Quote from: Elonsmusk on January 10, 2026, 08:03:17 PMPretty sure MU doesn't have Mark Cuban in its alumni network.

Can one of our basketball loving female alumnae become Larry Ellison's sixth wife? #5 paid off for Michigan football

I am of the opinion that what was drawn up is not what was run.  Which happens.  Particularly with 3 freshmen, one sophomore, and a senior on the floor.

I, too, think that NJ should have followed his pass and tried to get a hand off.

Pope Leo effect.

Actually, in the past Marquette has been good drawing up inbound plays that go back to the inbounder, but from that SLOB position they needed to set a screen and have NJ go over to the top of the key rather than letting him go to the corner where the angle was cut off. Just a poorly designed end of game play, IMO.

Players and Shaka seem to defer to Chase as team leader in these final seconds situations. Unfortunately, while he does have a lot of good attributes, he is not a very good decision maker with the ball and his next pass might be his first.

Quote from: DoctorV on January 10, 2026, 04:12:28 PMShaka is a vastly superior college basketball coach to Gard.

Maybe, but I think you vastly underrate Gard.

In the previous 10 seasons, Gard has had 8 tourney level teams, Shaka has had 7. Gard has two Sweet 16s & 7 total NCAA wins, Shaka has 1 Sweet 16 & 3 NCAA wins. Gard has won 12+ conference games 6 times, Shaka has done it 3. Gard has a 4-1 head to head record against Shaka. Both coaches have 13 wins over top-10 kenpom teams.

I'm not saying I like Gard better, but Greg Gard is pretty clearly the second best coach in Wisconsin Badger history and is a good D1 coach. He doesn't have a Final Four or NCOY award like Shaka, but he's adapted his program to both transfers and a faster pace. If he's at Wisconsin another 10 years, he'll almost certainly be the winningest coach in their history.

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging your rival is good, and Greg Gard is certainly a good coach.

It is an interesting question. Gard seems to take players that are not superstars and somehow make a good team out of them every year. He is always putting a competitive team on the floor. Shaka was doing that too - mostly with players he did not recruit - until this year. Now, with only players he did recruit, Shaka's product doesn't look so good. I am a fan of Shaka - mostly - but this year has me wondering. And, the failure to get end-of-game shots on close games (3 times now?) is driving me crazy. Something tells me Gard's teams would have gotten those shots.

Having James inbound the ball was, I think, a mistake. You are taking your best shooter (for thew day, at least) and putting him in a non-shooting position - or, at the very least, in a more difficult position to get a shot. Why not 1) put Phillips in the game along with James; 2) have Parham inbound the ball; 3) run James off a couple of screens from the far side of the court and try to get him in a good position to receive the inbounds pass in a decent shooting spot. Having the ball end up with Ross 35 feet away made no sense. I think Shaka made it easy for "nova to defend and hard for our guys to get a decent opportunity.

Gotta love it!

Quote from: Pakuni on January 10, 2026, 11:14:17 PMWhoa ...
The score was 25 to 6 in the four(th) for Chicago.

Saturday in the park.