As I mentioned earlier, may have been better to have just shut down Nika for the season. Itās quite apparent he hasnāt completely recovered from his injury.
Iām hopeful that Cross will start next season as Gravesā backcourt mate. No matter what, would think that our highest rated recruit since 2009 will see quite a bit of PT.
The NIL excuse only goes so far. I would bet our NIL money is at least top 175 (what are we yāall think?) and we arenāt a top 175 team. We should be at least competing against our peers.
Maybe Fearne just canāt get the recruits?
Not sure that the style of offense we are supposed to run is effective in this era of transfer portal. It has also proven to be very ineffective in post season tournaments except for one lucky run by UVA and our CBI title. Fearne seems very firm in his approach. Last year we had the talent to overcome but faded fast down the stretch.
FWIW, Fearne doesnāt run the Bennett offense. Grant McCasland ran something very similar at North Texas and won CBI and NIT championships during his tenure there, though heās since chucked it at Texas Tech.
Iām hoping that a least part of the sluggish play this afternoon is due to hangover from Hawaii. Every single guy who played today seemed a little off.
Tulane is not a good team and they were way better than us today.
Two home games in three days. Two wire to wire losses 
Gold Standturd Mike Hill
100%. Thereās no reason we canāt be a top 125 kenpom team. That is quality basketball. Weāre screwed and Mike Hill took the bait. Iāve seen this movie before. Mike and some of our fans will preach patience. Weāll be slightly better year and progress will be sold. All to suck in 2027 and Fearne gets fired. There isnāt another athletic department in the country that has treated their MBB as bad as we have. Shit hires after shit hires. All while not improving facilities and going all in when we had basketball rolling in the Mullins/watkins/lutz era.
Tulane replaced their entire team as well, had a couple players injured and beat us on our home court, not a boat raceā¦. But beat us easily. Gold standard excusesā¦.
My two cents:
We looked flat in first 5 minutes of each half.
Tulane wanted it more and played like it
Graves has got to look to score more in the opening half, especially when we re struggling to get a bucket
We are too slow on defense
We donāt have a dog
They had 3 players with 4 fouls and somehow they played the last 10 minutes without fouling out.
Rolf flashed in second half. Good to see
Rosado too loose with the ball and has got to make the bunny layups he had.
Braswell has got to catch and handle the ball much better. Rushes his shot without need most of the time.
clt is glad Braswell is ok, that was a tough drop to the court
I think UTSA is only AAC school that replaced entire team but will need to verify that.
Tulane has 16 players on itās roster:
ā¢ 6 returnees
ā¢ 6 transfers
ā¢ 4 freshmen
Pretty sure one returnee is a walk-on.
Green Wave starting five:
ā¢ 2 juniors
ā¢ 1 RS sophomore
ā¢ 1 RS freshman
ā¢ 1 freshman
Their best 2023-24 players did not return. Sion James transferred and is starting for Duke this season. Leading scorer Kevin Cross exhausted his eligibility and now plays in the G League.
I got to play cowbell
Our offense had a bunch of good looks and just missed them.
Not sure what you can change on the offensive scheme to improve on that.
We are just to slow to play any defense effectively. Maybe Stay in a tight zone and hope the other team misses.