Vermont Discussion Game Time 1:45 CT

[GoldenEagles03]

I know some of us are probably to the point where we are starting to get jitters.

Marquette needs to get over that tournament hump and the wait is just agonizing. Factor in Vermont being on a 15 game win streak with the line seemingly dropping each day and that doesn't help the nerves.

Here's the thing. Marquette is simply put, the better team by a wide margin.  That doesn't guarantee anything, but Marquette is 19-2 since Christmas (in the Big Freakin' East). I'll still be anxious up until the final buzzer but I fully trust this team to come out and bring it from the tip.  Can't wait!

[PointWarrior]

Some random cinderella dork on Titus show has Vermont as his upset pick.

Says that Marquette is better than St Johns but just like them in that we cant defend unless a team turns it over.

That was it, that was the analysis.

Ask UConn or Xavier if Marquette can defend.

[PointWarrior]

I know some of us are probably to the point where we are starting to get jitters.

Marquette needs to get over that tournament hump and the wait is just agonizing. Factor in Vermont being on a 15 game win streak with the line seemingly dropping each day and that doesn't help the nerves.

Here's the thing. Marquette is simply put, the better team by a wide margin.  That doesn't guarantee anything, but Marquette is 19-2 since Christmas (in the Big Freakin' East). I'll still be anxious up until the final buzzer but I fully trust this team to come out and bring it from the tip.  Can't wait!

If Marquette played vermonts's schedule, they would be undefeated. 

Vermont lost to Yale by 29.

[LloydsLegs]

Yeah, I think he was their radio play by play or something for a bit.  Traveled with the team and everything.

Yes- and he said that is the only reason he picked them- and picks them every year.

[PGsHeroes32]

Jake Marsh is a Vermont homer, of course he's going to pick UVM.

It wasnt Marsh

Its some guy who only attends mid major games making him "a mid major" expert. Which kinda collapses since he isnt watching the big dogs play.

[StillAWarrior]

I know some of us are probably to the point where we are starting to get jitters.

Marquette needs to get over that tournament hump and the wait is just agonizing.

I'm sure the wait is agonizing for the team too. This is one of the reasons I am astounded that there were/are fans out there who say, "I'd rather lose in the first round of the Big East tournament so our guys will have time to rest up for the NCAA tournament." Honestly, it's one of of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard a fan say. I really think that our guys will be fine with five full days of rest. I'm pretty they'd have been OK even if we had been slotted into one of the Thursday locations. To lose early in the BET and have 7+ days off? No thank you.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

If we didn't get our doors blown off our last three tourney appearances, as a collective I think there would be much less worry.

I just want that first one out of the way, after that it's golden.

[mugrack]

Keep the disrespect coming. The team feeds off of it.

[Jay Bee]

Ask UConn or Xavier if Marquette can defend.

Not on a sustained basis aina

[StillWarriors]

It wasnt Marsh

Its some guy who only attends mid major games making him "a mid major" expert. Which kinda collapses since he isnt watching the big dogs play.

He also has been horrendous on his betting recommendations on games. I credit his hustle and coming up with a different angle of "finding Cinderella," but an expert he is not.

[94Warrior]

Pull Ellis's red-shirt and really mess these guys up.


What a terrible idea.  MU will be fine.

Ellis hasn't worn him warmups in weeks.  He sits on the bench, in uniform, as if he just came out of the game for a quick blow.

If we got into foul/injury trouble, and are in a close game, where playing Ellis could be the difference between going home, or advancing- you absolutely pull his shirt off.  Luckily, he isn't wearing a warmup with nothing under it.  He's in uniform, and ready to go!

I'm not going to worry about 4 years from now, if we have a chance at a Final 4.  I doubt Emarion or Shaka would worry about the future either.

[The Sultan]

I don't think EE plays in any circumstances.

[lawdog77]

I don't think EE plays in any circumstances.

I think if there is a brawl an 7 MU players were ejected, EE plays

[94Warrior]

Of course, nobody is predicting he's going to play.  But, if Shaka NEEDS him, he'll play him.

[lake]

It wasnt Marsh

Its some guy who only attends mid major games making him "a mid major" expert. Which kinda collapses since he isnt watching the big dogs play.

Yeah I just caught up on today's ep, him liking three 15 seeds is absurd. That guy has a tweet saying one of the reasons UVM will win is because they rebound well, so not sure where he gets his info.

[Miss Katie’s]

Yeah I just caught up on today's ep, him liking three 15 seeds is absurd. That guy has a tweet saying one of the reasons UVM will win is because they rebound well, so not sure where he gets his info.

They say that in their game preview as well...

http://thenamesvermont.blogspot.com/2023/03/ncaa-tournament-preview-15-vermont-vs-2.html?m=1

[FairWeatherEagle]

After watching a few Youtube highlights on Vermont:
1. Teams always look a bit pedestrian when you see them playing in an oversized high-school gym. Its deceptive, looked like Hoosiers regular season.
2. #15 is good....probably on the level of a decent shooting forward in the Big East. POY in their league. But no Wally Szczerbiak....he can't just win it for them.
3. their Point with the dreads is decent. But we've played against better.

How do we possibly lose:
"lid on the basket" + "crazy awkward turnovers" + "they shoot lights out"+"foul trouble"
BUT even if every one of those things happens in the first half....we would get it together and make it right. Losing to Vermont is almost another universe.

[MarquetteDano]

Yeah I just caught up on today's ep, him liking three 15 seeds is absurd. That guy has a tweet saying one of the reasons UVM will win is because they rebound well, so not sure where he gets his info.

They are very good DEFENSIVE rebounding team.  But a poor OFFENSIVE rebounding team.  Like really, really poor.  The latter are the teams that gives us fits on defense.  So, if they hold form, will limit our offensive rebounds.

We shoot well enough and take care of the basketball so that our offensive rebounding does not seem to matter too much.   I would be more concerned about a really good offensive rebounding team... which Vermont certainly is not.

[wadesworld]

He becomes a "mid major expert" by picking a bunch of upsets.  If they don't hit it's a, "Well, I took a shot, we all know there will be upset, I just picked the wrong one."  When a 15 happens to win and he's the guy that made the pick (even if he picked 2 others incorrectly) it's a crazy good pick.

[PointWarrior]

but they are coming in on a 15 game win streak, they beat the murder's row of the lowly AE conference (with Kenpom ranking)

15 wins against:

UMBC            235
Maine      (2x)      282
New Hampshire      287
Bryant         210
Albany  (2x)      347
NJIT (3x)              331
Binghamton  (3x)   311
UMass Lowell (2x)    138


Vermont is the king of a crap conference.  Their cling to hope is they almost beat USC in one game.  Yale beat them by 29.

Marquette is the king of a top conference in basketball.  This will not be close without absurd abnormalities.

[tower912]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJL4cOp29-0

Coach Becker previews the game.   

[5DollarPitcher]

without absurd abnormalities.

Uh oh

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

It just kinda interesting to compare the confidence levels of this tourney run compared to say 2012.

I don't think there's much argument that this is Marquettes best team since the 2012 one (even though 2013 went further)

Maybe it was me being a naive and less cynical freshman, I had zero doubt that Marquette was gonna roll through BYU and Murray State, in Kentucky.

But even with a higher seed, better record, probably better all around team, I'm still so apprehensive about the first weekend.

[The Sultan]

People were apprehensive about BYU here. It was similar, nervous apprehension to what we are reading about Vermont.

[1SE]

It just kinda interesting to compare the confidence levels of this tourney run compared to say 2012.

I don't think there's much argument that this is Marquettes best team since the 2012 one (even though 2013 went further)

Maybe it was me being a naive and less cynical freshman, I had zero doubt that Marquette was gonna roll through BYU and Murray State, in Kentucky.

But even with a higher seed, better record, probably better all around team, I'm still so apprehensive about the first weekend.

Take two High Lifes and watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjbukzAJvk&list=PLzqRtxGmacTdwekhBMqX6gnvg0QRxnDfQ&index=6

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