WSU v Creighton

[Trapped in California]

WSU is going to town on Matty P's dream team. Currently up 19 with 11 mins left. This with Stutz sitting for almost 15 of the 30 mins with some cheap fouls.

Looks as if McDermott's February wall is real

[clenz]

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Does this put CU on the bubble? 3 straight L's....2 of which won't be viewed favorably.

[UNIChippewa]

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Wichita State could hang with Kentucky at Rupp Arena with the way they are playing today. Very impressed with them, and they look fully capable of a Sweet 16 run in March and maybe even beyond.

Looks as if McDermott's February wall is real

You're onto something here. Greg McD's best team before this year's Creighton squad was the Ben Jacobson/Eric Crawford team of 2005-06. Got off to a phenomenal start and then hit a brick wall towards the end of the season, and we all have bad memories of the end of that season. Looks like same old, same old for the Bluejays.

[clenz]

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You want to know why it's real...Look at the minutes per game of his players this year....I'd love to go back to previous years to see if this is more than a trend


Doug 31.4
AY 30.2
Gibbs 30.0
Manigat 23.0
Echenique 22.6
Wragge 16.4
Jones 16.3
Chatman 11.5
Artino 7.8
Dingman 6.9

That 10 players who play every game (all have 24+ games played...yet only 4 average any minutes...6 if you include those at 16.

[clenz]

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Looking back, last year was rather balanced compared to this year for his players but he still had 5 players over 50, and only 2 more close to 20 (both at 19) then it dropped to 14 and then 10 and under.


To be fair Drake has 2 of the top 10 in minutes this year, as does MSU and Bradley....however, those three teams have those two players and that is about it.

[hoopfan]

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I said it the other night when WSU dismantled UNI that they were the best team in the Valley. It seemed as though most on here wrote it off and said they just shot "out of their mind" good and we win on a normal shooting night. What they are doing now to Creighton is proving they are the best team in the Valley and doing it on Creighton's home floor. Creighton has two players, WSU is a solid team. WSU is shooting over 50% again proving that the UNI game wasn't a fluke. They are a good team. The loss to Drake was obviously a fluke and they have proved this week they are a very good ball club.

[UNIChippewa]

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Watching this kind of curb stomping actually makes me feel better about the curbstomping we took against the Shockers Wednesday night. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather not have lost by 25, but for Wichita to be winning by 20+ on the road against Creighton is a great indication of just how good they are.

[Waverly_Panther]

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We need to be in the 3/6 game in St. Louis. I don't want any part of WSU.

[Trapped in California]

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Don't know how Creighton is going to keep up with Long Beach State next week in the Bracket Buster game. CU doesn't play great defense to begin with.

Stay classy BlueJay fans - nice way to boo your own team with 7 mins left in the game (because the Jays were taking their time looking for a shot rather than just chucking up a three).

Have to believe that the Jays will not drop out of the top 25 with three losses in a row, WSU currently up 24 points.

[JayJ79]

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You want to know why it's real...Look at the minutes per game of his players this year....I'd love to go back to previous years to see if this is more than a trend


Doug 31.4
AY 30.2
Gibbs 30.0
Manigat 23.0
Echenique 22.6
Wragge 16.4
Jones 16.3
Chatman 11.5
Artino 7.8
Dingman 6.9

That 10 players who play every game (all have 24+ games played...yet only 4 average any minutes...6 if you include those at 16.

your math confuses me

[UNIChippewa]

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Does this put CU on the bubble? 3 straight L's....2 of which won't be viewed favorably.

The more I think about it the more comparisons it seems you can make between Creighton this year and UNI 2005-06. We got ourselves onto the bubble by losing steam and momentum late in that season but thankfully saved ourselves a bid in the MVC tournament to salvage a 10 seed (and then proceeded to lose our 3rd straight NCAA tournament game by 5 points, but I digress...)

I think that Creighton has probably done enough by this point in time to still get a bid, but that ship is taking on water fast.

[clenz]

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The more I think about it the more comparisons it seems you can make between Creighton this year and UNI 2005-06. We got ourselves onto the bubble by losing steam and momentum late in that season but thankfully saved ourselves a bid in the MVC tournament to salvage a 10 seed (and then proceeded to lose our 3rd straight NCAA tournament game by 5 points, but I digress...)

I think that Creighton has probably done enough by this point in time to still get a bid, but that ship is taking on water fast.

By "Creighton has done enough" do you mean they started the season with a ton of hype because Doug McD....

[JayJ79]

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Who would win in a matchup between the Shockers and the Cleveland Steamers?

[DrewDog]

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Who would win in a matchup between the Shockers and the Cleveland Steamers?

Butler won at Cleveland St. today.

[UNIChippewa]

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By "Creighton has done enough" do you mean they started the season with a ton of hype because Doug McD....

Well, that always helps, but they do have a pretty gaudy non-conference record. Winning at San Diego State is huge.