Also, people seem to be talking about how our defense has picked up lately and that's why we won 3 of our last 4.
Well, that's not really true.
We gave up 1.14 points per possession when we beat TCU.
We gave up 1.09 ppp when we beat Baylor.
We did play great defense against Tech (.75 ppp), but Tech wasn't very good either. Also, we played great defense against WVU (.86 ppp) but we lost.
Even going back to our other win lately, we gave up 1.07 ppp to a pretty bad Texas offense.
The key to winning those games was making shots. 53% from 3 at Texas. 43% from 3 at TCU. 43% from 3 against Baylor.
We need to play decent defense against Wake tonight, hopefully allowing no more than 1.08 ppp or so; but if we don't make shots and shoot 40% from 3 and over 55% eFG% it won't matter.