Very nice to see Captain EO out there again tonight.

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bac2therac said:

League wins aren't considered

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

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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.

could prove to be an asset against the Mich bigs

bac2therac said:

Exactly

This is our blueprint now

Need 50% plus shooting and outscoring every opponent in a race

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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.

He also hit a gigantic 3-pointer late in the 2nd half.

Salvi's Headband said:

Does DH look to be bothered by his ankle to anyone else?

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It happened right before the half. I believe his knee has been a lingering problem since earlier in the year.

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Rokodesh said:

This is pathetic

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I agree didnt know USC was so bad

Degaz-RU said:

We just played our 27th game. We’re sort of beyond “cleaning up” defense. We are what we are.

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Exactly

This is our blueprint now

Need 50% plus shooting and outscoring every opponent in a race

RUisB1Gtime said:

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.

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League wins aren't considered

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

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BillyC80 said:

Our foul shooting, especially Lathan, has been stellar

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And Davis.

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

Simce91 said:

Would have been a page of "JMike Sucks" if he missed that 3 😁

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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.

BOCA93 said:

Made it way more interesting than it needed to be.
But FT shooting 93%, what!?

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Make your FTs and you win games.

Rokodesh said:

Need to clean up on the defensively end

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We just played our 27th game. We’re sort of beyond “cleaning up” defense. We are what we are.

Great win. The bench came up huge. Dortch with a key 9 pts and Davis with great FT shooting late.

RUisB1Gtime said:

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.

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The committee doesn’t care about how many Big 10 wins we may have. It’s about the resume of the whole season, winning out and getting to 17-14 might put us on the fringes of a bubble and being way outside the field, but not close to being in. The committee is not paying attention to what we do in the Big 10 tournament. They have picked the field by the time the conference tournaments have started. They may have not figured out all the seeding, but they already know who’s in and who’s out. Trying to finish with a .500 or winning record and maybe playing in Vegas is a more realistic hope.

Best team wide scoring game of the year.

RUisB1Gtime said:

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.

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And he's not the overlord---- not even close. And noone is even saying we're close -- but many remember him blowing our sure thing to get in-- he was wrong then big time and he's often wrong.-- ever read his rants during games that turned out wrong.

RUSJ73 said:

RU to play a complete game and upset USC, 78-72

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RU favored so no upset here