Creighton Post game thread

[salvagedsam]

They played hard and made a game of it. They’re just not a great team.

 

[Mets1432]

I’m sorry but I couldn’t disagree with this more. A defender is allowed verticality to challenge shots. Our drivers are imitating contact. We watched Clingan do this all last year and Emeka and Jake were especially good at it as well.

He is good, but he's not perfect. I saw at least 2 fouls in the 2nd half alone The worst one was he went body to body with McNeeley and also hit the wrist. Still no call. Never-mind the 2nd out of bounds call that Creighton got was clearly off of Kalk's hands. He can do no wrong in the ref's eyes. The perfect player.

 

[Scoe]

And got boat raced by Iowa St before we ever met them

Yeah got torched by a conspiracy theorist lol.

 

[DogMania]

I’m sorry but I couldn’t disagree with this more. A defender is allowed verticality to challenge shots. Our drivers are imitating contact. We watched Clingan do this all last year and Emeka and Jake were especially good at it as well.

You are spot on. I replayed a few of Kalk's defensive plays and he jumped vertically. None of those late drives were fouls. With that said the foul disparity looked suspect.

 

[JBK]

The 2 rings was dumb but I don’t see why Creigton felt disrespected. It was Hurley responding with fans who were heckling him.

Not classy to fight with fans

 

[Jimdish255]

Try some video study Hurley. That team cannot run that offense. They don't have a Newton or Spencer to create a shot at the last second. Just get the ball down court and launch a shot or attack the hoop. Feed anyone that seems hot. Maybe he goes on a tear. Hurley's offense was cute when he had the players, can't run it with these skilled challenged players.

I agree a coach is going to tend towards the system they know best and has worked in the past. Two Nattys is a pretty strong endorsement in anyone's book. But we probably need to employ some wrinkle or flexibility without causing a bunch of confusion by deviating too much from what we've been doing. It looked like a couple of guys could have had a hot hand tonight but we spread things around so much we never get to find out. Too bad about Diarra. Comes out like fire then isn't as much of a factor late. I feel like if he was fully healthy he could be the difference in a number of these games.

 

[KingAG]

And it scored 62 points. On the average the winning team in an NCAA game scores about 75.

So we should scrap the system because we clanked open shots tonight? The offense is fine. It’s allowing 75% shooting in a half you should be worried about

 

[Gutter King]

Down 4 they had 3 empty trips in a row. That could have overcome the awful OOB calls if they converted 1 or 2.

Yeah that felt like the game when we came out of their timeout and ran junk offense.

The twilight zone season continues:

-3 Shot Clock Violations
-75% def 1st half / 30% Def second half
-SJ nothing / Reed game changer (the inverse will happen next game, for certain)
-Solo seemed to be on the bench in important offensive posessions tonight
-2 back to back blown OOB calls
-McNeeley all of a sudden can't finish at the rim....or play defense
-another game with a huge FT differential on a bogus 3pt foul call, 2 additional AK phantom fouls, and zero calls on Liam. Refs threw a wet blanket on AK tonight.

I don't know....this team can play great in spurts....but to count on them to be consistent for twelve halves feels daunting, if not impossible. The only consistency this team has is it's inconsistency. Very low floor, high ceiling

 

[KingAG]

Take a look a St Mary’s. They are good at defense every year and have way less natural talent than UCon

They play in the WCC

 

[ec33]

Yes but it doesn't cure our athleticism problem. It's not an athletic class and they're slight in build. We have to hit the portal hard to fix the problems.

Or we can continue the long tradition of struggling against the Pitt's and current-day St. John's in the Big East, while winning national titles.

A little bit of beefing up physically and athletically is a certainly good idea, but no need to fix what isn't broken.

 

[Horatio]

Coach Hurley was loyal to our “Six Man of the Year”, backup point guard and our backup center.He made them starters after they contributed to the winning of back 2 back championships. That move made the bench weaker and created a drop off in our starting 5. Given what Samson went through in the beginning of his career and what the Diarra brothers mean to the program, I think our Coach did an honorable thing that most coaches ( Pitino, etc.) wouldn’t even consider. That’s what happened this season. Our Coach was loyal.

 

[Palatine]

We scored 62 points. Let's look at some NCAA stats.

• Average total score: 143.6 points
• Average margin of victory: 8.9 points

The winning team’s score can be estimated by splitting the total score and accounting for the margin. If the total is 143.6, the midpoint would be 71.8 points per team in a tied scenario. Adding half of the margin of victory (4.45 points) to the winning team’s share gives:

• Winning team: 71.8 + 4.45 = 76.25 points
• Losing team: 71.8 - 4.45 = 67.35 points

This calculation aligns with the observed trend that winning teams in NCAA men's basketball games typically score in the mid-70s. Rounding for simplicity, the average points scored by the winning team is approximately 76 points.

 

[Hunt for 7]

Well let’s see if we can scratch out one tourney win. That was a poorly played, coached and although it did not impact the outcome you can throw officiating in there too.

The out-coached part is key. If he had played Tarris earlier in the 2nd half could have been a different outcome. Nothing against Johnson but if not Tarris we should have went small to get Kalkbrenner out of the paint. Don’t get the lack of adjustment there on the staffs part.

Liam and Alex 0-8 from three. They defended us just like we defended Purdue. So that just increases the dislike meter for me on McDermott. The love affair he has with BE officials is already too much but now he has to copy us to beat us…..this game stunk…..

 

[uconnblueinky]

Can someone please get a screenshot of Hassan squaring up and throwing his fists up ?!

 

[blkknight1]

The key sequence in the first half really happened at 28-28. We have the ball come down and Hass takes a 3 pt shot with like 15 seconds left on the shot clock. Next possession Alex takes an NBa 3 pretty early in the shot clock next possession Hass dribbles down into the paint could have pulled it back out instead takes a contested shot. All the while creighton keeps scoring.

The other bad sequence was down 4 with all the momentum we again take a couple of bad jumpers instead of doing what we did to get the lead down to four. We never went inside to tarris it was clear kalk could not handle him down low but we never threw it into him

 

[KingAG]

Here’s what McDermott had to say about our “bad offense”.

Lmao

 

[uh-no]

We cannot have 8 minute stretches of completely forgetting how to play defense and expect to win. The end of the first half killed us.

so did the end of the second half, where we completely forgot how to play offense.

 

[sdglast]

I’m sorry but I couldn’t disagree with this more. A defender is allowed verticality to challenge shots. Our drivers are imitating contact. We watched Clingan do this all last year and Emeka and Jake were especially good at it as well.

I don't disagree, but I have watched tons of players initiate contact with UConn defenders all season, and the whistle constantly blows. I don't think UConn has received a very good whistle this year at all. It is what it is, and hopefully that changes next year, but boy there have been A LOT of missed calls this season. Teams get away with a ton of contact against UConn.

 

[housekeys]

Listen, we shot ourselves in the foot but those two straight out of bounds calls that were botched and were blatantly obvious real time from TV were absolutely unacceptable from refs in the BET. Just can’t happen.

Didn't they reverse an out of bounds call against us in the Villanova game?

 

[bendm]

And it scored 62 points. On the average the winning team in an NCAA game scores about 75.

K? Both things can be true. We don’t have an awful offense but we did have an awful offensive game

 

[UCFan1513]

Yeah got torched by a conspiracy theorist lol.

Oh my god I didn’t know this about Royce White. Crazy

 

[BigFanCT]

I don’t like blaming refs but they botched a couple high leverage calls late. Ouch

Good comeback but just couldn’t get over the hump. MSG would have lit up if we tied it

Was there- barely any UConn contingency. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

 

[Scottobot]

For all the people who want to crucify me over my comments on Kimani Young being a bad defensive coach, explain why St Mary’s is the 8th best defense on Ken Pom and UConn is 93 when UConn has an order of magnitude better player. they have faster players and more athletic players.

 

[Jimdish255]

Down 4 they had 3 empty trips in a row. That could have overcome the awful OOB calls if they converted 1 or 2.

There's a lot of things they needed to overcome. Those two calls didn't need to be added to the list at that crucial point in the game.

 

[KingAG]

For all the people who want to crucify me over my comments on Kimani Young being a bad defensive coach, explain why St Mary’s is the 8th best defense on Ken Pom and UConn is 93 when UConn has an order of magnitude better player. they have faster players and more athletic players.

St Mary’s plays in the WCC. Aiden Mahaney played competent defense in that conference. Go to bed.

 

[DogMania]

Karaban having an atrocious all around game the night after having one of his best of the season is rough. Refs were awful but we just made way too many errors and could never hit the big shot when we had chances. We are what we’ve been all year; maddeningly inconsistent

Yup. This year is the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde team. We were fortunate the last 2 seasons to have a team with multiple Winning Time performers. Not the case this time around.

 

[superjohn]

McDermott is now 9-3 against Hurley, that's crazy to me.

 

[Jsmoove1121]

Who we kidding? We’ve seen the whole season and know who we are. To think we had just turned a corner while only beating mediocre teams was getting ahead of ourselves. Buckle up. It’s March. Hope for the best. But should be a REALLY exciting offseason. Go huskies

 

[Devland]

time for Kimani to move on, defense sucks

 

[Kolumbo]

I don't want to hear the folks "you can't blame the refs." Every single close game hinges on calls down the stretch. Whether you are playing great and up by 20, or lousy and down by 20, if it's close at the end of the game, refs are critical players. Those out of bounds calls killed the comeback. as for the big east, I believe it was best put forth most eloquently by the renowned sir kendrick lamar: They not like us.