SF Husky Wrote:Agreed. Who the hell were those teams Pitt and UL played? I saw an ESPN report at halftime that UL was tied to Austin P or something and I said WHAT? Anyway, they certainly should have played some better teams.
Austin Peay was a tournament team last year and usually finishes at the top of the Ohio Valley conference. As for being close at half, I don't know why you'd be suprised. A lot of Big East teams have had very close games to lesser opponenets this year.
#2 UConn was tied with Buffalo at half.
#2 UConn lead LaSalle by 6 points at half.
#16 G'Town lead Wichita St by 4 at half.
WVU was down to CSU by 4 at the half.
WVU was down by 8 to Duquense at the half.
Syracuse was down to Richmond by 7 at the half.
#20 Syracuse was down by 5 to Cornell at half.
#6 Pitt was beating Miami(OH) by 5 at the half.
Personally, I think Pitino knew what he was doing when he made the schedule. Samardo is a beast on offense but both he and Jennings are struggling defensively and against the double team. My guess is the schedule was made the way it was (increasing difficultly without any top 25s) because Pitino was worried about having two freshman centers. The WKU embarassment, IMO, highlights this fact.
The thing that hurts more is when teams like UofL lose to teams they should beat (WKU) IMO.