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[Aggie Hoopsfan]

anyone else heard about the a&m home statkeeping? they've been discussing it on the afternoon show on 1300 here in austin - UT officials reviewed this game and took 8 assists away from UT. a&m averages 22 assists a game at home and 10 on the road. a&m kicked the out of UT any way you slice it, but it would seem like their home statisticians need some extended training.

A friend of my father's is a supervisor of officials for the Big East. He got ahold of the game tape from that game and broke it down. He said two assists shouldn't have been ruled as such (one for each team), and there were three more questionable ones (two for tu, one for A&M) that could have gone every way (the letter of the rule on assists is pretty vague).

Give credit to the tu sports information department though. Instead of everyone in Austin focusing on the fact Barnes got his ass kicked by 18, they are stuck on assistgate.

Nice misdirection

By the way, the reason for our assist #s on the road vs. at home is our style of play. On the road we try to take the crowd out of it and do a lot more iso sets, particularly to Jones and AK inside.

At home, we try and get out and run more to get the crowd into it and get the home court advantage rocking.

But, like I said, it's a nice way to deflect attention from the fact that in three years Billy has caught up to what Barnes has been working on for the last 7.

[mookie2001]

a&m averages 22 assists a game at home and 10 on the road.

they play THAT different at home?, and who is "stuck on assistgate"?, seriously, name one person... or is that the neocon-"Bush cant make hurricaines!" response

[leemajors]

A friend of my father's is a supervisor of officials for the Big East. He got ahold of the game tape from that game and broke it down. He said two assists shouldn't have been ruled as such (one for each team), and there were three more questionable ones (two for tu, one for A&M) that could have gone every way (the letter of the rule on assists is pretty vague).

Give credit to the tu sports information department though. Instead of everyone in Austin focusing on the fact Barnes got his ass kicked by 18, they are stuck on assistgate.

Nice misdirection

By the way, the reason for our assist #s on the road vs. at home is our style of play. On the road we try to take the crowd out of it and do a lot more iso sets, particularly to Jones and AK inside.

At home, we try and get out and run more to get the crowd into it and get the home court advantage rocking.

But, like I said, it's a nice way to deflect attention from the fact that in three years Billy has caught up to what Barnes has been working on for the last 7.

no one is claiming anything like that. ut's officials took 8 assists away from their own team, and the assist differential is quite substantial - the results aren't, which of course begs the question. i had a hard time finding anything about it online, i only heard it on the radio, pre-empted by saying they are taking nothing away from the ag hoops program, which is a solid top 10 team. btw, one of the broadcast team is an aggie, the other a UT fan. drop the tu , it's puerile.

[mookie2001]

acie would have to get like 19 a game to avg more than augustine