Wichita State Part III (AAC Tourney Semi-Finals)

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That’s what the announcers lead me to believe. Cronin needs to tell him to shoot that every time though.

He missed the prior shoot. He got gun shy. Mick did not tell across the court dont shoot.

 

[TheRealUC]

Back to back to back conference championship games...what an accomplishment. This team is ugly at times...a lot of times, but it's hard to complain with the results. That said if they play like that tomorrow, they lose by 25. Houston is just better, but we'll see.

 

[Bcatfollower]

Back to back to back conference championship games...what an accomplishment. This team is ugly at times...a lot of times, but it's hard to complain with the results. That said if they play like that tomorrow, they lose by 25. Houston is just better, but we'll see.

Back to back to back... right? Three in a row.

Edit: my bad, misread your message

 

[Jon Rycek]

Nothing learned from Nevada game

Sure seems like we lost that one, and won this one.

 

[Jon Rycek]

Wasn’t wichita on a six game win streak and just got done knocking off the number 3 team in our conference? Yeah we made some mistakes and blew a big lead but we won. Jesus

 

[Quadri's #1 fan]

Call me crazy but I didn't mind Moore passing on that shot. The offense wasn't set and we had no one in position to rebound a miss. Considering we'd been destroying them on the glass all night and offensive rebounds may have been our best offense, I was okay with him not taking it.

Also call me crazy and I know it would piss a lot of fans off. But if I were Cronin I'd consider just treating tomorrows game as a scrimmage and conceding defeat before we even start. Give Cumberland 15-20 minutes and let the backups - Johnson, Moore, Fredericks, Diarra - play a lot of minutes. We need the rest and the game won't effect our NCAA tournament seeding.

I would really prefer if he didn't treat a Championship game on National Television like a scrimmage.

 

[Queens_NYC]

If you had told me at any point in the season that Cumberland would shoot 3-16 with 5 turnovers in the AAC semi-finals and we'd still win, I would've recommended professional help for such crazy insights. Yesterday marked a tremendous team effort - especially from players like Fredericks, Diarra, and Nsoseme, who all had very positive impacts on the game in brief appearances.

 

[Uclawrugby]

Call me crazy but I didn't mind Moore passing on that shot. The offense wasn't set and we had no one in position to rebound a miss. Considering we'd been destroying them on the glass all night and offensive rebounds may have been our best offense, I was okay with him not taking it.

Also call me crazy and I know it would piss a lot of fans off. But if I were Cronin I'd consider just treating tomorrows game as a scrimmage and conceding defeat before we even start. Give Cumberland 15-20 minutes and let the backups - Johnson, Moore, Fredericks, Diarra - play a lot of minutes. We need the rest and the game won't effect our NCAA tournament seeding.

Beating Houston tomorrow will be a way better win than whoever we play in the first round of the tourney and the second round of the tourney is anything but guaranteed no matter how much Cland rests. Therefore resting Cland does not make sense. That said I totally agree the committee could care less if we win - their seeding is set and we will get jacked either way.

 

[TheRealUC]

Beating Houston tomorrow will be a way better win than whoever we play in the first round of the tourney and the second round of the tourney is anything but guaranteed no matter how much Cland rests. Therefore resting Cland does not make sense. That said I totally agree the committee could care less if we win - their seeding is set and we will get jacked either way.

You don't think UC moves up a seed if they win?

 

[cincycpaw]

I’ve been checking out different ncaa projections. Was really surprised that a few had Bearcats as a #5 seed....that seems high. But maybe it shows we have good hope for a 6 still. And to be honest I might prefer a 6.

 

[sedziobs]

I’ve been checking out different ncaa projections. Was really surprised that a few had Bearcats as a #5 seed....that seems high.

One of those is Jerry Palm at CBS, who is one of the worst bracketologists around. He's ranked #82 on bracketmatrix.

 

[mdchick]

I just want to play in Columbus I don’t care what seed we are

 

[Jon Rycek]

Are we not going to make a thread for the AAC championship game???

 

[Jon Rycek]

Got called out for saying this board is dying last week, yet here we are 7 minutes away from a chance at our second conference champ in a row, and crickets. Not even a championship thread. I really enjoyed coming to this board, wish I knew an alternative.

 

[Bearcats92]

Got called out for saying this board is dying last week, yet here we are 7 minutes away from a chance at our second conference champ in a row, and crickets. Not even a championship thread. I really enjoyed coming to this board, wish I knew an alternative.

Just imagine what this board will look like in 3 years haha

 

[Jon Rycek]

This team is ready for a run

 

[Bearcats92]

This team is ready for a run

I hope you are right they are looking great now. I would love to see them make a little run to the sweet 16