UAB loss doesn't look so bad right now.....

[Rome4Lyfe]

After beating #16 North Carolina, that loss doesn't look so bad. They maybe the team to reckon with C-USA! Frazier is an absolute stud!

[Huskerpapa]

...that may be, but it does not forgive us for our lack of defense and melt-downs on offense.  This is not meant to be critical, rather, it is meant as disbelief in how poorly we played against both UAB and UMass.

[HB]

Yep, it didn't look that bad at the time for those watching closely.  Frazier can play.  

[Rome4Lyfe]

Very true, didn't get to watch, but listened to the games on the radio. At least the two teams we have lost to so far should challenge for their conference championships and don't look like duds so far!

...that may be, but it does not forgive us for our lack of defense and melt-downs on offense. This is not meant to be critical, rather, it is meant as disbelief in how poorly we played against both UAB and UMass.

[Huskerpapa]

Looks like Kent just tweeted the same thing...

 

Kent Pavelka ‏@KentPavelka 3m

#Huskers loss to UAB last weekend feels better. Blazers dumped 16th ranked North Carolina Sunday, 63-59.

 

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[hskr4life]

Glad to see our two losses are against teams who are doing pretty well.  Considering how poorly we played, those could have been wins, and that means even when we played terrible we hung with a pretty quality team(s).

[Hooper]

I saw their KenPom rating yesterday (#124) and figured they were quite a bit better than that. They're a good ball club that plays well together and appears to be well coached.

[jimmykc]

There must be plenty of Fahro haters in North Carolina now as well.

[Norm Peterson]

Did Fahro tweet that he has no regrets about not going to North Carolina either?

[Silverbacked1]

Oh those boys and that fancy tweeter.

[49r]

I'm not going to jump on the UAB bandwagon just yet.  There are a couple factors at play that makes me think this isn't as big a win as we would like it to be for them.

 

First.  UNC appears to be struggling out of the gate this year with the loss at home to Belmont.  Yes, they did beat Louisville which is impressive but losing at home to Belmont tells me that they at least have issues to sort out.

 

Second.  UAB was playing at home and their coach, Jerod Haase, was a player and assistant under Roy Williams for basically 20 years until he got the UAB job last year.  If anyone should be able to game plan for UNC, it would have to be Haase.

 

Finally, the conspiracy theorist in me wants to think that maybe Roy dumped the game just to help Haase and the Blazers out a little...sure, it's probably not true, but hey crazy things happen sometimes.

[hhcmatt]

Finally, the conspiracy theorist in me wants to think that maybe Roy dumped the game just to help Haase and the Blazers out a little...sure, it's probably not true, but hey crazy things happen sometimes.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if Roy Williams gets pissed if his grandkids win in Candyland.  No chance.