Marquette

[Stinger92860]

You can't win these games if you don't hit your open 3's. They had plenty of chances. Sometimes it's not complicated.

Maybe change up the approach? They could have cut the lead to 4, but they missed 3 threes in a single possession.

 

[MuchoDogYears]

Something more went down in this game than just Marquette having a bad shooting night. At best, hopefully it was just a late night of partying, or the flu, or bad calamari. Or something much much worse. Cuz something was way way off. That looked like a team playing a Sunday pickup game at the local Y after a late night out.

 

[Scoe]

Here’s why Marquette looked the way they did tonight. Was listening to Zolak and Bertrand today, had a caller who said that Marquette would beat UConn in the national championship, said Marquette only lost by 5 pts to us without Kolek. Wrong and of course convenientLu leave out the fact we beat Marquette by 35 with Kolek.

You upset the mojo gods and spew misinformation on top of that, of course fatso Bertrand and career loser qb riding Brady coattails Zolak never fact checked, and said how much they would love to see that.

 

[superjohn]

Near the end of the first half they missed a dunk and Joplin missed all three FTs on a fouled 3pt shot. It felt over after that. It was full discombobulation pretty much the entire game, and Shaka didn't do anything about it.

What could he really do though? I guess he could've tried to speed up NC State more but they play slowly and don't turn it over. Tell his guys to stop taking wide open shots and stop throwing the ball into the crowd for no reason? They're not a bang it down low team and Oso stinks now.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we learn some Marquette players were on the take that game. It was that confounding a performance by some of their players and we're going to have scandals with the proliferation and constant promotion of sports gambling everywhere.

 

[uconnever]

I picked NC State to go to the final four just because the last team that won their conference tourney the way they did, won it all.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Oso's game took a nosedive about a month ago, and never recovered.

Oso was on the first round NBA line - no longer

 

[NJHusky]

Marquette spits the bitt once again. At least this they weren’t BE champs

 

[ucp990411]

That was an awful game. NC state played poorly too. It seriously looked like Marquette was hung over.

Exactly what I told my wife

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Oso was on the first round NBA line - no longer

I wonder if he is injured.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

NCAA underperformance is why Shaka was fired at Texas, right? he had the one magical run t VCU and has been a dud in the tourney ever since

He just lost in the Sweet 16. I wouldn't call that a dud.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

They settled for way too many three-point shots. I wish I could say it was shocking that smart didn’t change up the game plan.

 

[Scoe]

He just lost in the Sweet 16. I wouldn't call that a dud.

To an 11 seeded team that didn’t even play all that great it is. If it were to a Kentucky team clicking on all cylinders then ok. To be fair the players should also get a lot of the blame they shot horribly including fts.

 

[Slappy]

I picked NC State to go to the final four just because the last team that won their conference tourney the way they did, won it all.

You’re probably lying

 

[Jaker]

Good game so far.

 

[uconnever]

You’re probably lying

Ummmm no, I always do terrible on my brackets, so I tried to put a lot of thought into it. I also bet on the games, so I’m paying attention to everything. The rest of my bracket is not to good, but I did pick them for that reason only because I know NOTHING about them.

 

[uconnfan68]

I picked NC State to go to the final four just because the last team that won their conference tourney the way they did, won it all.

At least we won’t let them.

 

[AJR2626]

Kolek is good? He goes to dominant hand every time I don’t know anybody on boneyard that couldn’t beat him 1 on 1 if you were under 25 and over 5ft 9 . My frustration is if we don’t get out of Big East before it implodes we are screwed. Us and Villanova need to leave. The end is the beginning we will reunite with Cuse , Pitt acc who gets left out of Big Ten and SEC. I’m over babying the Midwest this is big east not Creighton, Marquette, DePaul, Xavier, Butler telling everybody you know UConn? They can start there own conference with sister ST Francis from Loyola Chicago but he who hesitates is lost

 

[businesslawyer]

The hefty fellow got ncst is already suffering. What’s with Oso though I thought he was better

He got hurt against Providence in the Big East Tourney. He hasn’t missed a game since, but he clearly hasn’t been himself either.

 

[Slappy]

Ummmm no, I always do terrible on my brackets, so I tried to put a lot of thought into it. I also bet on the games, so I’m paying attention to everything. The rest of my bracket is not to good, but I did pick them for that reason only because I know NOTHING about them.

Nah you’re actually lying

 

[GampelGladiator]

I'm a Shaka fan...luckily his march success is finally trending in the right direction...

VCU

Final Four
Round of 32
Round of 32
Round of 64
Round of 64

TEXAS

Round of 64
Round of 64
Round of 64

MARQUETTE

Round of 64
Round of 32
Sweet 16

 

[Fishy]

At some point, a coach needs his players not to play like complete garbage.

That did not happen for Shaka.

Kam Jones in the transfer portal would should shock me 0%

 

[superjohn]

Kolek is good? He goes to dominant hand every time I don’t know anybody on boneyard that couldn’t beat him 1 on 1 if you were under 25 and over 5ft 9 . My frustration is if we don’t get out of Big East before it implodes we are screwed. Us and Villanova need to leave. The end is the beginning we will reunite with Cuse , Pitt acc who gets left out of Big Ten and SEC. I’m over babying the Midwest this is big east not Creighton, Marquette, DePaul, Xavier, Butler telling everybody you know UConn? They can start there own conference with sister ST Francis from Loyola Chicago but he who hesitates is lost

Brutal take

 

[Scrutineer]

NCAA underperformance is why Shaka was fired at Texas, right? he had the one magical run t VCU and has been a dud in the tourney ever since

This was his first Sweet Sixteen since 2011 which, coincidentally, was his only other Sweet Sixteen on the way to that year's FF.

He gets a lot of credit for being a great coach and his players seem (to this point) to like him but maybe there's something else going on and he's not the coach people believe him to be.

 

[Scrutineer]

Near the end of the first half they missed a dunk and Joplin missed all three FTs on a fouled 3pt shot. It felt over after that. It was full discombobulation pretty much the entire game, and Shaka didn't do anything about it.

Could he be looking at open jobs and the team knows about it?
This sure didn't look like the Marquette we're accustomed to seeing and the way MU and CU played tonight didn't do anything to bolster the NBE's reputation. It's all on the Huskies.........

 

[superjohn]

Could he be looking at open jobs and the team knows about it?

No