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-Games, even performances, can look like this:
But victories, especially in the NCAA tournament, look like this:
-Survive and Advance. Just as a great performance like the one against Montana doesn’t mean you will perform great in the next game, a dismal performance, (on offense, anyway), doesn’t mean you will perform that way in the next game. Even if we play poorly next week, it won’t because of a poor performance this week. We’ve got a week to enjoy this and work out the kinks. Don’t worry about the “style points”.
-One of the reasons why it was an “ugly” game is that both teams were excellent defensive teams. Those shots were being contested. Hopefully we can make Indiana, (or Temple) look ugly next week.
-People complain that the zone allows the other team to bomb away at you from outside. In these two games, Montana and California were 8 for 52 from outside the arc, (15%). Was that just a fluke? Well, on the season, our opponents are shooting 28.9% from three point range. We aren’t that great at it but are shooting 33.4%. NCAA Division 1 teams are hitting 34.4%. So, no, it wasn’t completely a fluke.
-Our free throw shooting could have been better. We missed 15 out of 41 free throws, making only 63.4%. But we won the game from the line, outscoring Cal by 14 while winning the game by 6. The strategy of driving to the basket to collect fouls worked in the end. As to the complaining about Boeheim not stressing free throw enough, we are at 67.5% on the season. Our opponents are 67.7%, so I guess opposing coaches don’t’ stress it enough, either.
-Justin Cobbs and Allen Crabbe came in averaging 34 points a game and they got 13 on 5 for 18 shooting. Ball game.
-We keep looking for that X factor guy who will suddenly become a new major contributor to the team. Maybe it’s Baye Boussa Keita, who had another big game, especially at the line. He came into the Big East Tournament hitting 49% of his free throws. He went 13 for 18 in New York, including 7 for 7 vs. Georgetown. In this game he was 7 for 10, 70% while his teammates were 19 for 31, (61%). Boeheim has joked that he’s going to have Baye shoot the technicals. It might not be a bad idea. Keita had 11 points and 7 rebounds in this game. Not bad for our back-up center.
- We're a little ol' city and we beat two states!
- Gonzaga, New Mexico, Georgetown and St. Louis, Kansas State were all seeded where we are and Wisconsinw as ranked ahead of us in the coaches poll. Villanova, Pittsburgh, Connecticut and the Hoyas all beat us. Their season are over. Ours isn't. (And we may yet have a shot against Temple, Marquette and then ...carrummba...Louisville for the whole ball of wax.)
-We got Seth Davis’s scalp and would have Charles Barkley’s if he had one. Who is going to predict we’ll lose the next one? Bring it on!
28-9 is pretty fine.
LET’S GO ORANGE!
But victories, especially in the NCAA tournament, look like this:
-Survive and Advance. Just as a great performance like the one against Montana doesn’t mean you will perform great in the next game, a dismal performance, (on offense, anyway), doesn’t mean you will perform that way in the next game. Even if we play poorly next week, it won’t because of a poor performance this week. We’ve got a week to enjoy this and work out the kinks. Don’t worry about the “style points”.
-One of the reasons why it was an “ugly” game is that both teams were excellent defensive teams. Those shots were being contested. Hopefully we can make Indiana, (or Temple) look ugly next week.
-People complain that the zone allows the other team to bomb away at you from outside. In these two games, Montana and California were 8 for 52 from outside the arc, (15%). Was that just a fluke? Well, on the season, our opponents are shooting 28.9% from three point range. We aren’t that great at it but are shooting 33.4%. NCAA Division 1 teams are hitting 34.4%. So, no, it wasn’t completely a fluke.
-Our free throw shooting could have been better. We missed 15 out of 41 free throws, making only 63.4%. But we won the game from the line, outscoring Cal by 14 while winning the game by 6. The strategy of driving to the basket to collect fouls worked in the end. As to the complaining about Boeheim not stressing free throw enough, we are at 67.5% on the season. Our opponents are 67.7%, so I guess opposing coaches don’t’ stress it enough, either.
-Justin Cobbs and Allen Crabbe came in averaging 34 points a game and they got 13 on 5 for 18 shooting. Ball game.
-We keep looking for that X factor guy who will suddenly become a new major contributor to the team. Maybe it’s Baye Boussa Keita, who had another big game, especially at the line. He came into the Big East Tournament hitting 49% of his free throws. He went 13 for 18 in New York, including 7 for 7 vs. Georgetown. In this game he was 7 for 10, 70% while his teammates were 19 for 31, (61%). Boeheim has joked that he’s going to have Baye shoot the technicals. It might not be a bad idea. Keita had 11 points and 7 rebounds in this game. Not bad for our back-up center.
- We're a little ol' city and we beat two states!
- Gonzaga, New Mexico, Georgetown and St. Louis, Kansas State were all seeded where we are and Wisconsinw as ranked ahead of us in the coaches poll. Villanova, Pittsburgh, Connecticut and the Hoyas all beat us. Their season are over. Ours isn't. (And we may yet have a shot against Temple, Marquette and then ...carrummba...Louisville for the whole ball of wax.)
-We got Seth Davis’s scalp and would have Charles Barkley’s if he had one. Who is going to predict we’ll lose the next one? Bring it on!
28-9 is pretty fine.
LET’S GO ORANGE!