Scholarship table
This one reminds me of the Old Spice classic game where the team just ran out of gas against FL state.
Nice comp.
Trying to look at the big picture. Rough performance but I thought the coaching was okay. Markus hits a few early shots and the game is different. He was bad today. It happens. Jayce looked much improved.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Markus was bad today because he was really well defended by players with quickness and length.
Only good thing was Bailey. Hope this game provides him with the confidence to move forward this year and especially next year. All it takes is one game like this to change everything significantly. He looked extremely confident after making some of those shots, you could tell by his expressions. Nice job.
I liked the fight they had in the second half, could’ve easily folded and lost by 30+ when they went down 26 a couple minutes into the second half. Jayce and Brendan were bright spots and hopefully this is a spring board for them going forward. Sacar also played well too. That said Markus can’t be an all or nothing player or we’re going to be a borderline bubble team at best. I understand he’s a threat to score and start a run at any point, but when he starts forcing shots on days like today where he’s not hitting, it’s too easy for the opponent and momentum killers for us. And today unlike at Wisconsin, we had other players stepping up. There’s no shame in losing to a team like Maryland though, they’re top 5 for a reason and we played toe to toe with them in the second half. To me, that’s progress.
Bold take: I saw more good today than bad and I think our ceiling is higher after today’s game than it was before today’s game