are in a dogfight against Ohio Northern. Midway through second half Rockets by 5. Yes, you read right. Kansas and Syracuse are licking their chops.

Wait, wait wait...Ohio Northern, the Ohio Northern that plays in Division 3?? We're playing a regular season game against a Division 3 opponent?? And in a dogfight? Not sure I'm reading this right.

63-58 Rockets with over 4 min left in game.

Unbelievable...

We’re going to escape with a win against ONU...

Coach K says this is the most talented team he's coached.

Ugly win by 10. Only 2 bench points.

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It will take a few more seasons, since we have an AD that loves to extend contracts, but sadly I think tonight we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Kowalczyk era at UT. Rockets never got this one really under control until about 3 minutes left—against an undersized D-III team that returned 2 starters. Good thing Fletcher showed up or we may well have lost this one. Package this with a win over a St. Joe’s team that played with 3.5 starters (imagine if we had played that game with Sanford only playing 20 minutes and Navigato not playing at all—would we have still won?).

Saturday against Oakland should be interesting. I’m sticking with my prediction of a sub .500 season (having Syracuse & Kansas on the schedule doesn’t help, and we get to play WMU and Ball State twice).

Appreciate what TK did to rebuild a dead program, but we just aren’t getting better anymore.

Kentucky and all their 5 stars recruits have beaten Vermont and Utah Valley (presumably both teams WERE at full health) by a combined 14 points. Maybe they should scrap their program?

(11-14-2017 08:53 PM)SylvaniaRocket Wrote:  Coach K says this is the most talented team he's coached.

He said most skilled that is a different thing.

(11-14-2017 09:16 PM)toledobrad Wrote:  Kentucky and all their 5 stars recruits have beaten Vermont and Utah Valley (presumably both teams WERE at full health) by a combined 14 points. Maybe they should scrap their program?

In all fairness, both of those teams are D1, Utah valley is projected to win the WAC and Vermont is a historically strong program.

ONU was not terrible and for a D3 team they were big. Their center would be a key player, probably a starter for us. Should have beaten them by thirty. Fletcher proved tonight that he can dominate against D3 competition. Saturday should tell us more. This was U-G-L-Y. Hope football team was watching.

Loss to NAIA Findlay (exhibition, thank God)
Win over a St. Joe’s team that played without one returning double-digit scorer who is injured and had its best player (recovering from ACL injury) limited to 20 minutes (scored 21 points in that 20 minutes)
Win by 10 over a D-III team that returned 2 starters from a 16-win team last year, in a game that we didn’t have under control until about 3 minutes left

I guess I’m just not easily impressed. Beat Oakland Saturday and I’ll shut up. But the Rocket team that played tonight wouldn’t win 5 games in the MAC.

Why even schedule a game like this? Nothing positive comes from it.

(11-14-2017 09:02 PM)bcunn3128 Wrote:  "... I think tonight we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Kowalczyk era at UT..."

Memo: We are 2 - 0 not 0 - 2

(11-14-2017 09:44 PM)adunifon Wrote:  Why even schedule a game like this? Nothing positive comes from it.

Almost all teams do this. Interestingly, it's an exhibition game for ONU. This happened at least once before, where a lower division team counted their game against us as an exhibition. We get a win, they don't get a loss. Weird.

(11-14-2017 09:40 PM)bcunn3128 Wrote:  Loss to NAIA Findlay (exhibition, thank God)
Win over a St. Joe’s team that played without one returning double-digit scorer who is injured and had its best player (recovering from ACL injury) limited to 20 minutes (scored 21 points in that 20 minutes)
Win by 10 over a D-III team that returned 2 starters from a 16-win team last year, in a game that we didn’t have under control until about 3 minutes left

I guess I’m just not easily impressed. Beat Oakland Saturday and I’ll shut up. But the Rocket team that played tonight wouldn’t win 5 games in the MAC.

Findlay is DII and picked to win their conference and I think is/was #17 ranked in the nation.

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Wins are wins for us. There isn’t no invite to the Big dance without winning the MAC tournament

A loss to Findlay and a battle against Ohio Northern? Coach K is a great guy, but this brings back shades of Gene Cross. Hopefully, it's just a matter of early season development and not a sign of things to come.

Fellas,

Michigan barely beat Central Michigan--a team the media picked to be last in the MAC. Nobody is calling for John Beilein's job

It's not even Thanksgiving, let's chill a little.

(11-15-2017 07:26 AM)falconplucker Wrote:  A loss to Findlay and a battle against Ohio Northern? Coach K is a great guy, but this brings back shades of Gene Cross. Hopefully, it's just a matter of early season development and not a sign of things to come.

Keep in mind that we did not lose to Findlay. We did battle ONU but also stuck it too a decent St. Joe Team. Two games into the season and we have half as many wins as Cross had in an entire season. Cross managed to have a terrible season with Kent, Amos and Johnson, one of the better senior classes we’ve had. I knew Gene Cross and Coach K is no Gene Cross.