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BU vs CU

I hope Drake kicks CU's a$$. Although, If CU advances, and beats ISU in the championship, any chance BU sneaks into the NIT?
 
No chance for the NIT. Are record sucks. If we had that record as a BCS school, we would get into the NIT, but not from The Valley. Wait until next year... or maybe even the year after that since losing Crouch and Ruffin will hurt A LOT!!!
 
It's over... like I said earlier in the thread, I don't think I'd want to watch this team disappoint us anymore anyways.

Let's start looking ahead because even if do make any postseason we'd in all likelihood be one and done.
 
Well this season just wasn't meant to be. From injuries to suspensions, i'm almost glad this season is over but hate to see Ruff and JC go out this way. Ruff had his worst game of the season and the bench once again didn't step up. Lets face it, BU would not have beat Drake tomorrow. Our bench only played 22 minutes between 3 players. CU didn't have one starter above 30 minutes. There bench outscored us 44-10. Congrats to CU on a hard fought game but I don't see them beating Drake either. Now it's time to wait another 8 months till next season, here's to the Cubbies winning a world series in the mean time LOL.

Jason
 
Just back to the hotel. And, of course, it's disappointing. But one thing I noticed, it would have been a lot easier for these guys to just go through the motions when they got down by 18 points, but they never gave up. I am proud how they fought back. If we would have had a healthy Andrew Warren, it would have made a huge difference. I think having a taller guard that could have defended their perimeter players would have made a huge difference. That was why we handled them easily at home, and struggled these last 2 games. Crouch and Wilson had great games.

Let's recruit some more depth, and hope we don't have the injuries we had this year. BU will be back next year.
 
The most disappointing thing at the end of this season was the total lack of depth after believing that would not be a problem before the season started!
 
bu fan 9 said:
Next year will be a long year.There is no way we can replace Ruff,Crouch,and Salley.
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It was going to be tough to replace Dye and Roberson a while ago, but the team came together. I think we'll be fine next year. Hopefully a better finish than this year, and hopefully Thompson can be our Amare Stoudemire. If he can be effective down low, that would be huge! I expect Egolf to make a jump too. He would be a perfect 4 in our offense.
 
AE Braves Fan said:
I would expect almost an identical record next year, with a possible title run the following year.
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I think we wont do as good as we did this year. (And this year wasnt as good as last year, and last year surely wasnt as good as the year before it).

Definite slide time.
 
Da Coach said:
But one thing I noticed, it would have been a lot easier for these guys to just go through the motions when they got down by 18 points, but they never gave up. I am proud how they fought back.
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The problem is it seemed like they got down by 18 because they were going through the motions.

They were in this situation way too many times this year. UIC, Vanderbilt, and last week @Creighton come immediately to mind. We dug ourselves big holes in those games, fought all the way back, but ultimately couldn't quite get it done.

I think that even if we would have pulled today's game out, it would have taken so much out of them that Drake would have been an absolutely daunting task.
 
Da Coach said:
Let's recruit some more depth, and hope we don't have the injuries we had this year. BU will be back next year.
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We need to recruit more than just depth players at this point. We cannot afford to have complete recruiting whiffs like Collins and Cole-Scott over the next two years or we are going to dig ourselves a huge hole, and secure our place in the middle of the Valley for the foreseeable future.
 
ER3 said:
We need to recruit more than just depth players at this point. We cannot afford to have complete recruiting whiffs like Collins and Cole-Scott over the next two years or we are going to dig ourselves a huge hole, and secure our place in the middle of the Valley for the foreseeable future.
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I don't think the recruitment of Collins and Cole-Scott was the problem. It was getting commitments and counting on players that weren't academically eligible/qualified. We need Les to be a little more careful and really settle on guys that are better students.
 
I know we lose two great players (and one role player-starter), but we still will retun a good core with Maniscalco, Warren and Wilson. Assuming Austin will start (and I see no reason why he can't provide similar stat lines to Salley with more playing time and less missed layups), we only will really need to find one more starter. If we're going small it'll be Dunson. Remember, Wilson was the total afterthought of the recruiting class by Coach Les and he turned out to be the biggest contributor of our recruiting class. Maybe there's one more great find on the horizon! Remember we also will have Anthony Thompson and a more mature Will Egolf and improving Cole-Scott (nobody can deny he improved a lot late in the season, even after struggling mightily before then).

It's not like we're going to just slip into a Thursday night team next year!
 
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