LamarCheeks

I have no idea what goes on behind the scenes, but this program definitely seems broken. We were a Final Four-caliber program. Went to an Elite Eight. Went to a Sweet 16. Were ranked No. 2 in the country. Got a No. 1 seed. Gave the eventual unbeaten NCAA champions their toughest game in the NCAAs. You don't do all that, then go 0-10 in your conference just a couple years later. Or at least you shouldn't. The mass exodus last season was very concerning to me. On the surface, only Garzon seemed like a real loss -- but to have all those players leave when there was PT to be had this year? Makes me wonder what exactly is going on. Maybe CTM is burned out -- I don't know. But this program just isn't right, and no way should we be in the freefall we are now after where we were just a few years back. Wouldn't be surprised at all if she and Scott sit down at the end of the season and decide it's time for both parties to move on.

Thank God for the final horn. 95-67. Nine losses in a row. Fall to .500 overall: 11-11. Winless in B1G: 0-10. We play Northwestern on Sunday. If we don't win that one ...

Michigan's gonna have to try to not put up a hundy on us.

We keep setting ball screens up top. The screener's defender sticks with the ball, trapping the ballhandler. We turn it over. I've seen that happen at least a dozen times tonight. We can't come up with anything different?

Shay fouls out. Very little contact -- if any. If I were CTM, I'd go ballistic -- get a T. Why not? Gotta do something to wake up this dead-a$$ team.

Damn. Michigan is beating the snot out of us -- and getting a very favorable whistle. Granted, the refs aren't costing us a chance at a win, but cool it with the phantom fouls, willya!

72-49 after 30 minutes. This is just really, really bad basketball.

Caffey dribbles into the corner and off her foot. This team is very, very weak fundamentally.

Noyan picks up 2 fouls within about 15 seconds. She now has 3.

Shay picks up her third foul 24 seconds into the second half.

Down by 18 after 20 minutes. We were down by 20, cut it to 11, then fell apart again.

Why, why, why do we keep dribbling into traps???

And just like that -- we're down 20. This is beyond embarrassing. We can't even bring the ball upcourt. This looks like a fifth-grade team.

This got out of hand very quickly.

Noyan just missed a layup -- very, very badly.

Beau dribbles into a trap and ... falls down. Easy Michigan bucket.

Cieski isn't in there for rebounding, but holy cow -- she missed a box out big-time.

A Faith Wiseman sighting ...

When I turned my TV on this evening, it was already on the B1G Network. Michigan State is annihilating the Toiletmakers in West Lafayette -- winning by 27 at halftime. This is the same PU team we couldn't compete with Sunday. In just three years, we've gone from the league's best team to likely the worst.

This woman can coach. Started at D-II. Went to a Final Four there. Was 32-0 the next year, but no tourney (COVID). Jumped to Division I. Was 117-38 at Grand Canyon. Went to Power 5 and is 18-4 at Arizona State. That's the same Arizona State that went 10-22 and 11-20 the two seasons prior. In 11 seasons, she's 314-59 (.842). Granted, she only midway through her first season in big-time hoops. But that's damn impressive. Sorta seems a little like Ben McCollum.

Is he a weight-loss doctor? LOL!

Still amazing that not long ago, we were one of the B1G's two or three elite teams, looking down at the Michigans, the Michigan States, the Minnesotas, the Illinoises ... Even when we'd go on the road to those places, it'd be an easy win -- 15-20 points, if not more. Now, it's a 15-20 point loss AT HOME. They've progressed. We've regressed. So disappointing.

USC misses a 3 at the buzzer. Iowa wins 73-72

USC takes the lead by 1 with about 10 seconds to go ... then fouls Stirtz after trapping him at midcourt. What a colossal mistake.

Glad to have him, but those reclassifications worry me. Khristian Lander reclassified and left high school a year early. He was in no way, shape or form ready for college basketball -- particularly B1G basketball.