I'm even less of a savant than 100% Cat, but I agree with his assessment. My fears heading into this game about the tempo and being able to stay with them physically throughout the entire game really came into play at the end. Combine that with some lights-out shooting and it was really tough to overcome. They will win this thing.

 

This was the most SHOULDA, COULDA, WOULDA season I can remember for a long time and last night was not different.  

Some will say poor defense is what lost the game.  I would say that shooting 68% has less to do with poor offense than it does just making shots. When you run an offense like VMI there will be lots of open looks.  It won't be that often that they hit 68%.  There were a few glaring defensive gaffs but if they were shooting a regular percentage they would not have stuck out so much.  Like has been mentioned many times before, you cannot assume that if just incident was different that everything else would have remained exactly the same. Who knows what might have been if only.....

That being said, and before someone else brings it up, allowing the pass down court late in the game did seal our fate.

In my opinion much was gained from this tourney and the expense of being in the tourney was justified.  

 

They are spot on ALan. The double team was doing well then we went kind of one on one from the 7 min mark in the 1st and started chucking up shots early in the shot clock with no rebounding. TC and the bigs got a series of fouls in succession and that is when the wheels started coming off. Helped in the early going that VMI was missing a lot of shots which they did not in the 2nd