This season is not over, there is a lot still to play for
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and Im excited, i missed the Iowa game because of the flu and looked dreaful against the Frans but I have miss piss and vinger bac, the winter cold is breaking, and I want to see some offensive showmanship at the RAC Sunday night
I have ZERO evidence that it will change...we have been trending the wrong way.
For us to be successful we are need to get between a B+ to an A (depending on opponent) on offense
25 % probability we are disinterested on D and shoot worse than normal and lose badly
50% probability game is really close with us being disinterested on D, but Ace and Dylan and others make shots
25% probabily we win going away with a better defensive performance and we knock down a bunch of shots
I haven’t looked the numbers to confirm but this team seems to be able to do one of offense and defense on a given day but not both
Like the correlation between good offense and bad defense and vice versa is very high
It's never gonna happen but we need to win out plus 2 or 3 wins in tourey...19 or 20-15 MIGHT get us in...
"If we can just go 7-1" is back on the table!
3-1 to finish out the season
Get 9th seed in BTT
4-0 in BTT
Tourney bid!!
The defense showed signs of improvement at one point but has since regressed back to embarrassing
I've never seen so many easy buckets game after game after game
Diablo drove EVERY time and easily got to the basket.
Harris ALWAYS took the outside shot and made too many threes.
We had no answer for the center. Lathan is not a Big Ten level defender. We miss Ogbole.
If Lathan gets in early foul trouble we are dead in the water. unless Ace and Dylan Harper are both on fire.
Harris ALWAYS took the outside shot and made too many threes.
We had no answer for the center. Lathan is not a Big Ten level defender. We miss Ogbole.
If Lathan gets in early foul trouble we are dead in the water. unless Ace and Dylan Harper are both on fire.
Folks don’t get it. 15 losses on selection day would be historic. Like 2-3 other scenerios of it ever - we flat out would not have the resume for consideration.
I think everyone gets it. No one thinks we are making the tournament anymore
A couple folks above posted possibilities of us sneaking in if we win 6 straight. It’s not happening, but we still wouldn’t get in even if it did.
No it is not. All of the wing problems start because of the allowance repeatedly , like every possession , of our guards specifically JMike , Jordan and Tyson , of not playing to keep their man in front of them . Jeremiah at least tries and is partially effective as does Dylan but it needs correction. The biggest frustration is Pike actually thinks JMike is a good defensive player and continues to play him too much as Jeremiah and Tyson must get the guard minutes after Dylan , as he has been horrendous defensively in almost every game.
WVU got in two years ago with 14 losses on selection day. Not 15. Not sure what your talking about on Virginia.
Manny ‘s loss turns out to hurt us more than his actually stat production as it has now caused Lathan to get in foul trouble every game. Then Pike goes to Martini which is an absolute disaster in the post and then to Grant who has size , can rebound and block shots. But we don’t want Grant playing the 5.
I just want to see bac’s head explode
0.0 chance. No offense but a 15 loss team with losses to ksu and princeton won't even be in the discussion.
Yup 14 losses playing in one of the best conferences in the history of bball. We beat pitt, auburn, kansas st, tcu and Iowa state. We also had no bad losses and something like 8 or 9 of our losses were to ranked team.
Ogbole's injury was the turning point on D imho. We have donut D--big hole in the middle, can't stop guards driving or a decent or better big man when he gets the ball in/near the paint. As others have noted, Lathan, who stinks defensively anyway, is always in foul trouble leading to Martini who adds next to nothing on D or rebounding, and can't score like Sommerville. Grant is OK but still can be overmatched by a bigger C/F. Dortch is next man-up but even at 6'9 he needs to bulk-up to play with B1G bigs, and he's obviously a project offensively.
From the wishcasting dept.: if we won out, then lost in the B1G tourney title game, I am certain we'd get in. We'd have won nine in a row (or perhaps eight straight if we finish in the top 9 at 10-10). We'd be the talk of the country and there's no way the committee would keep Ace and Dylan out of the big dance. The demand to see them in the NCAA tournament would be sky high.
Won't matter...17-14 entering tourney and the committee already has their at large selections by Thursday
Edit..that wasn't osu...I think Texas A&M and also VA tech who did win acc tourney but their seed of 13 indicated they would have not been an at large
newsflash.....DOGE cut your department
i think his scenario might have us in. you may be the expert here but I am taking your badge for this one.
Texas A& M was the team who won all those games and lost in the final. Another committee error as A& M should have been selected as they just ran out of gas on the 5 th game. Just like NC State last year , who would not be selected except they won 5 in 5 days. But they obviously were good enough to make the Sweet 16. Committee ****s up all the time.
FWIW (not saying this changes anything) but to those who said we beat a “bad team” last night - watching that game last night Washington did NOT look like a bad team at all. In fact they looked pretty deep with a number of talented athletic scorers.
That was a good road win against a team that is NOW playing well.
Too little too late but still a good win IMHO
That was a good road win against a team that is NOW playing well.
Too little too late but still a good win IMHO
...but in the improbable scenario I stated, RU's incredible resume would have started last night.
Unfortunately like most I'm 99.9% sure we don't win out the regular season and probably get R clocks cleaned at Mich with their 2 B1Gs lighting it up and their athleticism overall not letting Harper/Ace go off. But I'm a dreamer, and sticking with Blutarsky for now.
Normally the losses are the disqualifier. But one thing you seem to ignore is the number of Quad 1 games we have played. 15 of our 27. No other team on the bubble and beyond is even close. We are second to Auburn. Now 4-11 ( Penn State moved back to Quad 1 is not good but under Mike ‘s scenario if Michigan and Purdue fall that is 6-11. If the tourney results in another that would be 7 Quad 1 wins. It is worth a consideration even though it might be considered not enough with the entire body of work.
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