I usually have a preamble for these pieces to detail what the opposing team has been doing prior to our game, but I haven’t been keeping tabs on Utah because I didn’t think I needed to. The first half of this game proved to me that I should have been paying some attention. Utah has lost 7 in a row coming into this game so I figured it was going to be an easy night. I mean, after all, we’re playing at home, we’re on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament, and they are 1-11 in Big 12 play. Imagine my shock, then, when they went up as much as 15 points in the first half.
They didn’t even do anything exceptionally well. There isn’t one guy that’s killing us; we’re just playing like shit. Which, again, is super unfortunate because we’re on the bubble and we can’t afford a loss like this. I said before that I think we’ll have to win out to get a tournament invite, but if we could afford one loss the rest of the way it can’t possibly be against this Utah team. Utah eventually cooled off too but we just couldn’t do ANYTHING. We didn’t hit double figures until there was 6:28 left in the half. Truly a despicable performance by everyone involved and I don’t know whether to be angry or upset. We just dug ourselves such a big hole that we couldn’t cut the lead to single digits before the break as we were down 32-21.
We were able to shrink the lead to single digits, but ultimately it wasn’t enough. There were a couple of runs that we had that made the game interesting but it was too little too late. This whole game was pathetic. We shouldn’t have been losing to this team for one single second, let alone lose the entire game. If our tournament hopes weren’t dashed before they certainly are now and there’s no one to blame except ourselves. Eaglestaff went 0-6 from 3, Honor Huff went 4-13 from deep as well, and no one else even tried to step up outside of Chance Moore. I hate that this game went this way because I would have loved for Coach Hodge to be able to go dancing in Year 1, but I guess we’ll have to shift our focus to the NIT.
I’m not going to do a Big 3 of the Game; I honestly don’t think anyone deserves it. Had we come back and won the game I would have considered it, but not after this shit show of a game.
Our next game is on Saturday against TCU and no matter the outcome of that one, it can’t possibly be worse than this game. I love you, Dad. I miss you.
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