Baylor can tip the scales by winning the turnover battle. Their defensive pressure is intense.
Utep only team in Texas
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So right now Baylor is making Gonzaga look like a mid-major program from a weak-ass conference.
Well, the good news is that it's early. Gonzaga is one of the two best teams in the nation, so let's see if they can adjust.
I haven't played organized basketball in decades, but I think that if the other team rarely misses and when they do, you can't get the rebound, you're in trouble.
Teams have bad games.
List of teams they beat this year:
Kansas
Auburn
West Virginia
Iowa
Virginia
St Mary’s x3
BYU x3
Oklahoma
Creighton
USC
UCLA
It would take UTEP 30 years to build that kind of resume. They’re a great team.
The Titanic quartet sounds awfully loud right now.
May this Baylor win entice ACRT to be drawn like one of those Rick Barnes models.
We’ve finally gone down with the ship! Play Crack the Sky.
The Era of UTEP STD, Senter Terry &Dimel
May this Baylor win entice ACRT to be drawn like one of those Rick Barnes models.
We’ve finally gone down with the ship! Play Crack the Sky.
The Era of UTEP STD, Senter Terry &Dimel
Still the only team in the UT System to win a national championship.
I used to root against the other Texas teams. Still cared as recently as 2019 when Tech made their run, although far less then previous years.
At this point, who gives a shit. No one else knows or cares. I would trade this pointless distinction for a first round victory in the NIT.
Well, they cut it to 10 at the half. It's still a game.
Hopefully, they took Baylor's best punch and can have an explosion of their own in the 2nd half.
Hopefully, they took Baylor's best punch and can have an explosion of their own in the 2nd half.
Gonzaga isn't going away. It's gonna be an exciting second half.
Only way we’ll be the only Texas team blah blah blah is if this Baylor win is vacated.
I think if Baylor keeps fouling it will be tough to win. They are shooting lights out though and those offensive rebounds..sheesh.
Still the only team in the state of Texas to win a national championship in a non-Covid shortened season.
UTEP will always be the 1st team from Texas to win the national championship!
It was one hell of a run that we had. We'll always be the first in Texas though
Edit: I didn't realize Wisconsin just wrote this. Purely coincidence.
Edit: I didn't realize Wisconsin just wrote this. Purely coincidence.
I just turned the game off. Baylor has made the Zags look like UTEP tonight. I never expected Gonzaga to give up so many offensive boards, turn the ball over like that, and miss key free throws. Are we sure it isn't UTEP out there?
Baylor has been incredible. They are simply the better team out there tonight. Congrats to them on their Championship.
I didn't know how I would feel watching another Texas team win it all. Turns out it doesn't really matter.
I was prepared for Tech to win it all a couple of years ago. I could had accepted any other Texas school to win it all. But not Baylor. I didn’t want it to be this program.
I’m not sad that another team from Texas is gonna win one, Texas, Tech and Baylor have so much money it’s unreal. I’m just disappointed that’s really ALL we’ve accomplished in our two major sports in close to 60 years.
Well at least we don't have to hear it before every home game now.
Great win by Baylor. They really knocked Gonzaga off their tracks.
Great win by Baylor. They really knocked Gonzaga off their tracks.
In my Raspy, Deep Public Address Announcer Voice:
The first team in Texas and only, four year public university, to win the NCAA National Championship.....your UTEP Miiiiiiners.
The first team in Texas and only, four year public university, to win the NCAA National Championship.....your UTEP Miiiiiiners.
The obvious next step is for UTEP and Baylor to have an annual basketball game until the next Texas ncaa champ appears.
It was only a matter of time before our streak would end. Texas has great programs in all major sports and this was bound to happen. Houston, UT, and TT came close in previous years and now Baylor has won it all. I think UT will be next Texas team to win an NCAA championship. Our future, unfortunately doesn’t look bright with our current AD and FB and MB coaches. Enough with mediocre results. We need a solid AD to turn things around and inject some energy into our athletic programs.
