Big East 2024 -25 Results

[MuggsyB]

I'm really surprised Nova beat UCONN.  Even without McNeeley.   Sounds like Karaban gagged gargantuanally.  As for a scooper or two stating MU's schedule is crazy easy early in the BEast and crazy difficult to close the year?? Good.  We should want better competition heading into the NCAAA tournament. 

There is absolutely 0.0 reason we shouldn't bludgeon every team in the BEast.  This is not a biased opinion. We're frankly better and by a significant margin.  Now, we've had a few poor performances at Home but again, good teams find ways to win with subpar games.  Ross exploding vs Gtown is a very good thing Scoopers. We are more than capable of putting it all together and peaking at the right time.  Kam will be fine.  Here are ultimately my concerns about this team other than our overall health and a bad shooting night:


































Did I miss anything?  We should fear NO ONE.  I repeat, NO ONE.  Get back to playing medievally like we did at the Dence and attack from all positions and angles.  Play with confidence, poise, precision, and ZERO MERCY.  This is an excellent basketball team than has yet to play consistently, especially with open trifectas. Shaka will have us prepared vs zone moving forward.   Good things happen when MU attacks.   

[Newsdreams]

Bludgeoning people is certainly violence.

[avid1010]

My take is Hurley is waiting for a NE job to open up. Nets, 76ers etc. Then he takes the NBA job.

You could be right. He has nothing to prove anymore as a college coach

He could win without Clingan...

[bilsu]

We barely beat Xavier, when they were missing Freemantle and we barely beat Georgetown and they were missing a key starter. I would not say we are significantly better than those two teams. However, I expect to lose no more than 4 games in Big East. The Big East is weak.

[wisblue]

Your posts would be more well received if they weren't always negative or "realistic". I have a habit of just reading posts without looking at the poster and trying to guess who it is. I'm about a 100% on you. Granted, it's a pretty easy game. People are remarkably consistent in their posts.

I don't like it when people who are negative are automatically accused of not being fans. Some fans just are like that. It's not right or wrong. Be a fan anyway you want. But you have kind of become the board Eeyore and you'd be a little naive not to expect push back from fans that are more positive.

But hey, you do you. It's a free country. Just expect resistance.

Do you think being "realistic" is the same as being negative?

The post in question was stating what is an  irrefutable fact. MU's second half conference schedule is significantly tougher than the first half.

Personally I think some realistic comments from a relatively low volume poster adds more to the board than the constant drumbeat from posters who think they are funny.

[tower912]

They are pretty funny.  They probably will miss their sparring partners.

[PointWarrior]

We barely beat Xavier, when they were missing Freemantle and we barely beat Georgetown and they were missing a key starter. I would not say we are significantly better than those two teams. However, I expect to lose no more than 4 games in Big East. The Big East is weak.

Also played significantly crapity for prolonged stretches of those games...

[K1 Lover]

There is absolutely 0.0 reason we shouldn't bludgeon every team in the BEast.  This is not a biased opinion. We're frankly better and by a significant margin. 

I appreciate your optimism and predicted no more than 4 league losses, myself. But I personally wouldn't go this far.

Although I agree we're overall better than both UConn and St. John's, those are still very problematic matchups for us since each of their strengths line up with our weaknesses. They're physically dominant down low and very heavy on rebounding. Not saying those aren't winnable games, but they're not gonna be as easy as you think, either. And the same goes for the rest of the league.

Like wadesworld said before, every night in the BE is going to be a battle.

[Newsdreams]

I appreciate your optimism and predicted no more than 4 league losses, myself. But I personally wouldn't go this far.

Although I agree we're overall better than both UConn and St. John's, those are still very problematic matchups for us since each of their strengths line up with our weaknesses. They're physically dominant down low and very heavy on rebounding. Not saying those aren't winnable games, but they're not gonna be as easy as you think, either. And the same goes for the rest of the league.

Like wadesworld said before, every night in the BE is going to be a battle.

Manatees and mammoths will be key factors

[Jables1604]

Manatees and mammoths will be key factors

Is this the new "thoughts and prayers"? "Manatees and mammoths." Has a nice ring to it.

[MU82]

There is absolutely 0.0 reason we shouldn't bludgeon every team in the BEast.  This is not a biased opinion. We're frankly better and by a significant margin.  Now, we've had a few poor performances at Home but again, good teams find ways to win with subpar games.  Ross exploding vs Gtown is a very good thing Scoopers. We are more than capable of putting it all together and peaking at the right time.  Kam will be fine.  Here are ultimately my concerns about this team other than our overall health and a bad shooting night

It's a very biased opinion.

0.0 reason? You actually offered 2.0 possible reasons yourself: The occasional poor performance, which can happen to even the nation's #1 team (see Tennessee losing to Florida by 842 points) ... and a bad shooting night (4-31 vs an inferior NC State team - ugh).

Add that MU players and coaches are human and therefore imperfect, and that every opponent is motivated to beat us, and you have 2.0 more reasons.

And of course there are more - and those are reasons we could lose, let alone fail to bludgeon every opponent.

But, as always, love the enthusiasm, Muggs.