Curious why? (Honest question). I’ve only seen them in games where the looked good (3 or so games on ESPN). They have a few bad performances though
Well, if you look at record, he's right. If you toss out the games Curbelo played early on while dealing with the concussion (where we went 2-2), we were 7-6 with Curbelo and 13-1 without. Of course, that's completely ignoring opponent strength. The average opponent KenPom rank for the 13-1 was 119, while the average for the 7-6 was 45.
I appreciate everyone’s desire to play AZ again. I’ll need to feed on your energy and appetite for that game - I’m totally nervous about it. We have to play better than we’ve shown in a while to even get there let along win. We certainly can but I’m just not sure we’ll be able to put it all together.
Losing first round of the conf and national tourney is extremely painful not just for accolades, but the fact that a week ago I think we all would've expected at least 4 more games with this group of seniors+Kofi.
I don't think that would end well for him, and bully boys tend to behave around those that are bigger and stronger.
If you look at the comments someone points this out. This framework was done several years ago, and since then most of the champions have not fit these criteria as neatly as those that were champions prior to the framework. Baylor was 8/12. Seems like a correlation does not equal causation type deal.
I've probably seen most of those bad games, haha.
The Jordan approach - find ways to dislike the other team so you feel disrespected. It worked for him
I totally get it, this team has been wildly inconsistent for most of the season and I even said in a previous post that I wasn't surprised when they were eliminated in the 1st round of the B10 Tournament, I'm just looking at the fact that Chattanooga hasn't beaten any quality opponents, at least PSU and Northwestern have posted upsets and giving every top B10 opponent a run for their money at least once.
Kriisa didn’t play and his backup got into foul trouble. If Kriisa can’t play against the Illini should they meet, that will really help us.
Sure we can, but the probability of beating Houston is much lower than beating a team around 20th in the quantitative rankings. If we get to the next round, Houston will be favored. We should be slight favorites versus a 5 seed if we are a 4.
Tourney coaching prowess, there is definitely a special art to tourney coaching. Some great coaches have mostly underperformed come tourney time. Keady might be a good example, Rick Barnes shows up on a lot of lists. I agree it shouldn't be the primary factor in hiring decisions. However, tournament results are a huge factor/metric in defining coaching and program success (and tied to $ bonuses for the coaches).
Didn’t the same guy say they’d beat Houston/UAB winner too though?
De Souza is no slouch. Was 32nd ranked recruit out of high school. Went to Kansas a few years and had some attitude and off the court issues, transferred to Chattanooga at that point but the talent is still there. They are also a very old team with a lot of experience. Let’s not sell that team short.
Payne was fairly high ranked in the 40's...nothing against him/you....just saying.
Agree. De Souza definitely has talent, but he doesn’t appear overly quick, not a crazy leaper and doesn’t stretch the floor. Those are the bigs that seem to give Kofi problems. He looks to play a similar style to Kofi, only he’s 3 inches shorter and about 40 pounds lighter. Should be a favorable matchup for us.
At this point, the bracket isn't changing. The path is what it is. Why waste even a second fretting about possible matchups when you can enjoy the fact we're back and relevant.
