If they beat St. Johns tonight, I'm not sure we can jump them. That would help their resume more than us beating Creighton. You would think beating them 3 times would help, but not sure it would.
I am not sorry in the least.
If our defense becomes our strength, color me surprised. For whatever reason, Stew becomes Dennis Rodman when he defends Dixon. I do love that, just wondering how replicable that will be. We definitely defended well, but Nova and their hero ball gameplan helped. I'd be much more comfortable if we found the offensive flow we had earlier in the year against teams like Gonzaga, where had Liam being a creator that found the open man. Right now it's so hard to rely on Hass - when you see him live you realize how partial he is physically.
Don't care. I want St. Johns to lose. I do not want them to have any chance at a BET championship.
I have a hard time thinking the committee keeps a team we beat 3x ahead of us in the seedings, while beating them in the BET championship on the eve of the bracket release. That just doesn't smell right. I'd much rather roll the dice with the scenario of beating Marquette in the finals than having to play StJ in the finals. I could see a scenario where we both get 7s in that case vs getting a 7 by losing to StJ in the finals.
Am I remembering wrong but didn’t Dixon have a post up game at one time? He also didn’t play a lick of defense
Yes! He totally abandoned any form of offense other than jacking up jumpers. In the past, when he couldn't hit from outside, he'd typically bring it in and work around the paint. He was god awful on both ends of the floor last night - played losing basketball all over the place. Weird way for him to go out. When he stunk in the first half, thought he might come out and go on a tear in the second (as also had the Nova scoring record on the line), and was even worse. Credit our d for sure, but a lot of that had to do with lot's of bad decision making from him.
Excellent point. I was at MSG during that drubbing, and a win over St. John's at The Garden for the Big East crown would be epic.
As long as the fallacy keeps being committed I will keep knocking it down!
Do you think I am incorrect?
You lose.
THIS. So true. And of the last 5 wins, 4 have been by double digits. Let’s make it 5 tonight!
Yep, was at both the St Johns semi and Marquette final last year. Obviously St Johns was a more exciting game, but the crowd also was just insane. UConn-Johnnies final at MSG would feed families.
Yesterday you panicked that there may be no movement on the 7 line as a few teams won. Now you think they is room for BOTH UConn and Marquette?
Still not convinced there will be room, but Kansas lost and Marquette sitting there as the last 7. Win win is beating Marquette in finals in my eye. Had said all along we’d need to win 3 to guarantee 7, never cared about Marquette. View really doesn’t differ.
I was one of them, but he’s making me a believer again! I would love to say I was wrong!
It’s called the law of averages. But it’s not theory, it is a basic math principle.
I thought you might be on to something so I went back and checked. He only had the tape on his shoulder for the February 23 game against St. John's (17 points, 3-6 from three, but the 6 turnovers when it looked like he had fumblitis) and the February 26 game against Georgetown (13 points, 1-5 from three). So who knows if the shoulder bothered him before the St. John's game because he was on a bad streak before that.
That's how he plays now because Neptune runs no offense but the credit is to our defense. He was 11-48 against us in three games this season.
Hope you heal up fast and completely!
No worries, I didn’t cut my hands during the cases
