So bad

[timinatorx3]

Nothing else to say

[Josey Wales]

Why is hell did buycks try that layup? What the hell was he thinking? Wow, biggest meltdown I've even seen.

[StCroix64]

Pathetic...no way should that have happened.

[AlienWarrior]

Just bad coaching sitting on a lead on the road

[WellsstreetWanderer]

What the hell was buycks thinking?  Taking that layup with so much time left and Fulce

open under ther basket

[Da 'Lanche]

unfrackin' believable.   Only an MU fan can understand this type of heartbreak is typical.   Good God..up 18 with 5 minutes to go and gag it away.   Buzz, this one is probably on you.   With the 3 pointer in college hoops, you can NOT stop playing offense.  Start running the clock with 2 minutes to go and keep your foot on the pedal until then.  

This could have been one of the biggest wins in a while capping off a great week and now it could really be a dagger for the Big East season.  I hope the boys can bounce back from this sh#tty taste.

[TJ]

why is DJO passing up WIDE open 3's in the middle of an 2-18 run?

[Josey Wales]

why is DJO passing up WIDE open 3's in the middle of an 2-18 run?

Thats a great questions. I hate this pansy, milk the clock coaching with six fricken minutes left in the game. This is why I respect Bill Belichick's coaching so much... you never see him milk a clock... when he gets a lead he tries harder to score more...

[JWags85]

why is DJO passing up WIDE open 3's in the middle of an 2-18 run?

Cause Buzz wanted to kill clock and wait till under 8 seconds, which is definitely not our game.

[superfan1387]

That team doesn't deserve to come back to campus. That was just awful. Dwight Buycks really screwed that up.

[ErickJD08]

why is DJO passing up WIDE open 3's in the middle of an 2-18 run?

Did you notice... the game plan was to look to score with 2 seconds left on the shot clock.

[AlienWarrior]

So much for the critics saying we always play 40 minutes every game

[TJ]

Did you notice... the game plan was to look to score with 2 seconds left on the shot clock.

TERRIBLE.  The only possibly good thing that could come from this is if Buzz learns to NEVER EVER run a prevent offense again.  I would have thought he would have learned that from Jerry Smith when he was an assistant, but apparently he didn't so hopefully he learns it this time.

[willie warrior]

TERRIBLE.  The only possibly good thing that could come from this is if Buzz learns to NEVER EVER run a prevent offense again.  I would have thought he would have learned that from Jerry Smith when he was an assistant, but apparently he didn't so hopefully he learns it this time.

I doubt if Buzz will have learned that from this game. But Hey--In Buzz we trust!

[Ari Gold]

The team should be walking home from Kentucky

[timinatorx3]

I feel like punching a kitten right in the mouf

[Danny Noonan]

Just finished watching the game on DVR as I was busy this morning. WOW, are you kiddin me? It feels eerily similar to last years NCAA tourney game and it happened against Louisville to boot. What makes it worse is we have to see the damn score flash on the bottom of the screen for the rest of the day, making it almost impossible to enjoy the rest of an awesome sports day.

[TJ]

The team should be walking home from Kentucky

Only if Buzz crawls alongside.  This loss is just as much on him as it is on any of the players.  Moreso even.

[brewcity77]

TERRIBLE.  The only possibly good thing that could come from this is if Buzz learns to NEVER EVER run a prevent offense again.  I would have thought he would have learned that from Jerry Smith when he was an assistant, but apparently he didn't so hopefully he learns it this time.

Really? You really think that might happen? Because we learned so much after pissing the bed against Florida State last year. Or after throwing up in our mouths against Washington in the tourney. This problem is becoming endemic of our program. Step on the damn throat.

[TJ]

Really? You really think that might happen? Because we learned so much after pissing the bed against Florida State last year. Or after throwing up in our mouths against Washington in the tourney. This problem is becoming endemic of our program. Step on the damn throat.

Sadly, I agree.  I don't understand why that's not a lesson they can learn, but it doesn't seem to be.

Marquette (even before today, this just hardens it) has made me completely disagree with the concept of "running up the score".  I watched some documentary on Miami football in the '80s and they talked about the game against ND and how Jimmy Johnson got a lot of negative response about running up the score and how ND fans and players were and are really upset and I just didn't care.  There's no such thing as running up the score - if you want the game to be closer, play better.  Letting up just lets things like this happen.

[StillWarriors]

Even if you want to run a little clock, be smart and. Move the ball, but start attacking with enough time on the clock to do something. We end up taking bs bail out shots after 33 seconds. Ridiculous after playing 35 outstanding minutes.

[Marquette84]

Really? You really think that might happen? Because we learned so much after pissing the bed against Florida State last year. Or after throwing up in our mouths against Washington in the tourney. This problem is becoming endemic of our program. Step on the damn throat.

And if there is one team we face where we don't have to worry about being perceived as a poor sport by running up the score, its Louisville. 

[brewcity77]

And if there is one team we face where we don't have to worry about being perceived as a poor sport by running up the score, its Louisville.

Abso-damn-lutely.

We all remember what they did to us those years ago at Freedom Hall. My pride today with 6 minutes to play was that we were in position to hand them the biggest loss in the Yum! Center's short history. Had we closed that out the way we started it and won by 25-30 points, that's probably a record that would have stood for quite awhile. Instead, we're left with this.