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Post by guru on Mar 5, 2010 13:53:48 GMT -5
Notre Dame will likely beat Marquette now that it has a team dedicated to playing basketball rather than standing around watching Luke Harangody not play defense, travel and score meaningless points in losses every time they journeyed outside of South Bend. I would not want to play them again. UND could even win the whole B/E now. I get that some people want to crown ND around here because they embarrassed us, but this is just absurd. For my money, ND beating Marquette is no more likely than Louisville beating Syracuse. Wait. It wasn't just us they beat. ND beat Pitt, us and UConn (streaking at the time) handily, and lost in a couple of OTs in Louisville. I've seen them play in 3 of those games, and their stellar play doesn't look like a blip. Marquette is a good team with a good home court advantage, but it's not like they've been put through the conference gauntlet this season. They've won 9 out of 10, but here are those nine wins: Rutgers, UConn, Depaul, Provvy, USF, Cincy, SJU, SHU and Louisville. With the exception of Louisville, all of those teams are playing on Day One of the BET. Still, though I think on a neutral floor ND is the better team at this point in the season, the home court wil make it pretty tough. Still see the Domers pulling it out though.
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Mar 5, 2010 14:41:42 GMT -5
Matchup-wise 6/7 just looks a lot better than 8, and playing Tues would just plain not be good.
HUGE game tomorrow.
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 5, 2010 15:10:13 GMT -5
I hear you, but tomorrow would be the back-breaker, IMO. If we cant get up for this game, than I am not even sure we are beating DePaul on Tuesday. There is no excuse for this game. It's one thing to lose to ND hours after learning our best player couldnt play. Even without Austin, Cincy with a week to prepare should not be a dud for this team. I just don't think this is right if Austin doesn't play. I don't know that we're any better than Cincinnati (who beat us with all of the same players last season, right?) without Freeman. If Freeman doesn't play and the Hoyas lose, I just don't think it tells us much about a Hoyas team with Freeman 100% will fare in the BET. Unless we're certain that Free is playing and 100%, I just don't see the argument for treating tomorrow as a big game. There's no way its a bigger game than the Louisville game was, because as it turns out, without that victory we're probably squarely on the bubble right now. We should at least be able to adjust and fend off a 3 game losing streak without Austin playing. I'd like to think we can do that at home against Cincinnati given the time to prepare and the importance of the game for the Big East tourney. If we cant, than I am more and more convinced that problems run deeper than Austin, and it starts getting in their heads that they just cant beat anyone. Tomorrow would be a pretty dejecting loss, IMO, especially if it happens in much the same way the last 5 or 6 have - with us playing awful defense. And, I bet most here would probably not care all too much in the after math about where we end up match-wise for the BET. That's my point, I guess.
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 6, 2010 14:27:09 GMT -5
If wvu beats nova, wouldn't that make it likely that Pitt is the 2 seed?
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Post by Big Dog on Mar 6, 2010 17:33:14 GMT -5
I get that some people want to crown ND around here because they embarrassed us, but this is just absurd. For my money, ND beating Marquette is no more likely than Louisville beating Syracuse. Wait. It wasn't just us they beat. ND beat Pitt, us and UConn (streaking at the time) handily, and lost in a couple of OTs in Louisville. I've seen them play in 3 of those games, and their stellar play doesn't look like a blip. Marquette is a good team with a good home court advantage, but it's not like they've been put through the conference gauntlet this season. They've won 9 out of 10, but here are those nine wins: Rutgers, UConn, Depaul, Provvy, USF, Cincy, SJU, SHU and Louisville. With the exception of Louisville, all of those teams are playing on Day One of the BET. Still, though I think on a neutral floor ND is the better team at this point in the season, the home court wil make it pretty tough. Still see the Domers pulling it out though. By the way, guru is clearly much smarter than I am. You called it buddy. Nice work.
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