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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5767119, member: 10113"]
I would prefer not to play them and lose either.  But I think our roster will be better built to compete because of defense.

For example, Seton Hall built a defensive roster (with almost no shooters). They lost to UConn and St. John’s by seven points or fewer in each of four games, holding them to 65, 69, 71 and 72 points.   Seton Hall had a legitimate chance to win ALL those games, including leads with under a minute left.   I think GMAC knows we need to play defense like that to legitimately compete.  (and we should have more fire power than Seton Hall had).  We appear to have a coach who values defense now and a team that buys into playing defense.  Last years team appeared to lack both the ability and the desire to play defense at a high level for more than a few minutes at a time.

Conversely, we lost to 5 teams with losing records in the ACC that we led at halftime, and then completely collapsed defensively in the second half.

With the exceptions of Tennessee, Virginia and Clemson, all the good teams we played scored at will.

(If we just took care of business on defense against Hofstra and the sub 500 teams we had halftime leads against, we are a 21 and 11 team).
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