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(05-04-2018 10:27 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(05-04-2018 09:09 PM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  As you stated, ODU has 11 NCAA Tourney appearances in its history. How many wins they have in those tournament appearances has nothing to do with the comment that you replied to which was ... "We're ODU and post season play is expected". Getting there achieved that point. I believe that the poster also was probably referencing the NIT as well as the NCAA Tournament with that comment.

If you take a look at the Paul Webb era at ODU, and more recently, the Blaine Taylor era, you will see that it was a reasonable comment.

I don't think that anyone is treating ODU and the NCAA Tourney as an entitlement, or the school as the 2nd coming of Memphis. All people seem to be saying in general is that ODU has taken a few steps back from where they recently were in getting to the post season on a much more regular basis - not including any tournaments other than the NCAA or NIT.

OK, so take the NCAA results out of the equation. We're still talking about making the tournament 25 percent of the time and only making the tournament back to back twice. That's still not a record that screams "we expect postseason play."

The funny thing is, you find one more win during the NIT Final Four run, score three more points against Middle Tennessee in the 2016 CUSA final and have that big goof for W&M miss that heave at the end this past season, and you're looking at JJ with 98 wins, two NCAA trips and an NIT bid. Effectively the same results, but they look a LOT better.

The actual result is that JJ's teams never step up and take it to the next level in big games during crunch time when it matters. Every single time it is ice cold shooting. Sometimes the game is close with decent defense, but when that happens, the other team always steps it up down the stretch and we have no answer. There is a reason why we always need just a handful more points against MTSU, WKU etc. There is a reason that we can never seem to hit the broad side of a barn in a big game.