Defeat Margins Coming Home

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:10 pm

At one point, we were a hard luck team with a lot of close losses. How about this after the Kent State win?

Sun, Jan 29 Akron L 72-77 -5
Wed, Feb 1 at Miami (OH) L 60-77 -17
Sat, Feb 4 Ohio L 90-93 -3
Tue, Feb 7 East. Michigan W 73-71 +2
Sat, Feb 11 at Toledo L 64-72 -8
Tue, Feb 14 at Akron L 62-77 -15
Sat, Feb 18 Wright St. L 51-70 -19
Tue, Feb 21 Kent St. L 66-82 -16
Sun, Feb 26 at Buffalo L 67-81 -14
Wed, Mar 1 Miami (OH) L 59-73 -14
Sat, Mar 4 at Ohio L 48-85 -37

11 games. 10 losses, 7 of them by double digits. In the seven game losing steak, six of seven final scores by double digits.

BleedOrange · Post by **BleedOrange** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:12 pm

This team stunk at the very beginning but steadily improved. They peaked and plateaued in late December, and then went steadily downhill.

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:12 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:At one point, we were a hard luck team with a lot of close losses. How about this after the Kent State win?

Sun, Jan 29 Akron L 72-77 -5
Wed, Feb 1 at Miami (OH) L 60-77 -17
Sat, Feb 4 Ohio L 90-93 -3
Tue, Feb 7 East. Michigan W 73-71 +2
Sat, Feb 11 at Toledo L 64-72 -12
Tue, Feb 14 at Akron L 62-77 -15
Sat, Feb 18 Wright St. L 51-70 -19
Tue, Feb 21 Kent St. L 66-82 -16
Sun, Feb 26 at Buffalo L 67-81 -14
Wed, Mar 1 Miami (OH) L 59-73 -14
Sat, Mar 4 at Ohio L 48-85 -37

11 games. 10 losses, 8 of them by double digits. In the seven game losing steak, all final scores by double digits.

If that doesn't speak volumes about where we are a team and program, I don't know what does. Factor in there we also lost yet another player and you've got a recipe for a complete disaster.

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:14 pm

BleedOrange wrote:This team stunk at the very beginning but steadily improved. They peaked and plateaued in late December, and then went steadily downhill.

The worse part is that they stunk more at the end of the year then at the beginning. Great coaching. You shoould not be peaking in December.

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:31 pm

If this season were to go on much longer, I really think EMU and CMU would pass us by. They are playing better basketball than even we are this season and are the only two teams we were better than this season.

commonsense · Post by **commonsense** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:51 pm

BleedOrange wrote:This team stunk at the very beginning but steadily improved. They peaked and plateaued in late December, and then went steadily downhill.

The peak was not too high considering, we had one division 1 win in December.

clevelandfalcon · Post by **clevelandfalcon** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:57 pm

BGSU33 wrote:If this season were to go on much longer, I really think EMU and CMU would pass us by. They are playing better basketball than even we are this season and are the only two teams we were better than this season.

No question. BG is absolutely the worst team in the MAC right now. UT is going to beat them by at least 20 points on Monday night.

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:16 pm

Well, one of those sub double digit losses was to UT at Savage. Both games were fairly close and both teams are similar in that they have no big inside presence and rely on a lot of perimiter players. I think we'll win but I wouldn't want to play at AA. Should be MUCH closer than 20.

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