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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 4129963, member: 225"]
I rarely read the threads on the hoops board in-season although I read the links every day. Just a quick comment on your observation though.

I think your optimism isn't entirely unfounded, but it might not matter. In this month we have four losses against teams in the upper reaches of the conference, and they have been close losses. We have lost but we have been competitive. Despite what some proclaim, we don't suck.

However...there comes a time when you have to pull those out if you want to look ahead to the post season. I can think of two football metaphors: 1) how often do you see a game where a team gets in the red zone several times in the first quarter. However, they come away with nothing and that "nothing" bites them in the butt in the final score. 2) SU football had close losses a number of times this year before being blown out in the last quarter of the season. However, had they won even one of those close games, it would have gotten them a bid to "the official bowl-like event hosted by the chamber of commerce of some city in order to bring in $$$ and featuring two 6-6 teams that shouldn't be anywhere near the post season but now feel successful".

At the end of the football game or the end of the football season, you look back on those scoring drives or those closes losses that got away. My point is that SU hoops is playing competitively against decent foes, but you have to win more of those close ones. We may well win our share the rest of the way, but we have dug a pretty deep hole at this point and that hole may well likely prevent any semblance of overall success for the season.
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