Date: February 28th, 2015

Time: 4:00 PM

Opponent: Mercer (16-14, 11-6 SoCon)

Place: University Center

Television: None

Webcast: ESPN 3 (Free)

Radio online: ETSUBucs.com (Free)

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Sweep Mercer for some small consolation on the season! Go Bucs!

Hopin' we take names tomorrow.

Why does anyone ever interview MuBar. Same quote every game.

“It’ll be a tough game,” ETSU coach Murry Bartow said. “We’ve got to go in there and play well.

We think it’s a very winnable game, but obviously that’s a good Mercer team.”



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Mercer is 10-3 at home. One of the losses was to Wofford, and all of them were by exactly four points.

If we're losing to Furman and the military schools on the road, I give us about a 1% chance of winning this game.

Mercer lost 7 seniors and still contend for a title. Bartow would not believe this is possible if his own team lost 7 seniors. #coaching

(02-27-2015 08:15 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  Why does anyone ever interview MuBar. Same quote every game.

“It’ll be a tough game,” ETSU coach Murry Bartow said. “We’ve got to go in there and play well.

We think it’s a very winnable game, but obviously that’s a good Mercer team.”



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Exactly what I was thinking. And, he sounds like a dead man talking. Or, maybe they don't even interview him for each game -- JC Press just changes the dates, names, etc. and uses the same old quotes - one set for road games, the other set for home games.

(02-28-2015 07:46 AM)Bucfaithful Wrote:  Mercer lost 7 seniors and still contend for a title. Bartow would not believe this is possible if his own team lost 7 seniors. #coaching

Bartow couldn't keep 7 players around to worry about it.

If Western-Citadel score holds up, looks like Bucs headed to 5th place. Western beats them by 13 at their place. Just can't see the Bucs getting through the first round. What an abject disappointment this season has turned out to be. No growth, no development, no improvement as the season progressed. Just stuck in a rut or going backwards. So frustrating to see this program bogged down with little or no prospect of improvement going forward. Surely Sander and Noland are frustrated to no end with this.

Will be an interesting game after that 1 point loss in JC

ETSU up 22-12 early. Some hot shooting and fortunate offensive boards off of the bad shots.

Refs have taken over the game for Mercer. Wow. No Bucs not within 4 feet of turnover from Mercer: Out of bounds to Mercer.

Blatant charge on Mercer. No charge called. So much contact Mercer player hurt. No call; 2 points to Mercer.

Push off against Rembert on drive to the basket. Foul called against Rembert.

Massive amounts of contact by Mercer under the basket on Merriweather rebounds and shots. No calls.

Wow... Leading scorer now for Mercer - the 3 refs.

Terrible officiating. Officials showing out for Mercer on Senior Day.

Poor refs assisting Mercer again. Somebody needs to send some film to the NCAA so this crew can't screw up anybody else the rest of the way this year.

Riley was probably already 10 feet from the ball when they called it out on him.

(02-28-2015 05:27 PM)BucinBama Wrote:  Poor refs assisting Mercer again. Somebody needs to send some film to the NCAA so this crew can't screw up anybody else the rest of the way this year.

Riley was probably already 10 feet from the ball when they called it out on him.

Are you serious? You're watching through a filtered lense. Watch the beginning when an ETSU player just forced his shoulder into a Mercer player from beyond the 3 point line and got the call. When you're a jump shooting team you're likely to foul more than the other guys.

Anyways, it's a tight game with 10:30 to go. Mercer is #3 seed no matter what, so this is just for momentum.

Even the Mercer announcers are saying the refs are making lots of mistakes. I'm sorry but I agree with my Mercer lenses and the Mercer announcers. This has been poor officiating. They were even saying not to be too hard on these guys as they are usually pretty good.

(02-28-2015 05:53 PM)BucinBama Wrote:  Even the Mercer announcers are saying the refs are making lots of mistakes. I'm sorry but I agree with my Mercer lenses and the Mercer announcers. This has been poor officiating. They were even saying not to be too hard on these guys as they are usually pretty good.

I've never seen these guys before. They aren't the usual announcers... and like football I'm sure they are told to be neutral and not root for Mercer (which I dislike, but I guess that's the ESPN3 rules or expectation).

The Bucs and an embarrassment on the glass.

(02-28-2015 05:53 PM)BucinBama Wrote:  Even the Mercer announcers are saying the refs are making lots of mistakes. I'm sorry but I agree with my Mercer lenses and the Mercer announcers. This has been poor officiating. They were even saying not to be too hard on these guys as they are usually pretty good.

My favorite was when there wasnt a Buc player within 5 feet, and a mercer player bounced it off his teammates foot out of bounds under our basket and they called it Mercer ball.

Okay, so the objective announcers have both communicated, and we were shown video of a number of poor calls by these officials. Got it.

Ground Hog Day. And another loss well earned. Good job coach.