BYU v. UT-A NIT Tip-off moved to 9pm

Evidently ESPN and the NCAA bought into the over-hype of this blizzard and delayed the start of the Syracuse game, so BYU's Wednesday night game has been pushed back to a 9:00pm tip-off in Provo.



This means two things:

1) I think BYU's edge just widened a bit. It's a 10pm tip for the UT-A team's internal clocks, and BYU is used to playing stupidly late games in the WCC (both at home and traveling to the left coast). Should really become a factor in the second half.



2) I am in deep poopy-doo with the wife because we have tickets for the whole family, which means the four kids (ages 4 to 10) with a normal bed time of 8:30 will now be up until about midnight on a school night.

I think this just sucks to make a change like that the day before. Honestly, I get up at 4 to go to work and I would not have bought tickets to a 9 PM game!

Yeah I bought two tickets with the intention of bringing my son (11) but I live an hour away so it will be a very late night if the wife decides to still let him go (I just found out about the time change and she doesn't know yet). I have not yet received an email from BYU Tickets about the time change...

They just blew much opportunity in selling out the lower bowl. It's been interesting. As soon as the general public tickets opened up I quickly snatch 4 lower bowl tickets on the sides (sections 8, 9, 10, 19, 20 or 21), but there were still upper lower bowl seats in the "behind basket" ends. From that point in the 12 noon hour on Monday, there have been little more tickets sold. Maybe, if we get by UT-Arlington, the next game will sell better, but I believe the numbers are reflective of what the fans feel about the team.

The next game may be at #2 Houston so even if we win there may be no more home teams.

Well the wife just overruled and said that the game is too late for my son. So I now have an extra ticket if anyone lives between Stansbury Park and Provo I can pick them up on the way...

byufan4ever wrote:
The next game may be at #2 Houston so even if we win there may be no more home teams.

Isn't Houston playing on the road for their game because their arena is under renovation? So we may have two more home games - since Cal lost. We could be the highest seed with a viable home court.

SpiffCoug wrote:

The next game may be at #2 Houston so even if we win there may be no more home teams.

Isn't Houston playing on the road for their game because their arena is under renovation? So we may have two more home games - since Cal lost. We could be the highest seed with a viable home court.

They are playing at a nearby venue, which they would probably continue to do, so as to still maintain some form of home court advantage.

UH doesn't seem to have much of a homecourt crowd anyway. At least I remember the LJ Rose highlights I saw when he announced his transfer to BYU always seemed to show mostly empty seats.

BlueK wrote:
UH doesn't seem to have much of a homecourt crowd anyway. At least I remember the LJ Rose highlights I saw when he announced his transfer to BYU always seemed to show mostly empty seats.

Here is Houston's attendance at their last five home games:

vs Tulane - 3,421

vs Temple - 3,627

vs UCF - 3,681

vs SMU - 8,479

vs Conn - 4,131



That's not the worst case scenario. SMU was a ranked team, so the campus/community responded a bit more.

byufan4ever wrote:
The next game may be at #2 Houston so even if we win there may be no more home teams.

with Cal losing we're guaranteed a home game for round 3 if we win in round 2.

the way the NIT works now is so much better than it used to when they would handpick the home teams every round so they could basically choose the teams they wanted to make it to NY. In 2000 we won a couple of games and when we got close to NY they made us play at Notre Dame. In 1986 same thing. We won twice and then they made us play at Ohio State.

Houston lost to Akron. Home court is ours to lose.

scott715 wrote:
Houston lost to Akron. Home court is ours to lose.

we got a tough selection for round one.

I'm really surprised by this defensive effort. UT-A with their most points in a half this year. That's something I just would never imagined as being possible.

Halftime. UTA up 7. Can't say I'm totally surprised, but I thought BYU would show better than this.



I do not understand BYU b-ball this year.



I think UTA saw the St. Mary's game and smelled blood. They know BYU is a SOFT defensive team. They know that with one extra pass, the entire defense nails their feet to the floor and is expecting a shot and they can get that WIDE open 3 point shot that SMC found all night. UTA is shooting over 60 percent in the first half. You don't let a team do that with decent defense. BYU let SMC shoot an unbelievable 70% in the second half. Any self respecting team would not allow that to happen. BYU's defense got TORCHED by both these teams the last 2 halfs. I've never seen a zone defense at the college level leave guys open and run 2 guys at the ball so often.



Typically, it sounds like UTA is a well tempered offensive team. I think their coach saw the SMC game and knew he didn't need set plays. Just good ball movement and hopefully the open shot falls. He knows BYU isn't serious about playing defense.

Hey a record may be broken tonight for the second time in a season! UTA is on track to comfortably break UVU's scoring record by opponent in marriott center. Would be fitting honor for this team that doesn't have the mental fortitude to play defense for more than 2 passes.

Utah Valley scored 54 points in the 1st half and 60 in the 2nd half. This is just abysmal defense.

I didn't realize that BYU was the worst team in the WCC in turnovers, though it doesn't surprise me. That's terrible.

BYU's shot selection is making Carlino and Tavarnari look conservative.