Musketeer ThoughtZ™

[RichZ]

1. Nearly a minute & a half before the first score. A three from Demary. We never relinquished the lead.
2. That first bucket would turn out to be more than half Demary's scoring total for the game. His other 2 points came with from the FT line with about 3 minutes left in the game. He ran the team well, but Malachi actually ended up with more minutes at the point.
3. Started out OK. Our scorers are scoring, and theirs aren't.
4. 6 minutes in, Mullins proves he's not just a designated shooter when he steals the ball and feeds Solo for a slam on the run.
5. When we went up 30 to 6 at 12:46, and I briefly had thoughts of the 30 point run on Illinois in the '24 Semifinals.
6. Is it me, or has Karaban been a very different player the last 4 or so games?
7. Our hot shooting deserted us with about 9 to go in the half, but we still maintained a 16 to 20 point lead for most of the half.
8. Lead down to 15 at the break.
9. Halftime notes: 15 buckets off 14 dimes at the half. That's the nicest half time stat of the season. Ball, Reed and Karaban were a combined 11 of 20 from the floor.
10. Between some 'Huh?!?" foul calls and some loose defense, it felt like we were letting them back in the game early in the 2nd half.
11. Mullins had a very impressive game. Ended up 6 of 11 from the field, including 5 of 10 from 3, along with 6 boards, 4 dimes, 2 steals and only 1 foul.
12. Stewart played very well in limited minutes. He ended up with 8 points, a steal, a dime and 4 boards (3 offensive) in 18 minutes.
13. Is anyone else concerned with how easily Xavier drove into the paint in the 2nd half? Luckily, they couldn't make very many short shots once they got inside.
14. Ended up with 33 buckets on 26 dimes and a 42 - 26 advantage on the boards.
15. Our shooting percentages for the game were 53,46 & 79. The Mouseketeers went for 43, 22 & 68