Recent content by Maroon Shower

Crazy or obvious?

I am somewhat perplexed as to why, in the week or so leading up to the NCAA tournament, RPI ranking, record vs. RPI top 50 and record vs. RPI top 100 become so important. They seem to get very little mention throughout the season, and else seem to be a highly inaccurate way to measure teams. A...

Can somebody tell me why everyone seems to think they're a lock? I know they have a marquee win at Gonzaga and home court wins over Xavier, Richmond and Maryland (all in OT), but there isn't a tourney team out there that has crashed and burned like Wake has down the stretch. They have home court...

Seems our lad made an impression in New York: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/basketball/mens/news/story?id=3912704

This was the most winnable of our final 3 road games. Seeing as how we haven't put a good all-around game together since Illinois, I'd say all of our home games our losable. The gophs are going to have to put it together really quickly, otherwise they could be sliding onto and right off the...

I felt that Ralph had a particularly poor game @ NU. I know there are going to be ups and downs with freshman, but I find his lack of intensity a bit alarming. He fell asleep on the defensive end quite a few times and continues to bring the ball down to his waist after offensive rebounds. Some...

One of the coolest aspects of last night's game (amongst many) was watching the body language of the two sides change as the momentum shifted. For the Wisconsin players, much of this seemed to be due to fatigue. For the Wisconsin fans, by the time overtime came around, seemed to be resignation...

...looks scary good. His teammates don't look too shabby either.

While it is clearly never a bad thing to have a full compliment of players, it does bring up an interesting question: How is Tubby going to distribute minutes? He already plays his best players (I'm specifically thinking of Damian Johnson) less than almost any other team in the Big Ten. Now...