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We want free tacos!!

I think the refs are just trying to keep tempers from flying and Clark here wants more hustle!! Ha!!

Check, anybody else have a request?

Check, now what can they do for you?

Our team is mentally tough.

I guess I don’t know what a charge is anymore.

Just hopefully not us.

Amani and Young as well.

This 3 point flopping has to end.

Barre sighting.

Evan does a lot of dirty work under the hoop.

Halligan and Hardman were on the court at the same time and it’s not the end of the game.

Young has been struggling with his shot lately.

I tried on Friday and they weren’t on. So I thought. Bummer.

What pregame show? Did the radio guys do Friday’s game too.

Yale is in the championship game.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Groce mentioned using the shot fake a time or two over the last 48 hours.

For those wondering, Evansville lost by 31 to Purdue. But their 2 starting bigs still scored 15 and 14 points against Purdue’s bigs.

Anybody happen to know what is Groce’s best Kenpom ranking at Akron? Today’s 71 has to be it or close, right?

I believe it was double-OT. That would mean that with an additional 10 minutes of play Iona still scored 5 points less than us in regulation yesterday. (91 vs our 96) And Oregon State doesn’t strike me as a defensive juggernaut.

Evansville started 2, 6-10 forwards and brought a 6-6 and 6-9 forward off the bench for significant minutes against Oregon State. I imagine we will play bigger, but how much bigger? Against Iona a fast team that likes to run we played a lot of five guard lineup; Tavari, Scott, Young, Evan and Eric. Groce said after the Purdue game that one positive was Purdue had trouble guarding us as well. So do we try to run Evansville off the court? Do we give Lyles, Marvin, Oggie, Barre and maybe even Brisco the call? Or split the difference with just more Amani, Marvin and Oggie than we saw in game 1?

We will see soon enough, but I would guess worse than Toledo and OU. I don’t remember any transition game. Mostly walk the ball up the court.

Watched the last 8 minutes. Not many 3 point shots taken by UMass. Not very impressed with them at all.

Look out, Gottlieb has Green Bay rolling now!! Down goes UMass, again.

You’re right I was looking at last year’s NET. Is it too much for me to ask that the numbers speak for themselves? Let teams jump around for a couple of weeks until the dust settles. Again, either be objective or subjective. Don’t use polling in a metric people. Good grief.