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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 876028, member: 636"]
Sorry, should have made that post clearer.  One of the main contentions over a lot of the Cooney threads has been that "sure he's making them now at home and on neutral courts but what will he do once conference play begins?".

No matter how good-to-great a non-conference schedule is, the heat gets turned up in conference, especially considering there will be 9 true road games.  This may be even truer now then it ever was in the Big East over the past few seasons since most of the ACC teams don't have stellar OOC wins and as the #2 ranked team in the country, we will be the biggest scalp they can possibly get to impress the tournament committee.

We all now know what Cooney accomplished in the OOC portion of the schedule.  For those who aren't yet convinced though (whether that is true skepticism or simply a need to be "right" about their prior assessments of TC), all that remains is the in-conference record.  I think the bad shooting game against Miami at home was simply that, a bad shooting game.  Therefore nothing should be construed from that one bad shooting game in terms of how he will perform during the rest of the conference schedule.   But the pro-Cooney side, myself included, also can't just assume that he will continue to hit a high percentage either, simply because he did so OOC.

For the reasons I state above, the conference season is an entirely different animal.  One thing I am sure of, TC will contribute and prove to be of value, regardless of a high a percentage he shoots in his treys.

Cheers,
Neil
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