2. Foster 1st. Steiert 8th

Finished 13th overall. Highest in the Schwab Era....

The Valley just didn't have an elite team this year and that lack of separation made the computer numbers look worse. There wasn't a team or two to pull everybody up. I don't think the middle was any worse than usual by the time we got to league p...

We wouldn't have been placed in Des Moines. Bradley got the only 2 seed they could play with style-wise. If they'd have gotten Kentucky or Tennessee they'd be getting run off the floor.

This is the first time I can remember wanting the...

The Croft thing is all the same issue. All one big related deal. I'm confident that he'll be a full go as soon as this semester is over and will be a full participant in summer/fall workouts....

The privates, wrongly, have this idea that if we didn't have football that our basketball budgets would increase and that we'd be basketball first schools and not share the attention with football. The hole in their logic is we spend more than they...

Scholarship Football vs NonScholarship Football/No Football is probably a better description.

100% not on Elgin. You can throw the blame at Drake and Bradley. They hold all the power with the private schools and would not have allowed Evansville and Loyola to vote for a football playing, average academics public school.

Totally agree. Though I'm not sure they'd take Valpo back as damaged as they are......

Valpo is going to be awful until Bryce Drew gets fired at Vanderbilt and comes crawling home. They've never won without a Drew leading the program and, frankly, they were pretty bad for most of Homer's tenure until Bryce played for him. Lottich is...

We didn't have the greatest season but miles and miles better than 11-21 (4-14) t-12th in the A10.

The A10 would have also been a 1 bid league had VCU not pooped the bed in the tournament. The bottom of the A10 is WAY worse than the bottom...

Drake is playing at Southern Utah in the first round of the CIT on Friday Night. They can't host due to the NCAA Tournament.

We also play at Grand Canyon next year.

A&M is only open because they think they can get Buzz Williams. If he says no, that search gets weird quick.

They've got so much money wrapped up in Jimbo Fischer ($75 Million!!) that they only want to pay about $2 Million for a basketball...

Key words: 'basketball move'....

I can respect this.

Only disagreement, The people that are paying Jake's salary are all in. They love the guy and he's earned every dime. This money isn't money that's coming from the a single ticket sold or donation made. Short of a giant...

I haven't held back criticism of Jake. I've pointed out over and over that it has to get better and get better quick.

That said, taking the extreme negative position isn't exactly fair either. Next year looks to be a much improved year in...

They would not have rolled through the Valley. The middle of the American is right on par with where the Valley is this year and the bottom of that league is significantly worse than our worst teams. That whole league is pulled up by 30 NET slots because...

The Three Year Slump thing is pretty common. It's happened to TONS of coaches in about the same time frame that Jake is going through it. Its part of being somewhere long term. Here are some examples.

Ben Jacobson
Year 11- 14-16...

Two years ago

It's a bad rule that bit us, guys. It happens. That's sports.

No need to let it take away from how much better we got in February. There's tons and tons of good things to be excited for for the next several years.

And to clarify from a PM I got. Yes, Bert Smith and Bret Smith are two different people.