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The Rest of the Season
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BradleyBrave
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Oh but this was to be expected, these guys never played together, we can't expect to do any better, next year is the year, if we just had Dodie, they played their best game of the year, we got some bad calls, the media is against us, 4 straight 'postseasons', 4 straight 21 win (and 11 or more loss) seasons....
AZ BU Fan
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Home ain't exactly what it used to be for BU. I guess the only thing the JL crowd has to cheer for tonight is another ISU (red) loss! Sad...
Biggest game(s) in JL career? I suggest they are now the next two games vs Illinois State this year. O-2 vs ISU in 010 = "Ah OOO" for JL....(apologies to Jim Rome!)
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In a way though, I actually think Creighton is a much better team (especially without P'Allen) than Illinois State is, even with Eldridge. Therefore we at least have a good shot at an ISU sweep, but we CANNOT miss open shots and FT's anymore! Plus we HAVE to learn how to score with under 5 minutes left in a game! I think some of our players, while giving a good effort, seem to think that they have to carry the game on their shoulders at the end and panic. We have gotten away with this on a few occasions, but more often that comes back to bite us. It still looks like the "mental" aspect of our game is the one element that is still lacking this late in the season. It has to turn around soon if we still have any thoughts of a third place finish, or at the very least staying out of Thursday night in St. Louis!
jasonpeoria911
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This team is rather predictable from here on out. I'll say a 9-9 finish at best, probably more like 8-10 and 5th or 6th place as usual. Creighton just exposed a flaw that I don't think was ever corrected during our short winning streak. Just pass the ball around for an easy wide open 3 time and time again. I'm not even going to fret over it, 3rd place/NIT is out of reach, now it's just time to wait for the MVC Tourney and hope for some luck as usual. Likely upcoming schedule outcomes....
at IL State - (L)
Drake - (W)
at Evansville - (W)
IL State - (undecided, maybe a W but more likely a L with the way they play at home)
UNI - (L)
at Indiana State - (W)
Wichita St - (L)
at Creighton - (L)
Bracketbuster - (Who cares LOL)
Jason
at IL State - (L)
Drake - (W)
at Evansville - (W)
IL State - (undecided, maybe a W but more likely a L with the way they play at home)
UNI - (L)
at Indiana State - (W)
Wichita St - (L)
at Creighton - (L)
Bracketbuster - (Who cares LOL)
Jason
Future Walk-On
New member
at IL State - (W)
Drake - (W)
at Evansville - (W)
IL State - (W)
UNI - (W)
at Indiana State - (W)
Wichita St - (W)
at Creighton - (W)
Bracketbuster - (Who cares, but W)
Drake - (W)
at Evansville - (W)
IL State - (W)
UNI - (W)
at Indiana State - (W)
Wichita St - (W)
at Creighton - (W)
Bracketbuster - (Who cares, but W)
LittleBrave
Active member
Just throwing out a positive - I think the team is taking the "one game at a time" approach. As fans, and I have a tendency to do this, we predict the rest of the season based on the previous game. Yes, the play at home has been disappointing, but aside from the MSU road game, they've played decent on the Valley road and haven't let the mental letdowns affect them as much. They will be ready on Saturday, and hopefully TB will be good until then.
My realistic predictions are as follows. I will trade you the Indiana St win for a Wichta St win, and will go with the home win against IL State:
at IL State - (L)
Drake - (W)
at Evansville - (W)
IL State - (W)
UNI - (L)
at Indiana State - (L)
Wichita St - (W)
at Creighton - (L)
Bracketbuster - (W)
I do think they can win this Saturday at IL State as they aren't the best in the Valley. I think Creighton has more upside potential than ISU, so I think a sweep is possible. For now though we probably lose at ISU on Saturday, but I hope they prove me wrong.
Indiana St is winnable too, however they have knocked off some good teams at home, so right now I lean towards a loss there.
Heck, Evansville is overdue for a win, so we better play our best there too.
And finally I think we split the UNI/WSU games. Sooner or later we beat a great team at home. If we beat MSU here, we can certainly grab at least one of those two.
I guess a 5-3 Valley finish would be good especially in a conference where there is a lot of parity this year.
I thought we would be a .500 team at best.