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NC State Rallies From 18-Point Deficit To Beat Texas, 77-74
Four Factors NCSU Texas eFG% 50.0 51.9 Turnover Rate 16.3 19.3 Off Reb Rate 27.6 35.5 FT Rate 100.0 47.2 Pts Poss OFF_EFF DEF_EFF Texas 74 67.4 109.8 114.3 NCSU 77 67.4 114.3 109.8 Box Score Texas seemed to hold NC State at arm's length for most of the first half, and...
Noting Texas -- COWABONGO!
Texas Offense 10-11 Four Factors Percent Nat'l Rank eFG% 50.2 110 Turnover Rate 17.2 28 Off Reb Rate 37.1 25 FTA/FGA 43.1 49 Texas lost several key members of their 2011 rotation to graduation, including Dogus Balbay and Gary Johnson. They're also missing a couple of...
2013 Forward Kuran Iverson Lists Villanova Among Top 5
Kuran Iverson, a 6'8" forward that plays his high school basketball at Northwest Catholic in Connecticut, has listed Villanova in his latest Top 5, alongside UConn, Kentucky, Louisville and Texas. This is a Top 5 that has changed from a Top 3 he listed in July, with Syracuse dropping out of...
Arizona 70, Texas 69 -- Five Seconds of Luck
You probably were skeptical, even you, hard-core Wildcat fan. Down by two with a switching defense on a Texas inbounds play with 14 seconds left, the Arizona Wildcats forced a five-second call, and forward Derrick Williams again proved to be Superman Sunday by scoring a game-winning And 1 to put...
Texas Saves The Big 12
NYT: The Big 12 will survive as a 10-team league because of an influx of television money from Fox that ensured its financial future and lured back Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M — the Big 12’s bedrock teams — who had been in discussions with other conferences. Although it...
Postgame Reaction: A Seventh Flag Flies Over Texas
(Sorry this is so late -- TB) When I was in college, I went to Austin one spring. While there, I killed an hour by taking a tour of the state capitol. One of the things they pointed out first was the six flags, symbolizing the six sovereign nations that have occupied Texas. You can add a...
"If You're Driving Drunk, Don't Also Try To Text," a how-to guide of college athletics, by Dr. Charley West
Honestly, how stupid do you have to be play college football? Every day, we hear about athletes, given nearly every opportunity to succeed on the highest level, proceed to ruin those chances (and generally, there are quite a few) in spectacular fashion. The most recent example is Sergio Kindle,...
Big 12’s Twelve Players To Watch In ’09: No. 11 – Roddrick Muckelroy
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> SacksInterceptionsTackles GSacksYdsLIntYdsIntTDSoloAstTotal 2008 - Roddrick Muckelroy 13 0 0 0 0 0 71 41 112 <!-- END WIDGET --> Roddrick Muckelroy will provide senior leadership and a ton of experience to the Texas...
"Back on Track" -- Kansas 83 Texas 73
There was 1:39 left in the first half. Texas was on an 18-4 run, and the Field House was slient. Dogus Balbay had just waltzed right on through absolutely no one on his way to a layup, so open you'd have guessed he was in pregame layup lines. That was a common theme in the first half; uncontested...
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