one of your members visited us over at utamavericks.com...just wanted to see if we could get a little discussion going about the game.
Here's a longtime UTA fan/grad/season ticket holder perspective for what it's worth:
Obviously Mavs fans are really excited about this game--with a very popular coach, a new conference, a team that won 24 games last year and a beautiful new arena we've only played 4 games in...it's a great time to be a UTA fan.
After years of playing on the stage at theater/arena Texas Hall and having schools like Sam Houston or North Texas being our big home games, it's nice to have a facility and a talented team worthy of hosting an OU or other similar big-time programs every year now. And maybe pull off an upset once in awhile.
We return most of our players from last year, but did two our leading scorers to graduation. Our center Reves, TCU transfer forward Butler, and TxTech transfer guard Outler should be main offensive options. But last year we played a deep rotation of 9-10 guys that contributed a lot of minutes.
We're not a real tall team in the paint, but do have a roster with lots of strong, athletic 6'5-6'6' forwards that can play the 2-3-4 positions. I think we were #14 or something nationally in rebounding last year.
I'm not sure how big the win over Cal-Bakersfield on the road was the other night actually was, but early games can be unpredictable, close games teach teams a lot and I've heard UCB may actually be a pretty good team. Obviously OU (even at home) will be a tough test for our Mavs. Saw you shoot the ball real well from outside against UL-M sunday on TV.
Last year our team's energy and effort seem to really feed off the big crowds in the new gym, so if the Sooners don't get the crowd out of the game early we could make it interesting. It's a neat arena, and for a school of our size, the perfect capacity (seats 7,000).
Here's a longtime UTA fan/grad/season ticket holder perspective for what it's worth:
Obviously Mavs fans are really excited about this game--with a very popular coach, a new conference, a team that won 24 games last year and a beautiful new arena we've only played 4 games in...it's a great time to be a UTA fan.
After years of playing on the stage at theater/arena Texas Hall and having schools like Sam Houston or North Texas being our big home games, it's nice to have a facility and a talented team worthy of hosting an OU or other similar big-time programs every year now. And maybe pull off an upset once in awhile.
We return most of our players from last year, but did two our leading scorers to graduation. Our center Reves, TCU transfer forward Butler, and TxTech transfer guard Outler should be main offensive options. But last year we played a deep rotation of 9-10 guys that contributed a lot of minutes.
We're not a real tall team in the paint, but do have a roster with lots of strong, athletic 6'5-6'6' forwards that can play the 2-3-4 positions. I think we were #14 or something nationally in rebounding last year.
I'm not sure how big the win over Cal-Bakersfield on the road was the other night actually was, but early games can be unpredictable, close games teach teams a lot and I've heard UCB may actually be a pretty good team. Obviously OU (even at home) will be a tough test for our Mavs. Saw you shoot the ball real well from outside against UL-M sunday on TV.
Last year our team's energy and effort seem to really feed off the big crowds in the new gym, so if the Sooners don't get the crowd out of the game early we could make it interesting. It's a neat arena, and for a school of our size, the perfect capacity (seats 7,000).
