Yeah color me surprised, missing a starter in Braden Shrewsberry who is our 2nd leading scorer and as you noted holding on vs a good Pitt team.
Big game here in Houston with #5 Cougars vs #8 Iowa State, but the Cyclones are missing 2 starters so that is a big problem for ISU. Cougars up 12 at the half.
Pretty unusual game tonight, Duke and Illinois at MSG. Wouldn't have been back in Nov/Dec but right here at the end of the regular season when the whole world is playing out their conference schedules.
Houston beat Iowa State at home, but it wasn't easy even with ISU being down a couple of important players. Next up they have to travel to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech who beat them last month, a road win at Tech will pretty much sew things up for the Cougars in the regular season. They are a 2 seed right now but they have the schedule to get them to a 1 seed, but they have to win out.
I heard Rick PItino say that Indiana needs to go and get Chris Beard the former Texas coach who is at Ole Miss right now. Doubt if IU people care much what Rick thinks though, not that it's not a good recommendation.
Rick who? I agree with you, Terry. I certainly hope IU doesn’t want Beard, and I’m guessing Pitino’s hype means squat.