….but ever since Tolu came back, this team seems to be improving every week.
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The basketball team, not to sound like a sunshine pumper….
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Murphy seems to have really been a catalyst too.
Well, I’d say they are a lock for the tourney. If they draw a team with poor guard play and no outside shooting they got a shot.
Rams re emergence has been huge.
UK and their Refs will humble us.
Yea…we are clicking right now. When Hubbard is hitting and Tolu is his normal self, we are tough. When Keyshawn goes for 7 and 7 in a half and Matthews is doing amazing things, we are a Sweet 16 team.
When this team is good, it’s very good. Tough 4 games to close out the season. Need to win 2. I think we can.
They should go ahead and wear blue stripes. They don't intentionally try to call against state they just do because Kentucky is Kentucky.
What’s still so frustrating is that we’d be a solid 2 seeds higher (minimum) without the awful and still inexcusable Southern loss. Still can’t believe we dropped that one. We’d certainly be a tourney lock already.
Southern went onto lose to the same Bethune Cookman team that we took to the woodshed just a few weeks later. Also lost several other SWAC games and is still not in the top 200 of the NET, or even in 1st place in their terrible league.
Southern went onto lose to the same Bethune Cookman team that we took to the woodshed just a few weeks later. Also lost several other SWAC games and is still not in the top 200 of the NET, or even in 1st place in their terrible league.
Thanks for the wet blanket post. I was feeling ok tonight until you dredged that up.
We certainly weren’t the same team then. I think we’re all extremely satisfied with the season and program direction. Just one of those things that still makes you say “17!!!” as loud as you can in your head, though.
Who knows….being an 8/7 instead of a 6/5 might beca blessing in disguise where we get a good matchup.
Was just looking at SWAC standings…MVSU is 0-27. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a winless D1 team this late in the season before
This soon to be six game conference winning streak must be excruciating for you.
This is a tourney team barring an unreal collapse. Would have to lose out for it to even be a possibility. Goal is no longer make the tourney, it’s play for the highest seed possible.
This is a Richard Williams team. And if y’all have listened to the radio broadcast you can tell he loves em. A Matthews Tolu combination is exactly the kind of team he would build.
HUGE… love his confidence…. And also how he drives into the lane… and don’t forget his damn DEFENSE…
No I have just seen enough White Out Kentucky games to know how they usually play out. Two Quick Fouls on Hubbard, Tolu and Cam in the first 5 minutes.
I totally agree. Even if that slime ball Callipari doesn’t instruct his team to get Hubbard and Tolu with quick 1st half fouls the officials will definitely make sure it happens. Seen this movie before with the officials totally being in Ky favor.
I too think it’s bad timing. We haven’t played high level competition in a while. We need to re adjust Quickly. Plus the loss to lsu likely got Kentuckys attention. Hope it’s a close game in the last 4 minutes, and then let the chips fall where they may
reagrdless we just gotta win 1 more. We took care of the business we needed to in the last 5.
Don't you usually wait till after we lose to Kentucky to come in and talk crap to us about the game.
Since Tolu started coming off the bench..
Underrated move by Jans imo as well. tulo and Hubbard on the floor together doesn’t mesh well at times. Tulo running with the second unit gives us a chance to play two different styles and keep one of our 2 scorers on the floor at all times
Even worse is how we lost that damn game. Went the final 4:29 without hitting one 17ing basket and not playing defense. One of the worst losses in Power 5 history.
Tolu would be a 19-20 ppg scorer if he would help himself by finishing at the rim. Between that and his regression at the line, he’s costing himself 6-8 points every time out.
We just have a weird mix of players on our roster where Tolu, and Bell to a lesser extent are the only players with any consistent post scoring and we have nobody with a midrange jumper. If we had a wing or an off guard that was consistent from 10-15 feet this team would be fighting in the upper tier of the league.
It’s truly a shame that DJ didn’t grow his offensive game at all while at MSU.
We just have a weird mix of players on our roster where Tolu, and Bell to a lesser extent are the only players with any consistent post scoring and we have nobody with a midrange jumper. If we had a wing or an off guard that was consistent from 10-15 feet this team would be fighting in the upper tier of the league.
It’s truly a shame that DJ didn’t grow his offensive game at all while at MSU.
Tolu played 28 minutes and Hubbard 34 minutes so there wasn’t much time that they weren’t on the floor together. Most of that was to begin the game.
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