TCU game thread

[muskieman]

TCU Horned Frogs, 4-3
8:00 PM ESPN+
When: Thursday night in Fort Worth, Texas, in a Big 12-BIG EAST Battle matchup. X is 4-1 in the Big 12-BIG EAST Battle games This will be the second time X has had to go to TCU. X beat TCU 67-59 at TCU in the 2019-20 season.

TV: ESPN+ with Pete Sousa and Bryndon Manzer.
Xavier Radio: 700 WLW broadcast on the Varsity Network and on Sirius XM.

[skyhops]

What a mess

[skyhops]

Can we get our money back for Hughley. Miller has no idea who to play right now. No reason that Free and Conwell should be out of the game at the same time. Maddox, Swain and Foster playing like mid majors.

[muskieman]

where is the X offense with the exception of Zach. No defense after a OT.

TCU is grabbing every time a pick it set and refs are not calling it on them.

[muskieman]

37-29 TCU, X made three 3-point shots in their last three scores. When they scored they forgot to play D and rebounding. I wish Swain would rebound and be more aggressive on the court because when he does good things tend to happen.

[Kevin Reilly]

Don't really know what I'm talking about because the game is not on out here but three of our Starters McKnight, Foster and Swain have combined for 3 points and 4 rebounds. Not close to good enough. We need to rebound better and stop the turnovers. Freemantle is playing well and Conwell is warming up but this is a game we need. We have not looked like a Xavier team so far this year but we have a good chance to win if we lock down on defense and take care of the ball. Go X.

[skyhops]

Foster is a mid major G/F and Swain can’t shoot and has the yips. Giving up 9 offensive rebounds against a small poor rebounding team is a recipe for disaster. Millers lack of recruiting bigs is a problem.

[Kevin Reilly]

Skyhops I agree with the lack of big man problems. Not sure if we lost out on some big guys due to N.I.L. money or we missed on some High School big men.

[Jesseandrippers]

Literally gave the game to TCU. Terrible.

[pdxmuskie]

This team is broken. They have been a complete disaster since the start of the Michigan game. No idea how to play team basketball. No offensive flow. Lost on Defense. Turnovers for no reason other than simply to turn it over.

I know the competition wasn't great early in the season but that isn't the only change. This team has no energy. Something is very wrong.

Could be Miller is too hard on them and they are sensitive or they are just tired of the game. Not sure, but the team is worse than at the start of the year.