Who are we? Where are we going?

[UNIPNTHR]

Throw Crawford back into the fire???? Are you crazy?? He's a senior who's been starting for 3 years. He was most certainly not thrown into the fire. He's been amazing since coming back from injury. Brooks needs someone else to take over the point because he struggles so much when he's got a good man-to-man defense in his face as we saw by his TO's and 5 second call.

he also has a tendency to get lost playing d man to man against quicker players... e.g. bucknell game

[BCPanther]

The 5 second call was not Brooks fault, where is everybody else?? Not coming to the ball.

[KaBullseye15]

Tied for Third and if we don't start playing better we will be NIT bound!

we'll be lucky to get third now with the way were playing and how well bradley and miss st are playing. we may fall to 6th if we lose saturday (which i hope we dont)

[unifan]

Even though UNI played a dreadful game tonight, you have to give Bradley a lot of credit. They were the team ready, and they came out and played their game. They're a very dangerous team, and UNI just fell victim to them tonight. The Panthers are slipping fast, and are more than likely NIT bound. All I have to say is what a disappointment to the seniors if they don't make the Big Dance. Two weeks ago and this season was the most memorable in UNI Panther history, and now the future is looking very bleek. It's just real depressing as a fan to watch these kind of games that were never close from the start, and it just seems that nothing is ever going right. I feel bad for the seniors to go out on a game like this, but UNI HAS to rebound from this loss. I will be very disappointed if the Panthers go to the NIT, after a start that looked so promising. Coach Mac has to get all the guys together, and make some changes so we can be watching Panther basketball in late March. Someone's got to step up!!

"Never under-estimate the heart of a champion."

[UNIPNTHR]

I'm sure that this has been discused several times...what's the deal with the offense. It is so frustrating to watch the shot clock go under 5, and then see Ben (bless his heart) chuck up a shot. It seems like we don't have a whole lot of ball movement. Thoughts?

motion seconded... where's the urgency? why do we walk the ball up the court with five on the clock and down a dozen?

[BCPanther]

Let's just throw Brooks under the bus. That is the way to go. It was Brooks' fault that Bradley shot 60%. It was Brooks' fault that Mac decided to leave Tauai open. It is Brooks' fault that this is a tired team!!

[Kaboom]

The 5 second call was not Brooks fault, where is everybody else?? Not coming to the ball.

Please tell me you are joking...without a doubt the 5 second call was his complete fault, why would our all star point gaurd pick up his dribble as soon as he broke the time line? Why wouldn't he just call a timeout? That is simply unacceptable for a point gaurd to do.

[DRAKELAWPANTHER]

Silver Lining: At this rate, Mac won't be getting quite so many coaching offers!!!!

[UNIPNTHR]

No one ever said Brooks was the butt of all of our problems... i believe they said, "he got dominated" and "he played like poo"....

[bigticket]

in the games i've seen, just haven't seen the set plays work as they have the past few years.. mvc coaches catching on?

win at SIU + one MVC tourney win = NCAA
lose at SIU + two MVC tourney wins = NCAA
lose SIU + lose first MVC tourney = NIT? last 4 in NCAA?

things could be worse... that LSU win is looming LARGE!

[UNIPNTHR]

set plays and inbounds plays have both been struggling... our standard inbound pass is the lob to the backcourt.

[UNI MadCat]

in the games i've seen, just haven't seen the set plays work as they have the past few years.. mvc coaches catching on?

win at SIU + one MVC tourney win = NCAA
loose at SIU + two MVC tourney wins = NCAA
loose SIU + loose first MVC tourney = NIT? last 4 in NCAA?

things could be worse... that LSU win is looming LARGE!

Ironically, bigticket's spelling mistakes bring up a good point. We need to be LOOSE at SIU/MVC. Honestly, I think we have played very tight ever since we were ranked the first time (minus the 1st Indiana State game).

Relax, let it all hang out and good things will happen - LOOSE. Play tight, like "we are supposed to win and I'm nervous that we MIGHT lose" and you will do just that.

[unifan]

How many times have we seen UNI have chances to improve in the standings of the MVC, and every time they come up short. This looks like a tired team. I know it looked good at the beginning of the season when they were winning all the time, but players can only play so much. You can't expect just 5 or 6 players to be able to play the whole game every game. The bench for UNI has to be more productive. UNI's probably going to need at least two more wins to have a good chance at the Big Dance. A loss at SIU and a loss in the MVC tourney, and I think the Panthers are NIT bound.

[Panthers#1]

We played like s**t. Plain and simple. I don't know what is going on with this team. We have played like this the past three games. Suck ass for 5 min. Make a small run. Suck ass somemore. Make a small run. Suck ass for the rest of the game. Where is the team that beat LSU and Iowa? Somebody has to step up, get out of a slump, or whatever. It needs to happen now.

In reference to Brooks, he has been crappy pretty much all season except for 2 or 3 games. Tonight his head, along with the rest of the team's, was not there. He kept getting beat all night and thats why Brooks did not play much.

And also, when Crawford got hurt, it wasn't Brooks that stepped up. It was J-Lit. Any person can see that Little was the one that filled Crawford's shoes pretty well. Brooks just played like he had been playing the whole year. Average.

[bigticket]

lol... wow, so much for me laughing at people who cant spell on a message board