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(03-04-2023 05:01 PM)Stat Geek Wrote:  

(03-04-2023 04:44 PM)Prideofalion Wrote:  

(03-04-2023 02:13 PM)Stat Geek Wrote:  

(03-04-2023 01:49 PM)Prideofalion Wrote:  The tightness of the players early in the game was laughable. TSG missed a ton of shots from nowhere. And Mekhi Long on the free throw was just sad. And make no mistake about it, Long was the best player on the team this year. Love his game, just pointing out the tightness…

Jenkins shots were horrible. Everyone literally looked like they had a full body spasm when they shot the ball. I can’t unsee it.

The tournament exposes your weaknesses and this team got off to terrible starts most of the year. They had to be the worst first 10 minute teams in the NCAA.

This team never showed the ability to handle any semblance of success ( or maybe just not consistency). Any time they played well (or beat a tough team) they pretty much laid an egg the following game. The only real exception is beating Marshall after beating Southern Miss.

My impression is they believed they could just show up and beat lesser teams.

I hear what you are saying. Don’t entirely disagree. But do they have this mindset every year? What’s the cause of this? The tournament performances are horrible year in and year out. Entirely different groups of players. The only constant has been the head coach.

I have zero interest in defending anything associated with the team right now. That will take a few days :) But, I was curious and looked to see if we chocked in the postseason or lost to better teams.

14- Beat a worse team, lost to better team
15- Lost to a worse team
16- Beat 3 teams that were worse teams, lost to a team that was technically worse, but a coin flip.
17- Lost to a worse team, fairly close though
18- Beat a worse team, lost to a better team
19- Beat 2 worse teams, beat a better team (though pretty much a coin flip)
20- Lost to a worse team
21- Lost to a better team
22- Lost to a better team
23- Lost to a worse team

I'm more concerned with us getting better as a team than our performance in the tourney (relative to expectations). 2023 was incredibly disappointing in terms of the manner of the loss. I think 2015 was very disappointing as well. 16 was a coinflip, but I thought either us or MTSU was good enough to win it. 17 was pretty much a coinflip. 18 was close to a coinflip but WKY was a little better than us that year.

My point is I think 2015 and 2023 were very disappointing tourney results compared to expectations. Those hurt badly. The others were either coinflips or games were we expected to lose. I want us to get to the point were we aren't in conference games where we are expected to lose.

I've made my stance on tourneys and single games known.I hate everything relying on 1 game when you play 30 regular season games, but that is the cards we are dealt and we know what needs to be done. I would actually feel better if we were playing better in the regular season but chocked against an inferior team in the postseason.

Tournament basketball is what makes the sport great. It’s time to put up or shut up. And it’s not just the losses that bother me. I don’t need to list the results to make myself feel better. The performances in the conf tournament games have been horrible. That’s 4 straight years where they lose in the first round a couple of them in embarrassing fashion to bad basketball teams. They lay absolute eggs in the biggest moments. Again, not just losses. They completely embarrass themselves year after year. Even the early season tournaments have been an embarrassment. This year they played competitively down in Charleston but years past have been soo bad.