Mack Jones- The Hard Way

[Wayne23]

13-15, Minnesota in the round of 8. Beat ‘em by 10 and 21. Greg Bray is back to 100%. It was a tough injury but it happened at a good time.

March 10: 78-56. No stand out performances but everyone played well and the D was solid.

All the favorites won. We’ll play 16-12, 9-7 Iowa in the semis. Beat ‘em by 39 at home but later only by 10 there.

March 11: 78-52. Never a game. Again, a real team effort, everyone contributed, on both ends.

It will be #23 West Lafayette, 22-7, 12-4, for the title. I really thought Indiana would beat them even though they finished 2nd. We won by 11 at their place in our only meeting.

March 12: 86-60. We were at our best. 29, 5, 5 for Witt, 21, 3, 7 for Kann. +9, +6.

The only question is whether we’ll be #1 or #2 overall. We are ranked #2,
RPI #1. I think we’ll be #1 in the East.

North Carolina got #1 overall. I’m kind of surprised. We’re #2 overall, #1 in the Midwest. (As always, if everyone wins the two best teams in the nation will play in the semifinals not the finals. This has been wrong since the very first edition of this game. Can’t imagine that it would be that hard to fix.)

[Wayne23]

Stony Brook, 20-10 is up first. This won’t be pretty.

March 16: 86-47. As expected.

#9 seed, 18-13 Cincinnati is next.

March 18: 72-46. Again, no contest.

We head for the Sweet Sixteen, and now the games will be competitive. Time to get serious and get focused. We were for the first two games but it’s difficult to play teams that aren’t in our weight class. That will no longer be the case.

#5 seed, #20 ranked Stanford is 20-10. Very good at SG. We beat them by 39 at home but this will probably be tougher.

March 23: 86-73. Their SG kept them close for quite a while but we had too many weapons. Our D could have been better but our O was all I want it to be. Too many TOs, 15, but 44 RBs (+22).

Indiana in the Elite Eight. Two close games, beat them by 7 there and then 15 at home. If we play our game we should win but we need to be focused. They do have a starter and a sub hurt. Starting SG will be hobbled, if he plays at all.

March 25: 78-69, and back to the Final Four! We never trailed, and we were up by 17 with 6 min. to go.