Quote from: brewcity77 on November 23, 2025, 08:03:29 AMPreseason data is built in until mid to late January.

Marquette's Kenpom rating drops to #84 today

Oklahoma beats Wake Forest by 18 tonight.

We should have beat Oklahoma. Wake Forest lost by just a point to each of Michigan and Texas Tech.

We are 1 real center away from being a competitive basketball team.

My ideal situation for next year

Starters:
Nigel
Stevens
Zaide
Parham
Portal Senior Center

Bench:
Sean?
Portal Senior Shooter Specialist
Phillips
Egbuonu
Pearson
Clark

Lower Bench:
Johnston
Miletic
Nash

Hamilton, Norman, Owens gone

Add just 2 high level players from the portal. A star center to start and a high level shooter to come off the bench. Doesn't block Pearson long-term in the front court and add much needed shooting from long range. 2 simple adds. No one is blocked from developing.

Nigel much better than we thought - keep him happy - he's the team next year. Amazed at Zaide's regression - I thought he was really going to take a step up. Unless we see a major turn-around, RGV is going to be on a very hot seat. If in 2026-2027 Shaka doesn't go portal (successfully) and RGV fails again he is gone. A team that spends what we spend on MBB can't have multiple consecutive down seasons in this era. Or, if Marquette doesn't care about the V, just hire one of us for 500k a year and pay a bunch of kids from Rhinelander and Platteville 20k a year to come and enjoy lots of R and G and send the rest of the budget to Lacrosse and Women's soccer.

Quote from: GoFastAndWin on December 02, 2025, 11:40:50 PMWhere is 👮 Jay Bee, grammar cop, when we need him?

I'm like, "oh no, now we have to worry about drunken players?"

Drunken players is about all that could explain this. Or a drunken coach. Or maybe that would help - might as well try.

Quote from: Johnny B on December 02, 2025, 10:18:01 PMOriginally I predicted "first four out" of the tournament type team. Now I don't think they're even a bubble NIT team. I see 10-13 wins total.

NIT bid would seem like a major accomplishment at this point.

Quote from: rocky_warrior on December 02, 2025, 10:42:53 PMI gotta get me some of what Dr V is drinking/smoking/snorting.  I'm searching for ways to watch games with optimism. 

Yeah, if we get to 10 conference wins I'll feel very encouraged from where we are now.

I don't think the issue is a "hit" rate the issue is more of a not miss. There's one ball, not everyone's going to be an all American. We need more guys who can be trusted to perform well and efficiently. Chase could lead a team of C & B players. But we've got a couple B players and a ton of F & D players.

Quote from: mileskishnish72 on December 02, 2025, 10:05:09 PMHard to take anything positive out of this tremendous victory. Don't want to mention specific players with an elevated blood alcohol, but some have to go. If they don't, Shaka's on his own.

Where is 👮 Jay Bee, grammar cop, when we need him?

I'm like, "oh no, now we have to worry about drunken players?"

Quote from: Vander Blue Man Group on December 02, 2025, 11:17:25 PM

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