Bring On The Cats · Feb 21, 2019
Tournament Thursday: Finding the right matchup
A healthy Dean Wade could cause sleepless nights for a lot of opponents trying to come up with a defensive gameplan for the Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year.One of the most annoying yet at least partially true clichés we always hear in March is “it’s all about matchups.”
Obviously, in a winner-take-all format this logic is somewhat flawed, because a great shooting team might have an off-night or vice versa, foul trouble could eliminate a critical weapon that might have exposed another team’s weakness, and any number of random things can happen when we’re talking about 18-22-year-olds playing one game. But other times whether a team can counter its opponents strengths can be meaningful.