October 5Oct 5 1 hour ago, Rockethorn1978 said: Never been more ready for Texas Basketball. Stupid football. :kicksdirt
October 5Oct 5 On 10/1/2025 at 7:11 AM, Derka said: Crazy how tall and coordinated Lamarcus is. If he could have made 1 or 2 more shots against LSU in the elite 8 his legacy at Texas would be a lot different.
October 9Oct 9 On 7/30/2025 at 11:44 PM, Derka said: i hope that the usa’s golden generation loses their home soil world cup because our cruel and demented president has scared the rest of the world off from trying to travel to our country, as a lesson for what happens when you elect an actual fascist as your president. i hope that trump has to watch canada and mexico take the world cup from him. we’ve created an unsafe environment for the world to come here, and we deserve to be punished. Texas Basketball has been giving the middle finger to its season ticket holders while raising prices and building a new arena, and they deserve to have an empty arena for consistently giving their dedicated fans one garbage home schedule after another for more than a decade. Honestly, fuck Soccer in general. And keep your politics out of this fucking Football forum.
October 9Oct 9 Popular Post 6 hours ago, ATXbronco said: I mean, the uh basketball forum. Bumping a 2 month old post is exactly how you achieve your goals of keeping politics off this forum. Masterful gambit there, snowflake. Masterful.
October 10Oct 10 i posted awhile back that this roster sort of reminds me of auburn 2-3 years ago when they didn’t have an alpha player, but their top 4 bench guys were all as good as the starters. it ended up costing them come tourney time, butt they were damn tough to beat for most of the season.
October 11Oct 11 Oh wow fuck yes ...and... I'm in the wrong thread. But oh well it's still cool news.
October 12Oct 12 season starts with us getting our asses whooped, followed by four games against jv teams. i don’t ever ever ever ever want to see us play four teams ranked 300+ ever again, and especially not in a row. it’s totally pointless. fans don’t like it, and it does nothing to prepare the team for league play. i’d rather go 1-3 or 2-2 vs some decent - plain bad teams and actually learn something as opposed to just playing for no-win, pointless games in a row to “prepare” us for this: you aren’t seeing things- that’s two more teams ranked 340+ before we play in the toughest league in america. Edited October 12Oct 12 by Derka
October 13Oct 13 Texas getting some votes, but not enough to be ranked to start the season https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll 2 SEC teams in the top 10 (Florida/Kentucky), 4 more in the top 25 (Arkansas, Bama, Tennessee, Auburn), 6 more receiving votes (Texas, Ole Miss, Missouri, Vandy, Miss St, OU) Total of 12 SEC teams receiving at least 1 vote in the AP poll Edited October 13Oct 13 by Js1
October 13Oct 13 we aren’t going to know anything about this team until conference play has been underway for a few weeks. there’s no point in anyone trying to rank or project us right now when we essentially are starting a brand new team from scratch.
October 13Oct 13 On 10/12/2025 at 1:06 PM, jimmyjazz said: So 8-10 in conference? I'd take that right now knowing it likely gets us in the tourney. Everything is a crapshoot entering a season with a new HC, but I have serious reservations about the caliber of guard play we'll see from this team.
October 13Oct 13 11 minutes ago, Blotto said: I'd take that right now knowing it likely gets us in the tourney. Everything is a crapshoot entering a season with a new HC, but I have serious reservations about the caliber of guard play we'll see from this team. 8-10 in conference + likely 9-2 non conference That is assuming a loss to Duke (duh) and UConn and wins over ASU and Virginia and the other 7 traffic cone opponents
October 13Oct 13 1 hour ago, Js1 said: 8-10 in conference + likely 9-2 non conference That is assuming a loss to Duke (duh) and UConn and wins over ASU and Virginia and the other 7 traffic cone opponents I'm slightly more optimistic. Pre-conference play I am right there with you, but our roster is better than last year, the coaching staff is light years better, and our aforementioned pre-con is crap and allows the new teammates time to meld. I think we can break even in the SEC, maybe a smidge better. I think we reach 20 wins before post season play. Edited October 13Oct 13 by cafe society
October 13Oct 13 1 hour ago, cafe society said: I'm slightly more optimistic. Pre-conference play I am right there with you, but our roster is better than last year, the coaching staff is light years better, and our aforementioned pre-con is crap and allows the new teammates time to meld. I think we can break even in the SEC, maybe a smidge better. I think we reach 20 wins before post season play. we have questionable guard play, questionable shooting ability, and with the transfer portal and an entirely new coaching staff, culture, way of playing, way of practicing, way of studying, etc, etc, i think that all expectations should be tempered, and reactions to poor play should be minimized until the entire group has had time to get aquatinted and jell. it will not surprise me to see us struggle this year. this is the definition of a transition year.
October 13Oct 13 So kenpom has us winning every home SEC game except for Florida and lose every game on the road? What’s our kenpalm ranking?
October 13Oct 13 4 minutes ago, Pancho said: So kenpom has us winning every home SEC game except for Florida and lose every game on the road? What’s our kenpalm ranking? we're 39. 43rd on Ortg, 32nd on Drtg. Edited October 13Oct 13 by Derka
October 13Oct 13 12 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: Damn so we gonna be ass this year ? Think we gotta be patient and let the team get used to each other and understand roles. Hopefully by end of year, we look like a cohesive team with legit coaching
October 13Oct 13 I don’t think we will be ass, but I don’t think we’re top 4 in the conference. 6-10 sounds about right
October 13Oct 13 Finish top half of the conference, im happy. Looks like a clear tier 1, tier 2 and then tier 3 is a big mess of teams who could all finish 5-10
October 14Oct 14 it’s just going to take some time to figure out our rotations, seeing who plays well with one another, who bogs down the offense when they’re on the floor together, figuring out who we play when our opponent goes big/small, etc. and all of that while an entire new coaching staff brings in new ideas and ways of operating that are foreign to our players, who themselves have never played together. it’s simply a work in progress that will require patience.
October 14Oct 14 i saw a twitter thread today that asked, “who is cbb’s james franklin?”, and sean miller got a lot of nominations (rick barnes got the most, which is funny coming off back to back E8’s, but old beliefs die hard). this is miller’s last chance in major cbb. if he fails here then it’s over for him at this level. here’s to hoping that he bucks that reputation like jay wright, tony bennett, and jim boeheim did. Edited October 14Oct 14 by Derka
October 14Oct 14 lol the one year we’re playing here my ass will be in Texas for a wedding during the Maui.
October 14Oct 14 15 hours ago, kingkoopa6 said: Damn so we gonna be ass this year ? The play of the large guards we will be using to play point will be a big factor in our record. If they can get the ball up the court under pressure, play competent defense against smaller faster guards, and hit open outside shots at a decent clip, we could be in the mix for the top 1/3 of the SEC.
October 15Oct 15 On 10/13/2025 at 7:08 PM, Derka said: it’s just going to take some time to figure out our rotations, seeing who plays well with one another, who bogs down the offense when they’re on the floor together, figuring out who we play when our opponent goes big/small, etc. and all of that while an entire new coaching staff brings in new ideas and ways of operating that are foreign to our players, who themselves have never played together. it’s simply a work in progress that will require patience. I think this is why I’m “okay” with the non-con we have in year 1 of Miller.
October 15Oct 15 New Coach, new staff, new system and a bunch of roster turnover. Just excited to watch them try to bring it all together and ready to enjoy the ride!!!
October 15Oct 15 1 hour ago, Pancho said: I think this is why I’m “okay” with the non-con we have in year 1 of Miller. Yep. New coach, tons of new players, new system. Though I think the overall knock on Miller is he didn't schedule very tough in the non-conf, even at Xavier and Arizona.
October 20Oct 20 On 10/18/2025 at 7:18 PM, Pancho said: ^^^ props for sharing. i'm now following BIG ON BASKETBALL.
October 20Oct 20 On 10/18/2025 at 7:18 PM, Pancho said: This is good news. Makes me wonder if any team will be able to keep it within 20 points of us this year? Show me a loss!
October 20Oct 20 On 10/18/2025 at 2:05 PM, Pancho said: SMU is going to be good. This is a nice result.
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