Few thoughts after looking at kenpom...
Tech is a bad rebounding team. They allow offensive rebounds at a high rate and don't get many themselves. Very small line-up that we should be able to exploit. Texas outrebounded them 44-30 and 18-7 on the offensive glass Saturday.
Despite shooting very well on 3PT shots and poorly on 2PT shots, they do not rely on the 3 as much as they should. They have 4 solid shooters and IMO one of the main factors for them to upset us will be shooting lots of 3s and making 40% or better.
Though not at nearly as high a rate, Tech gets fouled and fouls a lot. Will be interesting to see how that works out in this game as we do the same, though a high foul rate game in general should benefit us b/c we are much deeper, especially in the frontcourt.
Tech likes a high pace, playing at nearly the same pace we do, which should help us as well.
A wildcard will be Roberson, who was limited in Saturday's game by the bruised ribs he suffered in Waco. He should be better, but that usually isn't a quick healing injury.
I anticipate we will pressure the perimeter a ton to try to take away Tech's 3PT shooting while relying on our bigs to change shots in the paint. Expect to see some backdoor cuts/lay-ups, but I imagine we'll give those up some to not allow open 3PT attempts. If we come to play at all, we should beat them badly on the boards. Biggest worries are cold shooting/silly TOs by the Cats and Tech going nuts from outside.
