Big East 2024-2025

[skinzfan23]

Last college game for Kaluma. I tuned in late, was there a reason he wasn’t playing? His shooting % seems to be up this year.

[KenoshaJay]

He played well, but has not developed his offensive game since leaving Creighton. Very athletic, solid defensive presence.

[Angry Dan]

Freemantle is a good story. Really been banged up, lots of hard work and rehab. Seems like X is now at full strength.

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[Jaybird]

I jumped up and yelled on that late runout that gave X a two-possession lead, which felt very weird considering it's Xavier. I'd given them up for dead. A very satisfying win (whenever any team from Texas loses at anything, it's satisfying, and this means more money for Creighton), and X has a real shot against Illinois.

What a sweet path X was given. A quasi-home game to start (it'd be like us playing an NCAAT game in Lincoln), facing somebody with the most losses for an at-large team ever; then a 1st/2nd round site in another BE town on a court they already know, against the 8th place team in the B10; and then a Regional an hour and a half from campus. Maybe the NCAA will move the Final Four to Cincinnati if they get that far (they won't). Sometimes it pays to be one of the last four in.

And, as a little (non-Big East) midnight bonus, getting to see Tim Miles lose yet again. That's always fun.

[Jaybird]

He played well, but has not developed his offensive game since leaving Creighton. Very athletic, solid defensive presence.

I'm not so sure about that. He's second in scoring for Texas (and their leading rebounder). If he was putting up his current Texas numbers for Creighton, he'd be tied for 2nd in 3pt% and 2nd in FT%. If, in some parallel universe, he was still here, I don't know who'd be subtracted from the roster or rotation, but we could have used him.

[taa71458]

One play away from a final four with Creighton and the closest you ever get again is losing a first four game to Xavier.

[jaysfan3]

One play away from a final four with Creighton and the closest you ever get again is losing a first four game to Xavier.

This was my main thought after they lost last night. Too bad.

Also don’t think he’s closer to the NBA than he was as a sophomore.

[Venturajay]

X and Miller actually ran an offense. Texas is extremely talented but had no offensive concept, except throw it up and get an offensive rebound. Kaluma did not look good , typical Art drove the ball to the basket and either missed or turned it over.

[Duke1Agn]

Texas has a ridiculously talented roster. But as noted above, they ran almost no structured offense and it seemed like half their shots were contested fadeaways. No surprise that it appears Texas is moving on from that coach.

[JayPak]

Freemantle is a good story. Really beeped banged up, lots of hard work and rehab. Seems like X is now at full strength.

After game they said it was a surprise that he could play at all; thought his career was over after the latest injury. And another great story as Hunter recovered from heart attack and made 3 treys last night.

X is good enough to keep this run going. Need to continue to limit their typical silly turnovers and get back to their 79% free throw average. Conwell has more in him than what he showed last night. Freemantle has matured and was able to stay focused. The role players were outstanding, probably Foster’s best game of the season.