The Trojans made game of it against Texas Tech. They just ran out of gas. They had an uncharacteristic 14 turnovers, and that might have been the nail in the coffin, since they went with a low shooting percentage and a horrendous pounding on the boards. Really, looking at the box score, I do not see how we stayed as close as we did.
A little reality check sometimes helps in the long run. We are "only" a pretty good Sun Belt team, and we do not belong on the national stage yet. We may not be that far away from it, but I think we probably have been over-achieving somewhat. We have played pretty good fundamental basketball, but that cannot always make up for poor shooting and lack of rebounding. All the negative factors finally just caught up with us today. It was at a bad time. A real opportunity slipped away to do something on the national stage, and those chances to not come along too often to teams in our situation.
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