 17 from 3, while they were 7 of 24. Steals and turnovers were the killers for us today, UH was +8 on steals and we lost the TO battle 16 to 9.
We will see them again, great effort, lets move on to WV at home.
We will see them again, great effort, lets move on to WV at home.
At Baylor and at Oklahoma, they get KU at home, but last game of year when Self has KU playing it's best.
This is the game that we will look back on with gratitude when we’re playing in Phoenix and out-toughing nearly everybody.
I really think it’s us, Houston, UConn that are the toughest groups this year. And I think we can win 4-5 out of 10 against Houston on a neutral court.
If Houston drops one more and we can win out, that’s a B12 title - shared or not. Remember that Baylor has a brutal schedule down the stretch, and Houston gets Kansas to close out league play. This was a tough one to swallow, but winning the league isn’t over yet. And it’s just a regular season game. Lots of basketball left for this team.
I really think it’s us, Houston, UConn that are the toughest groups this year. And I think we can win 4-5 out of 10 against Houston on a neutral court.
If Houston drops one more and we can win out, that’s a B12 title - shared or not. Remember that Baylor has a brutal schedule down the stretch, and Houston gets Kansas to close out league play. This was a tough one to swallow, but winning the league isn’t over yet. And it’s just a regular season game. Lots of basketball left for this team.
If Lipsey’s performance tonight was due to injury, let’s rest him at least the next game.
Lol Crying about refs is so lame
Complaining aside, I feel better tonight than I did before the game. We went toe to toe with a top 2 team in the nation and didn’t blink. We can play with anyone.
Good point, I know I complained about the BYU players doing things that could have been fouls becuase they were doing sneaky stuff. And I thought OK had several bad calls, but, I'm not sure any of those loses were 1/2 as badly officiated as this one. We are not the bruisers that Houston was tonight and it should have been controlled better.
Meh, I don't think we lost because of the refs, but it's a step too far to say that they didn't greatly affect the game. Missed calls both ways, but a few of the worst went against us. There were 2 fouls that were obviously in the act of shooting and yet no free throws. Then there was the obvious call given just because Sampson complained (that one went to BRE)
Numbers aren't telling. They were still fouling in the 2nd half as if they were going to get the 1st half calls. Then they did get the 1st half calls again. We had 3 more fouls than them, if you're looking at raw numbers. They should've been called for a dozen more.
Anyone who watched that game is not going to come away thinking ISU doesn't deserve its ranking. We fought and hung with arguably the best team in the country on the road. It didn't go our way tonight but they showed well.
