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Message: [QUOTE="osceola48, post: 2136125, member: 2371"] Yup. I was uneasy watching the game from the beginning, and never felt good during the game. There was hope when we took a lead in Qtr 3, but then our momentum stopped and we missed chance after chance to build on that lead. From that point on, the missed free-throws and the turnovers were agonizing and frequent. After watching the team play such a near-perfect game against Oregon, I couldn't believe what I was seeing against MissSt. This was not our only poor showing this year. There was of course the Tulane game, and I didn't think we dispatched UCLA as decisively as we could have. A couple of other examples were UCF toward the end of the season and Kansas earlier in the season. We won those games handily despite not playing our A game. But MissSt is a good team that brought their A game, and we did not play our A game. Yes, they played great defense and consistent offense, and all credit for that. But we helped by missing lots of easy shots in the first half and missing free-throws and committing turnovers in the second half. It shows just how good our team really is, that even with MissSt playing a great game and our team sputtering, we still nearly won the game. And it shows how amazing it is to win so many games in a row, because let-downs happen. Alas, we finally had an ill-timed letdown against a very good team in the Final Four. [/QUOTE]