Butler thoughts

[tower912]

1.  Best sustained defensive effort of the season.
2.  Henry, Traci, well done.
3.  Good jj, bad jj.
4.  Butler has heart and wide bodies.   Marquette needs more of both.
5.  HC and Sandy, way to work on defense despite lousy days offensively.
6.  Carter needs to be in against the press.
7.  Lottery pick seems possible.
8.  Well done, warriors.

[mu_hilltopper]

9. WHAT ARE WE RANKED ON MONDAY?

[ChicosBailBonds]

Best game of Henry's career.  Nice job by the team, Wojo, etc.

Progress.  Getting better

6th youngest team out of 350+ teams.

Relax

[forgetful]

Probably the best game we played all year.  All around great effort.....

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That Depaul loss really hurt.  We'd be 5-4 in conference right now if we had taken care of business.

[WarriorPride68]

NIT WATCH THE EFF OUT

[PGsHeroes32]

Would be nice to be 5-4 right now.

Nature of the beast.

[Herman Cain]

Really nice overall team effort. Hopefully we can get on a run.

[muwarrior69]

Maybe that Stetson game was not badly scheduled as we now have 3 in a row. I'll be at the Seton Hall game on Wednesday. Hope it's as good as this one and Carter continues to hit the perimeter shot.

[Tugg Speedman]

How many turnovers did we have?  And was it a season (or BE) low?

10 threes (17 attempts), is that our best game from behind the arc this season?

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

The boys looks pretty good today.

Traci coming to life and giving all his Haters the middle finger.

Henry..what can you say? Kids a stud.

Tower calling Jones 3 a dagger was comical, yet predictable.

Pretty wild that was his 1st three of his Butler career.

Dunham, Jones and Martin are very very very good players.

Tough game for Hanii, but I love that kid.

Great win. Let's get 1/2 on the road next week, and come back to Milwaukee 5-6 with back to back home games. This season is not lost.

[nyg]

Bye, bye Henry.  Enjoy his last games, he is gone.  Just Awesome.

Fischer had no points, but yeah......one foul, and five blocks. 

JJJ, Cohen and Cheatham had some, well, weird turnovers.  Like vaseline on the ball or something. 15 for game, 10 in second half.

Carter pulled an Allen Iverson game, but why did he sit last four minutes.  Surprised, but worked out. 

After Henry leaves, please get a Kellen Martin.  6ft 7, 235 and what a player.

[cheese ball chaser]

I thought we were in for another heartbreak loss...great to see the boys pull out the W. We're > .500 in conference without 1 boneheaded play against DePaul.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

How many turnovers did we have?  And was it a season (or BE) low?

We had 15. Tied for fourth best in conference play. Also fourth worst.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

I thought we were in for another heartbreak loss...great to see the boys pull out the W. We're > .500 in conference without 1 boneheaded play against DePaul.

Yep. Pretty wild to think that MU wins that DePaul game and gets one more basket against Belmont, they are 17-5 and almost certainly in the top 20. Such a fine line, but this team is incredibly talented. For all the bitching and moaning around here, 15 seconds go differently in this season and MUs a projected top 6 seed in the NCAAs.

[WarriorPride68]

Yep. Pretty wild to think that MU wins that DePaul game and gets one more basket against Belmont, they are 17-5 and almost certainly in the top 20. Such a fine line, but this team is incredibly talented. For all the bitching and moaning around here, 15 seconds go differently in this season and MUs a projected top 6 seed in the NCAAs.

Not sure your logic. We also won about 5 games that could have gone the other way

[Tugg Speedman]

We had 15. Tied for fourth best in conference play. Also fourth worst.

Chalk that up to good D as a lot of those TOs did not hurt them which is why it seemed like so much less.

[brandx]

6.  Carter needs to be in against the press.

THIS!!!!!

Once again, Haney gets trapped in the corner right away. Carter has to be on the floor when MU is being pressed.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Yep. Pretty wild to think that MU wins that DePaul game and gets one more basket against Belmont, they are 17-5 and almost certainly in the top 20. Such a fine line, but this team is incredibly talented. For all the bitching and moaning around here, 15 seconds go differently in this season and MUs a projected top 6 seed in the NCAAs.

No way we would be in the top 20 if that happened or a top 6 seed, but yes the record would be better, the RPI better, etc.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Chalk that up to good D as a lot of those TOs did not hurt them which is why it seemed like so much less.

I also chalk it up to scoopers being pessimistic and assuming we always have ton of turnovers. I mean, we do have a ton of them, 15 is not good for a conference median. But we don't recognize the games where we don't.

[PGsHeroes32]

Biggest thing about this game and really the SHU game this week.

Is trying to get us in line for a top 6 BE seed.

We have literally 0 chance in that tourney with a 7-10 spot

[kryza]

We have literally 0 chance in that tourney with a 7-10 spot

Literally I believe the chances would be somewhere around 5% since we can still get an auto bid.

[Oldgym]

Been to all home games this year except Iowa.  Totally different team and totally different atmosphere in the BC today. Been a long time since a game was that fun.

[muwarrior69]

Yep. Pretty wild to think that MU wins that DePaul game and gets one more basket against Belmont, they are 17-5 and almost certainly in the top 20. Such a fine line, but this team is incredibly talented. For all the bitching and moaning around here, 15 seconds go differently in this season and MUs a projected top 6 seed in the NCAAs.

That game at Providence could have gone against us too. One point win/loss to DePaul/Providence a wash.

[WarriorPride68]

Literally I believe the chances would be somewhere around 5% since we can still get an auto bid.

Worst RPI ever to get at large big was in the 60's. MU is 125

[nyg]

I also chalk it up to scoopers being pessimistic and assuming we always have ton of turnovers. I mean, we do have a ton of them, 15 is not good for a conference median. But we don't recognize the games where we don't.

Probably because in the two lowest turnover games, MU got spanked and other issues might have lead to defeats.  10 against Xavier and 14 against Nova are the lows in conference.   

Today, there were at least four turnovers where the ball just came out of the hands of an MU player.