Quote from: rccola42 on February 18, 2026, 10:29:06 PMThink it's more of a talent issue than toughness. They hung in there pretty well with a very physical team. Didn't get destroyed on the boards. They just have older, experienced players who are stars. Our older, experienced players wouldn't be on the court if we had better options.

Difference in physical strength isn't just talent or age. MU has too many slight players and SJU took control with strength when it mattered. MU needs some BE bodies.

Quote from: wadesworld on February 18, 2026, 10:52:18 AMFor reference, the team that Scoop loves to claim only had "half" of a good year last year because of our lack of success over high level competition in the second half of the year last year had 6 Q1 wins and had 7 wins against NCAA Tournament teams last year.

This is a good point. 5 of those Q1 wins & 6 of the tourney wins came by January 3, when we were 13-2. The only one after that was Xavier at MSG, which was barely Q1 and barely made the field.

We played 34 games and almost all the quality from the season was in the first 15, so it wasn't half a good season, it was 44% a good season. Thanks for pointing that out.

Road teams were 4-0 in Big East games tonight

Quote from: jfp61 on February 18, 2026, 10:32:04 PMI love how much crap dumb people keep giving ross. Not realizing that he gets to keep making mistakes in these games because this entire team is still somehow worse than him.

That's not exactly true. 

Quote from: jfp61 on February 18, 2026, 10:22:19 PMNo he would find a way to steal government money, like grants.

He's done that forever, very experienced.

I'm not saying we would have won, but the key stretch was after Nigel's ridiculous up & under. Shot selection and valuing possessions are vital in tight games.

I love how much crap dumb people keep giving ross. Not realizing that he gets to keep making mistakes in these games because this entire team is still somehow worse than him.

Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on February 18, 2026, 09:08:48 PMThat's peanuts. Dude builds rockets and plans Lunar colonies

Wrong, he has never built a thing... Mars colonies that never will.

Quote from: Zog from Margo on February 18, 2026, 10:26:22 PMToo much chaos on offense and lack of discipline on defense. Questionable coaching.

Too little mental and physical toughness on this roster.

Good effort just too little intelligent effort.

Think it's more of a talent issue than toughness. They hung in there pretty well with a very physical team. Didn't get destroyed on the boards. They just have older, experienced players who are stars. Our older, experienced players wouldn't be on the court if we had better options.

Road teams 4-0 in Big East play tonight. And we still have zero road wins