agreed. i'm not looking ahead to the BE finals. I want to win our 3v6 matchup and with Hall playing well again i think creighton, sans nembard, is the team we want to see.
I don't want an easy opponent, I want Seton Hall in the 3/6 game so we can keep padding our resume and improve our seed
unless we win the BET, or lose our first game of the BET, i think we're securely a 4. but the odds of losing our first game to Hall are greater than winning the whole thing, so I want to lock at least a 4 seed up with a win against Creighton and then try to improve our seeding against Nova/PC.
Or play more : Cole, Jackson, Martin, Hawkins/Polley, Sanogo/Whaley
This is how I feel exactly. I'd hate to trade home/away wins with the better teams in our conference.
That would suck for them if true. But I think kalkbrenner, Hawkins, Alexander are enough to stay competitive. They are well coached too. We have faced a few teams over the years where the key guy was out and somehow the 7th man, who is 1/32 from 3pt on the year, goes 5/7 from deep with 23 points.
I would love for UConn to do that. Nembhard is a big loss, but that team goes as Ryan Hawkins goes. If he plays well they usually win, if he plays poorly they lose. Look at his game log, but you can just look at his game against UConn where he had 25 pts and 12 reb versus 3 days later at Seton Hall he had 2 pts and 1 reb. He also didn’t do to hot at Hinkle FH where Butler won by 17 pts
Oh it sure as hell isn’t a given to get A win against Creighton.
Creighton scored 59 points. They were off a 17 point loss to Butler and a 12 point loss to Xavier and followed up our game with a 19 point loss to SH. The line was what it should have been. UConn covers with a B performance, problem is they played the worst game they have all year. It happens.
Serious question. Are Seniors who were recognized last year going to be recognized again this year?
This is in fact my betting strategy and I'm up about 60% in a month but by all means mock me for it.
Mocking implies belief.
Let’s see they beat us by dictating tempo and making us play half court .
From a coaching game day perspective, I know both Jim and Geno use to dread Senior Night, if it was viewed to be a competitive game. I know the WBB fans don’t want to hear this. It’s right up with First Night as sacred.
First game in the tournament is always dicey. I remember struggling against Seton Hall in 1990 and on a few other occasions when the other team had a first round game and we had the bye.
Senior night for who? Nate Miles was on campus longer than O’Connell and Hawkins.
I have anxiety about every game. Especially road games. No wins are a given.
Even so, my anxiety feels generic. I think we're just good and are going to continue to play well. And on a given night when a couple of regulars aren't hitting their averages, those numbers will come from somebody else. This is a healthy team, and not just physically.
I think you meant 99. I was at that game and it was torture.
