RF2044
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Hard to believe that we're down to the last four games of the regular season! 26-1...who would've thunk it?
A couple of quick thoughts--we passed through the ostensible "murder's row" unscathed. WVU, Georgetown, UConn, Louisville [sandwiched around an easy game against SJU] was a section of the schedule that many predicted would be our annual swoon. Instead, we won them all.
The schedule sets up quite favorably for us from here on out--lots of time off between games. We have a full week rest before we have to play @ Rutgers. Can't afford to stub our toe at the RAC, and we won't. Then we have a couple days until our next game on Wednesday about a surpringly tough South Florida team. Again, I think we roll. Then we have a Saturday game at Uconn, and I expect another win--we got their best game last weekend, and still beat them. Then a home game on senior day after ANOTHER week off against Louisville. I wouldn't be remotely surprised to see us run the table.
And if we do--that would give us a 17-1 conference record. Truly an unbelievable accomplishment.
I don't care what Doug Gottlieb, Hubert Davis, Jimmy Dykes, or any of the other talking heads on ESPN have to say--close games like this are more beneficial to the team than blowouts. We had tough games against WVU, an overtime game to Georgetown, and a tough road game against a huge hostile crowd at Louisville -- and our kids found ways to win all of those games. Playing close games will pay dividends down the road.
Along those lines, one of the top attributes about this team is that the kids never seem to get rattled. Some of it is experienced, veteran leadership from Scoop, Kris, and Triche. But even guys like Fab and CJ play don't seem fazed by the pressure. They showed these attributes early on, even in games against VT / Stanford at the beginning of the season where we got down big. We believe we can win and we never get rattled, no matter what the game circumstances are. And that's going to come in handy at some point when we're playing on a neutral court in the postseason.
4 games to go!
A couple of quick thoughts--we passed through the ostensible "murder's row" unscathed. WVU, Georgetown, UConn, Louisville [sandwiched around an easy game against SJU] was a section of the schedule that many predicted would be our annual swoon. Instead, we won them all.
The schedule sets up quite favorably for us from here on out--lots of time off between games. We have a full week rest before we have to play @ Rutgers. Can't afford to stub our toe at the RAC, and we won't. Then we have a couple days until our next game on Wednesday about a surpringly tough South Florida team. Again, I think we roll. Then we have a Saturday game at Uconn, and I expect another win--we got their best game last weekend, and still beat them. Then a home game on senior day after ANOTHER week off against Louisville. I wouldn't be remotely surprised to see us run the table.
And if we do--that would give us a 17-1 conference record. Truly an unbelievable accomplishment.
I don't care what Doug Gottlieb, Hubert Davis, Jimmy Dykes, or any of the other talking heads on ESPN have to say--close games like this are more beneficial to the team than blowouts. We had tough games against WVU, an overtime game to Georgetown, and a tough road game against a huge hostile crowd at Louisville -- and our kids found ways to win all of those games. Playing close games will pay dividends down the road.
Along those lines, one of the top attributes about this team is that the kids never seem to get rattled. Some of it is experienced, veteran leadership from Scoop, Kris, and Triche. But even guys like Fab and CJ play don't seem fazed by the pressure. They showed these attributes early on, even in games against VT / Stanford at the beginning of the season where we got down big. We believe we can win and we never get rattled, no matter what the game circumstances are. And that's going to come in handy at some point when we're playing on a neutral court in the postseason.
4 games to go!
