OK first about the TV thing, if you haven't signed up for ESPN+ yet you're going to miss 3 out of the next 5 games. You've been warned. This is a road game and don't think we got to pick the game time. The game is at 4:00 in the afternoon. Not much anyone can do about that.
UCF is better than expected as they just defeated #15 FSU on the road by 12 points. Brandon Mahan, who we tried to get, Is the leading scorer at 21ppg. He's the guy that needs to be stopped. Can't send him to the line either, becuase he hasn't missed a FT yet this year.
We may end playing small ball against these guys as almost everyoin is 6'9" or shorter. They have two true centers and neither of them get any minutes but as we've seen our guys in the post are too slow to keep up with athletic forwards. I think you can go down low against them in a slow tempo game but they're averaging about 70ppg as a team which is faster pace than what we've seen from UCF in recent years.
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