The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Big East

[brewcity77]

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the NCAA lies a small, unregarded basketball conference.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 882 miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-gold university whose warrior-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think an online message forum is a pretty neat idea.

This university has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the wins and losses of a basketball program, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the basketball program that was unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, especially the ones on the online message forums.

Over the next 10 days, the odds are very good that we will lose three basketball games. If this happens, there is nothing wrong at all with our basketball program. We are playing two road games against teams ranked in the top-12 of the AP Poll, teams that have lost a combined one game at home all season long, and that game was to the team ranked #1 in the country at the time. The third game is against that team, which will likely come into the game ranked #2 in the country.

There is no shame in losing any of these. All three are tough games, and this is the toughest collection of three consecutive games we've seen since January 22-29, 2011. If we lose all three, we will be in just as good a position to make the tournament as we are now, which is a solid bubble team. There aren't many teams in the country that would be favored to win even one of these games.

So let's all try to relax, enjoy the basketball, and most important, DON'T PANIC. And if we do manage to win one, we can all meet to celebrate at the Restaurant at the end of the University.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Loser talk!  Win out.  Today our second team could have beat any team in the conference.  This team has the talent to go 3-0.  Why are we apologizing before the losses accumulate?  Are we so afraid of failure we need to cover our future failures?  Seriously, we have the talent in place if we play like a team.  Man up, Marquette!

#justwinbaby

[fjm]

Over the next 10 days, the odds are very good that we will lose three basketball games. If this happens, there is nothing wrong at all with our basketball program. We are playing two road games against teams ranked in the top-12 of the AP Poll, teams that have lost a combined one game at home all season long, and that game was to the team ranked #1 in the country at the time. The third game is against that team, which will likely come into the game ranked #2 in the country.

There is no shame in losing any of these. All three are tough games, and this is the toughest collection of three consecutive games we've seen since January 22-29, 2011. If we lose all three, we will be in just as good a position to make the tournament as we are now, which is a solid bubble team. There aren't many teams in the country that would be favored to win even one of these games.

So let's all try to relax, enjoy the basketball, and most important, DON'T PANIC. And if we do manage to win one, we can all meet to celebrate at the Restaurant at the end of the University.

Lame. If we don't go 3-0 you are lame and so is the whole Marquette university.

#teal #sarcasm

#JusKiddingButSeriouslySweatervestsWillBePissedIfWeAreNotRankedNumber1

[real chili 83]

We got this.

Bulldog livers on the menu on Monday for an appetizer.

Piss on losing

[jutaw22mu]

No way!  I think we will beat butler at their place on Monday. 

[4everwarriors]

Doable, ai na?

[Newsdreams]

Doable, ai na?

Need Legs seal of approval

[MUBigDance]

When we lost to SH I was bummed but not panic'ed.

Losing to nova I was less bummed but still...

I think panic could be defined as calling for the coaches scalp or slandering players or just giving up....we need to leave room for wanting to win every game and if we don't, feeling a little crummy until the next one.

Don't want to confuse panic with the pain of being a fan.

I've decided to be invested in a win Monday. Scary!

[LloydsLegs]

Need Legs seal of approval

Tie game w 40 minutes left?  Doable.

[tower912]

Practicing my deep cleansing breaths and focusing my shakras.    Ohhhhmmmmmmmm.

[Dawson Rental]

Tie game w 40 minutes left?  Doable.

Great!

[brewcity77]

We weren't supposed to win this. If anything, this gave me confidence for the return game. One of the best second half teams crushed us in the second half. Relax, breathe, it's disappointing, but not unexpected.

[tower912]

Ohhhmmmmmmm.