by Wayne23 » Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:43 pm
Virginia is 26-7, 10-6. 6-1 in the last 7. Finished 4th, lost in the 2nd round. Tough inside but guards can be pressured. That’s what we’ll do. Our bigs have taken us this far so we feel good about this one.
4/1: 63-53. They owned the first half, led by as many as 9, 5 at the half. At the half I talked about keeping the pressure on their guards and it worked.
We went at their PG and he fouled out. We knew the back up was weak and that did it. The last 10 minutes belonged to us.
+6, even, 31-32%.
23, 4, 2, 3 for Mack, 15, 15, 2, 1, 5 for Garr, 6, 3, 8, 3 for Brown.
We’ll play #1 Kansas, 34-1, 16-0, for the title. They lost their season opener to UCLA and never lost again. They play incredible D. They play 6 guys and all 6 can PLAY! They score inside and out, rebound, and take care of the ball. This is a tall order.
4/3: We were up 11 at the half. They came and took a three point lead with 1:31 to go.
Mack came down and hit a 12 footer, down 1, 1:11. We fouled, they hit the first, missed the 2nd, Garr got the RB, down 2, :52.
Brown took it himself, threw up a 3 and it went in. up 1, :24. We fouled their C with :09 left and he hit both. Down 1.
I took a TO. Mack had to take this shot. He’s our guy and we were going to live or die with him. They doubled him but Call set a great screen (Garr had fouled out) and Mack worked off it to shake both defenders.
He put up a 14 footer and it went in with :01 left. Final score 64-63 and we’re the champs!
What a feeling!
-12, +3, 39-32%, fouls 20-22. Our bigs beat theirs, our guards beat theirs but their bench almost did enough to win.
24, 9, 1, 2, 3 for Mack in his last college game. 14, 4, 2, 1, 1 for Garr, 10, 1, 6, 3 for Brown in his last game, 9, 4, 2, 1, 2 for Wilk, 6,4 for Day. The bench got 1 point but 6 RBS, 5 assists.
I’d forgotten what an incredible feeling this is.
36-2, 14-2.
4/4: Awards: Mack won the Norton and the tourney MOP and made national 1st team. I got Coach of the Year. In conf., Mack was POY and 1st team, along with Garr. Brown led the nation in assists and didn’t make the conf. team? Makes no sense.
4/9: Huge job offers, Oklahoma State and Wake Forest will get visits from me.
Going to Wake Forest. They have 7 excellent players returning and 2 outstanding recruits. Their budget ($400,000) and facilities (A+) are top shelf and I’ll go from a salary $161,000 to $1,213,000.
4/16: Time to hire a staff. Great staff!
4/23: I’ll ask for time. They gave me 3 years. Nope. Oh well, 3 years should be enough.
4/30: My numbers: 399-104, .793 after 15 seasons.
Off. 65, Def. 95, Recruit 99, Scout 9, Player Dev. 80, Reputation 82.
Some people are shocked that I would leave the defending champs but I was losing too much and they couldn’t come close with salary, budget and facilities. Two titles at Washington, great memories, a wonderful place to live, but time to move on.