tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82430814469713620412024-02-19T01:04:42.867-05:00Aggie Sports BlogA no-access look at Texas A&M sports.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.comBlogger765125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-7438436493155706132009-03-21T14:55:00.000-05:002009-03-21T16:16:35.282-05:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrhG6nVm2aXxqLpvkDlw35O0wMOkuHe3SuFgzzEPKbk1wOk9Cb8i4MQzbvozThVTKVTQY_-nFe7b69r0yk5rJGdE2wcRFkjcf_Gi53OLUKTIGUeJc60bw5b0OlXrHgunQ5YYu_7jGcvA/s1600-h/photo-795284.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrhG6nVm2aXxqLpvkDlw35O0wMOkuHe3SuFgzzEPKbk1wOk9Cb8i4MQzbvozThVTKVTQY_-nFe7b69r0yk5rJGdE2wcRFkjcf_Gi53OLUKTIGUeJc60bw5b0OlXrHgunQ5YYu_7jGcvA/s320/photo-795284.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315753011508193362" /></a></p>Tip offrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-41047663138907027972009-03-21T11:30:00.000-05:002009-03-21T11:31:48.166-05:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgRXdXmJp49Ak_BgIDptzj8UbibgOhVz1pEO3sYF7S-OtdR5k_nWZy6fGK-Prb24JzpNim-eGzhKWntVEoxIg2HDT_LAUZDEtv1CRfesJUyzM_KoGndwtQswGRNhXqVncdaX08IlGhjFI/s1600-h/photo-708169.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgRXdXmJp49Ak_BgIDptzj8UbibgOhVz1pEO3sYF7S-OtdR5k_nWZy6fGK-Prb24JzpNim-eGzhKWntVEoxIg2HDT_LAUZDEtv1CRfesJUyzM_KoGndwtQswGRNhXqVncdaX08IlGhjFI/s320/photo-708169.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315679623521685698" /></a></p>Now 3 hrs of waiting. Maybe UCLA will foul to win it again.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-16823100340659883192009-03-21T10:28:00.000-05:002009-03-21T10:29:02.391-05:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJdpEnwY7anlw3VgRRFyMlz7ehpRBLViU9_hzWkSMJ1l97ySc1UfwCFOavUIZXyxjxB-LsDsajHgQMiV69jvp5CqizGzCV-GW6xlRQNN8-uiSA58sUX8o7S7Dvh8I7vIcS22fYg8fxHY/s1600-h/photo-742394.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJdpEnwY7anlw3VgRRFyMlz7ehpRBLViU9_hzWkSMJ1l97ySc1UfwCFOavUIZXyxjxB-LsDsajHgQMiV69jvp5CqizGzCV-GW6xlRQNN8-uiSA58sUX8o7S7Dvh8I7vIcS22fYg8fxHY/s320/photo-742394.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315663449231644802" /></a></p>Boom!rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-61164807019895627952009-03-21T10:09:00.000-05:002009-03-21T10:10:59.274-05:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BySlPqnI8qZmDPbRBxnkik7oD__umoTHLDwf7kR7VTJMA_w5oJsP0JJz5qGEEg7xeCA8rVyjcRNicvVxBtasfaytN6vYGEoev6FWPbmCX_0_qnQfRlzJhWBkRt2bJY4XHT_fVk8vgxM/s1600-h/photo-759277.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BySlPqnI8qZmDPbRBxnkik7oD__umoTHLDwf7kR7VTJMA_w5oJsP0JJz5qGEEg7xeCA8rVyjcRNicvVxBtasfaytN6vYGEoev6FWPbmCX_0_qnQfRlzJhWBkRt2bJY4XHT_fVk8vgxM/s320/photo-759277.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315658800427267026" /></a></p>Jealous?rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-73544212176081671632009-03-19T12:53:00.000-05:002009-03-19T12:54:16.613-05:00Memphis is loosing, crap.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-41070380542287963822009-03-19T11:38:00.000-05:002009-03-19T11:39:12.939-05:00I finished my bracket yesterday, and, as always, I hate it. There are <br>a million strategies for building a bracket; I usually go matchup to <br>matchup and make corrections when something higly unlikely pops up. I <br>never start by picking my final four and work backwards, that is for <br>the weak. However I have once again painted myself into a corner. On <br>my first pass I had Kansas and UNC in the final, which I didn't like <br>at all, but the only way to fix it was having Memphis in the final. <br>WTF? Held my nose and sent it in. You can't win your pools every year.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-24276336428961895112009-03-19T07:32:00.001-05:002009-03-19T07:32:50.066-05:00In the interest of full disclosure, the last time I saw BYU play was in the first round game of last year’s tournament when we, and Josh Carter in particular, beat them 67-60. I have however watched a lot of A&M basketball since then, so I am a bit less clueless than the talking heads. In fact, I have watched enough of A&M basketball to call their first offensive play: turnover by Brian Davis. While BYU plays great defense, allowing 10 fewer points per 100 possessions than the D1 average, they only cause an average turnovers. So this one is all Brian Davis, he just loves giving up the rock to start the game. In fact, a bunch of our guys just hate not turning it over, which is very dangerous considering how fast BYU likes to play⎯ they are the 10th fastest team in the tourney. If we commit a lot of turnovers, or get into one of our notorious 15 minute scoring droughts, then the we will find them ourselves on the bad end of a 12 point run.<br /><br />Basketball isn’t transitive, but in the absences of any other real insight it will have to do. Both BYU and A&M played Tulsa early in the season, BYU won by six and A&M lost by 11. This tells us exactly nothing. You will never get those 7 seconds back.<br /><br />My call, A&M by 10.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-33232501487223274472009-03-06T18:31:00.002-05:002009-03-06T18:37:51.807-05:00<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology">Lunardi has jumped us from in the "next four out" group to IN</a>, and not even one of the "last four in." He has us against Syracuse, which should make you chuckle because Cuse was the first team we played, and beat, in modern Aggie basketball tournmanet play.<br /><br />He has us sitting at 11 right now, I could stand a few more wins and a better seed, but my moma told me never to look a gift tourney berth in the mouth.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-30084916747654625692009-02-28T13:48:00.001-05:002009-02-28T13:48:47.029-05:00Why the hell is the game delayed? Anyone?rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-42097564646992352392009-02-27T16:45:00.002-05:002009-02-27T17:00:37.468-05:00Again with the obsessive bubble watching...<br /><br />After dropping out of Joe Lunardi's radar for what feels like months <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology">we are back, sort of</a>. We are near the top of the "next four out" list. 6th on the waiting list. The good news is that he now predicts 5 Big 12 teams will make the dance; he had only 4 making it for quite some time. The newest add was OSU as a 12 seed. OSU finishes out with Texas, KState, and OU. They could easily not win another game. But OSU is KState's toughest remaining opponesnt. This is when the comonotorics start to give me a headache.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-70149001819282313892009-02-26T17:03:00.002-05:002009-02-26T17:20:32.596-05:00If you are like me then you are refreshing the every bubble-watch you can find, and you are infuriated that it takes these people DAYS to update their analysis.<br /><br />To save you some time, here is the latest...<br /><br /><a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bubblewatch">four-letter-network</a>:<br /><blockquote>Texas A&M probably needs to finish at least .500 in Big 12 play, so it will have to win two of its last three games.</blockquote><a href="http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bubble">cbs</a>:<br /><blockquote>If they can win out, which would include a victory over top 25 Missouri, they can start packing for the Big Dance. Short of that, however, and they may need a couple wins in the Big 12 tournament to feel a bit more secure.</blockquote>I am not sure why I care about this expert analysis, it's always so obvious; gotta do something between games.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-61918342618113681892009-02-26T09:46:00.002-05:002009-02-26T09:55:15.206-05:00Some how our baseball team <a href="http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090226/SPORTS/902260345/1001/SPORTS">lost to Centenary</a>. I guess that is a school. One of the 234870 tiny teams from Louisiana we play each year. Childress put it pretty clearly, "our bullpen let us down." We kinda played like crap beyond just relief pitching. 8 stranded runners and 2 errors.<br /><br />The Houston College Classic is this weekend where we face UC Irvin, Rice, and Houston. That is a bunch of really good teams beating each other up. As Childress put it, "<a href="http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/m-basebl/recaps/022509aab.html">it's going to be better than any regional any of the teams there will play in.</a>"rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-52424985903750988612009-02-25T14:18:00.003-05:002009-02-25T15:00:14.432-05:00"You’ve got to be good and you’ve got to be lucky. We were a little of both tonight."<br /><center><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RIBalbwqj_g&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RIBalbwqj_g&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Coming into this game Nebraska was the best team in the country at forcing turnovers. This certainly true last night. We had almost twice as many as they had, 15-8. While we cleaned it up slightly in the second half, we <span style="font-weight: bold;">completely</span> shut them down in the second half.<br /><br />They scored 18 points in about 30 possessions (using <a href="http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/stats_explained/">Ken Pomeroy's</a> FGA-OR+TO+0.475*FTA formula for estimating possessions). That is terrible. Their offensive efficiency (points scored per 100 possessions, again from Ken P.) was 60; they average 100.1; the D1 average is 101.1.<br /><br />I also have to add this facial by Dash.<br /><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tINWL94EZuI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tINWL94EZuI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center>rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-85779887300416289492009-02-24T16:09:00.003-05:002009-02-24T16:15:27.331-05:00<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3928364">Pat Knight has been suspended</a> for whining about the officiating after we beat them in Lubbock. He knew he "was probably going to get fined or suspended," but thought he need to "lay on a grenade to get your point across." During the game he considered getting thrown out but after consulting with his coaching staff, they "decided it was best not to do that twice."<br /><br />I understand that coaches get a technical or kicked out for his team, but doesn't it ruin it if you talk about the decision process? Who the hell asks their assistants the pro's and con's of getting kicked out at a particular point during the game? A 2-10 coach I guess.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-86609776053209323422009-02-23T12:54:00.002-05:002009-02-23T15:37:33.090-05:00An anonymous poster asked the seasonal late February/early March question:<br /><blockquote>Would it be better for A&M to go maybe 1 and done in the big dance or a better run in the NIT.</blockquote><br />I can answer this definitively. It is always better to make the tourney.<br /><br />It would be better to make the tournament and not score a single basket than to win the NIT without letting any opponent score a single basket.<br /><br />Evidence: programs are measured by how many years in a row they make the tourney, get to the sweet sixteen, elite eight, final four, etc. There is no, "they made the tourney 3 out of the last 5 years, but won the NIT those other 2 years."rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-58198289021507298042009-02-22T11:07:00.002-05:002009-02-22T11:27:13.105-05:00We finally get a road win in the Big 12, even if it was against the poor Red Raiders who are now 2-10 in conference. As expected, we dominated the on the glass (+14), but a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/6275013.html">piss-poor job from the free throw line cost us a blow out</a>.<br /><br />Despite what I said previously about the impact this win would have on our forecast, our probability of a winning in Lincoln only saw a slight bump, from 0.35 to 0.38.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-66241154342668059182009-02-21T11:46:00.004-05:002009-02-21T11:58:03.942-05:00The Texas win was good for our tourney hopes AND our recruiting. Jeremy Adams (6'5" 215 lb, 27 ppg)<a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/misc/blogs/Madison/Sports/2009/02/mcs-adams-commits-to-texas.html"> picked us over Arkansas</a> after watching the nationally televised beat down.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.clarionledger.com/misc/blogs/Madison/Sports/uploaded_images/BSmith_016-795673.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 266px;" src="http://www.clarionledger.com/misc/blogs/Madison/Sports/uploaded_images/BSmith_016-795673.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Is it just me, or does he look a lot shorter than 6'5" in that picture.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-73654379166448176762009-02-21T09:12:00.000-05:002009-02-21T11:44:39.583-05:00I think of <a href="http://kenpom.com/team.php?y=2009&team=Texas%20A%26M">Ken Pomeroy</a> as a college basketball weatherman. For each game he gives the probability of victory. Like a weatherman, he takes historical data and rams it through a series of formulas that include some assumed constants, and out pops a probability. While you (and I, and I am sure Ken himself) don't put full faith in those probabilites, they are pretty decent indicators of how things are going.<br /><br />Baylor... ouch.<br /><br />Down by 10 with six minutes left; fight back to within two. The run started just a little late. The loss made even stone faced <a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/college_sports/story/1216226.html">Josh Carter cry</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/rivals/full.62020/91ab1ac1ba0f9a3f5bf8fe3d0640e3d3/josh-carter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 176px;" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/rivals/full.62020/91ab1ac1ba0f9a3f5bf8fe3d0640e3d3/josh-carter.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>However, accoriding to the weather report, it was to be expected, and it didn't really have any impact on our long term forcast, which was lousy 5-11. Essentially we broke even.<br /><br />One game later and we are (almost) back in business. The Texas win rocketed our long term forcast up to 7-9, with the probability of our predicted two losses at 0.35 (@ Nebraska) and 0.28 (Mizzou). Those are pretty low, but not terrible considering how they are derived. The probablies are based on historical data, which means the Mizzou 0.28 includes four games that have not been played and therefore only the probably of vicorty can be used. If we can convert those highly probably wins to actual wins, there should be some significat upward movement on that 0.28 (it also depends on what Mizzou does between now and then).<br /><br />If that made no sense, don't worry. The bottom line is that with each win those numbers will move up.<br /><br />Ken gives us a 0.58 tongiht.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-67714078071993746512009-02-10T22:45:00.000-05:002009-02-10T22:47:24.432-05:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwNB-fjVOpkRoNDpcUrwtAf8yfuhuL-vvRUPrgg9NwTf1eNQiFNiGo63VBty5dFsnwK5hU0nUgMo4NWwBIM851Acmlxhi95EZ5R5Ctl3yW0hw-6qdA0zjp-rNJpvJ5gxvBWWbIMHNSi4/s1600-h/photo-744436.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwNB-fjVOpkRoNDpcUrwtAf8yfuhuL-vvRUPrgg9NwTf1eNQiFNiGo63VBty5dFsnwK5hU0nUgMo4NWwBIM851Acmlxhi95EZ5R5Ctl3yW0hw-6qdA0zjp-rNJpvJ5gxvBWWbIMHNSi4/s320/photo-744436.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301381405479450210" /></a></p>Hibbert 2 of 2rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-55013877716766703992009-02-10T21:58:00.000-05:002009-02-10T21:59:17.072-05:00<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93Amn1oFUbFc9LOBhyphenhyphenLEFuQTv9T1eb6ZHd9pTN3OAo5MuuTqeG9hjNxZkDUSgTKU-wuR132XTx4SGtnibXGYtREAnhH2ZDCzo8Wmwmq5SuIaSRX1tI-Iuc6TmFOhwPkR5mHnKVCXsKw8/s1600-h/photo-757075.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93Amn1oFUbFc9LOBhyphenhyphenLEFuQTv9T1eb6ZHd9pTN3OAo5MuuTqeG9hjNxZkDUSgTKU-wuR132XTx4SGtnibXGYtREAnhH2ZDCzo8Wmwmq5SuIaSRX1tI-Iuc6TmFOhwPkR5mHnKVCXsKw8/s320/photo-757075.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301369003895994914" /></a></p>Hibbert 1 of 2rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-68519270379649434292009-02-10T20:49:00.001-05:002009-02-10T20:49:28.778-05:0039-65 Dematha. Hibbert was nasty, guy can ruuuun.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-50083213478563215202009-02-10T19:52:00.001-05:002009-02-10T19:52:59.411-05:001st quarter: 2-2, 5 points, 2 boards. Very nice move to the basket. <br>Very questionable defense.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-44042110319566468802009-02-10T19:30:00.001-05:002009-02-10T19:30:29.924-05:00I just said what's up to Naj Hibbert. Jealous?<p>DeMatha should DESTROY Archbishop High School. Unsure if photos are <br>allowed. I will test this.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-46929915272576189362009-02-10T15:40:00.001-05:002009-02-10T15:40:26.892-05:00Maybe I have been too hard on this team. I tell people that I don't <br>like them because, even in a blow out, previous teams would always <br>play really hard, if not smart or well. But this team seems soft and <br>only plays hard when things are going well.<p>I may have to change my mind<p>I just read a story about Billy Gillispie showing his team A&M games <br>(no link, I am in the DMV and this thing can't cut and paste). From <br>the headline I thought he was showing some old games, Acid Law/Chris <br>Walker games. Wrong! They watched games from the current teams, live.<p>BCG wanted to "show his team his to play." Say what you want about <br>that SOB, but he is a coach who puts effort and toughness above almost <br>anything else. I am not. He sees things in this team that I do not. <br>I will start looking harder.<p>I hope to see it in Waco.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243081446971362041.post-65311811791408444162009-02-07T17:55:00.000-05:002009-02-07T17:56:28.210-05:00NIT, mayberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16920048974368893077noreply@blogger.com1