for a team with as many players, regardless of them being just sophomores, that played in alot of pressure packed tourney games last year and kept their cool during, seemed to have totally forgotten how to value the ball on too many occasions during the game today. Devoid of Kemba has had a crippling affect in their composure unfortunately.
A serious flaw that won't bode well with the rest of these remaining games becoming must wins, as it appears they've painted themselves into a corner that'll be hard to undo if this keeps up. Too many one step forward, 2 steps back segments that shouldn't be happening at this point in a season.
The passing the ball around the perimeter is pointless against the zone if they aren't going to get it into the foul line area, which they did, but then abandoned at the worst possible time. Excasberated by the overall sloppy play in the last few minutes, especially when they kept themselves in it with a real chance to take the game right down to the wire with better decision making and defense.
Credit to the team that they fought them tough to a degree before wilting, something hopefully they can use to recover their confidence.
