[81alum]

So it must be the coaching ?  Except for assistant Jamie Carey of course. 


Texas lost two big transfers.  Prince to Oregon and Littleton to South Carolina. Littleton is the all time leading scorer in California HS history and averaged 7 for Texas last season.

That helps to explain why Texas is having a down year. 

But apart from the record, Texas looks to me like it should be a better team than Tennessee.  Texas is not nearly as young a team as Tennessee, and playing at home their confidence should be higher than the Tennessee freshmen making their first trip to Palo Alto.  The effectiveness of the Texas offense will depend on the streakiness of their jump shooting guards--if Higgs and Sutton are "off" Tara can have people sag into the paint and control the Texas bigs.  If those guards get hot--as they did against Tennessee--then Texas becomes a very balanced "pick your poison" kind of team.

We might see experience play a role with senior Joyner Holmes, who keeps putting up Chiney-like numbers.  I would be a lot more comfortable with our own senior Nadia Fingall guarding her as opposed to one of our freshmen.

[81alum]

So it must be the coaching ?  Except for assistant Jamie Carey of course. 


Texas lost two big transfers.  Prince to Oregon and Littleton to South Carolina. Littleton is the all time leading scorer in California HS history and averaged 7 for Texas last season.

That helps to explain why Texas is having a down year. 

But apart from the record, Texas looks to me like it should be a better team than Tennessee.  Texas is not nearly as young a team as Tennessee, and playing at home their confidence should be higher than the Tennessee freshmen making their first trip to Palo Alto.  The effectiveness of the Texas offense will depend on the streakiness of their jump shooting guards--if Higgs and Sutton are "off" Tara can have people sag into the paint and control the Texas bigs.  If those guards get hot--as they did against Tennessee--then Texas becomes a very balanced "pick your poison" kind of team.

We might see experience play a role with senior Joyner Holmes, who keeps putting up Chiney-like numbers.  I would be a lot more comfortable with our own senior Nadia Fingall guarding her as opposed to one of our freshmen.