Baylor and Texas Basketball & Baseball Previews | 23 Personnel Podcast

Intro

Basketball

    • Recent Games (19-6 overall, 8-4 conf, Fell 2 spots to #11 in latest AP Poll)
    • Statty Stat Stats (after TCU game)
      • KenPom 
        • Overall – 13th (previously 10th)
        • AdjO – 57th, previously 51st (OppD – 34th, previously 36th)
        • AdjD – 3rd, previously 2nd (OppO – 50th, previously 50th)
      • HaslaMetrics
        • Overall – 13th, previously 13th
        • Offense Eff – 29th, previously 38th
        • Defense Eff – 3rd, previously 3rd 
    • Upcoming Games
      • Wednesday, Feb 16 vs Baylor (21-4, 9-3, 2nd Big 12) ESPN2, 8pm
      • Saturday, Feb 19 at Texas (19-7, 8-5, 4th Big 12) ABC, 11:30am
      • Tuesday, Feb 22 vs Oklahoma (14-12, 4-9, 8th Big 12) ESPN+, 7pm

Baseball

  • Still waiting on final roster
    • 44 on latest roster; limit for 2022 is 40
  • Season opens Friday, Feb 18 in Arlington
    • Will face Michigan, Auburn, Arizona (15 in D1 Baseball Preseason Poll)
  • Projected starters
    • 1B: #19 Easton Murrell, 5th year senior; #18 Cole Stillwell, 4th year junior
    • 2B: #2 Jace Jung, 3rd year sophomore
    • SS: #8 Kurt Wilson, 5th year senior
    • 3B: #15 Parker Kelly, 5th year senior; #10 Ty Coleman, 4th year junior TR from A&M/Midland College
    • C: (there are 5 catchers listed on the roster, 4 are 1st year players out of HS) #18 Cole Stillwell; #5 Hudson White, #13 Trevor Conley
    • LF: #14 Cooper Swanson, 5th year senior TR from Florida State
    • CF: #1 Dillon Carter, 3rd year sophomore
    • RF: #25 Owen Washburn, 1st year freshman
    • OF options: #7 Cody Masters, #20 Dalton Porter (TR from Texas), #9 Zac Vooletich (TR from Navarro), #41 Sam Hunt (RS at Tech)
    • Starting pitchers: Brandon Birdsell, Austin Becker
      • Colin Clark – senior TR from Youngstown State, 6.7 ERA, 6-6, 73.2 IP, 72 K
      • Bo Blessie – junior TR from Midland College/Nebraska, 4.8 ERA, 6-2, 50 IP, 70 Ks
      • Andrew Morris – junior from Colorado Mesa, 3.23 ERA, 18-2, 175 IP, 215 Ks

Football

  • McGuire has 13 commits and a top 10 2023 recruiting class right now
    • 7 4* recruits since hired in November – Wells recruited 3 4* in 3 years
  • Cody Campbell and pals are pooling money through the new The Matador Club to create NIL opportunities through community outreach (Lubbock-AJ Link)
  • Super Bowl thoughts and whatnots

 

What did we learn?

  • Carole King wrote the Locomotion for her babysitter

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