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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 134570, member: 289"] My Comments/Questions Coach, I’d like to congratulate you, your staff and the team for completing another undefeated non-conference regular season. It was the third year in a row you’ve done this, (and we are a 70 foot shot away from it being four years in a row). Overall, you’ve won 55 of your last 56 regular season non-conference games. And it hasn’t been against “cupcakes”. You’ve beaten Florida three times as well as Kansas, North Carolina and Michigan State. You are 12-0 outside the Dome, 7-0 outside the state and 4-0 in games played in the other team’s arena or state. This year the teams you’ve beaten (including Seton Hall), have won 69% of their a games against all other opponents and you’ve beaten them by an average of 21 points. This is important because the Big East is such a gauntlet you can’t afford slip-ups in the other games. The three teams before this this stretch lost 8 non-conference games, including games to Bucknell, Wichita State, Drexel, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Without GMAC’s big run in New York, all three teams would have wound up in the NIT. We’ve been at least a three seed in the NCAAs ever since and now we’re ranked #1. For the second hour: Coach, one of my earliest memories is watching an Alabama football game in the Bear Bryant era in which he appointed the entire team co-captains for a game and sent them all out for the opening coin toss. The two captains for the other team looked all of them and seemed to be “How can we beat all these guys?” It’s been said that we have ten starters on this team. Is there a rule that says that we can introduce only 5 guys at the beginning of the game? If we could introduce all 10, (or maybe all 11 scholarship players to include Mookie), it would not only intimidating to the other team but it would underscore that it doesn’t matter who starts: that they are playing our whole team. [/QUOTE]

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