Basketball GAME THREAD: PSU Hoops vs. Maryland
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If Funk and Dread can keep draining threes, we’ve got a shot.
Showing the heart we all wanted to see.
Reverse the Curse!
Close boys!
Reverse the Curse!
Close boys!
What a game. Dread showed why you don’t give up on your players when they’re struggling. The real good news is a few of the posters on this board won’t be heard from for a while. That was awesome!!
Cam with two straight game winners. What a couple of weeks he’s had.
I loved seeing Funk and Dread jumping around like kids after Wynter sunk the game winner.
Great for Dread to play so well after being so dreadful as of late. Perhaps this adrenaline shot into his confidence will spark a run.
i believe we are in now unless we lose to Minnesota or something else really bad in the BTT
I still can’t believe that finish! And then seeing the emotion from the PSU players, well, it was freaking awesome.
Really happy for those guys, especially Dread. Nothing usually goes right for PSU hoops. Every time there is good fortune they are met with bad.
We're locked into the 10th seed, so we can't play someone like Minnesota.
If all favorites win today, we'll play Maryland again. If Michigan knocks off Indiana (with the rest of the favorites winning), we get an even better matchup against Northwestern (but we don't want Michigan helping their bubble chances). All favorites win except Northwestern knocks off Rutgers, and we get the Illinois team that we swept.
But regardless, we're not locked in. I've been saying for a while that I think it's a coin flip (if we lose on Thursday), and much of it really comes down to the rest of these bubble games. Gonna be a fun week.
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Wow)))
But....
Senior day
An NCAA berth on the line
PSU is reeling
Dread comes out of nowhere to score 11 pts in the second half. What a great way to go out in your last home game. You've gotta feel good for him.
You don't often see a career derail the way it did for Dread. His confidence was so far shot that he was a total liability out there.
But....
Senior day
An NCAA berth on the line
PSU is reeling
Dread comes out of nowhere to score 11 pts in the second half. What a great way to go out in your last home game. You've gotta feel good for him.
Seeing Dread in tears was incredible. We love our school. But seeing that raw emotion reminds us that the kids playing the sport are all in. Just a great, great finish.
those are great scenarios because i don't think losing to MD, NW or Illinois will knock us out since we've already beaten all of them at least once. beating any of them again would just give us a better seed. i think we are in. in theory we could play Minnesota again but it would have to be a couple of rounds in
Don't be so quick... @LandoComando has already declared that I don't know much about this stuff, and that we have "absolutely no chance" and our odds are "zero" if we don't win on Thursday.
The reality is that this scenario will make things REALLY close on Selection Sunday. A win on Thursday, and we can start thinking about possibly avoiding the trip to Dayton.
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I think you nailed it.
The only thing we've disagreed on is the value of beating MD today vs in the tournament.
If we lost this one but beat Minn & MD in the tournament before losing we finish 20-14, 11-12 vs BiG opponents.
Win this one but lose to MD in the tournament we finish 19-13, 10-11 vs BiG opponents. I don't see how that would be a lot better than the first scenario.
odds are zero? that's wacky. our chances of making the tournament are much better than 2 in 3 right now
the consensus was that we were just barely in before this win
Same thing for Coach Shrews….he was emotionally drained. It’s easy for us to sit and judge these guys and accuse them of not playing hard or giving it their all, but they really do….just sometimes the shots don’t fall or the other team plays better.
That whole last offensive set was a microcosim of who we are. Jalen taking over control and showing the poise not to force something into the double (but getting fouled would have been maybe our best option 1 and 1 on the floor or 2 shots if he got it up.)
Seth with a pretty open 3 for the win is as good of a shot as we could've hoped for when we were down 14.
In typical PSU hoops fashion it is just off and doesn't fall. And a team which struggles mightily on the offensive boards creates enough chaos for a Cam put back.
W is well earned. Maryland feels exactly how we did a week ago. How unfortunate it would have been for Funks right toe to keep us out of tourney.
A miracle finish in our favor. Amen!
A-----Men! A--A--Men! A-- A--MEN, A- MEN! A-MEN!
(Veiled shot at MD frOm their old days at Cole....not sure if they still sing that after wins...they did when I saw Len Bias beat Nova and Ed Pinkney in a classic there).
Because that the number of wins itself isn't important, it's "who" you beat. Beating Minnesota would have carried no value (it's a low level Q3 games on a neutral), so it's basically going 1-2 in the series of meaningful games. Under our current scenario, it's 1-1.
they don't care about 19-13, it is about the net metric and records vs quads
Absolutely. At least for me, it was a very happy reality check.
the previous morons who had his job would have taken a decade to piece together a 10-10 conference record
If you thought PSU would win when they were down by 12 pts with 5:58 to play.... You had more confidence than me. ESPN gave us a 3% chance at that point.
I gave us about a 1% chance at that point. It just wasn’t looking good, but three point shooters can make a whole lot of difference if they get hot.
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