Tonight will tell us everything....

[Lennys Tap]

Why?  Are there disgruntled players undercutting the program from within?

Or an incompetent head coach who has lost the team?

[lawdog77]

Or an incompetent head coach who has lost the team?

Or are we less than 12 months away from another pandemic?

[MU82]

More like:

[NickelDimer]

Scoop never disappoints. Ok it disappoints all the time but when it doesn’t it’s magic

[willie warrior]

Last night told us a lot. In the PAST 2 games that MU has lost without Kolek the entire team has had a total of 8 assists. Kolek sometimes has that by half time.
The team is not going anywhere without a healthy Kolek. Wishing or hoping they will does not make it so. He absolutely drives the offense and without him MU has very little chance.

[Uncle Rico]

Last night told us a lot. In the PAST 2 games that MU has lost without Kolek the entire team has had a total of 8 assists. Kolek sometimes has that by half time.
The team is not going anywhere without a healthy Kolek. Wishing or hoping they will does not make it so. He absolutely drives the offense and without him MU has very little chance.

Do you forget to flush toilets?

[wadesworld]

Last night told us a lot. In the PAST 2 games that MU has lost without Kolek the entire team has had a total of 8 assists. Kolek sometimes has that by half time.
The team is not going anywhere without a healthy Kolek. Wishing or hoping they will does not make it so. He absolutely drives the offense and without him MU has very little chance.

Your stat number is wrong.

[ATL MU Warrior]

Your stat number is wrong.

Shocking. The next time Willie is right about something will be the first time

[Goose]

As MU has gotten better the level of knowledge from scoopers has shrunk. I am happy that more people are engaging, but there really are a good number folks that do not shxt about college basketball.

[Newsdreams]

Do you forget to flush toilets?

Dung flush

[Scoop Snoop]

Joparks, come get your guy.

No need. Joparks and duanewade are the same guy.

[BrewCity83]

duanewade, now show us your own obituary.  We know you've already written it.

[willie warrior]

Your stat number is wrong.

Yeah it looks like they had 14 total. Does not change the point that Kolek is the driving force behind the offense. They need him healthy. The haters out there can wish and hope the team can win without him in the stretch, as I even do, but that is not reality

[wadesworld]

Yeah it looks like they had 14 total. Does not change the point that Kolek is the driving force behind the offense. They need him healthy. The haters out there can wish and hope the team can win without him in the stretch, as I even do, but that is not reality

Well, closer this time at least.

[Uncle Rico]

Yeah it looks like they had 14 total. Does not change the point that Kolek is the driving force behind the offense. They need him healthy. The haters out there can wish and hope the team can win without him in the stretch, as I even do, but that is not reality

I think it’s terrible you grew up in a home full of lead paint

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Yeah it looks like they had 14 total. Does not change the point that Kolek is the driving force behind the offense. They need him healthy. The haters out there can wish and hope the team can win without him in the stretch, as I even do, but that is not reality

Are you having trouble reading the stat sheets? Or is it the addition giving you trouble?

Assists no matta. They are a style state. An unassisted shot counts just as much as an assisted shot. Alabama has the #1 rated offense by far but is 145th in assist/fgm. Illinois has the #4 rated offense but is 315th in a/fgm.

[GoFastAndWin]

And Willie doesn’t like the style-state MU basketball currently is living in.

Good post TAMU, but I want the great state of TKO re-admitted to our MU hoops union, stat!

Let the beer 🍺 and dimes 🏀 flow in New York and then Indiana or Nebraska!!!

[duanewade]

Unfortunately, last night played out like expected with no real surprises.  It's now crystal clear that this a very nice team that we can be proud of but a team with only a Sweet 16 ceiling.  Hopefully we make the Sweet 16, which is still a great honor and a very difficult thing to do.  A couple years from now we'll try to make a run again.  Next year's team will be weaker than this one, so even a 2025 NCAA tournament birth is difficult to foresee at this point. 

Once again the talking heads were right and we were too excited with the noise to evaluate our own demons... namely lack of rebounding, lack of a killer instinct from our players which showed in the Wisconsin and UConn road debacles, inconsistent shooting, too many unforced turnovers, and a lack of defense/athletic ability with the Jop for Omax trade.

https://www.si.com/college/2024/02/29/magic-eight-teams-that-can-win-the-2024-ncaa-mens-tournament

I hate being right so often.   :'(

The Wisconsin game is an annual harbinger of the make up of our team.  Unfortunately, we never should have lost to them with our senior laden team, with such superior talent to boot.  When we did, and lost the way we did, it just gave me pause that this team had what it takes to be great.  Well sadly a similar scenario played out again tonight where we also lost convincingly to a team we should have beat by 10+ points.