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South Carolina pushed MSU into OT, but MSU won 65-60. Vandy beat Kentucky 74-69. Florida nuked Georgia by 30. Georgia falls most definitely out of net top 30 with that loss. SMU, Pitt, and UNC all won. UNC had to come from behind in the last seconds of regulation to tie it and turn BC over on its last possession to force OT.

The refs didn't give the defender enough time to get off the court after the offense changed personnel. Wait. Wrong sport again.

I have to disagree about that. We have 11 games remaining in which we can either play competitive basketball or look like Beard and Trew after a late night discussion at home.

He definitely shot incredibly well today.

I'm more Terry supporter than hater. I'm more optimist than pessimist when it comes to UT basketball. But I'm more realist than dreamer. This game does not save the season by any means. Kudos to Johnson and Mark for big plays on offense down the stretch. Kudos to Larry for getting into the paint as much as he did. Kudos to Terry for getting the team to dig down and fight like hell on d in the second half. But . . . Yeah, I have to say it. We were gifted 4 ft on dumb A&M technical fouls. A&M shot like crap from the line. (I did say I was fine with us fouling Payne, and it worked.) We got away with a lot of fouls in the second half. OK, to be fair they got away with a lot of fouls in the first half, so kudos to Terry and the team wrestling back. But if a few fouls were called, we don't come back. We were utterly destroyed on the boards. If we don't get Kaluma back soon, then we need to find a solution to our rebounding problems very quickly, or this team will most definitely not make the tournament. RIght now we are not only in the field, but we won't have to be in a play-in game. Long way to go in the season, and we won't stay in the field unless we do something about rebounding. A&M got 12 more shots on basket than we did. We can't win many games in which that happens. So great win, but we're not in a great position right now.

Mark Byington. He was James Madison's coach for the last 4 years.

Give the coach an extension! I kid, of course, but my god, Terry got this team to fight like hell in the second half to beat a ranked team while we were short two key players. And we had dozens of posts on the thread dumping on him.

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Eighteen offensive rebounds, including for putbacks in their last 2 possessions. If we lose today, that'll be why. But we cleaned up defensive glass that time and hit a three to cut it to one.

Right now I like Mark driving and kicking out to Johnson better than I like the reverse.

50% career ft shooter.

Kent with his second offensive rebound. Can't get a putback, but go, dude.

I'm generally fine with fouling us Payne.

A&M home of the sixth man. On the floor.

I don't think Larry can expect to get that pass through 3 defenders. And once again, Kent can't finish in the paint. He just can't.

Mark trapped himself and then Johnson in the corner after being fed while driving baseline. Just not a good play by Mark.

We're down only 6. We're without two key players, who happen to be our best rebounders. We've come back from being down 22 at one point in the second half. We're playing hellacious d. Then A&M hits a 28 footer on a busted possession.

He didn't fall on the guy with his full body weight. Oh, wait. Wrong game.

If Onyema is allowed to check players like that, look out.

Kent finally gets a rebound, and he gets it slapped off his knee.

Nice work between Onyema and Larry there.

Mark comes in and makes a dumb foul.

Pryor gets in the face of a 3 point shooter, forces the miss, then hits the shot at the other end. Nice sequence.

Since then, we have been in Johnson trying to do it all by himself mode.

Beautiful feed from Pryor to Kent.