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Message: [QUOTE="jordoo, post: 2235658, member: 569"] The reason we missed the NCAA's last year was because we sheet the bed in the OOC. We had two losses that were acceptable to South Carolina and @ Wisconsin. Losing to Uconn @ MSG, Gtown at home and of course getting embarrassed by St. Johns at home is what kept us out of the tourney. We were 18-14 and considered the last team out by most. If we won any of those three games it would have been enough to get us in. You can throw that horrible first ACC game road loss @ BC in as well. Winning that would have had us at 11-7 in the ACC which likely does the trick. The team got off to a very bad start and simply wasn't a good enough team to dig out of that hole and overcome it. Even coming down the stretch of the season knowing they were playing for their NCAAT spot we couldn't beat Pitt or G-Tech on the road and we lost to Miami in or only ACCT game. To me we had a couple guys get in very late, we had some guys coming back that the staff expected a lot of. We had some bad defenders and some bad fits for our defensive system. Everything was disorganized on both ends in the OOC. It really didn't get straightened out until a couple games into the ACC schedule. Some of this is situational but some of it is coaching and knowing what you have. It seems our staff as a whole did a very poor job of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of last years group. They played multiple line ups that handcuffed the team on both ends well into the season. Line ups that many fans here said wouldn't work before they ever saw the team in action. It was a frustrating season because the team had the pieces to be an NCAAT squad and the coaches took too long to figure out the best way to deploy them. I know there were other factors but I think that was the biggest one. We were never going to be a world beaters last year but we could have been a pretty good team with the potential to knock off anyone when multiple guys shot it well. As far as recruiting we are in a downward trend and I can't see how anyone can argue against that. We missed out on guys we not only put huge amounts of time and effort into (time that was limited by the NCAA) but also put off other interested players for. This cycle we just missed out on a kid we prioritized during the early AAU season. He went to Nova a non P5 team from Philly where we used to get the players we wanted. We lost Green and Randolf in the 17 class, both Philly kids. Have we lost Philly? [/QUOTE]

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