Thanks ND

[GIGAFAN99]

Squeaks by USF at home. The last thing we needed was USF breathing down our necks with the tiebreak.

[vcjack]

Nearly choked it too with Harangody committing an awful foul that gave USF the opportunity to tie late

[FLHoya]

Methinks Dominique Jones (3-17 shooting) lost his greatest weapon--anonymity.

[EasyEd]

All those contested shots Dominique made against the Hoyas he missed against ND.

[grokamok]

Jones hasn't been anonymous since partway through his freshman year. ND simply stopped him from driving easily from the outside for 2-pointers; he was able to make a few assists off of the occasional double-team/help-D, but not enough to make up for his inability to get an easy shot off. If we could have simply done the same in the second half by taking an obviously-tentative Monroe out until the 8-minute TV timeout so that he didn't have to worry about fouls, we would have stood a much better chance. It's not as if ND has a better defense than we do. ND also hit their free throws and limited turnovers. Add that, and we would have won the game.

[daytonahoya31]

South Florida was such a fluke for this team, it makes me sick. Give us this team again, and I guarantee you we win by 20, especially with all the preening Jones did at the end of the game.

The Bulls are made up of a very good player in Jones, an ok player in Mike Mercer, a borderline Big East point guard in Chris Howard and nothing else. The fact that we lost to those crash dummies makes me sick.

[lichoya68]

not so sure down the road would rather have the irish have another loss but we will see and somebody said that gilchrist maybe coming back soon soo maybe your wwright go hoyas