Art Vandalay

But are they really? KU is really the only one who played a tough non con. The rest beat up on easy schedules so it is hard to know how legit they really are. It’ll be interesting to see how the committee slots them.

Love it I have dreams of him being a much better shooing Volek from Marquette.

Ideally I’d like us to go get a true difference making lead guard and Rice takes a jump so we can start Brice at the 2 and him and Gary at Forwards.

Been watching him all year. Not surprised on no PG, they have real nice guards. Biggest surprise to me is he is hitting 3’s at a decent rate. He has struggled in college so far and I played pick up with him a few times last summer and that shot was not pretty. Glad he is doing well though as he is a good kid. He would have given us someone who can get to the rim and that would have been great.

Agree with you, never thought he was a ball hog at all. He could be shooting more and I’d be good with that. I’m fine with him and Keisei hunting shots when they are feeling good. Speaking of feeling good. Anyone check CJ’s shooting numbers these days? 50-44-93 is pretty incredible at this point in the season. Kid is balling.

It was a lot more than Williams for sure. Anyone not named Josiah, Reink, or Sam did not look like they had a clue on the defensive end.

I did. They have been playing well which surprised me as I thought they were pretty bad to start the year. Hope they can keep it up.

I really think if the season ended today we are in and probably an 8/9th seed. If we get to 21 wins with 3-4 Q1 wins I think we are in easily in the end as well. Hopefully MSU and KSU stay Q1, if so I’m confident we get in with 20+ wins.

They couldn’t in our section of lower bowl. All the kids were waiting in the isles. We sit on the end and couldn’t get out if we wanted to

He sat in front of us and at that moment I knew something great was going to happen. He was one of the first ones rushing the court too. GLORIOUS

I was in Norfolk doing the same

Apparently lots of people because they still use his records those years as a reason for him to be gone. Still doing it this year until the last couple games. He was definitely in charge no one is debating that. He was used to getting dudes and out scoring teams, we knew that, we all wanted that. With those rosters I don’t care what style he played it would have been ugly. So in hindsight it is super easy to say he should have played differently but that was not who we hired at the time. IMO there are 2 reasons it didn’t work. Big10 is different and recruiting was very limited his first two years because of limited time in year 1 and then Covid. If things were not so crazy those years I would bet his record would have been much improved. Maybe things would be different now but I’m happy with where we seem to be headed. So maybe it was just a painful but good lesson. I love Trev and he was very clear changes were needed and Fred came back to him with a plan and then implemented it, he should get some credit for that. ‘Edit note. I’m not telling you your opinion is wrong just explaining why I and others have not been calling for his job over the last few years. Everyone has their own expectations

People seem to forget the first two seasons involved completely rebuilding a whole roster during a pandemic. That is truly a once in a lifetime event (we hope). Yes everyone had to deal with Covid but it was much easier for experienced teams with a solid roster in place. Not traveling to recruit or have guys visit our facilities was killer. So I have always given him the benefit of the doubt for those years. I do agree it should only take 3-4 years to build a hoops program normally so I think he is on track for that if we take care of business this year. Never understood those that wanted him gone after year 2-3. Hope we never have to worry about it anymore.

He was probably there scouting. I saw there were scouts from various NBA guys at the game.

Agreed and they played and shot the ball well against us. We just beat them straight up.

UMass shot 20 FTs in the first half along. Must have been real tight officiating which is not good for the Duqs

They shot better than us from 2&3, had more rebounds, more assists, refs killing us in first half, Gary had an off night scoring and we still kicked their asses. Great defense, hustle, coaching, all around team effort Love every minute of it. Even had Dylan Raiola taking selfies with the Tominaga family

Indiana St is good, nice win for them

Keisei had a few rebounds, steals, and dove for a loose ball. No problem with his effort at all. He was definitely not hunting shots either. Thought he played well in his limited time.

I always thought that they just use NET to set Quads, it’s not used as criteria like some computer rankings.

I actually don’t believe that. Outside of 2017, the years I think we deserved to get in we did and had a reasonable seed (granted that was long ago). I actually think the committee looks for good stories except when that DBag AD from Omaha ran it. just my opinion and I could be wrong

I always thought it was his decision to leave and not run off but I’m not positive on that. Potential was there to see

He took 12 shots (only the third most) and is one of our best shooters. I am good with him taking a lot of shots.

I would have went for the steal but then not foul but either way the chances were less than 1%. That last completely unforced turnover kind of killed Izzy’s spirit I think.

I don’t get the criticism Brice gets, must be just because he doesn’t show a lot of emotion. Believe it was Gary’s good shoulder that got hurt, hopefully nothing serious but he did seem to be in some pain on the sideline but came back in