It's not possible. If they beat Florida, they are not winless.
Amazing. Florida has quality wins too! FSU and OSU.
HM Goal wrote:
Amazing. Florida has quality wins too! FSU and OSU.
And watch the highlights. Texas Southern looks athletic as hell with allehoopes, patient as hell with backdoor cuts. How in the hell were they winless?
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=32807434rojo wrote:
HM Goal wrote:
Amazing. Florida has quality wins too! FSU and OSU.
And watch the highlights. Texas Southern looks athletic as hell with allehoopes, patient as hell with backdoor cuts. How in the hell were they winless?
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=32807434
Its December. They'll probably finish around middle of their conference. Just a bad start to the season.
Unweighted elo rankings had Florida ranked 40 and Texas Southern as 209. Still a pretty significant upset, but nowhere near as large as what you claimed. NET rankings are junk, you shouldn't rely on them for anything.
Did the Florida team get crunk the night before the game?
Texas Southern has had a lot of track guys and NFLers, but basketballers, hmmm?
Do love to see these HBCU schools do well.
I wish this was at Texas Southern, the atmosphere would have been nutz
Oh yeah, it would have been crazy.
Look at the teams Texas Southern played then you’ll realize why they were winless. They play a hard out of conference schedule every year and come into conference play with a bad record, but often make the tournament at the end of the year.
Yeah, and I saw Babson led Harvard by 9 in the second half until eventually losing by 10. Where’s Babson?
101701 wrote:
Look at the teams Texas Southern played then you’ll realize why they were winless. They play a hard out of conference schedule every year and come into conference play with a bad record, but often make the tournament at the end of the year.
And they pull off upsets like this every once in a while, too. Baylor and Oregon in 2018, Michigan State in 2014
wheres Babson wrote:
Yeah, and I saw Babson led Harvard by 9 in the second half until eventually losing by 10. Where’s Babson?
Wellesley.
rojo wrote:
How in the world is this possible?
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/winless-texas-southern-shocks-florida-with-upset-of-gators-who-were-26-0-vs-teams-from-the-swac/
Bad coaching.
Florida took 24 three pointers and missed pretty much all of them.
They were also 7 of 16 from the free throw line.
Basketball today is 99% ball handling and 1% shooting so you end up with teams full of guys with amazing ball skills who can't even shoot a little bit.
If you're a bad shooter to begin with if you have an off night you're in trouble.
One thing is that nowadays there is less of a difference between the caliber of athlete at top schools and low D-1 schools in basketball. A lot of players who would be at the top programs go pro young, reducing the talent gap. And there is a lot more generalized basketball development around the country and world than there used to be. Many of these guys have played on top AAU teams and summer camps for years, and grades, resources, and limits on basketball evaluation of players who may not play against the best are reasons that talent is distributed much more widely than you think it would with programs like Florida, Duke, Kentucky, and so on getting first pick. Gonzaga, after all, was able to make many Final Fours while drawing on recruits typically not even in the "top 100." (Gonzaga now has a #1 recruit in Chet Holmgren and previously had Jalen Suggs, but prior to that their recruits were amazingly low ranked). Finally, basketball's a game of inches, and some days the shots are a little off or a little on and upsets or blowouts happen, like in the Memphis 73 pt blowout over Detroit a few days ago.
Skill based sports all involve some degree of luck. You can have a few average players that randomly have incredible days. Also match ups and offensive/defensive schemes may have been extremely favorable.
Like many SWAC teams, and some other mid- to low-majors, they have played EVERY non-conference game on the road. The big schools give these little schools financial guarantees to come in and play them ... usually "cupcakes" to pad their records. This is true for Power 5 college football teams, too, of course.
Survival for these schools means playing a ton of November and December road games to make money.
But sometimes it backfires. Remember when App State came into Ann Arbor and beat U-M in football 15-20 years ago?
Lets Run Snobs Have No Self Awareness.. wrote:
rojo wrote:
How in the world is this possible?
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/winless-texas-southern-shocks-florida-with-upset-of-gators-who-were-26-0-vs-teams-from-the-swac/Bad coaching.
Florida took 24 three pointers and missed pretty much all of them.
They were also 7 of 16 from the free throw line.
Basketball today is 99% ball handling and 1% shooting so you end up with teams full of guys with amazing ball skills who can't even shoot a little bit.
If you're a bad shooter to begin with if you have an off night you're in trouble.
According to you, since basketball is 1% shooting, why would it matter if you have an off night shooting?
rojo wrote:
How in the world is this possible?
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/winless-texas-southern-shocks-florida-with-upset-of-gators-who-were-26-0-vs-teams-from-the-swac/
According to reports, the Gators had a terrible week of practice and were not well prepared. Looking at the team stats, when you shoot 38% from the field and 20% from 3 point range......You're not going to win very many games like that.
It's a long season but that is an ugly loss.
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