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Observations on College Hoops

- Matt McQuaid played 34 minutes and had 12 pts, 5 boards, and 3 assists last night vs KU. He looks to be a solid role player throughout his college career for Sparty. It would have been interesting to see how he would have fit in Mac's system.

- Ian Steere played 5 minutes in NC St.'s 105-55 win over Mt. St. Mary's.

- Duke and KU looked good.

- Providence stud Fr. AJ Reeves scored 29pts last night in a 10 point win over Siena.

- Ronnie Harrell lead his team with 33 minutes in a win over Maine. He had 18pts, 13 boards, 1 assist, 4 TOs, and 4 blocks

Random thoughts /complaining/how can we fix this thread.

Thought with the way things are going we would have a thread where we bounce ideas/theories off one another. What's wrong and how can we fix this.

My first thought is this. Why when we get one injury everything goes to hell. Other teams have injuries but seem to find a way to get thru. So let's look back. Mo goes down. We have no point guard. Martin goes down. We have no big guys (redshirt had to be pulled) Jefferson goes down. We have no one to take his place.
Instead of us saying-" ok let's try Martin at the four n Sam at the five "we never considerate it Not sure it would work but our answer is always four , guards, two point guards etc. I mean why can't we say "Jefferson out. Ok Bishops his back up so he starts". Instead we have NO back up for DJ. Our response is let's go small Because of let it fly we never recruit a 6-8 guy who's a good defender, bangs the boards. If a guy can't shoot 3's he can't play for us.
This isn't breaking news --we have a junk offense. If we make enough threes we win. If not we have no other way to win.
Plus the type of players we recruit for let it fly--are we incapable to have that player who can also defend?? If we get one we are lucky.

I get we are young. But even if these guy mature and grow as players-- with this style not sure that we won't always have to hit tons of shots and hope some guy on the other team has an off night.

There is my rant. Let's hear yours.

DePaul Game Thread

https://creighton.rivals.com/news/depaul-preview-21
Oh yeah there is a big game tonight. Preview is up. Jays -7.5. KenPom has us by 8. We usually have our way with DePaul bc they really don't provide much resistant to the style we like to play. Stus has been going off, but I have confidence the guys won't lose him. DePaul didn't really show it the first time bc Reed and Olujobi were in foul trouble, but they can be a handful on the boards.

Providence Game Thread

https://creighton.rivals.com/news/providence-preview-20

Preview is up. Winning at Marquette on Sunday won't mean much if they can't win these last two home games where they will be decent size favorites.

Because of PC's style...I don't really like them as favorites bc they have usually struggled to score, but I think very highly of them in an underdog role.

With that being said, I'm a little uneasy of this game on Wednesday. The Friars get more than a week off to prepare and the Jays are coming off a big win.
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