Who are we? Where are we going?

[Pantherpower]

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.

That young man made a heads up play that won us the game a few short days ago. Remember?? It's a team game folks. The kids just weren't clicking tonight and ran into a RED HOT team. Sometimes, that's the way it goes. Not enough of us are enjoying the journey, and that's a damn shame because it's been an amazing one. Hell, I feel sorry for SIU, they're not going to no what hit them on Saturday. Why? Because our kids have heart and they WILL NOT QUIT!!!!

Everybody chin up, buckle up and GO PANTHERS!!!

[UNIPNTHR]

hey it happens. don't beat yourself up!! haha

[Kaboom]

Because our kids have heart and they WILL NOT QUIT!!!!

it didn't look like they showed up tonight.

[SteinPizza]

hey it happens. don't beat yourself up!! haha

Speaking of which, did you see there's around 30 members and 80 guests currently viewing??? In other words, there's a bunch of people watching us beat each other up. If only our b-ball team would've come out with such fire.

That having been said, let's hope this game was an epiphany for the players and coaches in terms of righting the ship.

[Panthers#1]

Not enough of us are enjoying the journey, and that's a damn shame because it's been an amazing one.

Personally I think too many of us are enjoying the journey, including some people on the team, and don't realize that we have to keep winning. It would be pretty s**tty if our destination is the NIT. A team with this much talent should looking for the NCAA and nothing less. We need to quit this "enjoy the journey" crap and realize that we need to win or else our journey carries us in the crapper.

[Kaboom]

We need to quit this "enjoy the journey" crap and realize that we need to win or else our journey carries us in the crapper.

Agreed, the season didn't end when we got to 20 wins...

[JayJ79]

funny seeing the comparisons between the SIU/Evansville postgame thread from last night, and this thread.

and I'm resisted making a post about how UNI is 0-2 with two fairly ugly-played games in the two games I've attended (Creighton and tonight). fear not, I'm not going anywhere near St. Louis....

[Pantherpower]

NCAA/NIT...For Christ sakes, do you know anything about the history of UNI Basketball? My family and I were in that straggling group of fans for the past 20+ years watching our team get pounded like they did tonight night in and night out. You and many others on here have become spoiled. Mac said it all tonight at the end of the post game when he said that even our best shot tonight probably wouldn't have been enough. I am an eternal optimist but sometimes you have to tip your cap to the other team. Thank God the team is more mature than many on here who have already mailed it in as they will regroup and overcome this. Hopefully the venting on here is temporary and reasonable minds will return and support this team and coaches because they deserve it!

[SteinPizza]

Personally I think too many of us are enjoying the journey, including some people on the team, and don't realize that we have to keep winning. It would be pretty s**tty if our destination is the NIT. A team with this much talent should looking for the NCAA and nothing less. We need to quit this "enjoy the journey" crap and realize that we need to win or else our journey carries us in the crapper.

Panther#1 - GREAT POINT. We need to play as if our backs are against the wall, and they are. I just hope SIU doesn't do a better job of playing with this mentality, or we're in big trouble. They have just as much to play for Saturday as we do, and maybe more. Old TV quote, "there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal." I just hope that applies to us.

[BCPanther]

Let's go get a win on Saturday. Get at least one in STL. I don't want to sweat out selection sunday like last year!!

[blien]

I hate when our point guard brings the ball over half court one or two steps then stop the dribble to make a long pass. Ever since the home game against Creighton, teams have been more physical with our smaller guards and taking us out of the offense. Every game is close-except the home game against Indiana St.. I don't the offense specs, but to work the clock down to under 7 on the shot and force quick or long buckets has been the theme since Creighton-home game. Mac maybe needs to tweak things, I know thats hard to do at this point

[Pantherpower]

I'm teaching a unit on basketball this morning in my Phys. Ed fifth grade class in Des Moines and my students are shooting to warm up.
I notice two kids playing one on one.
I'm over hearing them talk about who they are pretending to be.
I asked them and one of the kids says "I'm Ben Jacobsen" and the other kid says "I'm Crawford"
Then "Crawford" reenacted the inbounds play with the fallaway jumper vs. Bucknell. The other kid is trying to imitate Jake's pattened jumper.
I started talking to them about UNI basketball and it was amazing how much they knew about their favorite players and UNI basketball as fifth graders.

The times have changed, UNI basketball is on the map.
No Horner vs. Haluska or Stinson vs. Blaylock today..

Go Panthers!!!

UNI92 posted this on another thread. Some of you should read it. Nothing short of a miracle what's happened to this program in the last 5 years. If I offended anyone tonight, you probably deserved it!

[SteinPizza]

UNI92 posted this on another thread. Some of you should read it. Nothing short of a miracle what's happened to this program in the last 5 years. If I offended anyone tonight, you probably deserved it!

Pantherpower, I think people are just venting. While I'm not happy, I'm just hoping our team uses this as a big wake up call and comes out firing on Saturday. I don't mean making shots, I mean playing with a killer instinct. The coaches too. At times, our offense can drive me absolutely nuts. The history of the program (good or bad) has no bearing on that. Your points are well taken, just falling on mostly deaf ears right now. Just wait until the really drunk people get back from the hill

[uninisg]

with 22 wins and a tough conference it would be hard for the selction committee not to put us in the NCAA, now the seed might not be what we want. Lets just hopes this got the panthers motivated for a tournament win in St. Louis and then we don't have to worry about the at-large bid.

[merkpanthers]

I'm not really sure what is going on with this team. The thing that I hate the most is that there has been no sense of urgency from this team since the Missouri State game. That's 4 games in a row that we have not played very well at all and we are 1-3 in those games with 3 of them at home. Any team that plays a little press or zone against us we look like elementary kids playing against NBA players. It seems like we were just throwing junk up at the basket and not looking to our inside guys even though they have a 7 foot center. GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GET THE BALL INSIDE!!!!! Yes, Bradley hit every shot that they put up, but we didn't guard some of those guys so they got easy looks and wide open shots. We just haven't played the same basketball these last four games that we did earlier in the season.