MBB G13 Final: Louisiana 73, SLU 72

[cajun4life]

Agreed Musselman has done a great job with the Pack. I would be happy with their level of success.
Do you think that's strictly because of the coach?

Nevada, Utah St, Wichita St, Butler, Temple....I could go on and on. We aren’t a good program. We win against poop teams.

[Cajunsmike]

Agreed, good comeback on the road. Hoping Marquetti is ok.

The Marquetti injury was a factor. Lions were having trouble guarding him when the Cajuns were able to set up mismatches he took advantage of. Also, let's give credit to PJ Hardy for hitting one of the biggest shots of his career when he hit the three to put the Cajuns up by one. They actually called the play for him to take that shot and he let it go with confidence. They also executed extremely well on the winning basket. Stroman was able to get into the lane and there was no one on Gant when he passed it off for the "dunk you very much" game winner. Last 90 seconds was one of the best stretches they have had in a while. Of course they need to do that for much longer periods to finish high in the league standings.

[Ragin4U]

Utah st--haven't won a conference championship or been to the Dance since 2011 and have finished near the bottom of the MWC for several years.
Wichita St-apples and oranges. See Butler
Butler--in Indiana. Come on man. Basically the center of the basketball universe except for Tobacco Road.
Temple had a good run in the A10. Won the American once but also had a 7th, 8th, 9th place finish as well.

So yeah. Butler it is!!

[ZoomZoom]

The three games at the end of the season, doesn't change the need to get butts in the seats during the season to fund your program. If playing regular season games have no meaning, then let's play all the D2 programs we can and see how that works out. While I recognize that when it comes to conferences like ours, it really does come down to those last three games of the season, repeating it demeans the accomplishments of programs that actually schedule decent home games and win those games rather than beating 250 RPI programs or worse. JMO

Don’t disagree with anything you state. A good question for TTMW to ask Maggard...Learfiled games required and getting to “X”. How do we get a good schedule, kill these “exhibition” games and move on? This constant turning every basketball thread into a baby seal bashing contest is getting old. I’ve blocked people whom at one time I respected their views.

But I’m not naive, playing 250+ conference members on the road is a crap shoot. I look at Texas Southern with three marquee road wins and losing to Lamar? That’s the nature of such road games in basketball at every level. The blind squirrel does find the nut sometimes.

[cajun_lannister]

Hey we won and Marlin never lost to a 300+ team when he had a 5 star recruit visit where the entire university rolled out the red carpert including the president who personally escorted the kid around campus.... oh

[CajunT]

Don’t disagree with anything you state. A good question for TTMW to ask Maggard...Learfiled games required and getting to “X”. How do we get a good schedule, kill these “exhibition” games and move on? This constant turning every basketball thread into a baby seal bashing contest is getting old. I’ve blocked people whom at one time I respected their views.

But I’m not naive, playing 250+ conference members on the road is a crap shoot. I look at Texas Southern with three marquee road wins and losing to Lamar? That’s the nature of such road games in basketball at every level. The blind squirrel does find the nut sometimes.

No, I hear you. Just seems I've read that statement now after mediocre performances or losses by the current staff. It's almost become the mantra for some on RP as opposed to those that want to fire the staff after every loss. Scheduling is important for every main sport in our program because it's about selling season tickets and we should all know by now that is the most important avenue to fund our programs.

BTW, I'm happy with the win on the road tonight. It beats the heck out of losing.

[ZoomZoom]

Utah st--haven't won a conference championship or been to the Dance since 2011 and have finished near the bottom of the MWC for several years.
Wichita St-apples and oranges. See Butler
Butler--in Indiana. Come on man. Basically the center of the basketball universe except for Tobacco Road.
Temple had a good run in the A10. Won the American once but also had a 7th, 8th, 9th place finish as well.

So yeah. Butler it is!!

Private university. Went all in for basketball and the Big East picked them up. Final four appearances will do that. FCS Pioneer league for football, which, as a league, does NOT give football scholarships per Wikipedia. Apples and oranges.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Witchata State gets to AAC based on basketball almost exclusively from the FCS Missouri Valley Conference. Just admit it. For every success you find a false exception. The reality is that we’ve actually chosen to be mediocre in a mediocre conference.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, but with every mediocre win Big Fish gets some jump up like it’s the beginning of the coach K legend instead of what it is. Ya don’t like killing of baby seals, keep them off the island

[ZoomZoom]

BTW, I'm happy with the win on the road tonight. It beats the heck out of losing.

Go by SLU’s web site. Very interesting take on our program. Honest respect for our players and program once you get past the name thing.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Speaking of mediocre. How different are we from SLU. They won their one bid league 15/3, we were what 16/2. They failed to win their tournament and lost their NIT game on the road. We lost our tournament and NIT on the road. We came back to win a one point game on the road tonight. We beat them at home last year, but was hardly a dominating win. Two very similar programs right now. Difference is Bobby been here 9 seasons they're into year 4.(correction year 5).

[Ragin4U]

Witchata State gets to AAC based on basketball almost exclusively from the FCS Missouri Valley Conference. Just admit it. For every success you find a false exception. The reality is that we’ve actually chosen to be mediocre in a mediocre conference.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, but with every mediocre win Big Fish gets some jump up like it’s the beginning of the coach K legend instead of what it is. Ya don’t like killing of baby seals, keep them off the island

Again apples and oranges. Its not a false exception to state that they do not have a football program.
Don't think anyone is equating Marlin with K.

[CajunRebel]

Speaking of mediocre. How different are we from SLU. They won their one bid league 15/3, we were what 16/2. They failed to win their tournament and lost their NIT game on the road. We lost our tournament and NIT on the road. We came back to win a one point game on the road tonight. We beat them at home last year, but was hardly a dominating win. Two very similar programs right now. Difference is Bobby been here 9 seasons they’re into year 4.

My eyes can’t roll any further back into my head.

2017-18 RPI:
SLU: 150
UL: 65

2018-19 RPI
SLU: 275
UL: 138

We are head and shoulders above SLU as a team and as a program. Not even the SLU head coach himself would have the nerve to argue that their team is on par with ours.

I’ll never understand what compels you to constantly degrade and denigrate the team you supposedly root for.