They will lose at least 3 games! We may lose one or two at the most! We are making a run!
This is shaping up to be an exciting stretch run. Cats have a reasonable schedule, and with Mac and Lindsey hopefully hitting their stride, have a good chance of moving up in the standings. Sitting at .500 in the conference is not terrible given how we have underperformed to many expectations.
I heard he was hurt! By the way, call or email anytime if I can help with the book writing!
Well, given that TTU and OU are top 25 teams and CU on the cusp, beating all three would have meant that NU was/is a top 25 team too. Which is isn't. The real shame is that NU lost winnable games @Tech and against CU. Starting the season in the zone might have made all the difference. C'est la vie.......
Nothing at all wrong with our non-conference schedule (though the home schedule was ugly). As you said, the problem is we didn't win any of the "big" games, and got destroyed in two of them.
We lost those games because we were playing Brown and Benson too much. Now Ash and Falzon are coming into their own,I expect us to finish 5-1 the rest of the way,with a win over MSU and Maryland! Ash will be starting point guard next year!
I mean, to be clear I don't think Maryland should be in the tournament at all right now, but I do think they are closer than us. Look at their schedule vs ours. Their OOC wins are better than ours. And their B1G schedule to date has been FAR more difficult than ours. They've already played 6 games against the big 4 (Purdue OSU MSU Mich) which contribute 6 of their 8 losses, and they have one more remaining against Mich. Michigan is the only one of those 4 that we get twice, and that's probably the easiest of the 4 of them. Overall I would say our conference schedule is about 1.5 wins easier than theirs is (that is a high level assertion done without any meaningful analysis). It comes and goes though... last year they had maybe the easiest B1G schedule in the conference, so this is a role reversal.
I wish we would have figured out our defensive scheme and player personnel earlier. Likely, would have had three more wins!
Right - I mean their OOC schedule was not like meaningfully harder than ours this year, but it was on par I think or maybe a touch tougher. The difference is they had some quality wins balanced against some bad losses in OOC, which is a better combo than us who got nothing approaching a quality win, with 1 somewhat bad loss to GT added on.
All of that is probably true but if NU is still hoping to be on the bubble, then Maryland should also be there. Just yesterday Underwood was quoted that the illini were still playing for it all. That was before yesterdays loss to Wisconsin but I bet is still saying the same b.s..
