Looking Ahead - Creighton

[Vander Blue Man Group]

Get serious about what?  A college basketball game?

Look, your incessant tomfoolery is about to cost Marquette a seed line.

[mugrad_89]

I think we will need more from the freshmen than we got against Xavier.   The only basket I remember from any of them was the goaltending on Gold.  Ross is the only one who played at all in the second half, even when Kolek had 4 fouls.

Now, maybe Shaka figured his team doesn't play for 6 days so he could wring out the starters.  OK

I want more against Creighton.

I was ok going with the starters as much as possible with the week off before Creighton.  It was incredibly important to hold serve at home.

[pbiflyer]

Look, your incessant tomfoolery is about to cost Marquette a seed line.

Thank god we won the secret scrimmage before the season started, bumped us up a line!

[MuggsyB]

How to we get UOF (ultimate offensive flow) in the h-c when teams sag on Ighodaro?  What I'm looking for is less ball stopping and overdribbling and moving the rock when help comes.  I don't have a problem with taking some floaters and a few walk-in trifectas. 

[JakeBarnes]

Look, your incessant tomfoolery is about to cost Marquette a seed line.

Especially after the Loyola scrimmage

[Newsdreams]

How to we get UOF (ultimate offensive flow) in the h-c when teams sag on Ighodaro?  What I'm looking for is less ball stopping and overdribbling and moving the rock when help comes.  I don't have a problem with taking some floaters and a few walk-in trifectas.

Flow Q=AxV. Increase area and/or velocity and you increase flow, simple flow rate.

[Uncle Rico]

Flow Q=AxV. Increase area and/or velocity and you increase flow, simple flow rate.

I agree with this analysis

[The Thing]

I have to say I'm not in love with the Oso shotput that seems to clank off the back iron all too often. He really needs to work on a more traditional floater from 3-6 feet out.

[rocket surgeon]

if it was discussed somewhere in here, i apologize, but why wasn't chase ross used more in the xavier game?  7 minutes, 0 for 1, 1 rebound, 1 steal

     "conduct detrimental to the team"?  injury?  spoke up in class without raising his hand?  gave shaka a wet willy?

[mileskishnish72]

Was wondering the same, especially with a rather sub-par Sean outing.

[tower912]

None of the freshmen played more than token minutes against X.   All of the starters played 30+.   Shaka hasn't said why.
I assume that he knew he had 6 days off before the next game and felt that playing the starters max minutes was the best way to win.

I hope for more contributions from the bench against Creighton.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Flow Q=AxV. Increase area and/or velocity and you increase flow, simple flow rate.

The Mecca piss stream rate?

[The Sultan]

Stevie just had such a great game on both ends and that's usually the place Chase plays.

[Newsdreams]

The Mecca piss stream rate?

That would involve unknown prostate variant, would make it empirical.

[willie warrior]

The coach didn't think so and Marquette won.

Yes, they overcame Kams miserable play in that game, something you still fail to grasp.

[Uncle Rico]

Yes, they overcame Kams miserable play in that game, something you still fail to grasp.

What's there to grasp?  That he played bad?  You can't seem to grasp the coach played him 31 minutes.  The same coach who has Marquette in first place in the Big East and poised for a protected seed.  The coach must know less than you.  He clearly should have sat Kam

[Newsdreams]

What's there to grasp?  That he played bad?  You can't seem to grasp the coach played him 31 minutes.  The same coach who has Marquette in first place in the Big East and poised for a protected seed.  The coach must know less than you.  He clearly should have sat Kam

Shakalaka suxs

[willie warrior]

What's there to grasp?  That he played bad?  You can't seem to grasp the coach played him 31 minutes.  The same coach who has Marquette in first place in the Big East and poised for a protected seed.  The coach must know less than you.  He clearly should have sat Kam

Your arrogant smugness just oozes through your warped brain.

[Newsdreams]

Your arrogant smugness just oozes through your warped brain.

Lol you need a double patty today.

[The Sultan]

Your arrogant smugness just oozes through your warped brain.

Uh. You're the one saying you know more about who to play than the coach. That's pretty smug.

[MUfan12]

Chase played timid and that was not a game for the timid.

I think Gold could have played a bit more, and certainly would have with Freemantle heathy.

[Uncle Rico]

Your arrogant smugness just oozes through your warped brain.

What you're saying is, I'm right

[Class71]

Let's take the case that CU beats St. John's tonight and MU on Tuesday. That leaves 3 remaining games for both CU and MU. Using Kenpom probabilities MU has a 63% and CU a 51% chance of winning their respective remaining 3 games.

In other words even if CU wins the next 2 games MU still has a slight 12% advantage.

As a side note CU has a 45% chance of beating both St. John's tonight and MU on Tuesday. When multiplying 45% times 51% CU only has  a 23% chance of winning all five of their remaining games. If CU wins tonight CU only has a 32% of winning their remain 4 games while MU has a 63% to win their remaining three games. Advantage MU. 

CU needs to loose 1 game, period.

[DoctorV]

Let's take the case that CU beats St. John's tonight and MU on Tuesday. That leaves 3 remaining games for both CU and MU. Using Kenpom probabilities MU has a 63% and CU a 51% chance of winning their respective remaining 3 games.

In other words even if CU wins the next 2 games MU still has a slight 12% advantage.

As a side note CU has a 45% chance of beating both St. John's tonight and MU on Tuesday. When multiplying 45% times 51% CU only has  a 23% chance of winning all five of their remaining games. If CU wins tonight CU only has a 32% of winning their remain 4 games while MU has a 63% to win their remaining three games. Advantage MU. 

CU needs to loose 1 game, period.

Sure, and hopefully it's tonight.

Don't sleep on Providence though.
As I've said a few times people are underestimating them yet again.
They don't lose at home and have a lot of home games.
Hopefully they lose at UConn on Wednesday but nothing is a given.

Then on March 1 either them or X will lose, but the one that doesn't is still in play, and I'd take Providence because they are at home.

Ideal scenario is Providence loses at UConn and beats X at home, but we will see.

[Goatherder]

Let's take the case that CU beats St. John's tonight and MU on Tuesday. That leaves 3 remaining games for both CU and MU. Using Kenpom probabilities MU has a 63% and CU a 51% chance of winning their respective remaining 3 games.

In other words even if CU wins the next 2 games MU still has a slight 12% advantage.

As a side note CU has a 45% chance of beating both St. John's tonight and MU on Tuesday. When multiplying 45% times 51% CU only has  a 23% chance of winning all five of their remaining games. If CU wins tonight CU only has a 32% of winning their remain 4 games while MU has a 63% to win their remaining three games. Advantage MU. 

CU needs to loose 1 game, period.

Although KenPom and others can throw out all sorts of stats to support their percentages, they are ultimately just educated guesses.  I think we can say that having won tonight, Creighton's chances of beating both SJU and MU just went up significantly.  According to ESPN, their chances of winning Tuesday are 70%.  After that, Creighton plays next Saturday against Villanova and then finishes against Georgetown and at DePaul.  Playing at Villanova might present a challenge, though probably not much more than playing today at St. John's.  The other two should not, even if they are playing DePaul on Senior Day.  Marquette has to play @Butler and home against DePaul and SJU.  Butler did just beat Xavier and we have to play them on Senior Night, but honestly, looking at the two schedules, it looks to me like pretty much a wash. 

So to me it looks like a probable tie for the Big East title unless something unexpected happens.  Of course that can happen, but thus far this season, it has not happened much.  Providence does have to play two of the better teams, but plays them both at home where they have not lost this year.  They also Seton Hall who might be making a last gasp attempt for a Dance bid, but again, at home.  Xavier and Providence play each other, which should effectively knock one of them out of the running. 

But it still ends up looking like a tie between Marquette and Creighton.  Since Creighton was the pre-season pick to win it and Marquette was picked 9th, that as a great result.