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Originally Posted by ALLND62  Granger I agree with your post we get no love......maybe this is the year they can't take it away from us. |
First, HOORAY for TORY JAckson! That kid played like a champion tonight! The team as a whole showed me the best game thay've played in YEARS! Terrific persistence down the last 12 minutes. Great job!
Two, let's face facts. ND hasn't won a Tournament game in five years. They're not getting "no love". They're getting what 0 fer five years deserves. This year, until tonight, I didn't see anything to justify real respect. The preseason schedule is a flat out fraud. They got SMOKED by GTown and Marquette early in the conference schedule, and they blew the second UConn game, and NEARLY blew the games to Marquette and Rutgers too. They were looking, when you get objective about it, like another good candidate for an early plane ride home from wheever the first weekend finds them. TONIGHT was a BIG change. They played hard, stayed consistent. Survvived a cold spell and came back strong. Jackson played like a warrior. Harangody, too. Mac made some timely three's, and then, even more impressive, DIDN'T go on a gunning spree. This was a fine, fine performance, and the FIRST one I've seen this year that says they may stick around in the Dance for a while. However, they have NOT been treated unfairly with the bracketlogy to date.
Three, I continue to se one glaring trouble spot. Luke Zeller. He's a 6'11" guy who plays shorter than TORY JACKSON is. Tonight, when Hillesland pulled foul #4, and Kurz was already sitting with #4, Brey couldn't go to Zeller to play under neath. He had to re-insert Kurz. A 6'11" shooting guard, we do NOT need. (He was 1 for 4 tonight, and 0 fer 3 from outside the arc.) This guy has to help underneath. 'Gody and Kurz need him down there.