They gotta miss both free throws.

Too little too late.

Mostly too late. It looked like Drake was wilting at the end and our guys were energized. I really like it that they didn't give up.

Should have won this one, like at SIU, at Portland State, at Tulane, at Miss. St., and at Tennessee Tech. Add the neutral site game against UC Davis. We were either far ahead, or within striking distance but for some really head-scratching decisions or bad execution in all of these games.

That's a six game swing. We could be 15-10 overall, 6-8 in the MVC. That's what I think our talent is worthy of. A lot of people predicted that's about what we would do. And we were in all these games. Forget SIU, Bradley, and NIU at home--- games we should have won on paper. I'm just talking about the games that we were right there in it except for epic collapses, singularly bad stretches, catastrophic technical fouls, late missed free throws, etc.

So now we're in the basement of the MVC, despite our talent, wallowing in the gutter with teams being totally retooled after losing more than we've lost. I can't bear to listen to the postgame comments, because it's likely to be a re-hash of the things we've heard before. We've got a 17-game road losing streak now, which has to rate among the 10 or 15 worst streaks in D-1. And there's no excuse for it, especially given our double-digit leads in the second half in many games we've lost.

I remember the years where we had a head coach who was an excellent recruiter who couldn't coach, and I think that was actually worse than having a good coach that couldn't recruit. I really do. That's just me. Seriously--- we're having Nixon, Crisman, O'Leary, and King on the floor, with Doyle, White, and Thomas on the bench at the same time? Couldn't anybody recruit that level of talent to this school? At least Moser hasn't had six guys on the court or called a timeout he didn't have, like Farmer did two or three times in his first year.

I didn't watch or listen. Other plans. Now I'm glad I missed it.

I did notice that we shot about 32% in the first half. Ugh. That's just not going to get it done...home or road. At least we turned the dial back to normal in the second half with around 44%.

Here's the question I have...what are we doing defensively that we have allowed our last 3 opponents to shoot 45%, 58% and 51% (respectively)? Hell, even SIU shot 50% when we last played them. I thought Porter's game plan was supposed to be based on stifling D.

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Cigarboy sucks!

Well Go--You beat me to the punch !! We apparently are NOT playing defense. Its a simple as that. What goes on in Game time-outs ??

We have been good offensively most all season--Our defense is slipping--Are we too tired late in season. This is the time we should be ramping up--not other way around. We have four scorers --Doyle Turk, Christian and Keke --Actually that should be enough . Defenders ?/ Doyle Thomas and Osborne--not enough.
Our secondary players ,Nixon , maybe, O'Leary, disappointing--King still learning-

I have said this before--To paraphrase Gen'l Grant--We do not have players enough !!!!

Maybe our new recruits will help some--You guys think ???