Game 7: UCF

Unreal. This was the ugliest game I've ever seen. UCF was playing without their best player and first team all-conference guard or they would have won by 15. Simon tried to give the game away at the end with that "pass." Four turnovers today plus that and he dribbled the ball off his foot that was recovered by us. That was on like 30 dribbles. 9 turnovers in two games.

We miss Mussini badly.

Jesus Christ, Coach Mullin, go zone!!! Are you kidding?!

Yesterday I thought Marillac was overly negative. Today I think he may be correct we win but looked awfull

Is that a real score?  Holy crap

Ponds, LoVett 6/32

Take the win, burn the tape, move on.

Yesterday I thought Marillac was overly negative. Today I think he may be correct we win but looked awfull

We have a PG playing SG instead of getting into the lane and a SF who can't dribble handling the ball. Simon's final pass is a game-ending turnover against any team in the Big East. Maybe the NBA no-position thing works with a better roster but not this one. This team has the talent they just need some goddamn rules. Clark don't ever shoot unless your feet are set and don't dribble. Simon 1-2 dribbles in the half court and post up. Lovett you are a PG....get into the lane. Bash sit
in the corner and shoot treys.

Ponds, LoVett 6/32

Ponds can have a bad game after his performance v. Missouri...LoVett with two horrible no show games in a row now

Didn't Yakwe face up and get by guys at will as a freshman? Why is that off the table?

Doesn't matter so long as that isn't what we keep seeing...doesn't bode well for conference play but hoping it'll change.

Luckily it's still very early in the season, and we only have one narrow loss to a decent team on our record.  Plenty of time to get better at these things. Just keep winning the OOC games we should. 

Horrible game but it's a win.

Should be 7-1 going into the Grand Canyon game.

Got out with a win: doesn't matter whether by 3 or 30. Ugly as sin, but an ugly win sure as hell beats an ugly loss, and maybe the team actually pays attention this week when we work on our offense against the zone.

Tough to get up for a noon game on a Sunday in an empty gym against a bad team when you wanted to be in the finals. I know, the kids on the team are not as hungry or as focused as we fans who've waited such a long time to finally build the kind of team that dances every year. We're not there yet, but we're 6 and 1 and have 5 more important  games before we start BE play. It's still all out there for us. Let's use this week to get better and ready for our 2 West Coast games.

As the announcer said, they play hard, they have talent, but they're not very cerebral.

UCF has almost 70,000 students and we had more fans 15 minutes from their campus. Crazy.

Win and move on... we need get back to the drawing board with a few things though.   Doesn't matter.  The win is good.

Exactly. 6-1 is 6-1.

It was painful to watch, but a win is a win. As bad as we were running our offense, they were worse. They have a lot to work on so they are ready for the next time they play. Clearly, we’re getting zoned until we show that we can handle it. Right now, we can’t.

Take the win, anyway they can get it. Let’s remember, they are playing 3 games in 4 days. Expect a sloppy game. However way too many negatives to take away from this game. Bash has just not learned to be better with ball. Guy throws a 25 foot pass to a running Yakwe with a guy on him. Can’t have that. Too slow to get offense going in the zone. If we are going to beat teams in big east, that has to be cleaned up. Fouls are a huge problem. Averaging 20 a game. Need better technique.

LoVett too fast for his own good. Yes he can beat man off dribble, but has to learn to take better shots.  Ponds was my mvp of tourney, but guy that really stepped up was Yakwe. Played  tough and really did a great job at line. If he turns corner, that’s a huge plus.

6-1 guys, with a big week a head of them.

This site is so negative my goodness. Our two best players went 6 for 32 against a top 70 team ( Kenpom rankings has them exactly at 70) in Florida and we came out with the win. What the hell is wrong with you people.

Our guys were exhausted. So were their guys.

Good point on the attrition, it was evident. They now have six full days to practice against the zone, on top of a cupcake Sacred Heart zone that they can gain confidence with next Saturday afternoon.

I would think that they're flying out to Phoenix next Sunday night, and then will spend 12/6-12/8 in what is the biggest stretch of road games that the program has seen since the 2014-15 season.

To be flying back at 2-1 was the goal and it was accomplished. The team needs to make adjustments but that comes with any season. They are taking care of business with wins over Nebraska, Oregon St. UCF, one solid loss to Missouri.

This site is so negative my goodness. Our two best players went 6 for 32 against a top 70 team ( Kenpom rankings has them exactly at 70) in Florida and we came out with the win. What the hell is wrong with you people.

KenPom rankings are useless 5 games in. They just lost by 40 to WV Friday! 0-4 Marist lost by 8 to WV Thursday. UCF's best player didn't play. This game was awful. Any team in the Big East would have won by 20 today. There is nothing positive to take from this tournament other than a 2-1 record which last year's team could have achieved. Yay we beat a mid-major without their best player in the loser's bracket of an 8-team tournament because their player couldn't hold onto the ball that Simon placed in his hands with 38 seconds left.