The season is not over. Breathe.

[tower912]

1.   Time to change the scouting report on Jermaine Samuels.      Kid had a night.   
2.   Theo, Ed..... you are only beasts when you are on the floor.   Touched on it in the Theo thread, have mentioned it many times.   Right now, IMO, Theo is block happy and it is falling for pump fakes, getting out of position for rebounds.    But I also firmly believe that he will get better.   
3.   Markus can shoot a little bit.   But Nova had a really good scouting report and did a great job of stepping in and taking charges.   Great way to take a scorer out of the game.    Can't argue with any of the calls.   But it did look a little like a Wisconsin game with all of the flopping.     
4.  Careless turnovers.    Again.    Offensive rebounds surrendered.    Again. 
5.   I really wish that Greg was available.   Hasn't hurt a ton this year.   IMO, it did tonight. 
6.   Gus with the multiple Steve Novak references.   
7.  Marquette is a tough minded, fearless team.      Tough minded.    Fearless. 
8.   And so is Villanova.   
9.   Senior night.  Defending national champs.  Crowd roaring.    Unexpected contributor for the defending national champs.    Poor defensive rebounding at crunch time.  Couldn't hit the big shot.  Missed FT's at crunch time.   Oops.   Hat tipped.
10.   Now bounce back and don't let this become a streak. 

[cheese ball chaser]

We beat ourselves

[WolfganghisKhan]

Pissed that game away giving up 800 offensive rebounds. Unacceptable.

[1SE]

Well fought game against a hungry opponent at the toughest place to play in the conference. Win would have been great, but I don't think anyone is freaking out.

[PGsHeroes32]

1 point in final 6 min.


Yikes

[NickelDimer]

Rebounds were the difference. Outcome was what most expected. We battled. On to the next one

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

I'm sorry, no hat tip for a guy who scored six points in his last three games combined.

He won't show up for the rest of the season. Absolutely pathetic that Samuels went off like that, ugly ass shot that should never go in.

[jesmu84]

Rebounds were the difference. Outcome was what most expected. We battled. On to the next one
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I'd say turnovers played a role as well

[cheese ball chaser]

18 turnovers

[NickelDimer]

Rebounds were the difference. Outcome was what most expected. We battled. On to the next one
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I'd say turnovers played a role as well

TOs early. Rebounds late.

[Galway Eagle]

1st half issue was turnovers and fumbled rebounds, 2nd half we couldn't buy a rebound to save our lives. Disappointing result, frustrating that Samuels had a career night against us

[The Sultan]

Rebounds were the difference. Outcome was what most expected. We battled. On to the next one

Rebounds and turnovers. Fought hard but couldn't execute down the stretch.

Gotta bounce back for Sunday. Still have control of our BE destiny.

[We R Final Four]

12-1 finish for Nova.
Off boards, tip outs.

[NickelDimer]

Btw that travel call against Sacar was inexcusable and was a huge sequence

[MUBurrow]

I'd just focus on the TOs if I were Wojo. I'm not worried about the rebounds. I don't think the refs lost us the game, but the lack of predictability as to what was a foul and what wasn't made it impossible for our bigs to have any rhythm or feel tonight. Nothing outside the elbows was a foul, but anything around the paint or by a big got called. Real inconsistent night and I think that played a role in the rebounding stupidity. We're a good rebounding team.

[Ellenson Guerrero]

Jobbed by the refs on Howard's charges. Totally changed the course of the game. Nevertheless, we had a chance to win it and didn't capitalize. Good game to learn from; Nova was hungrier tonight. If you told me we'd keep Paschall and Booth in check and make someone else beat us, I'd have taken it.

PS did Quinerly even see the floor tonight?

[Johnny B]

Is MuGuru ok?

[mu_hilltopper]

I do think .. MU wins that game 7 of 10 times.  The unforced turnovers were just a killer.  And the unbelievable amount of offensive rebounds that Nova got .. sure, some were effort, plenty were just great bounces to them.

That time VU got 4 ORBs and finished it getting a foul and two FTs.  Wow.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

The new plan for attacking Marquette's defense is to give the ball to whoever Joey is guarding.

[Mike Deane's Seat Belt]

We see this sloppy play way too much and are fortunate we are in a mountain west type of conference.  We have not played any of the elite teams in a long time this season. Its not the look of a team ready to make a run

[TFlegend]

That was such a winnable game.  Gave it away with turnovers and offensive rebounds.  1 point in final 6 min?  Is that true?  Terrible. 

[JakeBarnes]

That was an absolute sh*t sammich of a game from the team and somehow they managed to keep it close. It bodes well for the team, but damn it is frustrating.

[1SE]

Rebounds and turnovers. Fought hard but couldn't execute down the stretch.

Gotta bounce back for Sunday. Still have control of our BE destiny.

This, if you would of told any of us that we were in control of our BE destiny with 3 to play I think we all would have taken that at the start of the season.

IMO this would have been our best win of the season - we didn't get it, but did anyone pencil this in as a W at the start of the season?

All 3 remaining are winnable. We can back from 12 down and 10 down in this game. It was a momentum killer when Markus picked up his 4th, but the other guys stepped up and kept us right there. This is a good team.

[The Sultan]

The new plan for attacking Marquette's defense is to give the ball to whoever Joey is guarding.

Yeah you ain't kidding there. He really is a weak link defensively.

[warriors141]

we need more hauser at end of games. howard is great but not the same guy in clutch situations. both st johns and tonight he was chucking at end of games. bad turnovers and poor shooting by him. would rather set something up for hauser. if we are going to chuck shots, I want to see sam doing that