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[QUOTE="Sphinx, post: 2993144, member: 4623"]
If CV had heaved in a winning 3-pointer at the buzzer, would we  have eight pages of complaining about the refs or would we have eight pages of glorious projections for the future?

I'd like to contribute a few of the latter.

I've seen enough of AG and Carlson in the past two games to guess that we have our starting floor general and center for the next two years.  Throw in Bouknight at the 2, Vital at the 3 and Akok at the 4, and you have next year's starting lineup, even without a further 4-star pickup.  With Gaffney at backup point, Polley and Wilson as reserve wings and Diarra/Whaley as adequate center backups, we have an NCAA-caliber team.  That is the emerging story of the past two games.

As for the present, we have a team with as good a chance as any to win the conference tournament and get the NCAA bid.  Failing that, it is a team that can finally (and credibly)  be projected for a winning season and an NIT berth.

That is the transformation wrought by the past two games.  (All that said, I am braced for a stinker at Tulsa.  It's the inevitable final kick in the groin that awaits us.)  But then it's home to wins over Tulane and Wichita and the "Can-do in Orlando" that pivots the whole season.
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