(02-26-2023 10:10 AM)Miggy Wrote:  BG has 5 or 6 really good three-point shooters. If EMU doesn't force them way out, get up in their grill and make them pass or dribble, BG will once again, shoot 10-25 on three's or 43 percent. That's what happened in the first game. It's all in how players are deployed. Playing off three-point shooters and close-out in my view are for losers.

Sorry to say but with advent of the three-point shot years ago, bb is a game of math.

To have any chance of winning, EMU must hold BG to taking less than 20 three's and making no more than 5 or 6 three's. Otherwise, EMU loses the game. There's other things EMU has to do as well to in order to have any chacnce of winning the game.

BG doesn't want to be eliminated on their home-court, and they want to move ahead of EMU with one remaking game. For if they win both they have a chance to go to the MAC tournament.

What Miggy says may or may not hold water but I have a completely different perspective....

Miggy posted about some BG played way back when... (January 3, almost 2 month ago). I say look at BG's most recent games:

I have never seen a team go thru such a tough meat grinder schedule: In their last 6 games Kent, BSU, CMU, TOL, MIA and Kent.

With BG teetering on the edge of elimination (I need to calculate if they can be eliminated even if they win both remaining games).

Anyway, when a team is on the verge of elimination and has gone through a meat grinder schedule, maybe tonight they come up flatter than a pancake.

I say to Miggy FORGET the first BG game. It is ancient history. This isn't the same BG team as back in January. Teams usually improve or regress as the season goes on.

P.S. to Miggy and this may be relevant here: Didn't we go to S. Carolina and play a very tough game and then come back a few days later and get smoked??? That stuff happens ALL the time. Toss out the first BG game. Meaningless.

I looked at the money line: EMU is 3:2. Bet $20 and win 30. (put down $20 and cash a bet returning $50. Your 20 bet plus a 30 buck win).