Tiger93

I was wondering the same thing. After all the twists and turns that went into this year would this group even have enough left to put a good foot forward in tournament game, and what would we be trying to accomplish by doing it? If the players are all in on doing it, and we want more games that is fine. I would enjoy seeing this group play at least one more game. I just don't know what they would be looking to get out of the experience.

Fair enough, I suppose this is where we say we are stuck in the middle. Much better than being stuck at the bottom, but still probably just as frustrating from a pure results standpoint. I am extremely disappointed in the way the last two years have ended, but I have trouble looking to fire someone after going 46-21 and 27-9 in conference play in two seasons. That is not mediocrity, but I do feel the pressure should be on not to slip back to the mediocrity that has preceded these years. Much like I was disappointed that Rob Ambrose did not build on the run to the championship game, I would be disappointed if we don't build off the last two years with a good, high level transfers this offseason. I think Skerry should be judged on what is next, but I do understand that NCAA Tournament or bust is important mentality for us to have.

I hope this team gets a solid turnout this week at SECU for the CAA Tournament. They are very deserving of a homecourt advantage to help them make a push to get to the NCAA Tournament.

Pretty on-point post. I can't disagree about the assessment of Skerry's team's (I say his teams because the buck doesn't just stop with him) performances in postseason play. I put yesterday's loss at least in the top five of most disappointing since I have started following the program. We were right there, but shot ourselves in the foot when we had the chance to grab the game by the throat on several occasions. That was not only a conference tournament game, but one that came against an opponent with a lot of national buzz that we could have used to help us if we had won. It reminded me a lot of our loss to Drexel in 1995, but this game was closer. Oddly enough last year's regular season was awesome but the conference tournament was very underwhelming. This year, the regular-season was underwhelming, but the effort and fight was good in the conference tournament (not good enough). This was probably Skerry's best run in a conference tournament (other than maybe 2017), but obviously not good enough. Ultimately the results are not good enough, because we can come up with 5-6 games against Power 5 teams (Pittsburgh twice (even though they sucked), Maryland, Clemson, Ohio State, I am sure there are a couple of others) where we were almost there and 3-4 conference tournament appearances and coming up short is clearly a consistent pattern. I will say when it comes to Skerry as the head coach at Towson the only way we guarantee doing any better would be to raise our expectations and go after a proven commodity like a Kelsey-type coach. This would require having the money to do it, finding the right candidate, a buyout, and the president and AD to be on the same page about the decision. It seems unlikely that would all come together when he still has three years left on his contract. I guess based on the Laura Harper hire this year that I somewhat trust Steve Eigonbrot's hiring process to this point if we did not go big, but tried to find someone else. I get the hunger for something new, but I don't think Skerry deserves to be fired. In defense of Skerry I will say a couple of things. I think he did do a good job of having his team ready for this tournament. The players were in position to make winning plays and they just came up short. In the past, I thought his teams were too tight or he was outcoached in big spots. I don't think it would be fair to say any of that this year in the conference tournament. However, we did have the luxury of playing with a chip on our shoulder as the underdog and he has been better in that role than he has been as the hunted (like in 2014, 2022). I was disappointed in the regular-season, but still 21 wins is not terrible it is just underperforming what we all expected which is disappointing at the end of the day. This is a big offseason. I remember in 2021 everyone was ready to say the quality was dipping and Skerry wasn't a good coach. He answered that in a big way with the transfer portal haul of Holden, Nolan Jr. and Rizzuto which led us to the most successful D-1 regular-season in school history, a 46-21 overall record the last two years and 27-9 conference record. I think he is facing the same question again and will need a similar haul to keep this going in what I believe is going to become an increasingly competitive CAA. This program can not afford to give up ground and not be a top 3-4 team in this league on an annual basis. I do believe Skerry has made some positive changes to be a better coach the last couple of years, even midway through this year. He was stubborn on switching his defenses, but finally did so at times this year including last night with a switch to a 1-2-2 zone that got a late stop against Charleston. He is still growing as a coach, and the ultimate question is do we think he can get to a tournament. I know a lot of people on here have an answer of no, and while I am not sure I think the last two years have been progress. However, I think the lack of results in the tournament make it so we have to continue to judge him at the standard of where the program is holistically. That means even with all of the players who may be graduating, I still expect him to go in the portal and find what we need to be a good team next year. We can't expect anything less. As for the players, I want to echo the fact that that I thought Cam was great yesterday. He forced Kelsey to almost exclusively play Scott on him for the second part of the game, which should have opened things up for Timberlake but we just couldn't get what we needed offensively when Charleston made their push on us. I also agree that up 70-69 with 1:48 to go I hate that the best we could with our season on the line was a Rahdir Hicks three. However, we were out of timeouts and Charleston just stuffed all of our options. We need to be better in those big spots and that has been a weakness all year. I love Charles, Jason and Nick. This is my favorite class since Blalock, Thomas, Alexander, etc., but we need to turn the page and upgrade our talent to get to a higher level. We have to evolve before this program gets sucked back into mediocrity, and there are ways to do that with Skerry in my opinion.

Who is going to be in attendance tonight (I imagine some who are may not see this until after the game)? I wanted to make it out from Minnesota like I did last year, but having two possible games on weekdays makes for difficult scheduling. I feel bad because I know Charleston is going to bring a good contingent and we need everyone we can possibly get to try to come close to matchup their support. It is probably better off that I am not there since I have been in attendance for three conference tournament semifinal losses (1995 when we lost to Malik Rose and Drexel, 2014 when we lost to William & Mary at the Baltimore Arena and last year against Delaware). Probably not a good thing, but for the 90s guys this sort of reminds of our matchup with Drexel in the semis 1995. They were the darling of the conference and it was our first year in what was then called the NAC. We beat Delaware in the quarters and had a pretty talented team to match up with Drexel. They called a million fouls in that game and Drexel was the better team and outlasted us in the foulfest. I think this year's team is more equipped to have a shot at winning, but Charleston is probably a taller task then beating that Drexel team (although Drexel ended up knocking off Memphis in the first round).

Agreed. We almost won the first game despite 19 turnovers and an 8-27 shooting performance in the first half. Of course we were on fire in the second half shooting 16-29. One interesting thing from that first game is they were awfully sloppy with a season-high 24 turnovers (their next most was 18). In the second game, they only turned it over 12 times, but only had nine assists on 25 field goals, which was by far their worst ratio of the year. Of course that was due in large part to the fact that they went to the line 35 times (which was legitimate because our defense was ineffective for most of the second half of the game). They outrebounded us by 7 in the first game and 4 in the second game. We leaned a little too heavy on Timberlake in the second game, but in the first game Can took 12 shots while Timberlake, Russell and Thompson all took 11. That seems like more where we want it. We really need two of Russell, Hicks, May, Sylla and Conway to be effective support options tonight. In the first game, May, Conway and Russell combined for 28 points (36 with Sylla and Hicks). In the second game, we got 21 points from Hicks, Conway and May (seven each, 29 overall if you add in what Biekeu, Sylla and Russell gave us). The other two brutal parts of that second game were 14-24 from the free throw line and 17 points from starters not named Timberlake. As we have said consistently, hit our free throws, limit our own fouls and defend well, distributed scoring and limiting turnovers are huge. This probably true almost all of the time, but much less margin for error. We talk about program-defining wins to move Towson to more well-recognized and advanced level. This is a great shot to do it. This is honestly probably the highest quality and most high-profile CAA team since the VCU and George Mason days. Let's got out and make our mark today!

Loved what Sylla gave us off the bench today. He hasn't scored that many points since the season-opener. We need at least one bench or support (probably between Hicks, Conway, Sylla, May or Russell) player to be an x-factor like that tomorrow if not two. I also enjoyed seeing our big three go 20-28 collectively with 50 points. We only shot 5-17 from 3pt-FG tonight, but the way to overcome that is to make sure you are getting efficient two-point looks and we did that going 30-40 from inside the three-point line. The good part is no one took more than 11 shots tonight. We need that distribution tomorrow as well, because we saw that although Timberlake was unbelievable in our last meeting against Charleston we were too over-reliant on him. We were also 13-17 from the free-throw line (not that there were any high-pressure free throws) and had a 19-10 assist-to-turnover ration. Balanced offensive production, solid defense and rebounding, limiting turnovers and good free-throw shooting are what we know we need to do win tomorrow. Let's hope we can hit those checkboxes tomorrow. We need to come out exactly the same way tomorrow, only as TUTigers2012 said there can be no let up. We punched Delaware in the mouth and they decided they didn't want to fight back. We know that won't happen tomorrow. For the 1990s guys on this board, this feels like the second-round matchup we had with Drexel when we first got to the America East in the sense that they were the darlings of the conference. I do give us a better chance to win since we have pretty much gone punch-for-punch with Charleston for most of the course of two games. We just haven't made the plays when we have needed to in the prior two games. Whether that be Charles hitting the second free throw at home down the stretch, or some of the careless turnovers and bad shots we took down the stretch when the pressure got ratcheted up in Charleston. This was the third-biggest blowout by Towson in a conference tournament game since we have gone D-1. The two highest were 122-58 over Buffalo in the 1992 ECC Tournament and 82-54 against Northeastern in 2017. Let's hope we can keep things at this level tomorrow.

Feels like he is playing like a guy who knows his time is running out on his college career. It seems like there has been a little extra determination and decisiveness in his play since he came back from the suspension. It is weird, prior to his suspension he looked so tentative and was giving up passes on all sorts of open shots and scoring opportunity to overpass. He was turning it over in bunches doing this. I think he has flipped the opposite way since his return and is trying to be overly aggressive. He is always a great passer event though it sometimes is accompanies by some questionable decisions. His aggression has sometimes spilled over in overenthusiastic ways. I don't think there is really anything wrong with this, but I have never seen a player who constantly looks for opportunities to throw the ball hard off other players out of bounds. Is it because he is instinctively a step ahead of the guy or is it because he is often caught in no man's land and is frustratingly trying to reset the play that has little chance to succeed. The thing that drives me the most crazy about him is his free throw shooting. He has the free-throw stroke of an 80% free throw shooter, but does not get the results. For some reason, I thought I remembered him being a mid-70% free throw shooter before the jaw injury last year but maybe I misremembering things. Out of the all the bad free throws what drives me the most crazy is that it feels like he misses the front end of the one-on-one every time. It probably just feels like that because I saw him do it in-person three times against Bryant, I believe he did it once or twice against Charleston last week, and he did it again against UNC-W. He seems less capable of making one-in-ones than even regular free throws. The knee against UNC-Wilmington was super suspect. The video of him getting tangled up with the ball boy was just weird. It looked strange, and I don't even understand if there was intent or what was going on, but I think that might be a little of reach on their part. Cam is a very weird player to root for and he can drive you crazy, but I am happy he has chosen to play here for two years, and the fact that we are 45-20 and 27-9 in the CAA with him being one of the key players on the roster is definitely a testament to what he has brought to the program overall. I give him and Skerry some credit for whatever happened during those three games and how they have approached it since. I am glad he has spent the two years here at Towson and I hope he is getting a positive experience he will take forward from it. It would also be nice if somehow he could heat up and help us win three games in DC, but I know that is probably asking too much.

The higher the seed the better since we get to host the tournament at SECU. Great showing for a first-year head coach who had to deal with a lot transfers. If we can beat Stony Brook, we will have beaten everyone in the conference except oddly enough Hofstra (who is second-to-last place at 3-13).

Man, it is hard to get outcoached when your team can't buy a bucket the last 11+ minutes. I know you can criticize coaches in general for offensive sets, management of the game and sub patterns, but when a team goes that cold it has as much or more to do with the players on the court than the coaching. I am probably one of the more optimistic people on here, and I did call this win. However, while I don't think there was anything from the players or coaches standpoint I will agree with TuTigers2012 that it was such horrific second half it was hard to know what to make out of it. Our guys fought hard, but UNC-W really did hand that game to us on a silver platter. We will gladly take it and our guys deserve credit for sticking it out, but that was the ugliest half of basketball I watched all year. Part of me thinks we are better when things go completely haywire like that, because we are probably better than just about anyone in this conference at winning ugly. Unfortunately, as many have said there can be no messing around this team has to come ready to limit turnovers, limit dumb fouls, hit our free throws, and we need contributions from everyone. That will have to happen in three straight games. This team is capable of doing it on a game-to-game basis so I am hoping for the best, but it will be extremely tough task for these guys to do it for three games in a row when it will probably have to come against Delaware, Charleston and Hofstra. March is time to reset, and hopefully we show up loose and ready to show everyone what we can do.

Any team that wants to win this tournament outside of the top two is likely going to have to beat Hofstra and Charleston in some order. I agree Hofstra is a better matchup for us than Charleston, but it is dumb to sit guys or try to lose just to make that matchup happen. Especially because both will be extremely hard to beat anyways. It is not a Hofstra is a team we could easily beat, we just match up fairly well with them. In fact, the script of our loss on the road to Charleston and Hofstra played out almost the exact same way. No matter who we play, we have to shoot well from the free-throw line, limit our turnovers, and have a distributed scoring effort where guys other than the main three step up. Heck, we probably even need that in the quarterfinal matchup to make sure we win. As for the difference between Delaware, Drexel, or for that matter Northeastern they are all teams we should beat if we show up to play, but who also terrify me in the first round of a tournament format. Honestly, this team has a lot to clean up to make sure they show up as the best version of themselves than they do figuring out how to get cute with matchups. That was gutsy effort to come back and win tonight. It was amazing that UNC-Wilmington went that cold down the stretch, the goaltending call got reversed (one angle looked like goaltending on the broadcast and other didn't), and that they did not go back to review Cam kneeing the guy in the head (although it would have been tough to assume intent, even though it looked like it might have been intentional). Still, give Christian May credit for knocking down the big three that tied it, Timberlake immense credit for hitting his free throws to keep us in it and eventually push us ahead, and even though he was a little out of control at times give Cam credit for taking over on offense to try to make things happen (I just wish I could see him hit the front end of a one-on-one at some point).

I don't think that is true. We had already lost to Fairfield and our computer numbers were not anywhere close to what they were last year. Plus at that point, Clemson's numbers were terrible too. Very few if any had those thoughts at the time. It was a good opportunity to improve those numbers and we were all pissed that it was another missed opportunity at a Power 5 win, but I don't think anyone was thinking at-large after the Fairfield loss. I also didn't realize at the time that it was going to lead to a stretch where this team completely unraveled for 4-5 games.

What a waste of a brilliant offensive night by Timberlake! Holden was trying to be the second scorer, but overall that was probably the worse game in a big moment we have seen from him. I am probably only grabbing this off the top of my head and there is no way it is correct, but it feels like Cam is a 30% free throw shooter on front-ends of a one-on-one. His stroke is fine and I don't get his free-throw struggles, it really feels all mental (which I guess is mostly what free throws are). I really didn't like the last 8-10 minutes how it felt like all we were doing on offense was trying to get the ball the Timberlake. It was very limited and Charleston was able to take advantage of the fact that we really didn't have a Plan B. On defense this felt a lot like the Hofstra road game. We came out with intensity and did a pretty good job against them for 25-30 minutes (although some of that was them missing open shots). However, the last 8-10 minutes, they either scored or got fouled. They had completely figured out our defense, our guys looked tired, and they were energized by the crowd. Unlike the Hofstra game, Skerry did actually throw a couple of possessions of zone out there and some pressing to mix it up, but nothing worked and I get the feeling he doesn't trust the players enough to mix up defenses when things aren't working. That is indictment on both him and the players. I know Charleston has been doing this all year, but that was in incredible stat line of five guys scoring 12 points and another scoring 13. They are doing what we did last year with balanced scoring at a higher level. We always have the criticism here of not having a go-to player on Towson, but Charleston doesn't really have a go-to player and it works for them. As much as I appreciated Timberlake's offensive effort and guts today, we will never win against top teams when two players take more than half our shots (especially when Cam is as bad as he was). We are at our best when everyone gets involved on offense, but those nights are hard to find because outside of the main three guys we are pretty limited on guys who can score with consistency. Finally, the fact that we shot 11 less free throws than Charleston did and scored 15 less points is pretty much the game right there. We can talk all about Skerry's history in the conference tournament, but nights like this where we shoot 14-24 from the FT line and turn the ball over 16 times are why we won't go far if we play like that. Skerry gets some blame for that, but these players are capable of doing better and I think they know that. Doing better for three straight games is the type of consistency we haven't seen this season, and why all of us have trouble envisioning three or even two high quality efforts in a row in the tournament. I still stand by the statement that we will beat UNC-W, who struggled to shake Stony Brook at home last night, on Saturday. Not that it really means anything, except grabbing wins against everyone in the league except Charleston. There is also part of me that would rather be the No. 4 seed because I think we match up better with Hofstra than Charleston.

I think we all kind of agree on that, but it is two more games against a pair of good teams that we very likely could face in DC, so why not try to see if we can figure out something and find a spark that could help in the tournament. I don't really see any downside to that. Even if we all agree that we pretty much are what we are at this point, we may as well give max effort the rest of the way no matter what the situation and see where the chips fall. The good news to this point is we generally play really tight games on the road. That means technically we are closer than we would be Hofstra and Drexel had beat us by 20 when we faced them on the road. However, I think we have all documented in some form why it is a hard hump to get over, and it is not like we will acquire player in the next day or so that will change that. We just have to hope the players meet the moment and figure something out, which I do realize would buck the general trends of our program and this year.

Totally agree that they are battle-tested and when it comes to their overall play on the road they have the third-best road record in the league, which is the biggest reason they are among the top teams in the conference. That is something they have done much better than us. My only point is there is nothing about their conference home form that tells me this an improbable game to win. I am mostly reacting to the fact that this game is one that we have no chance of winning. I think we have a very good chance to win this game. I wasn't trying to compare home to home records in conference play, but if we are I do think our resume is better at this point. We are the only 8-1 road team in the league right now (I imagine Hofstra, Charleston and probably Drexel join us by week's end). We have wins over Hofstra and Drexel (who actually is terrible on the road, but is a top 5 team in the league). Of course, UNC-W didn't get a crack at Hofstra, Delaware or Drexel at home so they very well could have the two higher quality wins we have. Our margin of victory is 13.6 at home and theirs is at 9.1. None of this really matters, but I just wanted to show the comparison that right now we definitely do have the better conference home court. To the point you are making, we have nothing on our resume on the road as good as their Drexel win last week or the Bahamas Tournament they won with wins over Missouri State, Vermont and North Texas (which I believe is the conference's highest NET win at this point). Sorry to hijack the Charleston thread with this. Hopefully, some of our bench guys can travel a little better than they have so far this year. To me things like that, cutting down on turnovers and mistakes, and trying to win a tight ball game tomorrow or Saturday are what would help us as we head to the conference tournament. Will it change who we are as a team over this whole season? Probably not, but you can always try to improve until your time runs out.

I enjoyed both Kelsey's original post and Skerry's follow-up. Well done, and completely agree that this is a good job of having fun with these rivalries.

What exactly are we risking that weren't risking last week, the week before or the week before that? Guys can get injured playing basketball, but to be scared of the seems overly cautious. I know moral victories don't count, but we have been very close to winning at Clemson, Hofstra and Drexel (who was undefeated in conference play until last week home) this year. I know we are terrible in close games and not great on the road. Why not try to put ourselves in position to play hard and try to overcome that since we won't be in the friendly confines of SECU for the CAA Tournament. Charleston is an extremely tough game and obviously a longshot to win, but the fact that winning now hurts us in the tournament seems counter intuitive. I guarantee Hofstra has more confidence they can beat them from winning there. I think it is clear Hofstra and Charleston are better teams than we are, but I would feel better if we beat them went 2-2 against the conference's top teams and went into the CAA Tournament knowing we could have won any of the four games against them. How is it any harder to beat us three times if they already have two wins against us than it would be if we actually win at their place? That doesn't seem logical, and any explanation pretty much boils down to what you personally might think, not the way the team would actually approach it. As for UNC-W, their conference home wins have come against Elon, Monmouth, NC A&T, Northeastern and Hampton. They did play Charleston extremely tough at home (so did we), and they handed William & Mary their one conference road win of the year. Several people have railed on about how bad the conference is this year and your not wrong, but to look at the UNC-W home conference resume and say we have no chance to win there is cherry-picking the facts. I happen to believe we are better than them, and we will win there. I base that on the few games I have watched of UNC-W this year and the fact that we have had a tougher conference slate than they have. I might be wrong, but it is not exactly outlandish to pick us to win there.

Maybe I am being naive, but I feel like both of these games are important to continue to build confidence to try to play our best for the conference tournament. First of all, we have two cracks at playing quality teams on the road and we have not had a quality win on road since November 17. I also feel like a win against Charleston would convince the players that they can play head up with either of the top teams having almost beat them in the first game. We believed at the beginning of the season that we were the best team in this conference. I think the conference slate has proven we are probably third or fourth (despite a ridiculously unbalanced schedule). This team should want opportunities to prove itself, and they have two big ones coming up. I don't expect to win tomorrow, but I do believe we are better than UNC-W and will beat them on Saturday. Also, any talk about resting up and trying to be sharp for the tournament is nonsense. You prepare to be a good team by preparing to consistently be the best team you can every game. Plus, the only two purposes in getting the top four bye was to be as rested as everyone else and to lessen the amount of games we would have to play as a team with limited postseason success. We are just as likely to have someone get hurt in the quarterfinal game (remember Charles Thompson last year) as we are in any of the games this week. The month of February has been an uneven month for this group, which I think emphasizes even more how important it would be to have a couple of strong performances to bring into the tournament. Ultimately, tournament play has been different for us than regular-season play, but there is really no magic formula to change that. All they can do is prepare to play their best, and try to put together some momentum heading into the tournament. I like everyone else believes that this team winning three games in three days will be incredibly difficult if it has to be Hofstra and Charleston in some order. However, all we can do is try to get the best matchup we can for the quarters, hope they show up and win that game, and then try to clear that mental hurdle of the semifinals that Skerry and for that matter this program has had since 1991.

Makes sense. I look forward to watching his development. We have to remember in this immediate gratification transfer portal age that it is also good to have some freshman who can develop and get better. I actually feel like Gibson started to figure out ways to get to the basket and score at times, and could also shoot a little better on the move than Conway can now. However, Conway seems like his overall skillset has more of a ceiling than Gibson's. I just remember reading about Gibson coming in and thinking he was a winner, and I always appreciate that he never backed down and seemed to always try to be aggressive. I will always have a place in my heart for the Gibson-Thompson-Timberlake recruiting class. I know they are limited and not high-end stars in any way, but all three are high-motor players who always seem to try to get the best out of themselves. I appreciate their contribution to this program no matter what happens. I don't get to very many games in-person living in Minnesota, but I did see their first college game against George Washington (still the only game I have seen at SECU) and I was excited for what they could do collectively. We have gone 40-23 in conference play during their time (would be higher if not for the disastrous 2020-21 season). Hopefully, we can get a good run from Thompson and Timberlake to close out their careers (I assume they won't be back, but I believe they technically can come back).

Conway is a dead-eye shooter when he gets wide open looks, but I have been disappointed in his lack of being able to score in any other way. If there is any sort of pressure on his shot, or if he has to dribble or move to get it there is a good chance it isn't going down. There have been flashes when he has hit some shots while moving off the dribble, but your point about the ball not sticking is huge because when we are moving it around Conway can get open shots and be a viable part of the offense.

Obviously with 43 points on 18-23 shooting collectively Timberlake and Thompson were pretty damn good tonight. The defensive intensity looked like 2021-22 Charles Thompson, which was good to see. I have to imagine Thompson had a chip on his shoulder after getting physically dominated in Newark earlier this year. I know everyone shot it well, but I really like the way Hicks played tonight. He was smart about the few shots he took, grabbed five rebounds, dished out seven assist (with two turnovers) and seemed to control tempo when has the main ballhandler. He also played solid defense on the night. We keep saying it, but it is important that guys like Russell, Hicks, Conway and May find ways to score cheap points so we are not looking to Nick, CT and Holden to score all of the time. We all agree that none of them can take over the game by making their own plays. They all have to play off others to heat up. Outside of Nick, no one shot it more that eight times tonight. Obviously that is an aberration, but the more the supporting cast shows up the more this team looks the way we want them to. Figuring how to get that done on the road has been an issue all year, and we will need them to show up at least once next week. Wilmington seems like the better shot. I know we haven't exactly been world beaters on the road, but I have to believe the UNC-W road game is a very winnable one. To me that is the make-or-break game to keep us in the top four. If we win that game and the NC A&T game that should get it for us. UNC-W lost to Charleston by 2 and William & Mary by 2 at home. They beat Monmouth by 3 pts and Elon by 8 at home, and crushed Northeastern (12), Hampton (17) and NC A&T (24). My point is I don't see a lot of data on UNC-W's end that winning there is an impossible task. Of course, there is a lot of data that we aren't good at winning tight games on the road. For some reason, I think that one is very winnable and I believe we will do it. Credit UNC-W for winning on the road at Drexel tonight. There are four teams with only one conference loss at home and they are Hofstra, Charleston, Drexel and us. Charleston over Towson, Hofstra over Charleston, NC A&T over Hofstra and UNC-W over Drexel stand as the most impressive road wins statistically in the conference this year. The top five teams average margin of victory at home in conference play is Charleston (21.2 ppg), Hofstra (16.9ppg), Towson (13.8 ppg), UNC-W (8.6 ppg) and Drexel (7.5 ppg). Also, while Drexel at Hampton looks like a given for them to win lets remember the Dragons are 2-6 on the road in conference play with double-figure losses at NC A&T and Elon, and losses to Monmouth and Stony Brook.

Don't know why I forgot to put them in there. I guess I was only tabulating our wins. Thanks for the add. Yeah, lets keep the floor in good shape. I don't think it is coming in a big way, but we really owe Delaware a beat down.

We have a +12.4 margin of victory at home in seven conference games (I know not the greatest competition outside of Drexel and Hofstra). Hopefully, we show up for the next two home games and play better than we have been on the road lately. Honestly, even the Hampton game was not a very high level quality of play. Regardless of what we believe this team is capable of it would be nice to see them start playing better and start at least getting some momentum back. Maybe being at home, can get Russell, Conway and May's level of play up a little bit.

I am with you and I would like to be done with that too! I think everyone would! There is no ranking of who wants to win more here. I think we all pour our emotions into this team and want to end the NCAA Tournament futility and not settle for less. We all have different ways of expressing it and being a fan. I guess I will choose to root in the moment of the season and not inject the big picture into every single minute of every single game. I just can't enjoy in that way. We are all different, but I will always question the misguided opinion that anyone on here wants to get to the tournament any more than anyone else or is any more of fan, knowledgeable or right because they complain louder and more often.

I think 100% would say this is unsuccessful season so I don't know where you get that last part from. I would have argued with you about that at the end of last year, but there is not a person on here who will do so this year.