by Wayne23 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:39 pm
(September 27, 2014)
“It was perty good ta be sittin’ in the cat bird seat as defendin’ champs an’ #1 ranked preseason. I wasn’t about ta let my kids git swelled heads though. I’d work that out of ‘em! We did have a heckuva team comin’ back.
“2 scholarships. Lookin’ at 10 recruits.
“8 on the Norton Lis’ includin’ #3, PF Trey Hall, #4, SF Joe Goff, #6 SF Ben Olin, #8 PF Mike Hess, #9 PG Jay Tuck, #10 PG Steve Aron.
“No in season tourney this year. Scheduel is perty loaded. In conf. we play the 3 bes’ teams on the road late. Uh oh! Got my 2 recruits, one big, one PG, both top 10.
“1, 2, 3, 5, 6 all in our conf. We’re #1 but wow!
“Ready ta start the season. I got the hosses.
“6 of our 1st 8 on the road.
“Crushed both #18 Stanford an’ #24 Utah at their places. Great 1st week.
“Ben Olin got 52 aginst Georgetown!
“Trey Hall got 24 an’ 22 aginst UCLA. We’re 5-1. A bad night aginst Auburn when the shots wouldn’t drop.
“Agin, 4 games in the las’ week a the year. What’s goin’ on with that? 3 in conference.
“Won all 4, BIG! We’re 11-1. 3-0, #2, RPI #1. Avergin’ 45.0 RBs, 8.2 TOs. Helluva team!
“3 game week endin’ at #6 Duke. Beat ‘em, 87-65; 35 fer Olin, 26 fer Goff, +21 RBs. We’re killin’ everbody right now. 15-1, 7-0. Still #2 ta Syracuse. We play ‘em at our place this week.
“Beat #1 Syracuse 95-70. 32, 12 fer Goff, 24, 13, 5 fer Olin, +26 RBs! I call that emphatic!
“Beat #8 North Carolina by 20. How Syracuse is still #1 completely mystifies me. We’re #2, RPI #1. What’s it take!
“Well we’re at Syracuse this week, an’ at #3 Louisville 3 days later. That’ll tell a lot.
“Beat Syracuse 86-67 at their place. Beat Louisville 80-60 at their place. Great week! 2 game lead in conference. Finally ranked #1!
“We en’ the reg’ler season at 26-1, 18-0. #1, RPI #1. We won the conference by 2 over Syracuse, 4 or more over everbody else. Averged 43.9 RBs an’ 9.0 TOs.
“Trey Hall is #3 on the Norton Lis’.
“We play #9 seed NC State in the quarter finals.
“75-40. #6 ranked, #4 seed Louisville is nex’.
“98-72. It’s #2 ranked, 74-63#2 seed Syracuse fer the title. Trey Hall hurt his hip but he’ll play.
“Beat 'em easy. We should be #1 overall in the NCAAs. Hess hurt his back. He won’t be 100% fer our firs’ game but he’ll play. Hall might be 1005, er close at leas’.
“Yep, #1 in the Eas’.
“We cruised ta the Sweet Sixteen where we faced #5 seed Western Kentucky.
“97-59. Syracuse got upset by Cincinnati. Then North Carolina an’ Louisville got upset. Nex’ is Maryland in the Elite Eight. Beat ‘em by 14 early in the year.
“106-62. My guys is real focused. On ta the final four. We’ll play #13 Cincinnati, an’ #19 Duke will play #10 UConn. The path is wide open fer us ta repeat.
“82-52, an’ it’s #10 UConn fer the title. We beat ‘em by 21 at our place in December.
“98-79. On’y question I got about this whole season is how the heck did we lose ta Auburn in the 2nd game a the season? An’ guess what? We on’y got 1 guy graduatin’! Threepeat!!!
“Awards: Trey Hall got tourney MOP an’ made the national 1st team. Jay Goff was national freshman a the year. I got the national coach a the year award. In conference Goff got the rookie award, Trey Hall made 1st team, Goff an’ Olin made 2nd team.
“Lots a real good job offers but I ain’t ever leavin’ here.
“I axed fer a facilities upgrade but I didn’t ‘spec’ ta git it. An’ I didn’t!
“Team Prestige is 100, my record is 520-160, .765. Reputation is 98. Let’s go fer that threepeat!