January - Other Big East Games

[ucp990411]

This is what happens when Xavier doesn’t make every single three they throw up. Great shooting beats good defense every day - contrary to what some on this board would like the narrative to be after last game

Great defense stops good shooting every game. Xavier shot well against us because our defense was terrible. They shot uncontested 3's.

 

[Umami Zen]

Will make our W at Creighton so much more meaningful.. Quad 1 victory..

 

[storrsroars]

Will make our W at Creighton so much more meaningful.. Quad 1 victory..

It'll be a good win. But it was going to be a Q1 win regardless. They weren't falling beneath 75 NET.

 

[navery12]

It'll be a good win. But it was going to be a Q1 win regardless. They weren't falling beneath 75 NET.

A Q1 home win is top 30 NET

 

[uconngb]

This is what happens when Xavier doesn’t make every single three they throw up. Great shooting beats good defense every day - contrary to what some on this board would like the narrative to be after last game

It also beats really bad defense……which is what we threw up against them. How many of Boum’s 3s were contested in our game?? Not many

 

[huskyharry]

McDermott is playing the hand he was dealt, but Creighton would be 15-5 and ranked if Kalk doesn't miss 3 games. I don't think he was 100% for Nebraska either, so an argument could be made for 16-4. It will be interesting to see how the Selection Committee ranks Creighton because of Kalk's illness.

What did Kalk have?

Non COVID illness that caused severe fatigue. Also not likely to be mononucleosis as that diagnosis is typically stated When the player has it. But also apparently something that took two weeks plus for him to play well enough to play again.

 

[storrsroars]

A Q1 home win is top 30 NET

Will make our W at Creighton so much more meaningful.. Quad 1 victory..

And an away win is top 75.

 

[Zissou]

Double header in South Philly…. Prov/Nova and Eagles/Niners

 

[Billy Jack]

It also beats really bad defense……which is what we threw up against them. How many of Boum’s 3s were contested in our game?? Not many

Bad defense in the first half, yes. Great defense in the second half. When you beat a team by 12 points, as we did in the second half, the defense is not a problem. In fact, that defense was responsible for much of the the 50% FG% and 60% 3-point shooting in the 2nd half after shooting 32% and 8% in the 1st half.

You can’t judge the effectiveness of the defense just by opponents’ points scored. You have to give credit to the Xavier offense as well. When the UConn D pressured the ball very effectively, Xavier’s ball movement and passing to find the open man was very good. Our guys could learn from that. Nonetheless, our D was overall very effective in the 2nd half as it held them to 12 points fewer than our guys scored.

 

[navery12]

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Bad defense in the first half, yes. Great defense in the second half. When you beat a team by 12 points, as we did in the second half, the defense is not a problem. In fact, that defense was responsible for much of the the 50% FG% and 60% 3-point shooting in the 2nd half after shooting 32% and 8% in the 1st half.

You can’t judge the effectiveness of the defense just by opponents’ points scored. You have to give credit to the Xavier offense as well. When the UConn D pressured the ball very effectively, Xavier’s ball movement and passing to find the open man was very good. Our guys could learn from that. Nonetheless, our D was overall very effective in the 2nd half as it held them to 12 points fewer than our guys scored.

Great defense in the second half?! I'm not sure I would call it that, lol. There were spurts of it but the bottom line is that we gave up 43 points in the second half (after giving up 39 in the first half). Xavier only put up 2 free throws in the last three minutes of the game so there was not a piling on of last minute points due to us fouling to stop the clock/hope they miss.

Our defense HAS to improve over the next two months our we'll peter out in conference play/BE tourney and will be limping into the big dance. Period.

 

[SoFla Steve]

Wow! I didn't expect him to come back at all this season.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Which leaves out the other half of the equation, when we easily handled Creighton in the middle of this down stretch

Shhh, what good could possibly come from such a comment? Are you a troublemaker or something?

 

[UConnSwag11]

PC and Nova battling. Whitmore with 17

 

[CheshireCat]

PC and Nova battling. Whitmore with 17

Floyd with 8 and 2 huge 3s. Kinda weird considering he sucks according to the stat nerds here.

 

[UConnSwag11]

What a flop and then a make up no call

 

[jeff99]

Corey Floyd Jr playing crunch time

 

[Dutch Boyd]

Corey Floyd Jr playing crunch time

He transferred! You’ll be okay little man!

 

[UConnSwag11]

Couple slides on bynums basket

 

[UConnSwag11]

Nova pisses away any chance

 

[UConnSwag11]

UCONN stays ahead of Nova for 6th place with 9 games to go

 

[REB1094]

Crazy ending to Providence/Villanova.

CFJ got mauled by 3 people with no call. Croswell finds the loose ball and gets called for a charge after a clear flop by Armstrong.

Bynum dagger fadeaway with 25 seconds left to go up 3

Whitmore with 21/9 on on 50%. Great game

The difference proved to be a 50/50 ball on a wild chase that Providence got with just under 5 minutes left. Won the hustle play and got an open three from it

CFJ got major minutes for the second game in a row. 8 points on 3-5 and some great defense. Seemed like he was always making the right play (except that triple teamed layup at the end, but to be fair he got clobbered with no call)

That was fun!

 

[ucp990411]

Does Providence ever lose a close game? Sign of a mature, well coached team.

 

[August_West]

Corey Floyd Jr playing crunch time

And played well

 

[CheshireCat]

UCONN stays ahead of Nova for 6th place with 9 games to go

Moore struggled shooting but looked like himself posting up and still making a big impact. Nova will be tough if they are 100% by the time we get them the last game of the season in a revenge spot.