Half Way Mark

[Purrrrrfect]

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1 game at a time...can't we just fast forward to March?

[Purrrrrfect]

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Ps...we are up to 15th in RPI

SOS of 86

[Victory_For_UNI]

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1 game at a time...can't we just fast forward to March?

Uhhh........?

[Khan4Cats]

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We've had a nice run for the last 12 months. It hass come because the guards have gelled and we have a playmaker at point. We have versatile bigs and completely unselfish bench play (thank you Travis Brown for setting that standard). We have a team that can play against different styles and works as one on defense. There are no "superstars" but they all know their roles and have the confidence to step up and make a play when it is there for them.

Something to keep in mind about the Valley season though, we are still exactly where we were last year in terms of games won. We won at CU, SIU, and ISU last year and at home over UE and MSU. A difference this year is that we had to scrap for some wins last year whereas this year we are winning in convincing fashion (seriously,a 25 point lead in CARBONDALE and manhandling last years' runners-up at home?). 14-4 from last year may be enough to win, but if we want an opportunity to make noise in March, we need to be shooting for improvement over last year. That means winning on Tues to hold serve and then getting up one by winning the game we lost last year to Indiana State.

I don't know if we'll be ranked and I don't think it matters too much to the demeanor of this team. They just keep doing what needs to be done each night.

[MeOW!]

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Not to get to far ahead of myself/ourselves...The way we are playing, the only really toiugh tough game i see remaining on the road is WSU. We finished the hardest part of the schedule by far...a three game stretch on the road against the 3 top 5 teams (i still think CU is a good team) with a 3-0 record. a win at WSU puts a checkmark on a superior road season for one and a regular season in general.

Magic number is already 10 for not playing on Thursday

I agree the road game at WSU will be tough, however I think we have more than one more "really tough game" (as you call it) left. We have to play at Missouri State, which gave us all we could handle in the McLeod, plus despite having a bad year, Drake ALWAYS plays us tough (look at last year's home loss to them for example), additionally we have Illinois State, WSU and Southern Illinois at home yet, which all three will be gunning to give us their best shot.

A perfect league mark isn't out of line for this squad, but it will be VERY tough to do. I remember a few years back a 17-0 SIU squad came into the Dome trying to close out a perfect league mark and they got all they could handle by the Panthers and ended up losing the game by two or three points.

The target's on our back - we're going to get everyone's best shot. We just have to take it one game at a time and not get ahead of ourselves.

Up next Bradley.

[merkpanthers]

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I agree the road game at WSU will be tough, however I think we have more than one more "really tough game" (as you call it) left. We have to play at Missouri State, which gave us all we could handle in the McLeod, plus despite having a bad year, Drake ALWAYS plays us tough (look at last year's home loss to them for example), additionally we have Illinois State, WSU and Southern Illinois at home yet, which all three will be gunning to give us their best shot.

A perfect league mark isn't out of line for this squad, but it will be VERY tough to do. I remember a few years back a 17-0 SIU squad came into the Dome trying to close out a perfect league mark and they got all they could handle by the Panthers and ended up losing the game by two or three points.

This was in '04 and UNI smoked SIU by 16 points. It was not close it was a slaughter. I was a student and some people rushed the court, but I didn't because it was a blow out. UNI put a good winning streak together and was playing great at the end of the year. UNI then went on the win the Valley Tournament to get to the NCAA Tournament for the 2nd time in school history.

[SteinPizza]

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While I definitely agree that we have played stellar defense the last two games, for whatever reason I don't think either team (SIU or ISU) gave us their best shot.

I agree, Griffitz. I especially was suprised SIU looked as bad as they did. While I'm sure we had something to do with it, they just didn't look in synch at all.

I don't mean to sound so contrarian. We've obviously played very well. One big thing to watch is whether we hit our annual "dead period" around the last 4 or 5 conference games. We've done that every year going back to Mac's time here. Some of these easier wins will probably help us, it seems like last year we won every game by 6 or less.

['70 Grad]

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Hope our depth comes in to play also. Lack of nail-biters has been nice so far.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/sports/columnists/article_a80a628c-3343-5e8d-8782-dbc01d6348b4.html

Very nice article from SC Journal.