What comes first for UofL basketball ????

[jalovell23]

20 wins or 10 losses.

With a current record of 16 - 6.
UofL has 9 more games. 5 home and 4 away. Against no Top 25 teams.

 

[Thecycle27]

It better be 20 wins or they are officially on the bubble.

 

[2330859]

Just remember, most of these top 25 teams are losing unexpectedly as well. Many who were saying glowing things about UL, were the same ones saying exactly the same about Vanderbilt. The Commodores lost by 30 to unrated Sooners last night. St John’s was lucky to have survived at home last night, or they would have been included in the upsets.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

The teams aren't ranked but if they can lose @ GT then that tells you the margins are thin.

They've got 3 guys out again, and it's possible they are wearing down. Not sure. It's also possible opposing coaches might have enough film on them to scout. They took away the lob yesterday.

So it will be interesting to see what happens. They've over-achieved, maybe they are going to fade. I hope they don't. Not sure what the magic # is going to be. Pitt and Stanford are probably the highest rated games left, so losses to any other to go with the GT loss would hurt.

 

[Louis III]

20 wins. I don't think we get to 10 losses until maybe the NCAA tourney, if at all.

 

[Morgantown Card]

I'm not over-reacting to a conference loss on the road. 20 wins happens first.

 

[shadow force]

The 20 wins unless the train goes off the rails in these next several games for some reason.

 

[Cardiac Red]

The teams aren't ranked but if they can lose @ GT then that tells you the margins are thin.

They've got 3 guys out again, and it's possible they are wearing down. Not sure. It's also possible opposing coaches might have enough film on them to scout. They took away the lob yesterday.

So it will be interesting to see what happens. They've over-achieved, maybe they are going to fade. I hope they don't. Not sure what the magic # is going to be. Pitt and Stanford are probably the highest rated games left, so losses to any other to go with the GT loss would hurt.

You make some good points. One that I posted in another thread, are teams figuring us out. GTech easily took Scott and Reyne completely out of the game.. I also have thought maybe we caught lightning in a bottle on our 10 game winning streak and maybe we aren't as good as we think and we were just getting all the right bounces.. Who knows..

I remember coaching my daughters AAU team in Atlanta a few years ago, we blew through Friday and Saturday pool play and lost on Sunday to a team we had played several times that hadn't been within 20 pts of us in any other game. I remember our kids saying how did we lose that game ? We played our butts off and we're way better than them. Both things were true, but we were not focused at all. Physically they gave it all they had, they just didn't execute and made some very uncharacteristic mistakes. Sometimes you think you're playing good, but you're just not. Hopefully that's the deal with the Cards and we can shake this off..

Anyway, I'm glad to be getting back to hating losses and expecting wins. Hopefully this is just a matter of complacency and we win out the regular season..

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

You make some good points. One that I posted in another thread, are teams figuring us out. GTech easily took Scott and Reyne completely out of the game.. I also have thought maybe we caught lightning in a bottle on our 10 game winning streak and maybe we aren't as good as we think and we were just getting all the right bounces.. Who knows..

I remember coaching my daughters AAU team in Atlanta a few years ago, we blew through Friday and Saturday pool play and lost on Sunday to a team we had played several times that hadn't been within 20 pts of us in any other game. I remember our kids saying how did we lose that game ? We played our butts off and we're way better than them. Both things were true, but we were not focused at all. Physically they gave it all they had, they just didn't execute and made some very uncharacteristic mistakes. Sometimes you think you're playing good, but you're just not. Hopefully that's the deal with the Cards and we can shake this off..

Anyway, I'm glad to be getting back to hating losses and expecting wins. Hopefully this is just a matter of complacency and we win out the regular season..

I hope they grind out enough wins to make the NCAAT. It would be a great year for this HC if he can pull that off. Still been a good ride if not.

 

[Cardiac Red]

I hope they grind out enough wins to make the NCAAT. It would be a great year for this HC if he can pull that off. Still been a good ride if not.

Definitely been a fun first year. I've been to more games this year than the last 4 years combined. I think tonight will tell us a lot.

 

[SoulSr]

We have a Coach, a Fan base and a Team on a mission.

I was at the GT game and noticed a lack of player movement in the second half. Also missing FTs and Tech shooting lights-out didn't help. Tech paid us back by beating Clemson on the road last night. Win tonight and we can move back up to the second place in the conference.

Stay in the top four and get the double bye in the ACCT. Then get a NCAA invite and crash the party.

Go CARDS, beat BC.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

Definitely been a fun first year. I've been to more games this year than the last 4 years combined. I think tonight will tell us a lot.

I went to the Clemson game lower bowl and had a blast. It was not quite like old times but a great atmosphere.

We may need our fans to carry us in those final games.

Really need to win tonight.