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Message: [QUOTE="Rico444, post: 4491108, member: 263"] This is where I've landed on this team. I still think we're a top 10 team and can win a national championship. Like all great teams, we've gotten knocked down and have to make some adjustments. The biggest adjustment needs to be made by Hurley and how he treats the refs. You can call me a conspiracy theorist, but I don't think it's a coincidence that Goodman came out and said that he's heard from multiple Big East refs that they've had it with Hurley's abuse on the sidelines and immediately after that comes out, we face a combined 63 to 28 free throw differential? That's too much of a coincidence for me to write off. If he can get word to the refs that he's going to tone it down, and actually follow through on that, I expect the terrible whistle to end. Now that that's out of the way, both games would have been very close or even wins if there was a decent whistle. We shot terribly against Providence, and Andre got into foul trouble almost immediately and only played about 20 minutes. I was also encouraged by Newton's play early, he showed much more willingness to drive the lane. I think we'll see him get more foul calls moving forward. We actually got two of the three hardest games of the year out of the way (@Creighton being the third). After these next two games, our schedule really opens up and the majority of our games against the best teams in the conference will be at home. [/QUOTE]