Enough of this X nonsense. We have a game today in case anyone noticed. I am very excited to see the Cats play! I posted a thread on our road woes earlier, and it has been discussed recently as well. Our last 4 road/Neutral games we have shot like this: 36, 49, 38, 31, overall. 27, 40, 36, 16, from deep. So my positive side says, ok, not great, but f we can put it all together at the right time, as we have seen flashes of this year, we can make a deep run. My negative side says, we are 34 games into the season and still can't shoot on the road, and will bow out early. Help me out here. Which team do you think shows up?
(03-17-2017 11:40 AM)rtaylor Wrote: Enough of this X nonsense. We have a game today in case anyone noticed. I am very excited to see the Cats play! I posted a thread on our road woes earlier, and it has been discussed recently as well. Our last 4 road/Neutral games we have shot like this: 36, 49, 38, 31, overall. 27, 40, 36, 16, from deep. So my positive side says, ok, not great, but f we can put it all together at the right time, as we have seen flashes of this year, we can make a deep run. My negative side says, we are 34 games into the season and still can't shoot on the road, and will bow out early. Help me out here. Which team do you think shows up?
We will know in the first 5 minutes which team shows up...
the team that beat UConn or the team that looked awful losing to SMU.
UC must get off to a good start making shots. If they do, I believe that UC will win.
If you want to figure out which team from the conference tournament will show up at the NCAA game, look to the earlier games. Conference tournament games played with no days of rest are not representative of games played throughout the season or in the NCAA tournament.
(03-17-2017 12:16 PM)Bruce Monnin Wrote: If you want to figure out which team from the conference tournament will show up at the NCAA game, look to the earlier games. Conference tournament games played with no days of rest are not representative of games played throughout the season or in the NCAA tournament.
Then it is a wash. Good against Tulsa, bad against UCONN.
(03-17-2017 10:01 AM)cincybb51 Wrote: Back in the dark ages Cincinnati and Kansas State played three times in the NCAA regionals and both teams were rated in top five AP ratings each time.
Yep... look at my signature.
(This post was last modified: 03-17-2017 12:49 PM by CliftonAve.)
(03-17-2017 10:01 AM)cincybb51 Wrote: Back in the dark ages Cincinnati and Kansas State played three times in the NCAA regionals and both teams were rated in top five AP ratings each time.
Yep... look at my signature.
One of the all-time greatest photos in college basketball history!
Should we be worried about tonight's game? The numbers say heck no. After all, many here were upset in recent weeks about being ranked too low @ #15. Now some of the same folks are concerned about beating a middle of the pack B12 team that was never ranked all year. You can't make both arguments unless...you track UC's performance in March games the past few years. One beautiful layup by Troy at the buzzer forced overtime against Purdue. That victory is the only game standing between UC and a five game losing streak in the NCAA. Using that data set, we have every reason to be concerned. So yes, given recent history I'm concerned.
This year UC got the shootout monkey off their backs.
They got the beat Uconn in the tourney monkey if their back.
Is it too much to ask that they get the NCAA tourney run off of their backs?
Uc has not been a good tourney team, mediocre at best.
FOX19: UC's Cronin: Tonight won't define season success
Quote:Cronin pointed to UC’s full season body of work and the development of college student-athletes as more important than the win or go home results of the NCAA Tournament.
“I don’t buy any of it,” added Cronin. “We could win the tournament or we could lose Friday – I’m not going to base our success of our season off either one. We’ve learned how to play for each other, we’ve learned how to be unselfish and sacrifice. Those are the lessons they’re here for. What everybody else wants to judge us off of, that’s your right, but I don’t’ buy it. Even if I was going to the Final Four every year, I wouldn’t buy into it. If I was doing it without graduating players, or being a good person, or without developing my players as people and teaching them what the real world is about, I’d be a failure in my mind. But, I’d probably be glorified in the media. I don’t aspire to what other people define as success.”