Marquette's perfect Big East record disappeared with a thud, with a loss to the victory challenged USF Bulls, 57-56.
Marquette shot a miserable 38% from the field, a horrible 16% (4-24) from 3-point land, and a galacticly bad 43% from the charity stripe.
Amazingly, MU had a chance to win it, but missed two close-up shots to end the game.
My lucky shirt is no longer lucky, I am irritated, and am mailing this post-game report in.
MU travels to Villanova on Tuesday.
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Shot and played miserable...and still we were a Lazar putback away from a W.
ReplyDeleteAs upset as I am, I'll get over it by Sunday. These things happen and starting against DePaul, I want MU to go 4-2 or 5-1 in the next six games. Well...here's one in the L column. Oh well.
Butler looked great again. Buzz has to use the bench for a minute or two if he can. Dom has to stop hoisting threes. And, try making free throws at a 65% clip as a team. Not hard.
Baseless parallel to help us/me feel better: ECU loss in 2003. No trip to the east cost is safe. Never discount a shock to routine, regardless of opponent. I counted on a 1-1 split with USF and 'Nova, and I think we can still get it.
ReplyDeleteLook at it this way: MU losing a relatively obscure Friday night game at USF is national sports news. That says a lot about what this team has done and could do, no?
But yeah, they totally need a sports shrink or something. The free throw shooting is getting ridiculous.
Horrible shooting and FT shooting. Also kind of exposes our weakness. Buzz needs to rethink strategy, player utilization, motivation. I think Buzz and the team will come through. I don't think we have seen this teams best basketball yet.
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