Oso planning to go pro
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Opportunity for a road Q1 win. They have been playing better since the mass transfers. We will likely be a 2-3 point underdog.Good offensive team (#21 KP) but pretty poor on defense (#101). They excel on the offensive boards and are a capable 3P shooting team. They are long at the 4 and 5 with Pickett and Yurtseven but they also start 3 guards, none taller than 6'3. They have a short bench as they lost 4 scholarship players to transfer/dismissal. 7 man rotation.Overall I think we match up okay. They don't have the length at the guard position to bother Markus much and they have been awful at defending the 3P line. They will have capable shooters at the 1-4 positions at all times so it makes it tough to double the post. Expecting a close game and think we'll get a victory.
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
Zero reason they should lose this game. Will they?? That is yet to be determined, but they really shouldn't.
Balderdash. Winning conference road games is never easy. However, this is on paper one of the better opportunities to capture one of those unicorns.
Pomeroy gives us a 44% chance to win.
I love the posters "readying" the excuses in case things go wrong. "it's tough to win on the road yada yada yada". Look, if MU can't beat a team that plays 7 guys, plays bad defense and flat out aren't very good, then they have NO business being in the NCAA tournament.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I'll inform Gonzaga (lost to Michigan when they were a favorite), Baylor (lost to Washington, 3 spots above Georgetown, on a neutral court), Duke (Stephen F. Austin (H) and @Clemson), Auburn (@Bama), Butler (Hall at home), Kansas (lost to Nova and Baylor when favored), San Diego State (needed last second shot to be beat sub 300 San Jose State at home), Oregon (@Colo and @Washington State), Florida State (@Pitt and @Indiana), and Kentucky (Evansville at home, Utah, and @South Carolina), that they have no business being in the NCAA tournament.Now that we've removed the top 10 teams, should be plenty of room for all those teams that never lose games to teams they shouldn't (or even to teams they should!).
Georgetown is -4. No reason MU should lose.