Worst loss of the season

[DenverSooner]

A lot of you have talked about the SFA loss this year, which I believe was a bad loss but did you know that based on RPI Texas is OU worst loss on the season.

The games that bug me this season are Texas, SFA, OSU, Arkansas and KSU. I think OU could win most of those games if they got to play them over again.

 

[stormspencer]

A lot of you have talked about the SFA loss this year, which I believe was a bad loss but did you know that based on RPI Texas is OU worst loss on the season.

The games that bug me this season are Texas, SFA, OSU, Arkansas and KSU. I think OU could win most of those games if they got to play them over again.

The Arkansas game didn't bother me much. I felt we didn't "bring it" on the defensive end and we ended up playing Arkansas' style of game. Texas and osu bother me because we squandered big leads and shouldn't have lost. We seemed disinterested in the SFA game....and that is going to happen a couple of times a season when you play 30+ games (see also @isu).

 

[opsooner]

Texas is worse - simply because of what happened.

We stunk the entire game against SFA and did not come to play that night. It was bad.

It would have been nice to one or two others but they don't bother me too much. Of those, the loss at OSU was the worst because of the really bad turnovers.

Even after all that, I am elated where we are right now :clap

If we can figure out how to take care of the ball and beat pressure, we can be very dangerous.

 

[WTSooner]

Road losses happen.

I don't like losing home games to teams we are clearly better than. I think KSU is better than us this year. I do not believe SFA is.

As for UT, I hate the way it happened, but you can't look at UT's RPI, or record when judging that loss. They are a much better team with Kabongo. Yes, it's a game we should have won given how it played out, but it's still a road game against a middle of the pack team that happens to be a rival. Not a game I had circled as a win when the season started.

 

[Boomer-D]

road losses happen.

I don't like losing home games to teams we are clearly better than. I think ksu is better than us this year. I do not believe sfa is.

As for ut, i hate the way it happened, but you can't look at ut's rpi, or record when judging that loss. They are a much better team with kabongo. Yes, it's a game we should have won given how it played out, but it's still a road game against a middle of the pack team that happens to be a rival. Not a game i had circled as a win when the season started.

this!

 

[pnkranger]

You're wrong:

Worst loss was the OT loss @OSU because we had the chance to shut up the Aggies with SCOREBOARD for the next year.

 

[DenverSooner]

I don't disagree with anything anyone is saying but based on RPI Texas is the worst loss. I find it humorous that Texas has the lowest RPI.

 

[Maverick008]

Road losses happen.

I don't like losing home games to teams we are clearly better than. I think KSU is better than us this year. I do not believe SFA is.

As for UT, I hate the way it happened, but you can't look at UT's RPI, or record when judging that loss. They are a much better team with Kabongo. Yes, it's a game we should have won given how it played out, but it's still a road game against a middle of the pack team that happens to be a rival. Not a game I had circled as a win when the season started.

I have a hard time agreeing with this. Road losses happen yes but to say that the loss at Texas was just another road loss and basically chalk it up to just another loss by saying I didn't have that marked as a win doesn't do the meltdown OU had justice.

OU had the game won plain and simple and that's the way the players and coaches looked at it with 7 mins to go. The Texas fans felt the same way as half of the already half empty arena took off. Had you said Meltdowns happen then I would have agreed with you.

Saying KSU is just better than OU this year is a stretch as well. Both of those games were hard fought and could have gone either way. When someone says they are "just better than OU" I wouldn't take that as OU having a chance to win both games with 3 mins to go. OU could easily be 2-0 against KSU this year. Many on this board claimed that ISU was a horrible matchup for OU and after watching how that played out on Sat. I would think many on the ISU board are now saying the same things about OU....

We do agree on SFA though

At this point if/when Hield comes back I think that makes OU a team to look out for. At this point OU has found that PG that can get to the basket and create for the shooters we were all hoping for. Grooms has changed the dynamic of this team by stepping up and becoming the player that Kruger thought he originally recruited. It happens to guys all the time at different points of their careers and different points of the season for teams.

At this point I think it is shaping up to be very interesting to see how OU finishes this season. Do I think they will win it all or even be close? Probably not. But I do expect them to give the team that beats them all they want and possibly more.

 

[garyeb2]

I think that it can be argued that when OU lost to SFA, that they were not the better team. They didn't start getting consistantly better until after that game. OU had already had tight fits with UT Arlington, Northwestern St, ORU, and UTEP. SFA has proven over the course of the season that they were the best of the mid majors on the schedule.

As far as which team is the best within the conference, well, if some one wanted to build their case with specific circumstances in certain games, it is OK with me. I suppose the fans of every team could do that. Iowa St. and Texas come to mind. They both have lost alot of close games and Texas was without their best player for a number of games. But, every team will have played the same schedule by the time the seson is over. Final conference standings, to me, will be the best indicater of who was best.

To say right now that KSU or OSU for that matter have better teams than OU isn't that much of an over the top observation.

 

[MNsooner]

If there is such a thing as a good loss, SFA was it. That game was the turning point for our season. After that loss, we began to figure things out. If SFA were a bigger name, the effect of the loss might have been diminished. If SFA was a worse team, the effect of the loss might hurt us more in getting into the tournament or seeding. To me a bad loss is a loss that reveals the flaws in your team that they never overcome. A good loss is on the spurs you to get better.