OOC Grade is in!!! No surprise, it's an F

[fatherspider]

I'm at the point of life where I no longer have the energy to care about college basketball the way I used to. I'll just say that the frustrating part is to climb the mountain like we did last year, win the regular season and then just immediately seem to throw away any momentum, excitement, goodwill, etc. that we should have used as a building block to make that a more regular occurrence. Losing our first two real games on the heels of an A10 title just should not be acceptable to anyone in Year 20. Does anyone think Dayton would do that? VCU? Loyola? Any legit year-in/year-out title contender?

Of course it's possible that we will now win 15 in a row and this will just be a blip on the radar, but most of us know what's more likely to happen.

Stop with the A10 title already. UR tied for a regular season best record… tied. The A10 Champs are the team that wins the A10 tourney.

 

[SpiderTrap]

I'm at the point of life where I no longer have the energy to care about college basketball the way I used to. I'll just say that the frustrating part is to climb the mountain like we did last year, win the regular season and then just immediately seem to throw away any momentum, excitement, goodwill, etc. that we should have used as a building block to make that a more regular occurrence. Losing our first two real games on the heels of an A10 title just should not be acceptable to anyone in Year 20. Does anyone think Dayton would do that? VCU? Loyola? Any legit year-in/year-out title contender?

Of course it's possible that we will now win 15 in a row and this will just be a blip on the radar, but most of us know what's more likely to happen.

Just for reference

VCU is currently 3-0 with a convincing win over BC.
Dayton is 3-0 with a 5 point over Northwestern.
Loyola is 4-0 with a 5 point over Princeton (FYI - Princeton finished 55 in the NET last year).

So yes it is possible to build on the momentum, and I thought UR did with the transfers we brought in - especially when we started to get guys from UCONN and Michigan. But so far, Michigan has been seated on the bench and UCONN helped Marist win with a late tech.

Not likely we win 15 in a row. But I think likely we have some form of repeat from last year. We struggle in OOC until about the W&M, where I think we win that game, then we beat VMI, FGCU and open with 3-4 wins in the A10, maybe more as our opening schedule is not too terrible in the A10. Maybe we string together a few games like we did last year where we won last 3 OOC games and then won the first 8 A10 games before falling to VCU (of course). Not sure we could open up with 8 A10 wins, but I didn't see that coming last year - but our schedule could easily produce 4, maybe 5 wins to start the A10 season. But then again - we would be in same position as last year - even if we won the A10 regular season with our poor OOC, we would need an A10 tourney win to make the dance.

 

[8legs1dream]

unrelated tangent we're 0-5 in d1 games since we cut down those nets.

the curse of the big exhale, after ruminating on it I wouldn't be surprised if this was partially caused by Moon knowing that he had done enough to fight off any substantive hot seat talk and with another 4-5 years of check cashing coming his way could relax again.