Choke artists.

Tough way for a great season & some fantastic Loyola basketball careers to end. Disappointed we don't get more of this team but hard to say we deserve more given the way that unfolded.

Too bad such a great season had to end like that. Missing FTs, 3 pointers, layups and then fouling on a three pointer. Scoring 3 baskets in 16 minutes. You can't script that. Overall, going from last to first in the A10 was a great season.

Felt just like Oregon State and Ohio State. Just couldn’t buy a basket.

I wanted more Miles during that Bonnie’s run and in offense for overtime, even with his turnovers. Brutal loss, worst combined game for Des/Braden

Ending the season on a game where we were up 15 and in control the entire game. Sad ending for our seniors. Bad coaching and even worse execution down the stretch.

Our guards didn't bring it today. Braden and Des were meh all game. The play call at the end was absolutely brutal. Not sure what Drew was thinking.

Looks like some shitty breakfast must have been served during breakfast club because we got schooled at at FT line.

As good as the regular season was, in my view, choking away a 2nd half double digit lead in the quarterfinals obfuscates that. Bad season.

What a let down after a really good turnaround season. I feel bad for the seniors, especially Braden, Tom and Phil.

So many missed opportunities to put them away. They started chipping away at our lead and got the jitters.
At one point, we went nearly 7 minutes without scoring a bucket...missed 15 shots in a row! And Rubin
fouling Banks at the 3 point line was the nail on the coffin.

That aside, the play call for the last shot makes no sense. Des was not having a good shooting night. He was
2 of 15. Why the heck did we think it would be a good idea to draw up a play to just throw it up from wayyy deep?

3.4 seconds is enough to get the ball inside for a much higher percentage shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-e-uGses3g

Drew post-game

Man, disappointing to say the least. I will start out by say Drew is still my guy, so don’t think I am jumping off the Bandwagon. Thoughts:

1. Ugly: Where to start. Tale of two halves. Refs swallowed the whistle in the first half and let the teams play. In the second half they inserted themselves into the game and were a little whistle happy. Lot of fouls called both ways. Despite some ugly shooting numbers, the only one that matters were the stark difference from the line. SBU shot 31 free throws going 27-31 (87.1%). The big difference was putting Banks on the line where he went 12-12. He was 4-14 from the floor, but made up for it at the line. Meanwhile, we were 18-27 (66.7%) which a clear regression. Some were front ends and this cost us the game. They scored 9 more from the line and couple of those FTs were after fouled a 3 point shooter, including Miles late in overtime. Our shooting was pitiful in other places as well. We were 25-75 (33.3%). Thinks about that. We got up 75 shots. When was last time you saw that. The Morty of that was 23 Offensive rebound and us getting multiple attempts several times. We missed countless shots in the lane. Our 3 point shooting was also pretty bad. We were 6-23 (26.1%) and for the most part they were clean looks. We had 5 at halftime and ended up 6.

2. Bad: We were 15 in the first half and went about 8 minutes without scoring. As SBU was working back into the game, no timeout was taken to break the momentum and slow them down a bit. We up 9 at the half, but you got the sense that we let SBU off the hook. Every time we go the lead up to 11, we committed a fouls and SBU ended getting a 3 point play to stay in. At one point they a couple of old fashioned 3 point plays, then we followed that up with fouling a 3 shooter. I thought the reliance on Dame and getting away from the offense/defense rotation for Miles hurt us. Miles did have some turnovers, but SBU was not even looking to get into the paint and he two huge blocks to help us to the 2nd OT I believe. More importantly, when put miles to jump before the 1st OT began, in the huddle when everyone stood up he remained seated. After he got up, the tall coach grabbed him and whispered some encouragement. In this regard, I think Drew got caught up in the moment and defaulted to relying on the “seniors”. We had been using a different formula all season and when push came to shove, we went away from it. Let’s hope there are no lasting scars on Miles, who has had a great season (hopefully we get an NIT bid). The loss was reminiscent of the Oregon State and Ohio State losses. We had good looks, but nothing was going in. Unfortunately, Dame, Des, Sheldon, Brandon were a combined 10-45 from the floor and 4-20 from the arc. Jaden being out hurt in that he is a capable 3 pt shooter.

3. Good. OK, some good stuff. The effort was there. We were a Jalen Quinn teardrop from winning the game in regulation. Jalen has made huge strides and was, beside the one TO (his only of the game), was solid chipping 7 points 2-6 from the floor and 3-4 from the line and good defense. Back to Miles, he was 5-8 from the floor, 2-2 from the line 3 blocks. When he was in the game SBU just stopped going into the paint. He did have 5 TOs , several were lax passes. He was not the problem, despite the late foul on the 3 shooter. We did a great job holding down SBU offensively as they shot a bad percentage from the floor and arc, though they hit some big threes late. We needed to recognize the officiating changed and we need to alter how physical we were on the top of the floor. SBU only had 8 assists and 17 TOs. Like it was mentioned above. We make FTs, we win.

4. Miscellaneous: Tough loss after a great season. Still believe in Drew and the team, but Drew is still learning and needs to be better. Let’s hope we get an NIT bid and get to see this team play again this year.

Tough day. We at Kaiser Tiger and had a great LUC crowd there into the game. Needless to say, everyone was living and dying on every possession. Good things a ahead, but man…that shooting was brutal!

Dayton loses

I want them in the NIT but I don’t see it. LU will be behind Richmond, St. Bonny, and VCU for sure in the NET too. St. Joe’s and Duquesne may also be ahead of LU in the NET. Our NET will fall and we were an 8 seed before.

Co-champs but remember with a non balanced conference schedule because of our last place finish last year we played an easier schedule than other A10 teams.

So if you include Dayton we may actually be the #7 team. That doesn’t get you in the NIT and they aren’t taking more than 2.