A forgettable last minute of regulation....damn

[ChicosBailBonds]

Giving up 8 of the last 9 points, let them take a 3 pointer (twice) to tie.  Hayward just fouled out in OT.

[SoCalwarrior]

Thank you Captain Obvious.

[ATWizJr]

Gamei is not on here.  Focus?

[chapman]

We have ha situations where you let it go, but as Doug Gottlieb just said in a whiny voice: "Up three.  fooooowwwwwwwwoooolll!"

[ChicosBailBonds]

Well not everyone is able to watch it.  Why in the hell do we let teams take 3 pointers to tie at the end of games and not foul them before they get the chance.  I just don't get it, never have.  I know there are two schools of thought, but I remain on Boeheim's side on this one.  Frustrating.  I hate Notre Dame.  We had this one.   

[ChicosBailBonds]

We have ha situations where you let it go, but as Doug Gottlieb just said in a whiny voice: "Up three.  fooooowwwwwwwwoooolll!"

Yup.  We dodged a couple of bullets in the last 2 weeks letting them take 3's to tie, but it finally bit us today.

[MUWeb7]

Got to foul...I was screaming at the TV for them to foul at the end...

Overall...very flat today minus two or three sparks... definitely did not play with the same edge and urgency as they have over the past few weeks...

[The Pickle]

If I have to listen to Dickey Simpkins talk about the luck of the Irish or the "epidemic that is Abromaitis" one more time, I am going to hire someone to kick his ass...

[ChicosBailBonds]

Notre Dame did it right.  Up 3, they don't even let us take it to tie it.  I hate Notre Dame

[mwbauer7]

I guess I don't understand why we didn't foul up 3....

[redddog13]

Soft bubble.

[chapman]

Yup.  We dodged a couple of bullets in the last 2 weeks letting them take 3's to tie, but it finally bit us today.

It's that they missed the shot that bothers me even more.  If that thing hits the rim, jump on someone's back, tackle them, anything to get a foul called in lieu of that.  Again we give the other team their most open three of the game at the least opportune time.  Glad it's over now, what a BORING game.  ND is UW after popping a few Zoloft.

[The Pickle]

I guess I don't understand why we didn't foul up 3....

Absolutely.

[MUBurrow]

on this day, they were a better coached team. i hope buzz apologizes to lazar.

[ATWizJr]

Sounds like we frigged it up at the end.  Tough way to learn ( I hope) the lesson about when to foul and preseve your lead and a tough way for senior day to end.  

[The Pickle]

We were up 7 with one minute left...

[paulpogo]

on this day, they were a better coached team. i hope buzz apologizes to lazar.

Or Zar could've hit his FT, made the shot on the last posession, got the rebound of the missed 3, not knocked the rebound to Hansbrough, or had a silly foul to take a seat.  

[Lighthouse 84]

As soon as Zar missed the second free throw that would have put them up 7, I said that's a big miss.

And you're right Chicos.  Should have fouled before the 3 that tied it.

[Bling]

chalk this up as another epic collapse for MU.  We thought the luck was turning after the win streak.  But we return true form blowing a 7 pt lead with a minute to go.  Lazar misses a FT on senior night and they punish us by hitting a 3 at the buzzer.  So very sad.  Because Lazar has suffered so many painful, painful losses.  This should have been won.  Hopefully we got it out of our system, can win a few in the BET, and are ready to go for the NCAAs.  ND will now get a higher seed than us.  I f$#(# hate losing to ND.  Absolutely despise it.  Especially a blown game like this one.  Just absolutely terrible.  On senior night, we can't buy a bucket and give up a ton of offensive rebounds and second chance points.

[romey]

And what's up with all the threes down the stretch when he haven't been hitting them all day and we don't NEED them at that time?

[NersEllenson]

on this day, they were a better coached team. i hope buzz apologizes to lazar.

Obviously you have an issue with Buzz as virtually everyone of your posts is at best luke warm on Buzz.  As has been said, Zar missed the free throw in regulation that would have made this game in regulation an insourmountable margin.  crap happens.  We've been on the right side of a lot of luck lately, winning the close ones..but..how ironic that we lose a game in this fashion to end the regular season.  

Take away the bogus Jim Burr getting in the way of a ball that was 100% being thrown out of bounds by ND, and the ball deflecting off his foot to ND..which turned into a 4 point possession - technical and free throws on that possesion...and we win the game.  Period.  Bad breaks today.

[77ncaachamps]

Cold...cold...cold...

That was MU today.
Nothing was dropping. 4-23 from beyond the friendly confines of the 3.
Mo and David were not in the flow of the game: Combined 3-14 with some CRAZY jacks.
Zar held his own but he was cold from the 3.
Attempted 14 FTs, hit 12. They had 25 attempts.
Outrebounded...but when it counts.

[gumbyandpokey]

Obviously you have an issue with Buzz as virtually everyone of your posts is at best luke warm on Buzz.  As has been said, Zar missed the free throw in regulation that would have made this game in regulation an insourmountable margin.  crap happens.  We've been on the right side of a lot of luck lately, winning the close ones..but..how ironic that we lose a game in this fashion to end the regular season.  

Take away the bogus Jim Burr getting in the way of a ball that was 100% being thrown out of bounds by ND, and the ball deflecting off his foot to ND..which turned into a 4 point possession - technical and free throws on that possesion...and we win the game.  Period.  Bad breaks today.

Yeah, Nerd, it was bad breaks...

--the bad break of not fouling ND before letting them get off a couple 3 pt attempts
--the bad break of not having DJO try to miss that second FT'
--the bad break of the brilliantly drawn up half court heave from Cubillan

But it was the dreaded Jim Burr who cost MU the game!

[bartmiller#1]

Obviously you have an issue with Buzz as virtually everyone of your posts is at best luke warm on Buzz.  As has been said, Zar missed the free throw in regulation that would have made this game in regulation an insourmountable margin.  crap happens.  We've been on the right side of a lot of luck lately, winning the close ones..but..how ironic that we lose a game in this fashion to end the regular season.  

Take away the bogus Jim Burr getting in the way of a ball that was 100% being thrown out of bounds by ND, and the ball deflecting off his foot to ND..which turned into a 4 point possession - technical and free throws on that possesion...and we win the game.  Period.  Bad breaks today.

That was a bad turn of events, but we had a ton of time after that to win the game-- and we put ourselves in the position to win it.  

Just poor execution and coaching in the last minutes of the game and throughout OT.  They had two guys with 4 fouls who managed to the play the entire OT.  We didn't force them to play-- too many poor jumpers.  

Let's not lose sight of the accomplishments of the conference season.  Had anyone offered 11-7 in October we all would have taken it and laughed at the idea as impossible.  

Today's frustrating-- especially since it's ND-- but we move on.  This team has shown a pretty good ability to build off mistakes.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Cold...cold...cold...

That was MU today.
Nothing was dropping. 4-23 from beyond the friendly confines of the 3.
Mo and David were not in the flow of the game: Combined 3-14 with some CRAZY jacks.
Zar held his own but he was cold from the 3.
Attempted 14 FTs, hit 12. They had 25 attempts.
Outrebounded...but when it counts.

Both teams shot really poorly.  Ugly, ugly game.  MU was under 18% from 3 point land.  We actually held ND to under 40% shooting for the game and lost.  Had less than 10 turnovers again.  A real head scratcher that we lost

Frustrating to say the least.  ARGGGGGHHHHH.  I hate losing to Notre Dame.  With UCONN's loss, I'd say ND has a legit shot to get into the tournament.