2025 NCAA Tournament Game Thread - Mississippi State vs Baylor

Podgy

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Yet another game that shows the importance of having good shooters. Is college basketball a game now where you can say defense wins games or where a good offense matters more than good defense? And just how good is the defense on this defensive-minded team?
 
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Hog buddy of mine texted at half and said he was rooting for us. I told him exactly what would happen. 4 pt game at half, we’ll hit a lull and fall behind by 12-15, around 6:00 left we’ll start a push, we’ll pull within 1 under a minute left, and lose by 4. Feels like I’ve seen this show a billion times this year.
 

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Don't be an idiot. It's frustrating as hell, but if you get to the tournament 3 years in a row, you're doing a pretty good job overall.
You may choose to celebrate sneaking into the tournament but I’m not. Back to back to back 8-10 records and first round bow outs does not instill confidence for the future. Especially with a coach that apparently doesn’t know how to recruit anybody not named Josh Hubbard that can shoot the damn ball
 
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The frustrating thing about this game is as bad as we played, Baylor never played well enough to run away from us. If we had decided to play well at any point in the first 36 minutes, we would have won easily.

Duke will destroy Baylor. I would have preferred the opportunity to be destroyed by Duke.
 
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Charles Barkley says Miss State is gonna be disappointed. They had multiple opportunities to take the lead.
 

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You may choose to celebrate sneaking into the tournament but I’m not. Back to back to back 8-10 records and first round bow outs does not instill confidence for the future. Especially with a coach that apparently doesn’t know how to recruit anybody not named Josh Hubbard that can shoot the damn ball
Have you seen our past? Not to mention that while he did sneak in 1 year, the other 2 we were solidly in the tournament.
 
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How in the heck does Hubbard give that ball up? If there is any time to ball hog it....dang he has to keep it in his hands and take the shot.
Our coach should have had him advance the ball and called TO. Let him trigger it in and work off that.
 
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PrimeDog

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That ship has sailed for him.
This whole university and fanbase are a damn joke these days. You will excuse Jans to the end but want to run a damn national championship winning coach out AFTER winning 20 league games last year. MSU is a damn clown program.