Big East Conference Games Thread - Jan '25

[BFieldHusky]

Swain left the game with a knee injury. Something to watch for. They only go about 7 deep with him.

 

[buddy]

Xavier plays so much hero ball. This would really piss me off if I was a Xavier big.

Number 2 for Xavier missed the front end of a 1 and 1 with about 30 seconds to go which would have put them up 4. St John's rebounded and tied the game. That did them in, in my opinion

 

[superjohn]

I don’t hate the matchup. Our defensive weakness is guarding the 3 point line. St Johns is the worst shooting team in the country. We’re actually not bad at guarding the rim. We’d need Taris to have a big game on the glass.

This is with Liam healthy in mind.

Opponents make like 6 three pointers against us per game. I don't get where people come up with our weakness is guarding the three point line. Our defense is bad because we don't stay in front of people, we get iso'd to death.

 

[superjohn]

It will work against us though. We can’t guard anyone. We’re in for a very challenging stretch and I don’t feel too good about it. Time for our guys to step up and show us something.

We simply have to play a lot better or we're going to have a bunch of losses coming up. The efforts we've seen lately certainly won't cut it against Xavier, Marquette, St. John's, and Creighton.

 

[jibsey]

St. John’s was 1-12 from 3 but wins and this happens a lot with them but they outrebound everyone and drive the ball inside. Can we defend that? Today they had 3 players score 16 and 1 score 19 points.

 

[aceboon]

Xavier splitting Marquette/St Johns sounds good on paper but up 16 in the 2nd half they gotta complete the sweep, would have completely flipped their season around if they hung on tonight.

 

[auror]

Opponents make like 6 three pointers against us per game. I don't get where people come up with our weakness is guarding the three point line. Our defense is bad because we don't stay in front of people, we get iso'd to death.

Yeah, this. While it is true that opponents have been shooting unconsciously well against us all season, we give up very few attempts. Even with that strong accuracy, we're in the top 20th percentile in terms of teams getting the least amount of their percentage of points from behind the arc against us.

I worry about getting iso'd and allowing a ton of dribble penetration to Richmond, Luis, Wilcher, and Smith and then committing a metric ton of fouls. We gotta hope to be able to make them settle for midrange jumpers to reduce that foul count.

It'll definitely be a Reed game for the rebounding and defending against Ejiofor.

 

[HCCForever]

St. John’s was 1-12 from 3 but wins and this happens a lot with them but they outrebound everyone and drive the ball inside. Can we defend that? Today they had 3 players score 16 and 1 score 19 points.

On the telecast, Dave and Donny mentioned that they were 3 for 23 or so from long range in one game and still won the game. Obviously, they do well driving inside with Richmond and others. Reed and Stewart will need to be on their games.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Number 2 for Xavier missed the front end of a 1 and 1 with about 30 seconds to go which would have put them up 4. St John's rebounded and tied the game. That did them in, in my opinion

Xavier blew a 16 point lead with out of control stat padding attempts by the guards. One crazy, contested attempt after another.