Scoop Jardine says 'Cuse still the better team

[Doris Burkes Thong]

"We're still the better team," Jardine said. "We fought all season and we had a good season, and to go out like this is tough."


http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/032011aaa.html

[Boone]

The scoreboard (TWICE this year!) begs to differ, Jardine!

[Coleman]

Everything else aside (record, RPI, standings), its hard to make that argument when you lose to a team twice.

[77ncaachamps]

They are the better team at making the long face after a game with MU.

What a tool.

[Tribby]

He isn't necessarily wrong--one game (even two games) isn't a big enough sample size to say definitively. There's a reason why all pro sports have multi-game series in the playoffs (with the exception of football, which wouldn't be practical).

That said, it's a pretty ballsy thing to say when you just got beat.

[StillWarriors]

That's ok. Let them be "the better team." We are the only one of the two still playing. I'd much prefer that.

[Doris Burkes Thong]

It's called being a sore loser. Scoop take your ball and go home now.

[mu_hilltopper]

Hey Scoop Jardine.

1/29/11 - MU 76 - SU 70
3/20/11 - MU 66 - SU 62

[ErickJD08]

HA... Its soo funny.  I remember telling my friends that Jim Boehim is one of the worst sore losers in the game.  What can you say... the players take the personality of the coach.  Plain and simple.

[JoBo2756]

I could care less what Scoop says. He's goin home and we are still dancin'!!!

Let him say whatever he wants...nobody will care what he says tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday....until maybe November 2011. Seeya buddy.

[JTBMU7]

used to live in Central NY and remember going to see Cuse a bunch, most of the locals thought Scoop couldnt make their high school teams...

that being said, Syracuse is actually a much better team than MU, too bad that doesnt mean SQUAT!

enjoy watching MU play in the sweet 16 on Friday night...

[Norm]

That attitude is the reason MU won both games this year...Syracuse probably thought they had both games won before the game started...

[HouWarrior]

I was at Univ of Houston, when Phi Slamma Jamma, earned the distinction of the best team NOT to win the NCAA (We blowout Louisville in semis--lose to NC State in final)..

..Believe me, Scoop, your just driving the pain deeper---you need to congratulate the foe, and move on...its something you'll  never get back,

...and forget that "we were the better team" stuff  ---you're thinking its eases the pain now to think that, but in the long run, the same thought will magnify your regret and frustration.. Forgive yourself, and move on. kid.

[turk17]

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=185&f=2825&t=7340278

PLENTY of posts here that are insistent that "THE 'CUSE" is the better team.

I mean, I could maybe - MAYBE - see someone making that argument with one loss in a poorly played game, but how exactly does one muster the audacity to say that after losing - not once - but TWICE to us.

Unreal!

Go Marquette!

[brewcity77]

Can't say I'm bothered either way. They can discuss it all week long while we prepare for the SWEET SIXTEEN!!!

[MarquetteFan94]

They have 8 months to think about it.  We owned them this year. Period.

[boyonthedock]

bulls lost to the knicks twice this year. bulls are still better.

but who gives a crap what cuse fans think MARQUETTE SWEET 16 WOOT

[turk17]

Can't say I'm bothered either way. They can discuss it all week long while we prepare for the SWEET SIXTEEN!!!

haha I love it! 

[DaCoach]

Winners walk. Losers talk.

[Markusquette]

lol Scoop Jardine

[PGsHeroes32]

Actually other than 1 guy who said we are inferior most just say they are more talented while we were the better team and thats why we won

They do on the other hand believe that UNC will steam roll us

[JMcSteal]

When you win, say little. When you lose, say less

[ChicosBailBonds]

I'd agree, they are the better team.  That's the beauty and the tragedy of the NCAA Tournament.  It's not best of 7 or best of 5.  It's not even best of 3.  You need to bring it every night.  Louisville probably beats Morehead State 90 times out of 100, but they didn't in the tournament. Syracuse finished higher than us in the conference, won more overall games, has more talent, but tonight they weren't the better team.

It happens.  We've been on the short end of that equation in the past and unless we go on a UCLA like 88 game winning streak, we will be again.  For now, just enjoying it.

[HoopsMalone]

we are not the better team on Friday either.  They have better players and a better coach and they will get the benefit of the doubt from the officials.  But we have enough talent to win and we might.  That is why you play the games.  Looking forward to Friday, and while we are at it looking forward to going to Syracuse and trying to get one on their home floor next year.

[turk17]

Though I wasn't explicit, I guess my sense of stunned amazement is more about the audacity and immaturity of this method of coping with the loss.  I mean, I just couldn't ever see myself dealing with a loss like this by self-soothing with thoughts of my innate superiority, as (subjectively) true as I may think that to be.