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What does anyone know about Huggins team? Are they run and gun like his Cincinnati teams were? How might we match up? A tourney championship should get us into the top 25!
 




ncgo4 said:
What does anyone know about Huggins team? Are they run and gun like his Cincinnati teams were? How might we match up? A tourney championship should get us into the top 25!
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Can we wait till tomorrow to start worrying about them? For the record I'm not worried.
 


All I know is that this is going to pay dividends in our strength of schedule all year long. If we had lost to WKU we'd play two much lower ranked teams. Playing - and beating - UNC and (hopefully beating) WVU is going to be wonderful on the March resume.
 


ncgo4 said:
What does anyone know about Huggins team? Are they run and gun like his Cincinnati teams were? How might we match up? A tourney championship should get us into the top 25!
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WVU plays much like his early UC teams.
 





I think the typical Huggins team is an athletic, physical team that plays tough D (while fouling a lot) and doesn't shoot all that well but attacks the glass like few other teams & makes up for their lack of shooters with an unusually high amount of offensive rebounds.
 

They only have one guy listed above 6-9 but its Noreen and Idk if he gets minutes. They have some bulk but nothin like Sampson and Colton, Mo and Beast Bak.

25 Darryl Bryant G 6-2 195 Jr. Brooklyn, N.Y.
15 Craig Carey G 6-2 160 r-So. Morgantown, W.Va.
14 Noah Cottrill G 6-3 195 Fr. Logan, W.Va.
20 Jake Ferguson F 6-6 190 Fr. Summersville, W.Va.
41 John Flowers F 6-7 215 Sr. Waldorf, Md.
30 Danny Jennings F 6-8 260 So. Staten Island, N.Y.
5 Kevin Jones F 6-8 260 Jr. Mount Vernon, N.Y.
13 Deniz Kilicli F 6-9 270 So. Istanbul, Turkey
21 Joe Mazzulla G 6-2 200 r-Sr. Johnston, R.I.
3 Casey Mitchell G 6-4 220 Sr. Savannah, Ga.
34 Kevin Noreen F 6-10 235 Fr. Minneapolis, Minn.
32 Dalton Pepper G 6-5 230 So. Levittown, Pa.
12 Kenny Ross G 6-0 175 r-Fr. Furlong, Pa.
24 Kerwin Selby G 6-4 210 r-Jr. Bel Air, Md.
2 Cam Thoroughman F 6-7 235 r-Sr. Portsmouth, Ohio
4 Jonnie West G 6-3 195 r-Sr. Memphis, Tenn.
 

Noreen isn't seeing the court too much. It would be fun to see him play a little on Sunday.
 




I wouldn't make too much out of the heights on the rosters - I think the #1 key to playing a Huggins team is to rebound the ball well because they're always good on the boards on both ends and especially good at getting offensive rebounds so they tend to get a lot of second-chance points. It most likely will be a physical game with a lot of fouls.
 

Tubby And Huggins Are Good Friends

Tubby has spoken at his coaching clinics and participated in a "roast" for charity a few years back.

They have only coached against each other once - 2005 NCAA tournament. Tubby won that one by dominating a small UC team with several big men.
 

jags1998 said:
All I know is that this is going to pay dividends in our strength of schedule all year long. If we had lost to WKU we'd play two much lower ranked teams. Playing - and beating - UNC and (hopefully beating) WVU is going to be wonderful on the March resume.
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You're right but I have the impression that our March resume isn't going to be much of an issue except as it influences seeding. Will it be #2 or #3 or #4 or #5?
 

MN1nAZ said:
You're right but I have the impression that our March resume isn't going to be much of an issue except as it influences seeding. Will it be #2 or #3 or #4 or #5?
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Or Higher or Lower?
 

MN1nAZ said:
You're right but I have the impression that our March resume isn't going to be much of an issue except as it influences seeding. Will it be #2 or #3 or #4 or #5?
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The key to getting high seeds is beating high seeds (any win over a team that ends up in the #1-#5 seed range I think really has value) and taking care of business against the lesser teams. I think this WVU game is just as big if not bigger for the Gophers than the UNC game from a seeding standpoint since it is a game against a high quality team, and while the rest of the OOC schedule has some decent teams, it doesn't have the type of teams (like WVU) that if you beat them you get a high seed in the NCAA tourney. An OOC resume with wins over UNC and WVU looks a lot better to me than a resume with "just" UNC on it. Of course, the Big Ten season will have a larger influence on seeding than one OOC game, but few teams have been able to get high seeds without at least a couple of OOC wins against teams that didn't just make the tourney but were solidly in the field.
 

OSUfan...who you leaning towards in this match-up: Gophers or WVU?
 

who will be favored?

haven't seen what those with money on the line are predicting

but if you're into better basketball through math

Sagarin would have WVU favored
 

Slim Tubby said:
OSUfan...who you leaning towards in this match-up: Gophers or WVU?
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I really don't know, it's so early. I think these are two fairly evenly matched teams. It should be a great game, could be heavily influenced by foul trouble and I think the thing to watch is the battle of the boards - I think the team that rebounds the best will win this game. So whatever team wins the rebounding battle is my pick.
 

OSUfan said:
I really don't know, it's so early. I think these are two fairly evenly matched teams. It should be a great game, could be heavily influenced by foul trouble and I think the thing to watch is the battle of the boards - I think the team that rebounds the best will win this game. So whatever team wins the rebounding battle is my pick.
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Well I'll go with the team that scores more baskets. I think the team that scores more baskets wins this game, despite the rebounding stat.
 


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