No doubt. That should be a confidence booster. As should Delaware, frankly. We 'should' be able to put up numbers of them, but again, this is a crazy season. That same Umass team you reference just smacked UNC around.
But we are struggling, that's a fact. Let's put it down against NJIT and go from there.
There is a lot to work on, which is why NJIT is coming at the right time. The D needs to tighten up and communicate better. They were to start the season, then today there were a few breakdowns, as well as against Stony Brook. We can't have that.
I'd also like to see us raise our IQ collectively. A sign of youth, but we can't take penalties, especially at certain times of the game. We are a momentum team in a game that is built on teams going on runs, and for the second game in a row, we either didn't go on our own run, or grabbed the momentum and we commit a silly penalty and give it all away almost immediately.
Continuing to work on situational awareness is a good thing for the guys. We have the talent. They just have to keep working. The season is really two seasons. Our OOC schedule doesn't allow for ton of error. The next step is making the B1G tourney. The step beyond that is the NCAA tourney. To accomplish that goal, we are now going to need both Princeton and Stony Brook to do well in their leagues for our RPI, while doing well in the B1G. The B1G got three teams in the NCAA tourney last year and I could see that again, but we need those teams to do well for our RPI. One of SB or Princeton was acceptable, but two is going to make it hard without a little help.
Even so,everything is still out there. We need to finish OOC strong and get in gear for the B1G schedule. It's going to be a meatgrinder of its own.
I do like how it is setting up though home/away wise. We need to get back to playing our game though, and that all starts with the next one.
