so far 0-2.
Vs teams I’ve heard of, 1-0. Texas is gonna get whipped.

Down 42 to 14, five minutes into the 2nd half

As a team, our offense looked really good at times, with lots of ball movement and open shots. I’d say the last 10 minutes of the first half (which was when I started watching) and the first 5 minutes of the second half were really good offense. Once we got up 20 we seemed to really take our foot off the gas, and we went into our “prevent offense” mode, the one where we have one player pound the ball into the floor about 40 feet away from the basket. During the second half we kind of alternated between good, dynamic offense and the prevent offense. There were some possessions where we looked great offensively.

On defense, I think we benefited greatly from Bowling Green being terrible – and they were truly terrible. Several times BG had guys wide open, often when they would use ball screens and we would double team the guy with the ball, basically, and leave the other guy wide open. The double team needs to be very transient, just to let the guy fight through the screen, and then we need to recover on the open man. Bowling Green would either fail to hit the open man, or the open man would fail to make a shot. We need to improve defensively before B10 play.

As far as individual performances go: Eric May looked great. Gatens, Tucker and Cougill all played well. We actually looked like a Big Ten team tonight.

Texas…whose smallest guy is the height of Cougill but with muscle definition, speed and hops. Also, and I cannot confirm this I am sure I read it somewhere, every player for Texas is 23 year old or older and all but one has played pro ball in Europe. Cully Payne may have a good first few minutes though, as the Texas team mistakes him for an Iowa ball boy out to clean sweat off the court.

But I’m happy to see we beat BG. This was one of those games I was really gnashing my teeth over when the schedule came out.