You won 80-79 with your only lead after Williams' dunk with 1.7 seconds left. Dimitrius Underwood led all scorers with 23 and shot 10-15, but he missed the first of a one-and-one with 13 seconds left. Wynter had 18 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists including the winning assist. Bell shot 8-12 and scored 18. Williams had 13 points and 11 rebounds. You made 30 two-pointers, which was your second most from 2010-2011 to now. You made 33 in a 92-83 neutral site win over Quinnipiac on December 16, 2018.

Well now...THAT was an interesting game. How does CoC leave Williams that open? Cheating out for Cam driving the lane.

(02-26-2022 06:27 PM)Timer Wrote:  Well now...THAT was an interesting game. How does CoC leave Wiliams that open? Cheating our for Cam driving the lane.

good question. nice to see us get the matchup we wanted for a change and execute really well.

biggest win of the year. i went from being like "to hell with going down to the tournament" to "see you in dc". let's hope this win works the same as the jmu win last year.

i liked that butler got back to being butler. i don't know how much of his struggles have been an injury or somebody having the bad idea to make him a midrange player. he's a rebounder. park him under the basket and let him go to work. he should be on the bench if he's not effective from down there.

it was a team effort with the comeback. usually one guy gets hot but 4 or 5 different players had buckets. really like that we went to our stars cam and amari when we needed the game winner though. i'm almost happier cam made the pass. that's what point guards should do...run the right play and set up a teammate.

I'm surprised that there's hasn't been much chatter about today's game.

My takes...
I don't see this team having any shot at winning the tournament. Last year, I went into the tournament with a much better feeling. Last year, I felt like they were one of the best teams in the conference but fell to 6th because they were screwed out of so many games. Last year's team was really gelling toward the end of the season. This time around, I'm not seeing it.

This was a fun last few minutes and a very improbably comeback. They've fell behind a lot all season and always fought back (exception Hofstra game) until the very end. Eventually, you figured they'd be rewarded for their no quit attitude and today they were.
ESPN's win probability gave Charleston a 95.8% chance of winning when it was 65-50 with 10:52 left, a 95.1% chance when it was 71-60 with 5:37 left, and an 87.4% chance when it was 79-76 with 19 seconds left.

Some other observations...
Charleston seems like a team that gets tired easily. I noticed that after each timeout, CoC seemed to start each quadrant on a run. Then later in each quadrant as we got close to each upcoming media timeout, Drexel would go on their run. This team almost blew a 10 point lead with 1:53 left last week vs. Drexel, and almost blew a 20 point lead at Delaware on Thursday. Not sure if they did this all season or not, but I noticed they used 11 players early and were making wholesale substitutions throughout. If it was a strategy to keep their players from tiring out, it didn't work today.

Throughout today's game, I kept on telling my daughter about Rayne Smith and how he's this incredible free throw shooter and would be a huge weapon at the end of Charleston had a lead in the final minute. Today, I noticed that Drexel put Wynter on Smith, and he did everything he could to prevent Smith from getting the ball inbounded to him in the final seconds. On the Charleston inbounds in the final seconds, the ball went to Underwood, because Cam wouldn't let Smith get the ball, and Underwood ended up missing the front end of the 1 and 1 to put Drexel in position to win.

(02-26-2022 10:49 PM)J.B. Wrote:  I'm surprised that there's hasn't been much chatter about today's game.

My takes...
I don't see this team having any shot at winning the tournament. Last year, I went into the tournament with a much better feeling. Last year, I felt like they were one of the best teams in the conference but fell to 6th because they were screwed out of so many games. Last year's team was really gelling toward the end of the season. This time around, I'm not seeing it.

This was a fun last few minutes and a very improbably comeback. They've fell behind a lot all season and always fought back (exception Hofstra game) until the very end. Eventually, you figured they'd be rewarded for their no quit attitude and today they were.
ESPN's win probability gave Charleston a 95.8% chance of winning when it was 65-50 with 10:52 left, a 95.1% chance when it was 71-60 with 5:37 left, and an 87.4% chance when it was 79-76 with 19 seconds left.

Some other observations...
Charleston seems like a team that gets tired easily. I noticed that after each timeout, CoC seemed to start each quadrant on a run. Then later in each quadrant as we got close to each upcoming media timeout, Drexel would go on their run. This team almost blew a 10 point lead with 1:53 left last week vs. Drexel, and almost blew a 20 point lead at Delaware on Thursday. Not sure if they did this all season or not, but I noticed they used 11 players early and were making wholesale substitutions throughout. If it was a strategy to keep their players from tiring out, it didn't work today.

Throughout today's game, I kept on telling my daughter about Rayne Smith and how he's this incredible free throw shooter and would be a huge weapon at the end of Charleston had a lead in the final minute. Today, I noticed that Drexel put Wynter on Smith, and he did everything he could to prevent Smith from getting the ball inbounded to him in the final seconds. On the Charleston inbounds in the final seconds, the ball went to Underwood, because Cam wouldn't let Smith get the ball, and Underwood ended up missing the front end of the 1 and 1 to put Drexel in position to win.

Yup. That has been the case most of the season with our team. They work so hard in practice that they aren’t as used to getting the late game energy and getting that as they should.

There have been at least 7 games this year that have been like that. At Furman, this game, at Delaware, the first Drexel game, W&M at home, Elon at home, Tulane at home.

The first two I mentioned were the losses. We led Furman by 6 with :24 left, then they came back and won in OT. Having such a inexperienced team other than Smart and Tucker has caused those issues. Also basically playing without a PG almost the entire season has been major.

Bolon, who was a D2 All-American, played 3 games before he got hurt in November, and Ali, one of our key transfers, didn’t even make it through the first semester. Basically since the middle of December, we have been playing without a PG.

(02-26-2022 10:49 PM)J.B. Wrote:  Some other observations...
Charleston seems like a team that gets tired easily. I noticed that after each timeout, CoC seemed to start each quadrant on a run. Then later in each quadrant as we got close to each upcoming media timeout, Drexel would go on their run. This team almost blew a 10 point lead with 1:53 left last week vs. Drexel, and almost blew a 20 point lead at Delaware on Thursday.

I like that you noticed that. It could be because Charleston plays at the fastest tempo according to https://kenpom.com/ which has them at 74.1. You're 221st of 358 at 66.8. The mean of the CAA teams is 67.9. Charleston is first in points per game, seventh in field goal percentage, seventh in three-point field goal percentage, and fifth in free throw percentage. The reason they lead in points game while shooting worse than average is that they attempt more field goals. They lead the CAA and are ninth of 358 teams with 64.2 field goal attempts per game.

I was out all weekend, so was pleasantly surprised we won. Then saw we were losing the entire game in an extremely important game. That is not a good thing. As noted this seems to be CofC's MO. They can't hold a lead to save their life. Onto the tournament. But first, time to cheer for Delaware *throws up*