[81alum]

I watched the game and it was the exact same team we played. Where are people getting San Francisco State? They're a DII team.

That was my lapse.  I know they were USF and yet my brain froze on that.  My bad for confusing everyone.  Corrected above.

Yes, they were the same team we played, and they hung with us a lot better than they did with Mississippi State.  They used a very different strategy though--not sure why.  And they were obviously not playing at home.  Same online announcer as they had at their place.

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Houston vs. Syracuse is underway.  Syracuse looks like a very good team.  Tall, athletic posts and a couple of very quick guards.  They do some full court press, they shoot the three quite well.  I can see how Syracuse hung with Oregon for 3 quarters.

Meanwhile, the scorekeeper is incompetent.  There were three different scores--on the scoreboard, on the livefeed, and on the stat sheet--all different according to the announcer.  So bad scorekeeping, bad timekeeping--I hope that does not bode ill for us later.

Houston has been keeping up with Syracuse.  High scoring 1st quarter, Syracuse 25 Houston 23

Syracuse has been far from dominant over Houston.  No one seems to know exactly what the score is at half.  ESPN says it is Syracuse 46 Houston 40 at the half.  But there are other scores in other places that don't agree by a point or two.  What a mess.  In any case, Syracuse seems quite balanced on offense.  On defense it plays zone in the half court but sometimes presses on the full court.  Houston, which is not a prolific three point shooting team, has made 7 treys already to keep the game close. They seem athletic, fast, rangy.

[81alum]

I watched the game and it was the exact same team we played. Where are people getting San Francisco State? They're a DII team.

That was my lapse.  I know they were USF and yet my brain froze on that.  My bad for confusing everyone.  Corrected above.

Yes, they were the same team we played, and they hung with us a lot better than they did with Mississippi State.  They used a very different strategy though--not sure why.  And they were obviously not playing at home.  Same online announcer as they had at their place.

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Houston vs. Syracuse is underway.  Syracuse looks like a very good team.  Tall, athletic posts and a couple of very quick guards.  They do some full court press, they shoot the three quite well.  I can see how Syracuse hung with Oregon for 3 quarters.

Meanwhile, the scorekeeper is incompetent.  There were three different scores--on the scoreboard, on the livefeed, and on the stat sheet--all different according to the announcer.  So bad scorekeeping, bad timekeeping--I hope that does not bode ill for us later.

Houston has been keeping up with Syracuse.  High scoring 1st quarter, Syracuse 25 Houston 23

Syracuse has been far from dominant over Houston.  No one seems to know exactly what the score is at half.  ESPN says it is Syracuse 46 Houston 40 at the half.  But there are other scores in other places that don't agree by a point or two.  What a mess.  In any case, Syracuse seems quite balanced on offense.  On defense it plays zone in the half court but sometimes presses on the full court.  Houston, which is not a prolific three point shooting team, has made 7 treys already to keep the game close. They seem athletic, fast, rangy.