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I'm in shock. We played horribly, and choked away a game we had numerous chances to put away. That said, the refs also handed them the game. The entire tournament the refs screwed Miami. Some of the non-calls today were atrocious. Yes, they missed 2 or so against them, but they missed 10+, including the guy taking out Larkin, which was much as a flagrant as the one on Kadji. Up 9 and the ball and we let them go on a run. Up 7 and we get 3 shots and then they go on a run to send it to OT. Brown bricks 2 FTs that could have almost iced it. Unreal.
The team didn't play like they cared, which is absurd. You'd think a veteran team, that missed the tournament last year by 1 game, that already went through uninspired play at the beginning of the season, and was coming off of an embarrassing blowout loss in a "statement" game would come out fired up. I don't get it. If you don't want to play, give up your scholarship and do something else. I'm sick of this crap. Golden is dealing with it in football, and Coach L is dealing with it in basketball.
ISU played a horrible game, shot like 25% for most of the game, and we were only up 3-7 or so the entire second half. The way they played, we should have won by 20, even without Reggie. This is a team from a good mid-major conference, but they're not Wichita State or Creighton or Butler. They're an NIT team at best, probably a CBI or whatever the heck it's called team. Bad, bad, bad loss.
As for the tournament, no this does not mean we won't make the tournament, but it means our margin of error will be a lot, and I mean a lot smaller in ACC play (and we have to beat LaSalle next week). We erased FGCU with Michigan State, we didn't need to erase Arizona, but we need to erase this one. We can't and won't get in the NCAA tourney just beating the teams we're "supposed" to beat in the ACC. We're going to have to beat Duke or NC State or UNC (who isn't really that great of a win this year). You get one mulligan, we had that with FGCU. This means we absolutely cannot lose to a Boston College or Wake Forest, or heck, even Florida State this year, who is horrible.
Our RPI will still be good, but this hurts, it hurts a lot. As for the committee taking into account us not having Reggie, I really don't think they will, or not much. They didn't take into account that he missed 9 games last year and were only 5-4 in those 9, and 13-7 with him, including 9-7 in the ACC, tying for 4th. What makes anyone think they'll give us a pass or put an * by this loss? They won't, trust me, they won't.
I can't believe I'm going to have to stew about this loss for over a week now.
The team didn't play like they cared, which is absurd. You'd think a veteran team, that missed the tournament last year by 1 game, that already went through uninspired play at the beginning of the season, and was coming off of an embarrassing blowout loss in a "statement" game would come out fired up. I don't get it. If you don't want to play, give up your scholarship and do something else. I'm sick of this crap. Golden is dealing with it in football, and Coach L is dealing with it in basketball.
ISU played a horrible game, shot like 25% for most of the game, and we were only up 3-7 or so the entire second half. The way they played, we should have won by 20, even without Reggie. This is a team from a good mid-major conference, but they're not Wichita State or Creighton or Butler. They're an NIT team at best, probably a CBI or whatever the heck it's called team. Bad, bad, bad loss.
As for the tournament, no this does not mean we won't make the tournament, but it means our margin of error will be a lot, and I mean a lot smaller in ACC play (and we have to beat LaSalle next week). We erased FGCU with Michigan State, we didn't need to erase Arizona, but we need to erase this one. We can't and won't get in the NCAA tourney just beating the teams we're "supposed" to beat in the ACC. We're going to have to beat Duke or NC State or UNC (who isn't really that great of a win this year). You get one mulligan, we had that with FGCU. This means we absolutely cannot lose to a Boston College or Wake Forest, or heck, even Florida State this year, who is horrible.
Our RPI will still be good, but this hurts, it hurts a lot. As for the committee taking into account us not having Reggie, I really don't think they will, or not much. They didn't take into account that he missed 9 games last year and were only 5-4 in those 9, and 13-7 with him, including 9-7 in the ACC, tying for 4th. What makes anyone think they'll give us a pass or put an * by this loss? They won't, trust me, they won't.
I can't believe I'm going to have to stew about this loss for over a week now.
