Sunday, February 27, 2005
Goodbye NCAAs?
The Cyclones' NCAA tournament chances certainly took a huge hit today with the home loss to Nebraska. I'm really not sure what this loss does exactly because losing at home was something I chose not to imagine. It's unbelievable to me that a team that can play so well would have home losses to Nebraska and Colorado in the same season. These are the teams that ISU should be beating by 10 or 15 points.
The team just looked bad all day. They were getting destroyed on the boards and for the second straight game let a freshman post player have his way down low. Maric's a decent player but he shouldn't have a double double in the first half. Staple played no defense all day and for some unknown reason felt the need to take running 15 foot jump shots in the closing minutes of the game. We need a basket and that's the shot we take?
Homan played a great game, everyone else didn't. When they started to make their run in the second half they had it cut to 3 or 4 but then couldn't get anything to drop. They were getting decent shots but it just wouldn't fall. The bottom line is that this team looked a lot like the 0-5 Big 12 team than the 7-0 one. Look at any of the problems from those games and they were there today. No three point shooting (1-11), no rebounding. It's just such a frustrating loss. This team probably needs 4 more wins to get into the tournament. Can they find that magic from earlier in the year or will it be NIT bound again?
The team just looked bad all day. They were getting destroyed on the boards and for the second straight game let a freshman post player have his way down low. Maric's a decent player but he shouldn't have a double double in the first half. Staple played no defense all day and for some unknown reason felt the need to take running 15 foot jump shots in the closing minutes of the game. We need a basket and that's the shot we take?
Homan played a great game, everyone else didn't. When they started to make their run in the second half they had it cut to 3 or 4 but then couldn't get anything to drop. They were getting decent shots but it just wouldn't fall. The bottom line is that this team looked a lot like the 0-5 Big 12 team than the 7-0 one. Look at any of the problems from those games and they were there today. No three point shooting (1-11), no rebounding. It's just such a frustrating loss. This team probably needs 4 more wins to get into the tournament. Can they find that magic from earlier in the year or will it be NIT bound again?
# posted by Ben @ 3:26 PM 
