Ball State falls...

[brewer]

to OU in Muncie leaving BG as the lone remaining unbeaten in MAC play.

[Peregrinner]

That bulls-eye just keeps getting bigger...

GO FALCONS! BEAT THE EAGLES!

[bgsufalcon24]

to OU in Muncie leaving BG as the lone remaining unbeaten in MAC play.

That sux. Barring us losing in the MAC tournament (yeah right) the MAC's a one-bid conference once again.

[Joe Foss]

I didn't think it sucked. I thought it was great.

[TG1996]

I didn't think it sucked. I thought it was great.

You would, wouldn't you?

I think this loss just makes BSU more dangerous when we face them. They won't have the pressure of an unbeaten MAC season on the line. I don't follow the MAC much outside of BG on the women's side, but they could have done worse than losing to OU as far as at-large consideration goes.

[bgsufalcon24]

I didn't think it sucked. I thought it was great.

You would, wouldn't you?

I think this loss just makes BSU more dangerous when we face them. They won't have the pressure of an unbeaten MAC season on the line. I don't follow the MAC much outside of BG on the women's side, but they could have done worse than losing to OU as far as at-large consideration goes.

Again, like I said in the WMU thread earlier this week, let's not get delusional here. Any other team in the MAC would have to play a perfect game to beat us, and we'd probably have to screw up too. Personally, I think the thought of anybody coming into AA and beating us is laughable. EMU and NIU could be dangerous because they are road games, but that's it.

Ball State's loss today has almost no bearing on our game with them. I highly doubt any of their players were even thinking about a perfect conference season yet.

[Peregrinner]

I highly doubt any of their players were even thinking about a perfect conference season yet.

And I hope ours aren't either. That's exactly the way you end up getting caught off guard.

I know you don't want to admit the possibility of any team in the MAC beating us, but anything is possible. For someone to say that Ball State losing a game now might be a danger to us is a perfectly reasonable point.

There's a reason the games are played. Maybe we roll by 20, maybe we don't, but it's more reasonable to consider every team at least somewhat of a danger than it is to go through with your head in the clouds and be looking at the MAC and NCAA tourney right now.

[bgsufalcon24]

I highly doubt any of their players were even thinking about a perfect conference season yet.

And I hope ours aren't either. That's exactly the way you end up getting caught off guard.

I know you don't want to admit the possibility of any team in the MAC beating us, but anything is possible. For someone to say that Ball State losing a game now might be a danger to us is a perfectly reasonable point.

There's a reason the games are played. Maybe we roll by 20, maybe we don't, but it's more reasonable to consider every team at least somewhat of a danger than it is to go through with your head in the clouds and be looking at the MAC and NCAA tourney right now.

Hey, I can look ahead all I want, I'm not playing on the team. Now, it would be different if I was Megan Thorburn or Liz Honneger. I'd look at it like, "hey, how can I kick some serious EMU azz on Sunday?" Then, "what am I going to do to beat Chicago St." and so on. From having played basketball competitively before, I find that its much easier to look ahead to the postseason as a fan as opposed to as a player. Especially if you lost the previous game, because you are so focused on correcting your mistakes and winning the next one. Can you get into a false sense of security on a big win streak? Sure. But that has yet to ever happen in the past two seasons, so I don't expect it to happen now. Judging by our play this season, I don't see how anybody in the MAC can beat us if we retain our focus, which seems to be the basis of your concerns. Where we differ is that I have no reason to doubt our teams focus and effort, or our coaching (although I don't think anybody in their right mind would doubt our coaching)

[Jacobs4Heisman]

I didn't think it sucked. I thought it was great.

You would, wouldn't you?

I think this loss just makes BSU more dangerous when we face them. They won't have the pressure of an unbeaten MAC season on the line. I don't follow the MAC much outside of BG on the women's side, but they could have done worse than losing to OU as far as at-large consideration goes.

I thought the same thing as far as BSU and pressure. I'm REALLY glad that game is in AA.

I also think this makes tomorrow's game more dangerous. EMU can climb into a lead for first in the West and the MAC with a win tomorrow. Our team should also have plenty of motivation, since they're traveling to the site of their last MAC loss. I was at that game, and it sucked. I won't be able to make it tomorrow, but hopefully it will decidedly not suck.

I was really hoping BSU would make a run for the top 25 in the polls and in the RPI. Not going to happen now with a sub-100 home loss. They would probably have to run the table outside of our game, and make the finals in the MAC tourney to have any prayer as an at-large. This loss hurts them big-time.

[Peregrinner]

Where we differ is that I have no reason to doubt our teams focus and effort, or our coaching (although I don't think anybody in their right mind would doubt our coaching)

There's a vast difference between doubting the players and coaches and admitting there's a chance for any team on any day to shock their opponents.
Personally, I've been surprised by the games we haven't won by 20+, but that doesn't mean I'm oblivious to the fact that every week is a challenge and we're going to get the best every MAC team has to give.

Please stop trying to say that admitting the possibility (no matter how slight) of an upset is equivalent to doubting anyone on our side.

[BGFalconfromCincy]

Our team should also have plenty of motivation, since they're traveling to the site of their last MAC loss.

and its also the only MAC arena a Curt Miller coached team has never won at

[Rightupinthere]

Our team should also have plenty of motivation, since they're traveling to the site of their last MAC loss.

and its also the only MAC arena a Curt Miller coached team has never won at

Maybe it's the opponent.

[Falconboy]

Yeah...thanks for that pic RUIT. Another thing that MUST go well for us besides the teams constant focus and determination is the team health. We can't afford anymore injuries at all. Liz and Carin both have some issues with back and legs and that could effect us down the stretch here unless we can get some real good mins from Breske and Bugher to lighten the load.