K-State laying an egg in Ft. Worth tonight

[MercedeSooner]

I could understand losing 1 game against them, losses happen. But getting swept ? Ouch that ll leave a mark.

 

[thebigabd]

TCU should get an NIT bid. They are 16-10 and:

Lost to Baylor in overtime
Lost to West Virginia on a buzzer beater in overtime
Lost to Kansas by 3 in a game they went 15-30 from the free throw line

Just as OU is really close to a much better record, TCU is a couple of heart-breakers away from being 19-7 with wins over Baylor, WVU, Kansas, OSU, and KSU.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Players and teams just DO NOT bring their A-Game to the court every night.

My theory on the “K-State situation” is that players get more fired up to play certain teams. For whatever reason, K-State played inspired basketball against OU. They played extremely hard in those OU games. On the other hand, K-State laid a turd in Fort Worth. The intensity and focus was not there.

OU seems to play some of their better games against OSU and Texas. Those shades of orange seem to bring out the best in the OU basketball team. Yet OU loses focus against some other teams. This is not unique to OU.

This is why the road game in Lubbock is a concern on Saturday. OU is clearly superior and should beat Tech, but OU is just like most other teams. OU is capable of laying a turd against a lesser opponent. Considering that Tech was slaughtered in Norman, the OU players may decide to take a day off. Shame on them if they do. This OU team should have enough maturity and experience to know better.

 

[Stikboy]

Yep, I'm pretty worried that we're gonna lose to Tech. Combo of OU being uninspired, and Tubby being good enough anyway to beat OU at home. Heck they beat us at home last year with a worse team... We'll see. A loss at Tech would be hitting that "wall" again that was talked about earlier.

 

[Section31]

Amazing what happens when they shoot half as many free throws. That officiating crew should be suspended for the year.

 

[JDSooners]

Yeah, if 2 or 3 of the calls were reversed, I think we squeak past them like we did texas

 

[skyvue]

Amazing what happens when they shoot half as many free throws. That officiating crew should be suspended for the year.

Exactly. KSU did not play a great game against us at all. They hit 12 legitimate shots the entire game (they hit 13 only if you count the one that was after the buzzer). They shot 26.5%.

We didn't play great, it's true, but if the game had been officiated in even reasonable fashion, with the home team, as is the norm, getting a few more foul calls/free throws than the visitors, we win by 8 to 10 points.

Give KSU 25 free throws (still a generous number) instead of 36 and award us just five more from the charity stripe, and we win 60-51. And that's with both teams shooting the same percentages, from the field and from the line, they shot on Saturday. Take away the bogus three-pointer and let Ryan Spangler play the final 12 minutes, and the game's not even close.

I know, I know -- "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts ..." -- but my point is that, if both teams played exactly as they did in that game, but the officials were at all competent, we win by 10 points or more. It wasn't that we played terrible (we didn't play great) or that KSU played well (they didn't) -- the actions of the officials decided that game.

Bad officiating stifles the team that is getting leaned on -- it can't play with the abandon it takes to win on the road, and it begins to force things on offense -- but even if we hadn't played any better (and I believe we would have), we still would have won easily with officiating that was a little more evenhanded.

 

[Big Old Booger]

Foster is playing. K-State couldn't make a shot if the rim was as big as a 50 gallon wash tub.

How about 5 of 29 from the field in that half? :ez-laugh:

I listened to the radio pregame last night and the KSU announcers were telling about Gipson and Foster played in that arena in high school and both said they always played well. Hmmm... :facepalm