Pirates thoughts

[tower912]

1.   Amazing.   Like playing a cupcake.
2.  Contributions from the 6 who played big minutes.   Across the board.  Wonderful.
3.  Still need to make free throws.
4.   Should have put Sandy, the twins, and JJJ in for the last 4 minutes.   
5.  Probably wasted some of the 3's tonight.    Probably going to hit 2 for 20 tomorrow. 
6.  Seton Hall is a porta-john now.   Never seemed to have a plan tonight.   It isn't like MU did anything different. 
7.  One last glorious game for the seniors in MSG.   A gift to them for all of their hard work and perseverance.   Well done, gentlemen.   You deserved it.    And thank you for the gift you gave MU nation tonight.   A warm day in a long winter.   

[GoldenZebra]

Bring on Nova. Here's to hoping for more magic in MSG.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

As I've been saying for about ten days now...Matty Carlino is built for tournament formats. He put the team on his back!!!! Let's gooooooo!!! So pumped...live to fight another day!!!

[cheese ball chaser]

IT FEELS SO GOOD TO WIN

[T-Bone]

Nice that ALL of them got a BE tournament win in their careers.  And that the twins got on the floor in a big world.

[geps]

And 2 in a row! By gar, it's been awhile!

[GooooMarquette]

And 2 in a row! By gar, it's been awhile!

Nine to go....

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Tower- I was looking for this wrap up post with 6 minutes left. Spot on, as usual! Best game we have played in 2 years.

If we could somehow knock off Villanova, look out.

[bilsu]

Nova win is not impossible. We played them pretty well a couple of weeks ago without Carlino and Anderson. We will have to play our "A" game, but I think we have a chance.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Matt Carlino = Kemba Walker
SH had no answer for Luke
Seniors played their best game together
Really great defensive effort
Officially better than the Dukiet team with two in a row.

[NavinRJohnson]

Matt Carlino = Kemba Walker

No.

Now, if you said he was Jerry McNamara...the I could go along with.

[tower912]

Tower- I was looking for this wrap up post with 6 minutes left. Spot on, as usual! Best game we have played in 2 years.

Thanks for the kind words.   I briefly thought about it with 6 minutes to go, but I was too caught up in the moment and still afraid of jinxing it.  

[barfolomew]

Nova win is not impossible. We played them pretty well a couple of weeks ago without Carlino and Anderson. We will have to play our a game, but I think we have a chance.

You know, I've heard somewhere that's it's hard to beat a team 3 times in one season...

[jsglow]

I'm so happy for our Seniors.  They are great young men and have earned it.

[brewcity77]

Season of no expectations, this was the best example of exceeding them. Not that Seton Hall is all that, but we beat them down like a SWAC team.

[Class71]

Great game as SH defense didn't show up and we took advantage of it. Full team effort.

To have a shot tomorrow we need to match 'Nova's phisicality and shoot lights out. It will be very tough but we will be rooting for the Warriors.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Season of no expectations, this was the best example of exceeding them. Not that Seton Hall is all that, but we beat them down like a SWAC team.

Buttons pushed, I guarantee it.

[bradley center bat]

Great crowd in MSG for day 1. Great to see Juan more healthy. Derrick dropping the dimes and Matt cashing in!

[CAGASS24]

Two big east tourney records- carlino on made threes and Derek with assists!!!!

Interesting note- commentators made a point to say dienes wants to coach one day- love that he's back in the program!!!!!

[Blackhat]

Our zone defense gives us a shot to win against most teams.

The fellas looked real good tonight!

[chapman]

First Big East Tournament win since March 9, 2011 vs. West Virginia.  If anything, that monkey is off the back.

First winning streak since December.  First Big East winning streak since last February.  Yeah, it's DePaul and Seton Hall, but it's something.

Raff, Donny Marshall, Gus and KO all in one place.  We need to get back to winning to avoid drawing the D-team announcers during the season.

Quite the atmosphere on a Wednesday night to see the conference boobs duke it out.  Nice job Val, MSG, and Fox.

[mattyv1908]

Hard to tell if Marquette played well of if Seton Hall mailed it in.

[chapman]

Hard to tell if Marquette played well of if Seton Hall mailed it in.

Both.  We're not good enough to beat any halfway decent team by 22 points if they come to play.  Seton Hall can't half-ass themselves into a 22 point loss against a 12-18 team unless they're playing close to their best game.

[warriorfan 14]

nice to see us win. happy for the seniors. anything is possible against nova. i agree carlino is made for tournaments. a streak shooter who can really get hot. hopefully he keeps it up tomorrow.

[warriorfan 14]

Hard to tell if Marquette played well of if Seton Hall mailed it in.

seton hall was terrible but we still played a good game. took good shots, made seton hall work for their shots, got luke involved.