RichZ
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- In a weird way, having to play Creighton feels oddly AAC-ish. A school in Nebraska doesn't belong in the Big East. I mean, I remember when the farthest West we went was Syracuse. I can't make myself imagine a natural rivalry with Creighton (1370 miles from Storrs) any more than I could with Houston, Memphis or SMU when we were in the AAC.
- Inauspicious start. 0 for 3, down 7 zip.
- Creighton shooting lights out early, while we're shooting as if the lights were out.
- 2 horrendous plays by Adama in a row! What's with a 20 foot brick-like jumper early in the clock at 13:35? Then Alexander drives on RJ, who expects Sanogo to pick him up, and Sanogo never even looked in the direction the ball was going.
- Sanogo hurts his hand. Off to the locker room. Stitches? Just tape? No idea.
- Sanogo back in, but now Martin hurts his hand (5:22)
- And Hawkins runs into a screen and hurt his head. After last game's mild concussion, I doubt we'll see him for the rest of the night.
- Wow is Ajax indecisive with the ball and looks totally afraid to shoot a three.
- I've never seen this team play such crappy defense.
- And Polley takes a shoulder to the groin.
- At the half, we are down by 10 points, and by 24 to 15 on the boards, and are shooting embarrassing percentages across the board -- 33/10/50
- After a bad start to the 2nd half, we came alive and cut it to 4 at 16:45
- Somehow, it's a 1 point game at 15:15
- And back to a 5 point deficit a minute and a half later.
- Gaffney steals an inbound pass and lays it in for a tie at 9:16:
- And Kalkbrenner immediately beats Sanogo down court for a stuff.
- Sanogo looking away from the ball and his man a lot tonight.
- At about 6:30, Sanogo has the ball just inside the FT line, and is double covered. Cole comes down the right side of the lane, totally uncovered, and Adama sort of fakes a pass to him then misses a turnaround. That pass to Cole absolutely needed to be made.
- Adama got beat to the rim by his man repeatedly tonight. The hard hedge was a very soft hedge tonight, as Sanogo was slow to react and slower yet to recover.
- Not sure how a guy could have 13 points, 16 boards and six blocks, and still stink the joint up. I guess going 6 for 16 while gift wrapping 22 points for the opposing center has something to do with it.
- Meanwhile, Whaley had his worst game of the season. 3 points on one of six shooting an 2 boards. Pitiful.
- After being down by 16 points with 4:04 left in the first half, we tied the game several times in the 2nd half, but never took a lead.