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Who: #98 UCONN (7-10) (2-3 in AAC) vs. #24 SMU (15-4) (5-1 in AAC)
When: Thursday, January 19 @ 7P est / 6P cst
Where: MOODY
TV: ESPN2
RADIO: KAAM 770 AM

Per KenPom:
SMU is projected to win 64-53 (86% Win Probability)

When SMU has the ball:
SMU Off: Scoring 114.9 pts. / 100 possessions (#27)
UCONN Def: Giving up 94.3 pts. / 100 possessions (#34)

Key stats:
SMU is grabbing 41.4% of all available offensive rebounds (#3) WE ARE MONSTERS; UCONN is allowing opponents to rebound 30.5% of its misses (#204); FEAST FEAST FEAST
SMU is shooting 39.8% from 3 (#18); UCONN is allowing opponents to shoot 31.1% from 3 (#39)
SMU is shooting 49.6% from 2 (#149); UCONN is allowing opponents to shoot 43.3% from 2 (#28)
SMU is shooting 67.7% from FT Line (#229)


When UCONN has the Ball
UCONN Off: Scoring 100.4 pts. / 100 possessions (#222) ROLL THAT BALL OUT KEVIN
SMU Def: Giving up 95.4 pts. / 100 possessions (#46)

Key Stats:
UCONN is shooting 30.6% from downtown (#316); SMU allowing opponents to shoot 32.3% from 3 (#78)
UCONN is shooting 47.6% from 2 (#230); SMU allows opponents to shoot 44.7% from 2 (#48)
UCONN turns it over on 19.2% of its possessions (#191)
UCONN is shooting 65.5% from the line (#292); SMU is “allowing” opponents to shoot 65.3% from FT Line (#29) SUPER LUCKY / GREAT FT D

Looking for a few more students, our true first DFW celeb/athlete of the year in the crowd, and another Ollie meltdown and Husky beatdown (first sans Nic).

SmooBoy wrote:Looking for a few more students, our true first DFW celeb/athlete of the year in the crowd, and another Oliie meltdown and Husky beatdown (first sans Nic).

Are Jason Garrett, Jason Witten and Co. available?

Mustangs lead series 6-2.
At SMU: 4-0 SMU
At Connecticut: 2-1 Connecticut
Neutral: 1-0 SMU
AAC Play: 4-2 SMU
AAC Tournament: 1-0 SMU

First Meeting: December 30th, 1965 - at SMU - W 80-66
Last Meeting: March 3rd, 2016 - at SMU - W 80-54

Mustangs35SMU wrote:Mustangs lead series 6-2.
At SMU: 4-0 SMU
At Connecticut: 2-1 Connecticut
Neutral: 1-0 SMU
AAC Play: 4-2 SMU
AAC Tournament: 1-0 SMU

First Meeting: December 30th, 1965 - at SMU - W 80-66
Last Meeting: March 3rd, 2016 - at SMU - W 80-54

When we joined the "Big East"/AAC, who would have predicted we would be 6-2 against UConn at this point and that they would still never have beaten us at Moody?

And that with them winning a national championship. I like all of our stats against them except FT Shooting....I hate how bad we have been in this area the last few years. I also would like to see our 3-Point defense get better....allowed Cincy to beat us and kept several other teams in games.

JoeKidd wrote:And that with them winning a national championship. I like all of our stats against them except FT Shooting....I hate how bad we have been in this area the last few years. I also would like to see our 3-Point defense get better....allowed Cincy to beat us and kept several other teams in games.

What's painfully funny is that Cinci was 2-12 from 3 against ECU over the weekend...

3pt shooting defense is absolutely our "Achilles heel"...and it still hasn't been addressed. So odd with our quality of staff.

SMUer wrote:3pt shooting defense is absolutely our "Achilles heel"...and it still hasn't been addressed. So odd with our quality of staff.

Perhaps it is a calculated risk. For instance, we are bad against the 3 but still havent gotten in foul trouble? Perhaps we would rather teams beat us from 3?

Don't forget the game is at 6 start planning now!

SMUstangs22 wrote:

SMUer wrote:3pt shooting defense is absolutely our "Achilles heel"...and it still hasn't been addressed. So odd with our quality of staff.

Perhaps it is a calculated risk. For instance, we are bad against the 3 but still havent gotten in foul trouble? Perhaps we would rather teams beat us from 3?

That's what I'm thinking. But someone is going to have to pick that joker from UCF up at the airport. We can't let him go off like he did last night against USF.

When will we have the first "Beazer" night at Moody, to honor and have Cole Beasley attend the game.

SMUstangs22 wrote:

SMUer wrote:3pt shooting defense is absolutely our "Achilles heel"...and it still hasn't been addressed. So odd with our quality of staff.

Perhaps it is a calculated risk. For instance, we are bad against the 3 but still havent gotten in foul trouble? Perhaps we would rather teams beat us from 3?

We struggle against quick guards because we don't have a quick guard, and we don't have tall players inside. These result in a lot of help defense, which leaves wide open threes in the corners. Michigan hit all of those shots. Our perimeter defense is very good in general, we just leave open shots when we help too much.

UConn gameday.

Giddy up