You know, after hearing everyone chuckle about that yesterday, I was wondering if I was the only person who thought like you did. His intimidation attempt absolutely should have gotten him tossed - I'm pretty sure I've seen guys get tossed for staredowns before. I thought it was sickening.
Although I'm throwing up in my mouth a little as I write this, it must be acknowledged that Kevin Willard has done a he!! of a job at Maryland so far this season. When my friend and I walked out of the Xfinity Center arena on December 2, we both said that Maryland probably reached its ceiling for the season in beating us that night. (TBF, some of the Maryland fans said the same thing at the time.)
That's a funny comment. You should be proud.
Illinois lost by 3 at Indiana without Shannon. We have as much talent if not more than them.
I agree, I would have put an end to that pretty quick if I was the official. (I admit my officiating career would be short, because I would T up players a dozen times a game... including some of our own.) I know KP is a horrible official, but that was reminiscent of Bobby Knight and I think his career will end up shortened by this borderline psychotic behavior. That is a threatening tactic to show dominance. It is not a reaction to a call where a coach loses composure and yells at the ref, that was calculated and he should get a call from the BIG offices. The man is disturbed....
I thought, "you got one more second, then he's going to T you again" and he would have deserved it. That was worse than if he had kept yelling
Yes, Willard won pretty consistently at Seton Hall, which is harder than people might realize. As we've just opened what is essentially our second state-of-the-art practice facility, they're in a dogfight to break ground on their first. Meanwhile, their games are in a downtown pro arena 20 minutes from campus, where a lot of students are still commuters. It's a pro-dominated area, so there isn't a huge base of local support, and their top recruiting calling card over the years ("We're the only shot at the bigtime for Jersey kids who want to stay home!") is gone with the resurgence at Rutgers.
My take on MD, having lived here a long time, is that its fan base can be fanatical but it's also fair-weather. I'm hard pressed to recall a more electric atmosphere than what existed in the Xfinity Center on Dec. 2 when we played them. Lots of excitement about the new coach, a hunger for a win, and a ranked target in the Illini. And then again I can't recall an emptier arena than a year ago when the Illini played here, Turgeon had quit, and the team was stagnant (though they beat us.)
Just focusing on today 2/26, with sneaking a B1G title by hook or crook as the goal, we'd want:
Why would we want michigan to win?
I wouldn't think we would, but the post I was quoting had them picked for today's game, in a scenario where IL wins the B1G. Thought maybe there was some 4-D tiebreaker thing going on that I don't understand
I have never seen that before. That's just great!!!!
Right. You beat me to it on that reply. PU shot 22% from 3 in their last game against IN. Had they shot their season average of 33% (which is based, almost half, on away games), they make 3 more 3s and win this game by about a point. Edey draws double teams regularly and gives many PU supporting players open looks from 3. As long as they are hitting about 1/3 of these 3s rather than 1/4 to 1/5 of them, PU is pretty tough to beat. They just didn't do that against IN and, largely for that reason, lost.
What about the Mildcats???? Asking for a friend....
Maybe a Fran vs Juan throw down
@RabidDawgClassic's example is the path to the #1 seed in the B1G tourney. In order to share the regular season title the two things we would need to happen is to win out and Wisconsin to beat Purdue.
