NIT Selection Show
there goes 5, 6000 thousand tickets sold. Go fuck yourselves.
Really thought we'd get in. Bummer.
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Numbers wise those losses weren't as bad as people keep saying.
Name wise yes, they are bad.
March 15th, 2015 at 10:18 PM ^
also fucked over my alma mater. I will never buy a ticket to the NIT again.
Lord willing.
because, I mean, I want to support the team and all.
Still, when I think of all the bucks I lavished on them watching Amaker's fucking teams in their shitty tournament, argh, fuck them sideways.
Onto the Spring Game and Football?
not quite sound logic, but not entirely off base either.
It's karma for making fun of the NIT one time too many.
Glad I wasted my time even worrying about a garbage tournament.
What a fucking joke.
I wasn't around in the 60s but this season is definitely the worst all around sports year I can remember. I guess that's the price we had to pay to the sports gods to get Harbaugh. Silver lining is that with no other sports distractions this spring game is going to be huge in attendance.
I will put it like this - the disappointment of not even getting into the NIT is a perfect lead-in for "I Hate Christian Laettner" because I can simply roll that disenchantment into my feelings about one of the eternally punchable faces in sports. It's not much, but it may very well help me through the next couple hours.
than topping this off with an hour that explains to me how that asshole wins anyway.
You are a masochist.
That's what happens when you lose to NJIT, EMU and friggin' Northwestern.
Tough year, but the team will bounce back. On to football!!
to work all off season and stomp A FUCKING HOLE in everybody next season.
I have to believe this team is tired of being kicked in the groin repeatedly.
No one besides our fanbase gives a shit about these guys and knows what we went though this season.
These guys deserved to play another day and instead you have a bunch of shit schools playing in the NIT.
I already think they were juiced to open up a can on everyone who took advantage of them this year - some teams, this wouldn't fuel - I think Camp Sanderson is going to be off the hook. I think these kids are going to have a serious chip on their shoulders and that's good.
Yep, everyone got their little laughs and cute late game wins against us.
Thats why that dumptrucking of Illinois felt so good.
Its kind of funny that they are in the NIT after looking like complete shit. But hey they won 3 more games than us!
This tournament is looking for entertainment or the best teams subjectively.
Purely based on numbers ignoring the current standing of our team.
How do these guys have jobs?
NIT has too many built in locks for mid majors.
The NCAA will screw them over, but the NIT allows them in.
March 15th, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
as someone who believes it's much harder and more significant to win the regular season title of a conference, I have to be consistent.
It's not like we didn't have a major hand in our exclusion here.
Still, the NIT can go get fucked. I think we would have made a very appealing addition to their tournament.
Reggie Minton looks like he's half asleep, anyway, so I'm sure that would be lost on him.
Umm...all this bitching about the NIT, simple solution is dont go 16-16 with some really bad losses mixed in and not a lot of great wins either.
March 15th, 2015 at 10:27 PM ^
I dont think it was those 2 really bad losses that stood out (EMU was actually half decent) but the lack of quality wins. Most of UM conf wins came against the likes of PSU Rutgers Nebraska and crap like that. That 5 pt loss vs what turned out to be a #1 seed (Villanova) seems like a lifetime away.
Outside of OSU did we beat a NCAA tourney team in conf? I see
- PSU
- Minn
- NW
- Rutgers 2x
- Neb
- Illinois
Those are 7 uninspiring wins + an OSU win. Oregon was the only other tourney team I think we won in our 16. Put another way we only beat 2 teams ahead of us in the standings all year - Illinois & OSU. All our other wins were against the 10th thru 14th team.
Reality is we stunk against tourney teams. Even in the NIT our resume is light - OSU, Illinois 2x, Oregon. Syracuse was bad this year - but our 5th best win I guess.
Just being realistic- would have liked to get in the tourney but we were a bubble NIT team. We finished the year 4-6 in the last 10, not sure if NIT looks at last 10 games as NCAA supposedly does.
March 15th, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
if Mark Donnal can find Spike one split second faster and gets the ball to him instead of getting fouled and missing the front end of the one and one, we win that game.
I know, because I was there.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:36 PM ^
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with many 5 point losses, the truth is that the game was never in doubt.
I was pointing out that "5 point loss" is too generic.
I've seen 5 point games where the winning team was never even stressed and 5 point games that are life and death.
When you are in prime position to win with 31 seconds on the clock (up one, at the line for a one and one), it's not a run of the mill 5 point loss. I'm sorry if that distinction is too fine for you.
For whatever reason, Donnal didn't throw the ball to Spike. He had the opportunity (and time) and just didn't do it. I still to this day don't know why.
I abolutely agree the opportunity was there to get the ball into Spike's hands, but a guy like Donnal, not really understanding the speed of the high D1 game at that point, somehow having been entrusted to field the potentially game winning baseball pass - he probably wasn't sure if he was looking at an opportunity to pass to Spike or just seeing something that looked like an opportunity (but would end in a steal).
In the end, he thought the safest thing to do was not risk that he was being baited into a turnover and hang onto the ball.
There were a lot of hands all around him, and I had a great view as it was *right* in front of my seats.
A more experienced player gets that ball to Spike every time in the same exact situation, but we had a guy playing one of his first D1 games.
I also think it should have just been a play where, rather than Donnal looking up and noticing Spike looked available, Spike should have been the secondary part of the outlet - coming off a midcourt pick to streak the left sideline - with Donnal knowing to immediately look to Spike and pass the ball to Spike as soon as it hit his (Donnal's) hands.
Maybe that was the plan and it wasn't well executed?
But I would have run baseball pass + immediately turn and fire to Spike coming down the left side, freed up by a pick.
The TV view I had could have been a little misleading. So I will definitely trust your judgment on it.
I agree with your play call. I seem to think the play was a little rushed and hurried. I have a feeling the exact play call wasn't exceuted. The plan no doubt was to get the ball in Spike's hands.
That would have been a great moment for him to knock down those Free Throws because Donnal has a good stroke.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:22 PM ^
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March 15th, 2015 at 10:34 PM ^
They will never have another shot at getting Beilein.
Yeah, the reality here is that we're a team that still only won four of our last thirteen games. And even if you want to claim we were improving as the season ended, we still only won three of our last six.
We played a lot of close games and looked really competitive in them. But we didn't win nearly enough over the last month and a half to even be considered NIT-worthy.
Next year.