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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 1995252, member: 488"] Nobody is disputing that it was by and large a debacle, but are we really at the point where we can't extract [I]hope [/I]from some of the things we have seen? Georgetown is also a team that has beaten Oregon and played Maryland, Butler, and Xavier to the wire on their home floor - they're bi-polar but not untalented, and while no medals should be handed out for losing close games against beatable opponents, we were still playing a top 100 team on the road. This wasn't like losing to Tulsa. The bottom line is that we have seen a demonstrably better team over the last three games. It's still not a representative product, but over a span of 111 minutes - the end of the Memphis game, the UCF and Temple games, and the beginning of the Georgetown game - we outscored four top 100 teams by a total of 54 points. Essentially, they played at the level of a top 25 team for 100+ minutes. It's not something to celebrate but it might be something to cling to given how bad they were earlier, especially when some of the contributing players are freshman and sophomores. The negativity will be more warranted on Thursday when we get blown out by SMU, but let's at least wait until that happens. [/QUOTE]