UNI vs. ISUb

[CyCarp]

Yea Indiana St was hot, although I don't think they're particularly good. Hopefully the defensive improvement is real and continues. Offensively, I don't know, I just hope we can continue to play like the last 11 minutes or so tonight. This comeback just felt a bit different. The guys just seemed PO'd and determined, something we haven't seen lately.

[Wxcpanther]

I know it's not exactly like beating the Fred Van Vleet lead Wichita State teams of years past, but this could be the best win of the season so far today. Nice to see them come through in the clutch and make some free throws!

During the 15-16 season, we were really struggling with consistency well into conference play. I kept telling anyone that'd listen "just need to get one road win, the switch will get flipped." They drilled a bad BU team on the road, and that's the team who made a remarkable run to the round of 32...and I don't remember what happened next! Lol The point is, they got their road win last week, and you can just see a difference in the team since. This team isn't perfect, but I sure wouldn't want to be the Drake Bulldogs with these guys coming to town feeling good about themselves on Wednesday night!

[UNI Ka-Bullseye]

Hopefully this starts a run for us, we have a relatively easy schedule down the stretch, we’ve been close a ton, let’s go get the 6 seed.

The two against Valpo next weekend will be huge for this. I actually would have preferred Drake beat them today, both to gain us ground for the 6 seed and the chance to be the first to beat a ranked, undefeated team this Wednesday. But oh well, I won’t mind giving them their second loss in a row!

[UNI Ka-Bullseye]

Nate battled for the last 10 minutes to keep Key from getting the ball.
Missed our first 3 FTs, then went 15-17.
Shot 55% from 3.

We have a few more games to fix the TOs and this will be a great team.

Technically even 0-4 after Betz missed the first of two. Finishing 15-16 is not only great from a % standpoint, but also the fact that they even got to the line 20 times in the game (7 more times than ISU). Still relied on the three (though ISU took more), but they showed some real aggressiveness when they did decide to go in for two and got after some offensive rebounds too.

A great gutsy win. The fight to not give up when down in those earlier games finally paid off. Cool to see the bench really getting into it too, even when cutting it down to like 7, just really helping will the guys on the floor to keep scrapping.

[sivert]

Well I rewatched the game after I went home- it was Pickford who was all over Key. Nate was on him for the last couple minutes and that was when the strategy seemed to switch to denying Key the ball.

I really like how this team is coming together. I see two pieces still needed to have a team capable of winning in St Louis.
1) Smarter passing. Get rid of the passes to no one or to someone who ought to be expecting it but isn’t.
2) Bowen keeps learning the feel of when to shoot and when to drive in. I think he should stop crossing the midline and always passing to Phyfe. Bowen should run the offense more. On offense, Trae needs to be primarily positioned to catch and shoot 3s. Let Bowen, Noah, Nate, Anderson, and Phyfe work it inside.

It looks like Kimmons won’t be back this year?