Cronin 2, Mentors 0

by Jimmy Dinsmore 1/31/2008 7:06:00 AM

I'm almost speechless at the outcome of the UC/WVU game. I thought it would be close and I was hoping UC could pull off the upset. But, wow. That was just something. That was a great win for Mick (you know he had to be smiling on the inside). That had to be agony for Huggins, not for losing to Mick, but for the absolute egg his team laid. You can't coach a team that shoots like that. No set plays or screens or anything can save you from less than 20% shooting. Wouldn't you like to know what, if anything, Huggins said to his team after that stinker? Perhaps they were disturbed by Huggins, Mr. Blackwell-worthy, yellow pimp-daddy suit, with matching yellow shoes. What was that? Makes you yearn for the mock turtle neck days, doesn't it? Anyway, this win goes a long way for the Cats. It's a road Big East win, which has been hard to come by. It will give them confidence again, which helps. Just as beating Cronin's other Mentor, Rick Pitino and Louisville on the road helped turn their season around.

But, make no mistake, had the Mountaineers been able to make shots, UC's performance was not good enough to win. How this team can't make a free throw just blows me away. That's inexcusable. Mick should make them shoot hundreds every day. But, let's all rejoice in this win, I know I will.

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On a side note, who was the woman doing color commentary last night? It will sound sexist, but I hate when women do play-by-play or commentary in men's games. I don't really know why. Her comments weren't that bad, to be honest, but I still don't like it.  

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1/31/2008 8:03:51 AM

Adam Bartel

Trust me, there's nothing sexist about saying that Doris Burke sucks as a color commentator. There are knowledgeable women broadcasters out there. She's not one of them.

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1/31/2008 9:43:37 AM

Jeremy Fischer

True Dat on Adam's comment. I acutally enjoy listening to what Stacey Dales has to say. She knows her stuff. Doris Burke, not so much.

Great win for the Cats. But you're right on Jimmy. They still allowed way too many open looks for my taste.

However; my question is this: How much of that is a product of WVU's poor shooting performance. I mean at some point if you're a Cats defender, don't you just slack off so has to not give up anything easy inside, seeing that WVU is struggingly mightily from the field, and then just dare them to try and shoot their way out of it?

I don't know that they would have given up quite as many open looks to the Mountaineers if WVU was shooting better than 20%.

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