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If we win a fairly close one it will not move the needle much at all for them.

I don’t think it is that big a deal really as there are obvious limits to how much we can go with it. It makes some sense to try to start out ballgames with more physicality to set a tone, since we struggle with that. For long doses, I don’t think it would work as we wouldn’t have enough spacing of ball handling.

Good points Cookie. I think we are probably in dire straights if we lose to Minny anyway so I think best off having it be as quality as possibkle,

Yes Vinny. We certainly want Minny to win and I think NW is better for us as well, but I can see the other way there.

Certainly as of now we want Clemson to beat those types of teams. Can change, but have to root for how it looks on the present.

We certainly wanted the Rutgers result. While it doesn’t show now, it will as we play them twice and Maryland once. That far outweighs a minor quad movement. Perhaps the only exception would be losing a quad one win.

They will not deep dive that thoroughly.

Matters very little how hard the schedule is. It matters how they do relative to how they are expected to do.

I really love her voice. Down the the River to Pray is one of my favorites of hers. We could probably use a few prayers heading into this one as well:)

Collier pry thinks we are about a five seed in the NIT.

Huge shoutout to the Scarlet shhotaround pod for starting a movement to bring back sandstorm. It really helped keep the crowd rocking after we started the comeback.

Keep in mind some metrics(NET for sure) caps overtime mov at one.

This is well over a month typically for NFL players and I would guess it isn’t shorter for hoops.

given whay happened when Collier was on NIT selection group, who knows how many we must get

Miles left far too big a mess behind than we could overcome year 1. You could argue we tried to do it too quickly.

What is the fun in that. Can't link up Lindenwood, Stony Brook, and South Carolina St. tilts in February if that were the case.

To answer the original question, if we aren’t figuring in benches it is 13-14 for me as they had very high level ability to get stops. Operating under the assumption that you get Craig smith with that package or it changes quickly to the bottom of the list.

Believe the seeding is done first and then they logically sort out the locations that make the most sense, starting with the top teams playing near home. I don’t think they would worry about us playing in Omaha, but also won’t they to make it happen as we won’t be high up on the pecking order.

I don’t have the time or energy to worry about Miles much, but I do know we might need him to start winning games, mountain west currently 6 teams in. Need some horrible losses to teams like San Jose st,

Jean Peck was not pleased with this.

One thing that will go unnoticed that I noticed that I found as important as anything. Allick leadership on defense. He was constantly pointing and screaming where Battle was to his teammates. This shows me both growth in the coaching to identify who we cannot let shoot, and more importantly some tremendouys leadershop and communication by our guys to execute it.

He cleaned up his shot mechanics. Just looks like it should go in. Just stay off heat check shots a bit.

Wonder how bad losing to Chicago st set NW back. Since we play them twice and are a really solid team, I also wonder how bad that ends up hurting as as well.

It is hard to beat bouie and Collins in a close game. We found a way. I will save the negatives for tomorrow.

Through my work, I have come to realize that calf strains are often a lot more problematic than we would think. Think Joe Burrows this year. Could hardly move until it fully healed about two months later. Like everything, it has a fairly wide range of severity. Let’s hope it is in the milder end, but it doesn’t feel that way to me. It is obviously great news, but it is still very possible we don’t get the same Gary this season. Glad that there shouldn’t be drastic long term issues.