Men's Basketball 24-25

[upprdeck]

Su had a shot to take the lead vs Texas and TT under 4 to go.

They are a very flawed team for sure

They were at Tenn and only trailed at the half because they have games where FT shooting becomes a nightmare. That second half was ugly.

Still they are playing better now than thru the first 4 games

They may really struggle after losing Starling. But they may also get their best player back after 2 yrs if rumors are true.

The three loses are to teams in the top 20 in metrics like BPI.
ND - Gtown - Maryland before the New Year will define the season I suspect. If they go 1-2 vs them it will be a long yr.

[rss77]

Colgate is a young team and they lost their top freshman from last year's team to the portal.  Langel is an excellent coach and besides the showing against SU they beat a good UNC Wilmington team on UNCW's home floor.

[Mr. Niss]

Up by 17 at half against Army, to whom KenPom projected we'd lose a close on -- my faith is being restored.

I was thinking the other day too that, so far, I'm impressed by Jon as head coach.  In particular, they don't seem to press as frequently, and my feeling was that their press was easily beaten way too frequently post-Covid.  I was at a home game against Yale a couple of years ago where they came back from another zip code to win, and the turnaround started when they stopped pressing.

[chimpfood]

Another nice shooting day so I won't let it get my hopes too high but we're looking really good.

[chimpfood]

We can't miss this is ridiculous to watch.

[chimpfood]

I think we have made 9 threes in a row. The kempom luck metric is gonna hate this lol.

[Mr. Niss]

We can't miss this is ridiculous to watch.

I've never seen anything like it.  We are 60.7% from three at 96-68 (the 8 minute break).  You could have the #1 three-point shooting team in the country playing this game against Army and they aren't shooting 61%.

Edit: make it 63% (19 of 30).

[mountainred]

Missed the last five to finish 19-35 (54%).  But still.  

The last two wins have caused the KenPom rank to jump 50 places.  Which is nuts.

[chimpfood]

Maybe we should move to the patriot league

[Trotsky]

Too late to replay the Kentucky game?

[ugarte]

Uo next, tomorrow iirc, is a road game against Cal.* Close to us in KenPom.

* You know, from the ACC lol

[Mr. Niss]

of course after shooting the lights out against Army, we're one for our first 34 from three tonight

[Mr. Niss]

A possession where *we* had multiple offensive rebounds?  WOW

[chimpfood]

Cal already has 13 turnovers to our six

[Mr. Niss]

What a great first half.  I did not have Cornell up by 18 at half on my "to do" list tonight.  Great to see that we were the better defensive team and we were the better rebounding team.  They really made Cal look silly.  Even with not great three-point shooting, they have an 18-point halftime lead.  I don't think Cal is very good, but their losses are all to decent big conference teams and they beat USC.  That was a good half.  Hopefully they don't lose the second half by more than 17.