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(04-27-2018 09:45 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 07:40 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 07:17 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 06:51 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 06:19 PM)mionarx Wrote:  I wouldn’t call it a “damn good” season unless it ends with at least an NIT bid. Last year was good, but not great and not good enough to meet expectations. I’d give it a B, maybe a B-. NCAA or a new coach in 2019.

We were an NIT caliber team. Certainly better than several NIT teams. Not only KenPom, but We were what.....a hair below WKY and they made some teams looks silly (on the road) in the tourney.

And FWIW, without looking, what was last year; one of the top 5-7 teams we,ve had in the last 25 years?

It was the second best team JJ has had. BT had four or five that were better. Capel had two or three that were better, and Ollie had a couple. Last years team wasn’t an NIT caliber team or they would have been in. They were close. We don’t call the Freeman team an NCAA caliber team.

Disagree the Freeman team wasn’t dance caliber. The team that went to the NIT was tight! I still relish the beat down they put on vcu in the Ted.

Unfortunately, being in CUSA, we do not have the luxury of affording JJ's patented midseason slumps. The team had a lot of potential and won some pretty big games OOC at home, but they were unable to sustain that level of play, perform well on the road, or bring it back when it counted. NCAA calibur teams these days don't lose to UTSA on the road (and they were awful that year). Maybe could have gotten away with it under the committees in Blaine's era, but nowadays, there is no room for that.

I think it is not easy to play in CUSA, and the road losses were a reflection of travel fatigue. But the wins (and winning streak at the Ted) that year were exceptional and Freeman was phenomenal. That was most definitely a team worthy of the “dance.” It doesn’t, and won’t, get much better than that year.