Marquette looked awful in March last year. Was down 7 at the half against a 15 seed, then barely got by 10 seed Colorado. They were lucky to get to the S16 and looked borderline incompetent against NCSt. They were never close in that game and playing catchup from the teens the majority of the game. They have no interior game at all when it’s needed.
Shaka teams always wear down towards the ends the year
Not sure if I agree with that. I’d say bringing a great defensive piece off the bench, a ball handler with experience and a 5 star would satisfy what most would call depth at the college level.
Well I don’t think Foster is particularly good, and it’s shown because of his benching. Evans is a string bean who can only shoot at this point. Brown is a good piece and Gillis has experience, but he has been pretty awfu this season.
Marquette was down by 6 with the ball with 2:30 left despite shooting 4-31 from three on mostly open threes. No team in the country is winning a sweet 16 game other than possibly UConn if they shoot 4-31 from three. That's why they lost. It had nothing to do with their flaws.
The year before last Marquette won 15 out of 16 before the Michigan State game, their lone loss was to UConn which they avenged in the Big East tournament semis before stomping Xavier to win the Big East tournament. Unfortunately for them Kolek got hurt against Vermont and wasn't close to the same for Michigan State. Kolek wasn't the same after the oblique injury heading into the tournament last year either but he gutted it out.
Lots of it was because they were playing catch up the whole game. In the tourney you can’t be a one trick pony. They were abysmal in that game, just kept heaving and missing threes. They lost in the second round the previous year as a 2 seed, lost to an even seed by 32 in the first round the year prior. I appreciate your BE allegiances, but to say it was circumstantial is ignoring the Shaka rep.
They weren't a one trick pony they just shot horrifically that entire game, teams lose when they shoot that horrifically.
Teams have other ways of scoring when they aren’t hitting threes. Oso regressed the back half of last year, and was producing nothing offensively at that point. If you recall he was widely considered a first round pick early in the season and dropped to the second. Joplin is a highly inefficient 4.
You’re right……he will come back and crow about how good Iowa St is.I don't know about that. He doesn't seem to be self aware and is shameless. So he is like a clown.
At the risk of threading a needle; no doubt we had a bunch of A- or B+ games. For me a team plays their A game when they are in a competitive game. It can be argued a 50 point win against Depaul is playing your A game. That is not what I mean. An opponent that was so good, it required our guys to play at the highest level the whole game. Mostly because few teams were able to play their A game against us, I guess. Even in the Xavier example, a 31 point lead early, that was extended by 12, was certainly close, but IMO, a bit short of our A game. The last St. Johns game was close, because St Johns was very competitive and I think played as well as they possibly could. Again, I am nit-picking a bit, but that is how it felt to me.
Auburn ended up winning by 5 at Texas. Can someone remind us what UConn ended up winning by at Texas?
I was very pleased that Texas made a game out of it.Auburn ended up winning by 5 at Texas. Can someone remind us what UConn ended up winning by at Texas?
Kenpom gives dook a ~35% chance to run through the ACC at 20-0. That's absurdly high.
Clingan and Hurley Jr. hit 3s. 'Glou had a steal and dunk. And Xavier was a decent team despite their injuries last year. We annihilated them.
Maybe that's why he thought it was a good idea to be hanging around with them and undergrads.
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Dying conference
Beyond the metrics if you simply watch the games you’d realize the talent level is another notch. You’re going to see oddball results in any league when players go on road, when teams face #1 at home, etc. Emotions are at play, it creates runs and streaks and sometimes things get out of hand. UK is GAs SB, and there was a lot of home cooking in that one. The road isn’t easy in league play.
Completely with you on this. A highly ranked team going on the road is such a different environment. Seen it so many times with the UK's, UNC, Duke, UCONN teams. It's the home teams national title game. Banked in 3's, weird stuff happening. In the UK vs GA game last night, 45 total fouls. 9 freaking stops in play to review calls. Just a terrible game for flow and rhythm.
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