ND and SJU

[bearcat jeff]

Road wins that we should get: Providence and DePaul.
Providence plays teams close at home. This will be no cake walk. They could very well beat us, and that would be a bad loss. We should beat DePaul by 10+.

Coin Toss: ND & SJU
ND is very good at home. We're going to get homered, no doubt. We're more athletic, but they're at home. We win this game by 8-12 points at 5/3. On the road...???
We are better than them, but it is at SJU. It won't be viewed as a bad loss, but it would be a very good road win on our resume.


Unlikely: Pitt, Georgetown and Marquette.
Not likely at Pitt.
We've got a better chance of winning at Georgetown, IMO.
Marquette is soooo tough at home.

My only concern at Notre Dame is foul calls and three point shooting. The Irish shoot lights out and UC seems to get killed on the road by refs. We all know ND gets a lot of ticky tack foul calls going their way at home.

I think the St. John's game is winnable but also think it's going to be a helluva battle. Teams are very similiar. This is a game Gates could be the difference in. If he shows up.

I agree we can win at Georgetown. See above comment about Gates. Georgetown's low post players suck. Keep them from run outs and they are very beatable.

Don't see a win at Marquette. They never take a play off and yes they play even tougher at home. Again, they have no inside game and Gates could be huge here as well. Seeing a theme?

We're not winning at Pitt in my opinion.

Providence and Depaul should be wins, but Providence is tough offensively at home and we'll have to score to beat them.

There simply isn't any low post players that have Gates size and ability in 90%of the road games UC plays. I'm not trying to slam the young man but I hope he realizes he is the crux for this team and begins to play with some passion. The one thing that has been a weakness for this team the past three games (low post play) could be a strength. Only Syracuse, USF, and Pitt, have two players with the size of Gates and Thomas. If they can find their passion this team would take off.

 

[ralph1950]

My crystal ball sees wins at both ND and St. John's.

 

[anbuc88]

My only concern at Notre Dame is foul calls and three point shooting. The Irish shoot lights out and UC seems to get killed on the road by refs. We all know ND gets a lot of ticky tack foul calls going their way at home.

I think the St. John's game is winnable but also think it's going to be a helluva battle. Teams are very similiar. This is a game Gates could be the difference in. If he shows up.

I agree we can win at Georgetown. See above comment about Gates. Georgetown's low post players suck. Keep them from run outs and they are very beatable.

Don't see a win at Marquette. They never take a play off and yes they play even tougher at home. Again, they have no inside game and Gates could be huge here as well. Seeing a theme?

We're not winning at Pitt in my opinion.

Providence and Depaul should be wins, but Providence is tough offensively at home and we'll have to score to beat them.

There simply isn't any low post players that have Gates size and ability in 90%of the road games UC plays. I'm not trying to slam the young man but I hope he realizes he is the crux for this team and begins to play with some passion. The one thing that has been a weakness for this team the past three games (low post play) could be a strength. Only Syracuse, USF, and Pitt, have two players with the size of Gates and Thomas. If they can find their passion this team would take off.

I think we will see some changes in the starting lineup as Mick mentioned in his postgame show. They consistently come out slow and the Goon squad has to come in and change the tempo. Once this happens the team seems to take off. I wouldn't be surprised to see Wilks in the starting linup instead of Thomas, and Killa instead of Bishop. Bishop has been an offensive liabilty ever since he had that stretch where he couldn't miss. His defense will be missed but maybe having him come off the bench will get him out of his slump. They just can't afford to be behind the eight ball to begin the game, especially on the road.

 

[cincinnati insanity]

Uc has the talent and athleticism to win every game in the Big East.. The bad thing is about 14 other teams there have the capability to win on every night..And they say the Big East is down this year.lol. Cincy always has trouble with ND, but i finally think that they can go in and get a win. Its just a matter of time before they beat a really high ranked team and start having that confidence roll on. I say they beat ND and SJ's and start to really tap into there potential. If Uc plays a full 40 minutes of basketball without any lapses they will be able to beat anyone. I am really starting to not like this league.

 

[ralph1950]

I feel good about and think UC will win both the ND and St. John's games this week.

 

[SlamJam]

I feel good about and think UC will win both the ND and St. John's games this week.

Thanks for repeating that- wasnt sure if everyone saw you say the same thing just three posts ago.

 

[cincinnati insanity]

I think the most important win out of the two, between ND and SJ is SJ. I believe that we will be fighting for that 7 spot with SJ and a win vs them, helps out tremendously.

 

[bearcat jeff]

The other big thing about the St. Johns game is we play them twice. If there is a log jam, two wins against them would be BIG! Still you have to go into both the ND and SJ games believing they are equally important and thinking you can win.