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Who are the hottest teams in the Valley right now?

SFP said:
Do you really care if we win at CU? We are in the 4/5 game regardless. I'd rather play the bench and see what AT can give us and also not give Dana any information they can use on us in St Louis. Yes, you play to win, but I hope we use this opportunity to rest the hobbled and play those that maybe able to help us in the Tournament. I personally like our red uniforms more then our white.
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The result of that game determines our opponent, not just our jersey color. I'd rather beat them Saturday and then not have to play them again. Plus it would be nice to take some momentum into St. Louis.

And it's nice to see that we're playing better basketball this month record-wise. Let's just let the facts speak for themselves.
 
BradleyJD said:
As do I. 2x against the Jays is enough.
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OK I just thought and obviously wrong that CU was also positioned for the 4/5 game regardless. If that is not the case then I want a win also. I still would like to see us use our bench a bit in this one. We need to front Lawson and not let him get those feeds so easily.
 
We're 5-2 this month, like T said. Very close to being 7-0 as well, argue other things but in regards to how BU is playing right now....hard to spin that. I'd be willing to bet that throughout Les's tenure we have one of the top records in February- we always seem to go into StL hot.
 
Forget about teams I would have to say CR is one of the hottest players of the month along with SM!
 
We have a good month. With a win Saturday, I believe, we would have beaten every valley team this year except for ISU. Right now I would put ISU as the hottest team and BU right behind them. It is going to be a very interesting weekend, with really any team having the chance to win it.
 
tornado said:
you'd think so, then why all the doom and gllom and threads titled..."here we go again"...
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Because at the time that was posted, we had just blown our 6th double-digit 2nd half home lead this season, and had lost 4 of the 5 previous. So the odds were high that it was about to be a loss. Fortunately, we made it 2-4 in games with the blown big leads at home.
 
BradleyBrave said:
Dunno...probably because that thread was started after we'd blown our 5th double-digit 2nd half lead at home on the year. But hey, we moved to 1-4 in those situations with the win last night, so the arrow is definitely pointing up!
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I think you forgot the InSU game at home...which we pulled out in OT. So losses to WCU, Loyola, SIU, and ISU, and wins against InSU and WSU.
 
Tulsa Brave said:
I think you forgot the InSU game at home...which we pulled out in OT. So losses to WCU, Loyola, SIU, and ISU, and wins against InSU and WSU.
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You are correct. I guess there were so many of them I just lost track. So 2-4 in games involving blown 2nd half double-digit leads...but we've won 2 of our last 3...so the arrow is indeed pointing up! ;)
 
well i guess that losing twice to ISU(red) and once to ISU(blue) in the past 4 weeks does not make me overly optimistic about how "hot" this program is.... So as long as we don't play a team whose initials are ISU in St Louis, we can keep this "hot" streak up.
 
Just happy with the win because we end up in the opposite bracket from Wichita St. and Illinois State, those 2 teams have a tremendous inside game , if we had a true center we would have cleaned up this season.
 
real fan said:
Just happy with the win because we end up in the opposite bracket from Wichita St. and Illinois State, those 2 teams have a tremendous inside game , if we had a true center we would have cleaned up this season.
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Amen to that real fan!

flipper said:
tornado- how many wins in st. louis do we need to label this season a success in your eyes?
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LOL Right now to me, if anyone wants to know, at a minimum reach the MVC finals! The season has not been where any of us has been happy and I'm sure the team feels the same way.
 
BuBraves55 said:
We're 5-2 this month, like T said. Very close to being 7-0 as well, argue other things but in regards to how BU is playing right now....hard to spin that. I'd be willing to bet that throughout Les's tenure we have one of the top records in February- we always seem to go into StL hot.
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Really not hard at all.....people INCLUDING myself love to do that "5-2 could very well be 7-0 thing" becuase those 2 losses were reeeeeal close and it makes us feel pretty good.

What we NEVER do though is fail to say, on the FLIP side, we could easily be 3-4 had we LOST 2 close games we won.

In essence the point is, you are what your record SAYS you are. We are no closer to 7-0 then we are 3-4.....we were 5-2 during that span pure and simple.
 
Not that I was asked but the ONLY way for this season to be succesful, IMO, is to win the Valley.

I hope we do it......

Remember.....Nobel Prize winners, Walkons, 29 inches of snow....strange things DO happen.
 
SFP said:
Do you really care if we win at CU? We are in the 4/5 game regardless. I'd rather play the bench and see what AT can give us and also not give Dana any information they can use on us in St Louis. Yes, you play to win, but I hope we use this opportunity to rest the hobbled and play those that maybe able to help us in the Tournament. I personally like our red uniforms more then our white.
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You are a genius SFP! :) I just hope Les and staff recognizes this. Sammy really needs a chance to rest up and heal if we have any hope in St. Lou. Even I would sacrifice a win against CU for this.
 
dogsrus said:
Not that I was asked but the ONLY way for this season to be succesful, IMO, is to win the Valley.

I hope we do it......

Remember.....Nobel Prize winners, Walkons, 29 inches of snow....strange things DO happen.
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I think those games may be the most important games of the year;) :lol: Care to start a thread? ;)
 
Well IL. State is definitely the hottest and Bradley has been playing well but I have some serious concerns with how tired Bradley will be if we have to play IL. State. Especially considering IL. State slaughters us on the boards, being tired before the half will only make it worse.

Jason
 
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