The Five-Minute Scoring Drought

by **CalallenStang** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:34 am

It's an SMU tradition!

Why is it that we always have a stretch of the game where we go completely cold?

by **Junior** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:12 am

Yeah, that brought back bad memories.

by **whitwiki** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:33 pm

Pretty common in most games for a lot of teams

by **gostangs** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:03 pm

It's called college basketball. The other team is defending. Sometimes it works.

by **CalallenStang** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:16 pm

whitwiki wrote:Pretty common in most games for a lot of teams

Yes, but for SMU, it is almost exactly 5 minutes long, and it seems like we can never get any of our opponents to also go 5 minutes without scoring

by **gostangs** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:39 pm

Tell that to TCU the first five minutes of our game.

by **CalallenStang** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:45 pm

gostangs wrote:Tell that to TCU the first five minutes of our game.

TCU scored 6 points in the first five minutes. They went 3:36 without scoring.

My point is that while all teams have their droughts, SMU's are ridiculously long and severe.

by **Treadway21** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:54 pm

Not as long and severe as the Doh, tubbs offensive droughts. One Doh drought lasted a whole half. Remember.

by **Treadway21** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:55 pm

Actually a whole game. 28 points, right?

by **mrydel** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:11 pm

I remember several 10 droughts.