|
|
03-13-2017, 09:05 PM
|
Lieutenant Colonel
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 985
Thanks: 190
Thanked 465 Times in 201 Posts
|
|
We have no chance to beat Wichita St.
That's not my opinion, but it does however seem to be the opinion of nearly every "expert" I have watched or listened to in the last 24 hours. Clark Kellogg is the only one I have heard say we can win.
I am sure it has happened before, but I don't recall a scenario where a 7 seed is such an overwhelming underdog to a 10 seed. Hope Archie really plays this up to the team. We are always better when we are the hunter and not the hunted.
Can't wait till Friday, the anticipation is killing me.
|
03-13-2017, 09:08 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Beverly Hills, MI
Posts: 21,184
Thanks: 336
Thanked 6,915 Times in 2,927 Posts
|
|
Doug Gottlieb of all people also picks the Flyers.
Posted via Mobile Device
|
03-13-2017, 09:11 PM
|
|
Flyer Volleyball Superfan. Almost 8,000 Posts To Prove It.
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 9,440
Thanks: 5,115
Thanked 5,360 Times in 2,463 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Swampy Meadows
Doug Gottlieb of all people also picks the Flyers.
Posted via Mobile Device
|
But he's an idiot, so I never take what he says as having any intelligent value. He just hates WSU more than us. Who knew?
|
03-13-2017, 09:12 PM
|
|
General of the Air Force
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Shiloh, OH
Posts: 8,414
Thanks: 2,350
Thanked 4,994 Times in 2,668 Posts
|
|
|
03-13-2017, 09:52 PM
|
Lieutenant Colonel
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 985
Thanks: 190
Thanked 465 Times in 201 Posts
|
|
Pete Gillen also picked UD, just saw that.
|
2 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to joeybaloney For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-13-2017, 09:53 PM
|
|
Colonel
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ohio
Posts: 1,132
Thanks: 2,517
Thanked 1,325 Times in 444 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Swampy Meadows
Doug Gottlieb of all people also picks the Flyers.
Posted via Mobile Device
|
Great... now all we need is for Charles Barkley to pick us !
|
4 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to Runnin' Rebel For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-13-2017, 10:22 PM
|
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,202
Thanks: 385
Thanked 2,312 Times in 1,011 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Swampy Meadows
Doug Gottlieb of all people also picks the Flyers.
Posted via Mobile Device
|
Of all people??
Doug Gottlieb is always railing on Wichita State. I don't just mean this year. But, always. I have no idea why, but he is.
|
03-13-2017, 10:27 PM
|
2nd Lieutenant
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: West Chester, OH
Posts: 67
Thanks: 52
Thanked 14 Times in 9 Posts
|
|
Was watching the special called "the experts" on ESPNU earlier today and 2 of the 4 on the panel picked UD to win.
|
03-13-2017, 10:29 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Beverly Hills, MI
Posts: 21,184
Thanks: 336
Thanked 6,915 Times in 2,927 Posts
|
|
If you happen to catch the "Katz Korner" bracket special on ESPN, don't hold your breath waiting for the WSU/UD discussion. They say it will be a good game but mostly talk about the Shockers' seeding and one of the panel picks Wichita.
Don't waste your timer.
|
Mad Props to Swampy Meadows For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-13-2017, 10:37 PM
|
|
Major
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 656
Thanks: 330
Thanked 517 Times in 199 Posts
|
|
It all depends on which Dayton team shows up. Archie hit the nail on the head. Ever since VCU win the team has laid back some. Wich St is a little davidsonish in that they can extend us on the perimeter and also use their center to back to the basket us inside. It is dependent on the perimeter defense for UD. How can they extend the pressure. KD, Cooke and company have to trust the assignments, And we must rebound.
For what its worth... The shockers no way in hell should be a 10 seed. If anything I have said Dayton and WSU should be switched. But I hate that the committee continues to pair non-Big 5 teams in elimination games.
|
Mad Props to Odrab14 For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-13-2017, 11:00 PM
|
Academy Doolie
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 31
Thanks: 10
Thanked 46 Times in 17 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by xubrew
Of all people??
Doug Gottlieb is always railing on Wichita State. I don't just mean this year. But, always. I have no idea why, but he is.
|
I'm not sure what his problem is but the feeling is mutual. Gottleib or Goatlube as he is referred to on Shockernet would not be welcome in Wichita.
|
03-14-2017, 12:25 AM
|
Major
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Dayton
Posts: 605
Thanks: 143
Thanked 374 Times in 184 Posts
|
|
As a longtime fan of the program, the mood and the sense of dread on this board completely amazes me. We are the better program. We come from a better conference. We have the NCAA experience. We have the battle tested Seniors. We have the best fans in the country. We have the best young coach in the nation. We are supposed to beat WSU, we should beat WSU, and we will beat WSU. I don't understand why more people aren't talking about us beating UK on our way to the Sweet 16. We are going to win people, get over it.
Scotty out.
|
2 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to ScottyExpress For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-14-2017, 12:53 AM
|
|
General
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 6,642
Thanks: 1,559
Thanked 4,578 Times in 2,405 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by ScottyExpress
As a longtime fan of the program, the mood and the sense of dread on this board completely amazes me. We are the better program. We come from a better conference. We have the NCAA experience. We have the battle tested Seniors. We have the best fans in the country. We have the best young coach in the nation. We are supposed to beat WSU, we should beat WSU, and we will beat WSU. I don't understand why more people aren't talking about us beating UK on our way to the Sweet 16. We are going to win people, get over it.
Scotty out.
|
If we could erase the last 2 games from our memories, I think you'd see more of that. So let's just all convince ourselves the Flyers beat the Flyers those games and pretend they don't exist. I think we'd see a lot more positive posts about our chances of winning. Might be a blessing in disguise.
I love how opponents that aren't familiar with our team always say "We have to stop Scoochie.". Nobody stops Scoochie, other than Scoochie. He's going to get the ball up court, he's going to pass it to a teammate, he's going to shoot when he's open(which if the opponent wants to focus on that point, I'd love it because then Cooke will have a field day). Depending on the strengths WSU shows, I think we're going to get a lot of either Cunningham and Pollard on the court at the same time or Crosby and Scooch at the same time. I predict the former.
I think the key to this game is if Darrell Davis plays and can keep from running into parked mack trucks, we win.
|
2 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to Smitty10 For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-14-2017, 01:06 AM
|
Major
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Dayton
Posts: 605
Thanks: 143
Thanked 374 Times in 184 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Smitty10
If we could erase the last 2 games from our memories, I think you'd see more of that. So let's just all convince ourselves the Flyers beat the Flyers those games and pretend they don't exist. I think we'd see a lot more positive posts about our chances of winning. Might be a blessing in disguise.
I love how opponents that aren't familiar with our team always say "We have to stop Scoochie.". Nobody stops Scoochie, other than Scoochie. He's going to get the ball up court, he's going to pass it to a teammate, he's going to shoot when he's open(which if the opponent wants to focus on that point, I'd love it because then Cooke will have a field day). Depending on the strengths WSU shows, I think we're going to get a lot of either Cunningham and Pollard on the court at the same time or Crosby and Scooch at the same time. I predict the former.
I think the key to this game is if Darrell Davis plays and can keep from running into parked mack trucks, we win.
|
The great thing about this team is we don't have to rely on any one key of the game to win, someone always steps up. Sure, we lost two games in a row with very little at stake. We are either on the verge of something great happening or Archie and the team is going to mail it in. I'm very much counting on the former. I was ecstatic about our win in the Tourney against OSU and our trek to the Elite Eight. We are now in a dream scenario of knocking off UK on our way to a Sweet 16. Wichita Smitchita. Go Flyers!
|
03-14-2017, 05:44 AM
|
Commander in Chief
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 14,326
Thanks: 4,391
Thanked 10,570 Times in 5,078 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Runnin' Rebel
Great... now all we need is for Charles Barkley to pick us !
|
Charles Barkley might be the worst NCAA Tournament analyst who has ever graced the studio. He analyzes the college game as if it were the NBA. Turrible!
He is entertaining but has no clue about college basketball.
|
2 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to Fudd For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-14-2017, 10:13 AM
|
|
Lieutenant General
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 4,592
Thanks: 1,838
Thanked 2,451 Times in 1,244 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Fudd
Charles Barkley might be the worst NCAA Tournament analyst who has ever graced the studio. He analyzes the college game as if it were the NBA. Turrible!
He is entertaining but has no clue about college basketball.
|
Charles is not a basketball analyst on any level. He is simply a character on TV who says things that are funny or controversial. He is a character just like you see on any TV show and is there to entertain people. Die hard basketball fans need to remember that CBS/Turner are trying to entertain the people who only watch college basketball for the next three weeks because they filled out a bracket for their office pool.
|
4 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to C-time For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-14-2017, 10:22 AM
|
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,785
Thanks: 401
Thanked 1,735 Times in 1,009 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Runnin' Rebel
Great... now all we need is for Charles Barkley to pick us !
|
I'm not sure Charles could even get the pronunciation of "UD" correctly..
|
03-14-2017, 01:46 PM
|
Lieutenant Colonel
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 848
Thanks: 763
Thanked 949 Times in 324 Posts
|
|
I don't trust Gottlieb. He knows his basketball . . . but he too closely resembles Anthony Weiner.
|
03-14-2017, 02:25 PM
|
Captain
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 478
Thanks: 92
Thanked 337 Times in 182 Posts
|
|
For what it's worth, Vegas line has moved from Wichita +7 to +5.5 - I expect it to go down more by Friday morning.
|
03-14-2017, 02:38 PM
|
Captain
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 444
Thanks: 1,202
Thanked 430 Times in 163 Posts
|
|
I've watched a few Wichita State and other MVC games over the past few days. Wichita State is pretty good but the level of basketball played in the MVC looks to be more Horizon league level than A10 level. We will be the best team they have played in 2017. By far. They have talent but they haven't been tested for a while. Will be an interesting game. Gut tells me we win but my gut always tells me we win. Watching them play doesn't give me the sense of dread I experienced in past years wondering how we are going to guard this guy or that guy. They are beatable if we decide to play smart hard D.
|
03-14-2017, 02:44 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Beverly Hills, MI
Posts: 21,184
Thanks: 336
Thanked 6,915 Times in 2,927 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by steve
I'm not sure Charles could even get the pronunciation of "UD" correctly..
|
If I recall correctly, during the Elite 8 run he referred to Dayton as "that team" because he couldn't remember who we were.
Chuck ain't the brightest star in the universe but he is a lot of fun. Just don't expect him to drop a ton of knowledge on you about any of the teams in the NCAA--that's not his role.
|
03-14-2017, 04:07 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Dayton, OH
Posts: 13,586
Thanks: 1,837
Thanked 17,099 Times in 5,101 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by CJ2etc
We will be the best team they have played in 2017. By far.
|
Only if we decide to take off the 5 inch pumps and miniskirts of the last 3 weeks. Even in the wins over Davidson and VCU, teams were mauling us physically and emasculating our manhood. We have 3 more days to rediscover it or the music abruptly stops.
__________________
Hot shooting hides a multitude of sins.
Make everyone else's "one day" your "day one".
|
3 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to Chris R For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-14-2017, 04:19 PM
|
Colonel
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Chicago suburbs
Posts: 1,173
Thanks: 1,649
Thanked 739 Times in 348 Posts
|
|
remember that game against the Bonnies when we made 14 threes??
and won by a ton?
|
|
|
|
St Bonaventure
|
|
SAINT BONAVENTURE
Founded in 1858, St. Bonaventure University is a liberal arts college located on 500 acres in southwestern New York state. SBU offers 43 undergraduate majors, the most popular of which are elementary education, journalism, psychology, accounting, marketing, finance, and management. Total undergraduate enrollment is 2,000. Virtually all freshmen and most undergraduates live on campus. A founding member of the A10 Conference. Famous athletes include Bob Lanier. Historical nickname was the Brown Indians, but later changed to the Bonnies. Their mascot is a wolf. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-14-2017, 04:48 PM
|
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA
Posts: 3,285
Thanks: 1,215
Thanked 2,164 Times in 1,008 Posts
|
|
It's laughable. You would think we are a 15-seed playing a 2-seed. Let's kick their azzes for fs sake.
|
3 UDPriders Offer Mad Props to Buster Goode For This Totally Excellent Post:
|
|
03-14-2017, 05:28 PM
|
Captain
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 444
Thanks: 1,202
Thanked 430 Times in 163 Posts
|
|
Originally Posted by Chris R
Only if we decide to take off the 5 inch pumps and miniskirts of the last 3 weeks. Even in the wins over Davidson and VCU, teams were mauling us physically and emasculating our manhood. We have 3 more days to rediscover it or the music abruptly stops.
|
We would still be at the top of the MVC.
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|