Houston: Top NCAA Basketball Defense? | Expert Analysis
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00:03 I love your top seeds, Purdue, UConn, Houston, and North Carolina.
00:08 Let me just say that I think Houston's the best defensive team in the country.
00:15 I questioned them in the half court when they got the pill.
00:20 They've had some bizarre games where they can't finish and score, but
00:25 they've been offensively across the board in every facet of the game.
00:30 And all the analytics of basketball now and new things that they've made up for
00:36 what you and I grew up as merely great defense.
00:40 They play great defense.
00:41 You can call all these things, whatever you want.
00:43 All I know is they stop teams from scoring.
00:47 And I'd love to get your opinion on how good they are.
00:50 You got to visit number one seed and it's because of their defense, correct?
00:53 Oh, absolutely.
00:55 They're painful to watch offensively.
00:57 They're a lot more fun to watch when they don't have a ball.
01:00 And they're a tremendous defensive team.
01:02 That's always been Calvin Sampson's MO, but it's been especially true at Houston.
01:06 He's got great defensive teams every single year.
01:10 I think a game between Houston and that, just the way they muck you up with their
01:16 defense and Purdue with that really efficient offense would be a great matchup
01:21 and see whose will they get exerted over the other.
01:24 Houston, if they're just so good defensively, I don't know if they have enough offense
01:30 to make it all the way in the NCAA tournament.
01:33 I mean, they can maybe get to the Final Four.
01:35 I don't know if they can get all the way until the offense becomes more reliable
01:39 because you're going to get to a point where the teams that you're playing,
01:43 your defense won't be good enough to win the game by itself.
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