Mean Green Matt

The champions list from the NIT is not even remotely on the same level as the CBI and CIT. For all we know we’d have made the sweet 16 in the NCAA, but we are where we are. If we could somehow make it to MSG or win the thing it would be probably be the biggest accomplishment in program history.

CUSA did get at large consideration. We were on the cusp until this last week. Unfortunately the performances were trending down, not up. If we beat UTEP and lose yesterday in something other than a historically bad offensive performance, we are probably in along with The winner tonight.

La Tech will be nowhere near NIT contention unless 30 schools say no.

And hopefully they get completely annihilated in both games.

I think there are a handful of jobs Grant wouldn’t hesitate to leave for. I can’t imagine Missouri is one of them. I think the radius we need to be concerned about is a little closer than that.

This is a discussion about this year and who is deserving of what. Big East money or hypothetical recruiting are irrelevant to that.

Either one. We’d be nowhere near .500 in conference playing the same schedule that Providence had to play. And they won that conference. That’s why they are a 3 or 4 seed.

What do you think our record would have been playing in the Big East?

What does this mean?

I may be miscalculating how bad yesterday was. Lunardi dropped us out of his first 8 out completely. NIT seeding is going to be interesting.

Wow. Very deserving.

MTSU just lost to La Tech. They didn’t win the regular season (Charlotte did), but they are far and away the highest net team In the conference. I bet you MTSU gets into the WNIT along with Charlotte If they lose tomorrow.

Unlikely. The WNIT does have the bigger field than the men, but we are sitting around 100 in the women’s NET.

Looked to me that they, for about 5 seconds, lost track of the score. The shot they ultimately got off was not great (obviously). The moment that sticks out to me is tied 55-55 and Madison Townley was going to the line and missed both. We never got back into the lead that I remember but got close on multiple occasions.

Lunardi put out this morning that if we lost to La Tech we were toast. I’d look for us to land in the next four out and have a top 2 seed in the NIT. if we’d have won UTEP or today I think there’s still a chance. But not after today, especially how they lost. They need to regroup and make it to Madison Square Garden.

What an exhausting day of basketball.

The loss to UTEP dropped is 5 spots.

There’s no way we aren’t a top 2 seed. Our NET is going to finish at like 42 or 43.

Just a friendly reminder that we still have a team in this.

That’s fair. I think my point is the season will be viewed through the lens of where it ended.

I mean, it kind of does doesn’t it? Isn’t that exactly what it does? I still love the team, but I think that’s the reality of the loss.

We had so many chances to win this game.

Despite all the silly turnovers and missed shots we are somehow still in this.

I know it’s what we do but it bothers me a bit we are continuing to milk the shot clock. We don’t have much choice but to press the issue at this point.

We are toast.