NashvilleHoosier

8:45pm EST tip off and the game thread died off by 11:45pm EST. I think we’ve made the turn.

I’m guessing we won’t take the opportunity to play small…

You obviously aren't considering the importance of some dude's need to not think it sucks to watch his favorite basketball team. They're just demons. That's gonna have to take a back seat to some guy who's just darn tired of watching his basketball team lose. (heavy, heavy sarcasm regarding this trash take, just to be very clear)

I can't see the timing of these things (hiring Woody, wanting May in a few years) coinciding. At the time Woodson was hired, Dusty May's head coaching record was 47-41 with the only postseason appearance being one year in the CIT. If hiring Woodson was step 1 of a larger plan, there is no way Dusty May was a part of that larger plan at the time of the hiring.

Most definitely. Unfortunately Woody is 65 and seems 10 years older. Pearl seems and acts light years younger than Woody. Even at 63, 8-10 years of Pearl could be the most fun 8-10 years we’ve seen in a very long time.

This is awesome. I get it, he's punchable, and we hate losing to Purdue. But this is awesome, and hilarious. He could have ramped it up even more. I hope one of our players said the same thing when we won in Mackey last year. I loved Sheehey flexing in Mackey. I look forward to the day we field a team that plays like they do and earn the right to confidently take some jabs in the presser.

We’ll see you on Friday, my friend. :-)

Oh no…

I was really hoping that PU -9.5 wouldn’t be this easy money.

LeBran

I do not appreciate you giving me hope with all of this level-headed logic. Please let me wallow :-)

I should clarify that when I say it’s hard for me to see a path, i mean on the floor not on the schedule. Sure, looking at the schedule we have a clear path. When I watch what happens on the floor….eh, the path is quite obstructed.

Totally. I was right there in the middle of the meltdown. But even at that, we had a resume that was tournament quality at the time, had 2 really nice wins, and had blown out the cupcakes. We were in a funk and things looked bleak. But we had at least proved something previous to that funk. This year’s squad has nothing much at all to lean on, zero high quality wins, and several way too close wins against teams we have no business playing close. I personally had a much easier time seeing last year’s team still dancing at this point in the season than I do this year’s team.

This is the far more detailed point I was trying to make. Though this year’s team sits in a better spot record-wise at this point, I’m having a very hard time believing they’ll find their name called on selection Sunday. Though last year’s team was in a rut at this time, it wasn’t hard to see their path to the dance.

I’ve seen a few comparisons to last year’s squad. It’s an interesting comp. I get it, but last year at this point we had wins @ Xavier and vs. UNC and blew out every non power 5 OOC opponent. I have a hard time thinking there is much comparable with this year’s squad. Most importantly, their ability to dance. I’m so very much hope I’m wrong.

I mean, am I gonna be mad if we poo our pants and only win 84-81? Not really :-)

Forgot to humbly brag about taking Minny +4.5 and I must once again claim a hearty you’re welcome everybody.

X was doing his best Peter Jurkin.

All of these ranked teams losing on the road makes me feel much better about la…..ahhhh f&$# I can’t do it. I tried but nope, it doesn’t make it better. Last night was so bad. Can’t square that one in any way.

No way to square this one.

We very much deserved for that to go in after that half.

This is miserable

We're staring at a 3 game stretch of Purdue, @Wisconsin and @ILL after this week. It's not a must win game, but we'd do ourselves a huge favor to go into that stretch on a 3 game winning streak.

We're gonna need to show some third leg energy tonight....

Ahhhh. I’ve been scouring the box score but I think you’re right that has to be it!