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  • #61
    Last year's team was simply exhausted... This year's team is much less mentally tough than I thought they were.

    For me the tuning point was the 12 minute mark on Monday. You had a team that had lost 7 in a row on the ropes and a 10 point lead. That is when you need to just stomp on their throats and extend the lead to 20 and then coast to a win. Instead we let them back in. Indiana State was waiting for us to deliver the knock out punch and when we didn't do it they said "ok, if your not going to beat us, then I guess we will play hard and try to win."

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Brett Crawford View Post
      Last year's team was simply exhausted... This year's team is much less mentally tough than I thought they were.

      For me the tuning point was the 12 minute mark on Monday. You had a team that had lost 7 in a row on the ropes and a 10 point lead. That is when you need to just stomp on their throats and extend the lead to 20 and then coast to a win. Instead we let them back in. Indiana State was waiting for us to deliver the knock out punch and when we didn't do it they said "ok, if your not going to beat us, then I guess we will play hard and try to win."
      Good point but I don't think that was the turning point. I remember Jake very early in the season stating that this team needed to learn how to put teams away. We haven't been able to do it this year when it mattered.
      If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

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      • #63
        Originally posted by UNIAlum95 View Post
        I could probably look up three point percentages by teams before playing the panthers and after, but I don't want to be that depressed...

        There have been only 2 MVC games, out of 14, in which Drake has shot better from 3-pt range than their opponent. Both were against UNI.....and, it's not like Drake lit it up yesterday.

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        • #64
          I have a totally different outlook.

          It seems as though UNI plays down to the level of competition we play against and I think that totally is on the players. The coaches can scout, prepare (mentally and physically) the players to play certain teams and it is up to the PLAYERS to execute that.

          Pretty much everygame that a team has had a better record than us has been close same with teams we should beat.

          It is on the players

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