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Tough loss. I was impressed with Knights play. He looked very good. He's reminding me of Wall from last season, where Wall played great at the beginning of the season, went flat in the middle and dominated at the end. Knight is looking that good.

Defense was not bad, but my hats off the the Razorbacks. They never backed down at all. The pushed the Cats and never backed down when the Cats would take the lead.

Even though Jones did not score much, he was always moving.

Key to the game at the end was Liggins. If Liggins holds his ground, he draws a charge. Instead his body was moving towards the basket instead of holding his ground. That would have won the game for the Cats, but I'm not blaming Liggins, it's tough play for a defender.

Same old same old - over ten seconds and you don't call a timeout to set up a play during regulation. But, why expect things to change. Just because other teams will do that, I guess we should not expect ours to.

I guess you are right, do not expect it to change. It was obvious the cats were rattled in the last 45 seconds; coach should have used time outs to calm them down and set up plays. the turnover at the end (can't remember who it was) was uncalled for; he picked up his dribble and threw it away instead of just using one of the 3 time outs left. I know you say do not blame Cal, but an earlier time out and he could remind his players about such situations. To be honest, I was surprised he called a time out with 15 seconds left. This is a young team that gets rattled late in close games; all the more reason to use your time outs.