AuburnNTexas

I know CBM has 4 fouls but I think we need his fire right now.

Aden is having issues with their physical pressure. He needs to get his head together we also need to get boards so we can run which State can't handle. This half we need to play Auburn style basketball.

We are three for 10 on 3 pointers but 12 of 24 in total. Shooting is not the isse theue. Turnovers and boards are the issue.

Cardeell is giving us some great defense but needs other players to help on the boards.

One thing I noticed about Cardwell when he get ball inside and another big man is on him he one doesn't pump fake and two goes straight up instead of slightly jumping into his defender. The slight jump into defender can cause a foul on defender but even without foul gives space to make it an easy shot.

Auburn is having a great game. No need for two Auburn fans to go after each other.

I just looked up stats in 1st half and after initially getting killed on the boards we actually have 2 more boards then SC.

We are playing pretty good need to finish half strong and break their spirit.

Defense is playing great. PG is a plus today despite not scoring playing good D and making great decisions. In last few minutes rebounding is working after a horrid start on the boards.

Broome is getting great position so did Cardwell difference is Broome finishes Cardwell doesn’t.

They are a better team then we saw when Auburn destroyed them, but I still say we win. I don't care how much we win by as long as we win. As for their coaches comment I think that was more for his players confidence but is great bulletin board material.

Great pickup. War Eagle and welcome to Auburn.

Intentional.

I won't speculate on who will be our starter, but whoever wins the job hopefully will be lot better then Payne was last year.

Mark Sears played 40 minutes 26 points 5 boards and 4 assists. Cole how I wish we had him. Add Sears to this current team and we might be best team in the country. On our team he wouldn't have to play 40 minutes and with Broome, Jaylin, and lately Chaney his assists would sky rocket. We had a chance to get him coming out of HS Cole told us how good he was, but to be honest he had the numbers but didn't look like he would become this good. He got stronger physically and as we have seen he is fearless. He is a complete PG great handle, great vision, can score inside or out, and is in control of the offensive flow.

Every team wants one of those.

We has 16 Turnovers they had 14 about equal. We shot 45.8% from the floor they shot 50.9% mostly because of Knecht. We were 76% at Free Thow and they were 77.1%. We both made 9 3's but it took us 22 shots and they did it with 17 That is still just under 41% on 3's which is solid. They beat us on the boards 37 to 30. They made 6 more FT's then us and one more basket then us. Basically we played well enough to win except Knecht was unstoppable when it counted. Yes I thought we had some weak fouls called on us and the Ref's overlooked a few obvious fouls by Tenn., but the reality is because of how hot Knecht was tonight they were the slightly better team. I am proud of this team. As well as we played tonight against most teams even with our poor PG play we would have won tonight. You have to give Tenn credit they are very good.

Great D against him but just better O.

Everybody on Auburn is playing great except our PG's. No scoring and Ziegler scoring on both of them. We have 2 points scored from PG position for whole game.

Everybody complaining about turnovers as we have 9 but other side of coin is Tenn has 9 also. Like i said earlier both teams are playing hard on D. Many turnovets by both teams is because of good D.

These are two good teams. Some of the turnovers is because Tenn plays such tough defense. So far we have played well on D but so has Tenn. I don't know if we will win this game but we are playing one of the best teams in the country tough at their home court. We are giving ourselves a chance to win. We need to come out hard at start of second half.

Our D is keeping us in the game. Right now we are not shooting well.

I love this Auburn team. I hope we can find a way to beat Tenn., but they are one of the best defensive teams we will face and have balanced scoring it will be tough.

This was a big step in the right direction. That said with Texas joining next year and with Florida becoming so dominant it will be even tougher next year. Hopefully most of our points came from underclassmen so all we will need to do is add to a strong base.

Prayers sent.