SWC75
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- I’m a happy guy. We got all we reasonably could have wanted out of this tournament. The feeling now is so different than the feeling after that awful Clemson game. We played Duke three times and never got blown out by the most talented team in the country, (not sure they are the best but so what?). it's like we went 12 rounds with Mike Tyson three times and won one of them. A lot of players who had been inconsistent at best stepped up in our best player’s absence and now we should get our best player back and take our zone defense to play teams that haven’t seen it before and we’ll see what happens. Beyond that, I’ll be curious rather than nervous on selection Sunday and that’s all I’ve asked for all season.
- Where was this frank Howard all season? After drilling Pitt with 18 big points he set a career high with 28 tonight. He hit 4 three pointers and 7 two pointers. He also drove past people to get 3 assists and get to the foul line twice, where he made both shots. He averaged 3.9 net points per 40 minutes in the conference games and had 20 tonight. If he can keep playing like this and Battle is anywhere near 100%, we’ll have the kind of backcourt that makes NCAA runs.
- Buddy Boeheim appeared to have been taken out of the game Duke’s defense early but he found opening in the second half and wound up with 15 points. He’s going to have a fine career here.
- Oshae Brissett had an “up” game with 14 points and 7 rebounds against the physical Duke inside defense. We need him to play like this in big tournament.
- Maybe the NCAA tournament officials will let Chukwu play without calling silly fouls on him. He’s shown what he can if he’s allowed to play the game.
- Bourama Sidibe played well vs. Clemson, (when few other Orangemen did). And he had 5 rebounds and 2 steals in brief stretch tonight. He could surprise people in the tournament and we could use some good news.
- Williamson went 13 for 13 but we held his teammates to 16 for 41, (39%). In the first half it was 4 for 23 (17.3%).
- If we play Duke, North Carolina or Virginia again, it will be in the Final Four.
20-13 (11-9) and with 1+ to go
LET’S GO ORANGE!
- Where was this frank Howard all season? After drilling Pitt with 18 big points he set a career high with 28 tonight. He hit 4 three pointers and 7 two pointers. He also drove past people to get 3 assists and get to the foul line twice, where he made both shots. He averaged 3.9 net points per 40 minutes in the conference games and had 20 tonight. If he can keep playing like this and Battle is anywhere near 100%, we’ll have the kind of backcourt that makes NCAA runs.
- Buddy Boeheim appeared to have been taken out of the game Duke’s defense early but he found opening in the second half and wound up with 15 points. He’s going to have a fine career here.
- Oshae Brissett had an “up” game with 14 points and 7 rebounds against the physical Duke inside defense. We need him to play like this in big tournament.
- Maybe the NCAA tournament officials will let Chukwu play without calling silly fouls on him. He’s shown what he can if he’s allowed to play the game.
- Bourama Sidibe played well vs. Clemson, (when few other Orangemen did). And he had 5 rebounds and 2 steals in brief stretch tonight. He could surprise people in the tournament and we could use some good news.
- Williamson went 13 for 13 but we held his teammates to 16 for 41, (39%). In the first half it was 4 for 23 (17.3%).
- If we play Duke, North Carolina or Virginia again, it will be in the Final Four.
20-13 (11-9) and with 1+ to go
LET’S GO ORANGE!
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