In my opinion that tweet misrepresents what Joe said. He said take care of business and "avoid bad losses" whatever that means is up to interpretation I guess. But I wouldn't consider losing @SLU a bad loss. Splitting with Dayton probably wouldn't kill us either if we sweep SLU.
If Davidson figures out how to shoot for a game they will be dangerous. Without shooting the offensive scheme they run is pretty toothless. So they could absolutely get hot and beat us at home.
I interpret "take care of business" to mean winning all of those games. And every other team on our schedule would probably be a bad loss in the context of bubble resumes. So that pretty much means winning out in my mind. We don't have enough really good wins in the bank to offset any slip ups the rest of the way.
That's exactly how I read it. If we're taking care of business against SLU and Dayton, that means we're not losing to them. And, as you said, any other loss on our schedule would be a bad one.
Yeah Davidson is tied for the worst 3pt% in the conference with Rhody and 328th in the country. It is actually impressive how bad they shoot it.
For NET purposes, SLU’s won over D-2 school, Paul Quinn, doesn’t count. Thus, their record is 14-6 for NET purposes, even though they are 15-6 overall.
Just pointing out, we played Memphis without Ace and Shriver was 0-7 from three. We are not that same team. Last year when we adjusted our defense and Ace pretty much played straight up on Collins he made things very difficult for him and we came back from a big deficit and almost pulled it out. Don't overplay Collins from the start, don't leave your man if his name is Jimerson, and play everyone else tough, I think we take them twice.
We've closed all of 'em out pretty well lately. Better than any other A10 team.
That why people who only look at won/lost record need to dig deeper. Washington State's non-conference strength of schedule is ranked 26 and overall 15 compared to 77/92 for us.
