Great team win with five players in double figures.The game was won on the foul with clutch shooting by Davis,Sommerville and Bailey.The only negative was the defense allowing at least 15 layups.The team now has 8 wins against B1G Ten rivals,
For those of us who had visions of the Minnesota meltdown from a couple years ago, especially after Acuff missed that front end....J Mike going 6 for 6 from the line (and Bailey 2 for 2) was super clutch...especially since the D decided to stop trying at the end.
15 losses..only 3 schools ever at large and 17-14 heading into tourney play is rare air percentage wise. You can't make a resume in 4 days when the committee likely has their field selected on Thursday
If that scenario happens, I'll bet you we get in....17-14 with road wins at Michigan at Purdue. Plus 3 or 4 in a row in Big tournament ...I'd bet alot on it.
If anything, it seems the defense has somehow gotten worse as the season progressed as each game looks like more of a layup line than the last. We won the last two games and we averaged 90 points per game in those 2 wins. We can only win with scoring as we just give up too many easy points in the paint. If we are red hot offensively in to close out the season we might be able to make some noise, but defense is just not gonna happen this year.
But in that scenario we would be 13 or 14 and 11 in the Big. Most teams with 14 league wins make tournament....again im.not saying we would be for certain. I'm arguing BACs overconfident " No" as if he is the overlord of the committee.
15 losses..only 3 schools ever at large and 17-14 heading into tourney play is rare air percentage wise. You can't make a resume in 4 days when the committee likely has their field selected on Thursday
He had an ankle brace on & when he was sitting on the bench he had a knee brace on. Didn't seem to bother him much. A few of the guys were actually passing te knee brace around
He's really improved this season in some facets of his game. Now he just needs to get better at staying in front of his man on defense and not trying to take it to the basket when bigs are down there lurking.
