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Some things are just not logical to me (although it may make sense to the coaches). Besides the walking the ball while trailing, I also get confused on why you leave a player with 4 fouls (Cammann tonight) on the court when you are in foul mode. 

He ended up with the foul and his night was over. Why not bring in Thompson or Young to commit the foul and then substitute them out when they go to the line? Why does Young start and doesn't go back in when he's substituted? 

Kent State had 3 players 6'2" or shorter in the starting lineup. Their tallest player was 6'8", and they still outrebounded us. How did this happen? 

Unfortunately, too many players were off tonight. Benny and Ryan missed all their 3 pointers. Max had a poor first half. Okpara was the most consistent offensively in my opinion. If it weren't for all the missed FTs, Blakes would have had an ever a better night. The misses really hurt.

The president of the Okpara fan club agrees with you. Hope he sticks around.

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Some things are just not logical to me (although it may make sense to the coaches). Besides the walking the ball while trailing, I also get confused on why you leave a player with 4 fouls (Cammann tonight) on the court when you are in foul mode. 

He ended up with the foul and his night was over. Why not bring in Thompson or Young to commit the foul and then substitute them out when they go to the line? Why does Young start and doesn't go back in when he's substituted? 

Kent State had 3 players 6'2" or shorter in the starting lineup. Their tallest player was 6'8", and they still outrebounded us. How did this happen? 

Unfortunately, too many players were off tonight. Benny and Ryan missed all their 3 pointers. Max had a poor first half. Okpara was the most consistent offensively in my opinion. If it weren't for all the missed FTs, Blakes would have had an ever a better night. The misses really hurt.

The president of the Okpara fan club agrees with you. Hope he sticks around.

[Sam Leopold]

A home loss in the NIT is probably not the ending we were envisioning, but the goals I had for this team in the preseason were mostly met.  This year, Kyle Smith found the wherewithal to bring in Oziyah Sellers, Chisom Okpara, and Jaylen Blakes through the portal and apart from that, had to play the cards that Jerod Haase dealt him.  Maxime Raynaud went from a good player to a conference headliner.

Near the end of the Loyola-San Francisco game on ESPN2 last night they showed a look-in to our game to reveal Blakes missing a pair of free throws in the opening minutes. That was an early indicator that Stanford would be off, or out of sorts.  Jalen Sullinger stole the show, and by and large we got out-quicked by the Golden Flashes.  And yet, down by 8 points with not much more than a minute remaining, Stanford managed to contest the game down to the last tick.  That's as much as we can ask for, with the mixed grill of players that we fielded this season.

This is the first stopover of a journey that should have many legs.

[Sam Leopold]

A home loss in the NIT is probably not the ending we were envisioning, but the goals I had for this team in the preseason were mostly met.  This year, Kyle Smith found the wherewithal to bring in Oziyah Sellers, Chisom Okpara, and Jaylen Blakes through the portal and apart from that, had to play the cards that Jerod Haase dealt him.  Maxime Raynaud went from a good player to a conference headliner.

Near the end of the Loyola-San Francisco game on ESPN2 last night they showed a look-in to our game to reveal Blakes missing a pair of free throws in the opening minutes. That was an early indicator that Stanford would be off, or out of sorts.  Jalen Sullinger stole the show, and by and large we got out-quicked by the Golden Flashes.  And yet, down by 8 points with not much more than a minute remaining, Stanford managed to contest the game down to the last tick.  That's as much as we can ask for, with the mixed grill of players that we fielded this season.

This is the first stopover of a journey that should have many legs.

[PVTree]

Loyola Chicago defeats Kent State...Sully held to 12 points.

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Loyola Chicago defeats Kent State...Sully held to 12 points.

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Seeing how Calvin Sampson and Houston easily beat Tennessee to get to the Final Four, it reminded me that Sampson was once at Wazzu.

It made me think of all the good coaches that they have had besides Sampson like Dick & Tony Bennett and our own Kyle Smith. That's a good list of coaches for a non blue blood school.

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Seeing how Calvin Sampson and Houston easily beat Tennessee to get to the Final Four, it reminded me that Sampson was once at Wazzu.

It made me think of all the good coaches that they have had besides Sampson like Dick & Tony Bennett and our own Kyle Smith. That's a good list of coaches for a non blue blood school.