Florida

[ZCat]

Losses happen, I agree but this is supposed to be a special year. If we don’t win these games this year, I’m not sure when we will. It will be disappointing if we lose this game.

Yes. To be a special year, we med to win at must 2/3 of FL, Miss St, UCLA, preferably all 3. Don't want to have to play high seed until Sweet 16. Dreaming of an E-8.

 

[ZCat]

a part that also gets left out is xavier has missed the field of 64 twice in the past 5 years, that seems to be forgotten.

I'm with you on many things, but not this point.

It don't matter, cuz they have 3 E-8 in what, the last 10 or 12 years? I'd rather not make the dance 2/5 years for 1 E-8. Just been so damn long. I'm getting old lol.

 

[ZCat]

yes but it was hard to see the coach not get it.

Hahahaha! Good one. I'm with u and Hub. You are fans, and so darn frustrated, and wanting these ooc wins.

 

[cincyguy13]

When you get knocked out of the tournament in the 1st round by an Ivy League team, a Missouri Valley team, and an A-10 team, you can throw those goofy stats and bad luck comments right out the window. When you are a weak recruiter, play a pu$$y schedule, don't win championships, which then leads to low seeds, which leads to difficult 2nd round games, etc., etc., etc., you deserve everything you get. It isn't bad luck. It's deserved.

Mack is a hell of a coach, X's schedule blows ours away every single year, he recruits better, he develops players better, he's offensive minded....which plays better in March, and he routinely kicks Cronin's butt head-to-head. And then we wine about their thugs and nastiness.

I hate Xavier as much as diarrhea, but you have to call a spade, a spade! This is story that never changes much, but the years keep going by while we believe we're on the verge of greatness. We finally have what looks, on the surface, like our most talented team in Mick's tenure, yet already....X handed us our lunch as usual. I "PRAY" that this season doesn't play out like all the others and we cross over into April "highly" disappointed.

If we win the next three, I'll blow it away as just one of those games, and move on in high anticipation of finally enjoying a great season and possibly taking the 1st step back into being one of the country's elite programs. At present, I have very low confidence of that happening. I still like our players and believe in their potential to be great. Now, I need to see the coach get it out of them!

I agree with a lot of this. I think mick can coach but offense against good teams has been an issue since the day he came in and with what looks like his best offensive team ever, had the same issues Saturday.

 

[ZCat]

Hi

Man. We all want a tourney run/ special year so bad that if we don't win tonight a bunch of people are gonna be in full meltdown mode. Whom is gonna go check on Hub? We gonna have to walk some fellow bearcat fans off the edge. I might be one of them lol.

 

[jacobkdoyle]

I agree with a lot of this. I think mick can coach but offense against good teams has been an issue since the day he came in and with what looks like his best offensive team ever, had the same issues Saturday.

We did give up 89 points in that game. Seemed like the bigger problem to me.

 

[cincrulz11]

We did give up 89 points in that game. Seemed like the bigger problem to me.

yeah check out our points per possession against in the games we've lost. 1.26 vs st joes, 1.25 vs ucla, 1.19 vs xavier.


we struggle with teams that can play with 4 guys spreading the court. we either can't help the way we like or we give up wide open 3s.

 

[justinhub2003]

I have no idea what to expect today.

I’ll take an ugly win though

 

[jacobkdoyle]

I have no idea what to expect today.

I’ll take an ugly win though

Would you settle for something not ugly?

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Im tempted to change my prediction. I had 75-70 Florida. I don't think we'll give up 75 though.

 

[Mcginnjw]

Big game today...I think the stakes are higher with Florida's recent struggles.

UC 74
Florida 68

 

[justinhub2003]

Would you settle for something not ugly?

I’ll settle for any type of win we can get. Entertaining or rock fight.

This is maybe the best game on today so eyes will be on us. Fighting for wins and public perception

Would be great if jarron and Jake take over

 

[Mcginnjw]

I’ll settle for any type of win we can get. Entertaining or rock fight.

This is maybe the best game on today so eyes will be on us. Fighting for wins and public perception

Would be great if jarron and Jake take over

I agree, I will take a 4-3 win.

 

[waterhead]

Man. We all want a tourney run/ special year so bad that if we don't win tonight a bunch of people are gonna be in full meltdown mode. Whom is gonna go check on Hub? We gonna have to walk some fellow bearcat fans off the edge. I might be one of them lol.

Lol. Sometimes I root for wins just so the board doesn't meltdown. We always have to go over the same old stuff. Only this time there was a whole week in between... with no new points made...lol

 

[jacobkdoyle]

UC 71
Florida 64

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Deflections, rebounding, points in the paint, make free throws, good AST/TO

 

[jacobkdoyle]

Jenifer starting.

 

[Jon Rycek]

Jenifer starting.

This is the kind of thing Cronin does that just make you bang your head against the wall

 

[WAITE HOYT 2]

This is the kind of thing Cronin does that just make you bang your head against the wall

Not worried about JJ starting. More concerned if Washington shows up to play.Broome will get his minutes if he plays well.

 

[cincrulz11]

Not worried about JJ starting. More concerned if Washington shows up to play.Broome will get his minutes if he plays well.

washington has a full season of being a productive player. he's not the one to worry about.