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[QUOTE="cuseincincy, post: 4107908, member: 331"]
I know that is one of the HOFer's favorite sayings...but is it more accurate than ever this season? As Cornell made its 1st half comeback I kept thinking "this is not the type of team we want to get in a 3 point shooting contest with."  It may be what we do best, but it reduces our advantages over teams like Cornell and Colgate.  Shooters are shooters. If a shooter is open it doesn't matter if the guy supposed to be guarding him is the best defensive player in the country and the open shooter is a 5'10" D3 player, shooting doesn't care.  Our advantage last night was inside and to JB's credit that's what he had the team do in the 2nd half.  FYI- Cornell outscored SU by 27 points from 3 last night.
SU ranks 40th in 3 Pt FG in the country as of right now. Only 2 ACC schools are ahead of them, UNC 13 and VPI 15. Our 2 worst losses are at 14 (Gtown) and 17 (Colgate).   23 of the top 40 are from non power conferences (eg. AAC and A10 =power, MVC and Summit = non power imo).  So 17th out of teams that matter.  That gives me a ray of optimism because we know we won't have many advantages in the paint in the ACC.  And even though we had an inside advantage we still got out rebounded. 
We are going to need some big wins in ACC play to make up for our record.  I think we're capable of pulling some upsets.  Most of the ACC is fairly pedestrian this year so a winning conference record with a couple key wins mixed in might get us to the dance.  And then it's anybody's game as we well know.   We just need to make shots. LGO!
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