This is a fair question and it crossed my mind as well.
GW is a team I’ll be interested to watch this week. If all the scheduled and only the scheduled games are played through Monday 3/1, then GW would be below the mean average of conference games played. My understanding is that would regulate them to the 14 seed (if all A10 teams play and Fordham is a question mark).
Another good point. St Joes and GW are two teams I could see winning a pillow fight game and then giving a 5 or 6 seed a lot of trouble.
I am delighted we won those games and give him mad praise for those wins! If we lost to UR, SLU or Davidson I would deal with it differently than if we lost to GMU. We are a better team. We were at home and it is 3 weeks before selection Sunday. Thanks to MR we are in serious contention for an at large berth. But this is an easier game we should win. We know they can be dangerous. The point of my OP in this thread was the coaches decision not to go with a bigger line up when we were losing the battle in the paint. I didn't know it was injury related nor did I notice that stated in Natty's original post. But i stand by my assertion that we need to win the easier games at this point in the season.
I do not have much experience in team sports. I liked them, but was never successful at them so I chose sports like track where I could have greater control over my success. I see where you are a coach and most likely you got a lot further in team sports than myself. Maybe that's where the difference lies. I viewed this as a win we let get away and I never let myself off the hook athletically or professionally when I would lose at things I should have won. As a runner, I had more control over outcomes than a coach of a bball team. But regardless, I don't mind debate or differing views, but I will fight back if my posts are sarcastically replied to and my intelligence is insulted.
You make a lot of valid points. I just don’t like calling a conference foe a “layup” because they compete to win just like us. I would agree that it was a “win we let get away” because we led by 13 in the second half and didn’t finish the job.
I definitely agree the effort was down yesterday. Hope we don't see that again. I think that'll get sorted out.
There’s a lot of potential spoilers in play for the A10 tournament. I think St. Joe’s and GW could definitely bump a higher seed out of it early.
I certainly respect that. I know you weren't saying you'd only be happy with COY every year. I agree that it sucks losing to a not so great Mason team. There's certainly some common ground. I just wanted to pump the breaks a bit on the MR blame (something I've been very guilty of myself after the the first St. Bonnies game). I respect your opinion.
I agree. I even think Fordham could catch someone off guard and especially La Salle as well. No easy advances in the tournament this year.
This is a good point. With each passing season, the parity of D1 basketball gets greater. The talent level comparisons of teams gets slimmer and slimmer. Any D1 team can catch another one slipping on an off night. We play Mason 10 times, we probably beat them 7, 8, or 9 times. They caught us on that one game. They caught a team coming off an emotional rival game that looked passive. They took advantage and I have to tip my hat to them no matter how gross it makes me feel. Hope we learn that we need to come out fired up and focused each game.
