Iowa St was just the better team.
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Yup, they were, always disappointing when the season ends but thereâs no feeling that we blew it against a team we should have taken down or something.
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FAUâs coach going to Michigan.
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Can one of you college basketball geniuses explain to me why other schools canât do what Gonzaga does? Theyâre in the middle of nowhere in a lol conference, and they put forth top teams on the reg.
Why canât like the University of Idaho do what they do?
âMiddle of nowhereâ still has a fairly major airport right in town, which WSU and U of I donât. Thatâs pretty helpful. I doubt Gonzaga could have kept this momentum going if they first had a good run during the NIL era, but they have enough momentum now that itâs not as much of a stretch to keep the recruits coming in indefinitely.
Fair enough. Why are they consistently better than the Univerity of Washington at basketball? On paper, there should be no way Gonzaga should have a better program than UW.
Why canât UW just duplicate what Gonzaga does?
Iâve got no answers there. UW occasionally puts together a good season in a sport here or there, but relative to their available resources theyâre a bunch of underachieving losers with delusional oxygen-thief fans who constantly convince themselves that they should get to think of themselves as a national power in everything.
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Oregon scores with 41 seconds left in the half. Creighton waits eight seconds to inbound the ball and rolls it until the shot clock is off.
Cool that you can do that.
They made the Sweet 16 three straight years as a double digit seed. Then they managed to keep their coach.
That was like 20 yrs ago, right?
And they havenât missed a tournament since.
Yeah - itâs absolutely incredible Few hasnât jumped to bigger program for the $.
At their point of initial success they decided they would stop scheduling WSU, despite the fact that WSU consistently scheduled them when they were the inferior program. And then they would complain incessantly that big programs wouldnât schedule games against them.
Glad weâll finally start getting shots at them again next year that they wonât be able to quickly run away from like the inherent coward program they are. I just hope our program doesnât get gutted again before those games happen.
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Not unique to college, but watching all this tournament basketball reminds me how much I hate that teams are able to call a timeout after a made basket.
Hard to win when your playing against the opposition, the refs and half your own team.
Washington State was worse than most WCC teams when Gonzaga became a big time program.
Yep itâs this. Stevens would be the obvious slam dunk fantastic hire. But I mean President of Basketball Operations of the #1 Boston Celtics is such a sick job. Sure you give him a call in the 1% chance someone like him wants a new challenge, but I donât think it is happening. Donovan more likely and I would take him above Scott Drew no question. Also I would put Danny Hurley in the make a call, but seems unlikely. The local talking heads around here seem to Scott Drew is the most likely. Itâs not the grand slam hire a Stevens or Donovan would be. But canât argue with a coach that won a title at Baylor.
Also UK AD has actually been pretty elite at hiring outside of the obvious catastrophe of Billy Gillespie. The Volleyball coach he hired won a title. Baseball coach as been the best we have had. Female track has had a stupid number of medal winners come through here. Stoops has been the best UK football coach since Bear Bryant. First womenâs BB coach he hired was the best we had (second not so much). But yeah Calâs contract was an obvious mistake in hindsight, but made sense at the time. But a lot of his legacy will depend on what he does in the next week or so. Because at the end of the day this is a basketball school.
I would definitely rather lose the way that we did rather than, say, Oregon.
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