How exactly was UT ranked #1?

[gk]

I'm sure I'm going to jinx Baylor by posting this with 13 minutes left to go, but UT is terrible defensively.

They do seem to have some nice freshmen though.

(this is the first college basketball game I've watched all year)

[fatmenace]

Nobody knows. It's a mystery to us all.

[fatmenace]

Four losses in a row to Baylor.

Baylor.

[gk]

I think you meant, "BAYLOR!".

[fatmenace]

I'll tell you what though, Dunn and Carter are two seriously good players for Baylor.

[mayor]

Baylor is a good team. This is kind of exciting.

Who let UT in the Big 12?

[gk]

We should relegate them to the Big 10.

I think I'd rather have Udoh on an NBA team than Thabeet at this point.

["Redneck" Johnson]

I really think Rick Barnes just messed with the team chemistry and it blew up in his face.

We were crushing people offensively- we could score at will. We had a lot of defensive lapses though. So at the start of conference play Rick decides to work them hard, break them down and try to rebuild them defensively. But all he really did was destroy the offensive rhythm- we went from typically shooting 45-50% to typically shooting 30-35% starting with the Jan 16 game vs. Texas A&M. Since then we've coupled poor defense with bad offense.

The usual formula for the game is to allow the other team a run in the last 5 minutes of the first half that puts them up 8-10 points. This balloons up to around 15 the middle of the second half. Texas will do something to cut it down to around 6-8, then the game slips away and we lose by about 15.

Ugly awful season. I'm hoping we can salvage a win in the first round of the tournament, but if we draw someone halfway decent it's probably one and done. I'll be grateful when it's over.