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[Mayor McCheese]

Shoulda had this one...

Tough game, lets do some work in the rest of our non-conference schedule now.

[jenningstoMU]

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[jenningstoMU]

we would be such a good team with cadougan.....

[SCdem@MU]

expletive our teams complete inability to win a game within the final seconds over the last 3 seasons.

[NotAnAlum]

Those guys played their hearts out.  No shame in that loss

[ATWizJr]

doomed by first half inability to take advantage of turnovers and second half free throw shooting.  Great effort but blew it.

[Bling]

once again, MU finds another exruciatingly painful way to lose a close one.  To not even get a shot off with that opportunity is gut wrenching and ridiculous.  But we deserve to lose when you blow that big of a lead and cant hit a mother#$#$Ring free throw.  just an awful feeling

[chapman]

we would be such a good team with cadougan.....

Based on his 0 minutes of practice time much less game action.  

Acker's not the one who bricked 8 free throws.  Dominic James would have a hard time doing that.

[downtown85]

I think it was fatigue.  Jimmy's free thow shooting was the difference.  

The last few FSU possessions our defense looked weak.  

[Norm]

Buzz must learn to call time outs to stop opponents' runs. The 10-2 run he let FSU go on to get back in the game without calling a TO in the 2nd half was killer. Our players obviously got fatigued in the 2nd half - use TO's better to rest them and stop FSU momentum.

[MUeng]

watching that it seemed one thing killed us and that was fatigue.  Buzz needs to find a way to keep this team fresh in tournament times because this will happen again later on in the season.  Overall an ugly game and one we totally blew.

[Mayor McCheese]

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What's your beef with Acker?  Kid plays with heart, helped our team into the second round last year.  He has D1 game experience, unlike the majority of our players... and I trust him with the ball in his hands as much as anyone on this team

[MUFC9295]

I now see what all the talk is of Buzz's time outs.  Was he trying to tire FSU or us?  That was a very long stretch for both teams. Very tough second half for our boys.  Upsetting to give up a 17 pt lead.  A lot can be said for FSU's halftime adjustments.  

[muhoosier260]

Its too bad we blew this. Should we have won this game? Yes. I'm not going to get too worked up though, we can learn a lot from this game. I'll take a big east win in february over this game in november.

[NersEllenson]

Great effort, great heart, tragic outcome.  Feel for the guys..competed their butts off.  FSU's size took its toll in the end.  That said it took a very off performance from the free throw line from Jimmy B, for FSU to win.  No doubt JB was exhausted from battling the FSU bigs all game.  I'm proud of our guys - a great run, largely unexpected by most MU fans.  We showed we will be an NCAA caliber team...more than anyone would have thought possible once the Big 3 gradutated.

[GGGG]

Lack of depth.  We got tired against a team that was much deeper.

Joe Fulce really doesn't help us much.  Acker and Cubillan are so limited - I know they both play hard, but sometimes that just isn't enough.  I really wish that Williams would develop a little quicker.

[classof70]

Let's calm down.  How many people on this board thought MU would go this far?  Very few.  They played well throughout the tournament and were undone by bad free throw shooting at the end--which I put on fatigue.  As for me, I enjoyed the tournament, we should have won it, but all in all I'm impressed with this group.

[jenningstoMU]

What's your beef with Acker?  Kid plays with heart, helped our team into the second round last year.  He has D1 game experience, unlike the majority of our players... and I trust him with the ball in his hands as much as anyone on this team

i dont trust him with the ball in his hands. i am scared everytime he has the ball. why can't DJO or buycks play point? in our current offense the point is nothing more than bringing up the ball and then the guards are basically interchangeable. why can't DJO or buycks bring up the ball?

nothing against acker personally, but he is just not D-1 material. its creans fault, not ackers

[warriorfred]

Would actually like to see Marquette take a game winning shot without a turnover . . .  expletive disappointing.

[SCdem@MU]

Those guys played their hearts out.  No shame in that loss

Agreed, but seriously... when was the last time MU won in the final seconds? 2006 against Pitt and even then we nearly blew it.

[ATWizJr]

Let's calm down.  How many people on this board thought MU would go this far?  Very few.  They played well throughout the tournament and were undone by bad free throw shooting at the end--which I put on fatigue.  As for me, I enjoyed the tournament, we should have won it, but all in all I'm impressed with this group.

Calm down?  Blew a 17 point lead.  The criteria is not how many thought we'd get this far.  It is how we gave up a commanding lead.

[77ncaachamps]

It's hard to rest everyone when 1) matchups are important and 2) your bench is thin (like Frozen A and Mbao are really going to see time in a game like this).

But

MU

Frakked
Sh*t
Up

in the end.

[NickelDimer]

Expletive other team's big players hitting game winners over our smaller players.

[muhoosier260]

i dont trust him with the ball in his hands. i am scared everytime he has the ball. why can't DJO or buycks play point? in our current offense the point is nothing more than bringing up the ball and then the guards are basically interchangeable. why can't DJO or buycks bring up the ball?

nothing against acker personally, but he is just not D-1 material. its creans fault, not ackers

he had 1 turnover bud. buycks is way more TO prone, he had 5. djo had 2.

[warriorfred]

While it was a nice tournament run, FSU is at best, a middle of the pack Big East team.  It will be a long season if Marquette is that drained at the end of a game.  The only way they compete in the Big East is putting together those first 30 minutes of effort.  Not sure if Marquette is capable of putting together 40 minutes of effort.