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Tejada named Freshman of the Week https://x.com/towson_mbb/status/1762145784018210987?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

As my late grandmother might have said, “you should live so long.”

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-basketball-rankings-ap-top-25-projection-includes-uconn-slide-kentucky-wake-forest-surge-227713394/amp/ more praise for Nick Timberlake!

..for next year

Poorly

Luv you….

By the time our job comes open, Mr. White will be on social security. If he has a son, maybe he’ll be a candidate

Today was the largest glaring example of what works in college basketball and what doesn't. You can hang your shingle on defense and rebounding but you'd better have offensive weapons in order to do that. The years we won the conference regular season and advanced in the CIT, we had guys that could score. You have to go out and find more of those scorers and not just a bunch of brutes that look good in a weight room and can play defense and rebound. Kelsey took the job at Charleston and set about finding the type of players that work -- they're big, they share the ball, they hit open shots. Meanwhile, we plod along and run a low-post offense with zero movement and sometimes a wing and a prayer to get a decent look or a look before the shot clock expires. Twice today, the shot clock was running out and who had the ball? Mekhi Lowery. That can't ever happen. We were largely clueless on offense, finding zero ways to get Tejada open (1 shot in the first half) and showing very little interest in running anything that had ball movement to 3 sides of the floor. Meanwhile, Charleston is slinging it all over the floor and playing an orchestra on our defense (especially Thompson and Paar) with the pick-and-roll action. Charleston's the template of what we should aspire to be. They have D2 players just like we do but they found the offense while we went for the bruising fullbacks. With whatever time Pat has left on his contract, he needs to overhaul his philosophy to be more like Charleston. Otherwise, we've already hit our ceiling and it's never gonna get crashed through.

Looking forward to seeing if we can pull one out at Loyola. That'll have me believing we're back.

Seeing what Kyle Smith has done with Washington State.. a school mind you left in the dust with respect to NIL funds and which is now demoted to the West Coast Conference the next 2 years.. Smith is gonna land the Ohio State job (Cleveland native) He built the Aussie pipeline at Saint Mary’s and then single-handedly brought USF back to relevance. If I’m a program in the mix for a new coach and direction then I’m trying to pluck away one of his assistants. They just beat Arizona for the second time and have a shot to win the Pac12 for the first time since the 40’s. Crazy.