by Wayne23 » Wed May 05, 2021 2:52 pm
3/11: 75-68. We came out flat. I didn't call a time out and yelled to them that I wasn't going to. That didn't work so I put in the entire 2nd team. They wanted to play but it didn't get much better. We were up by only 1 at the break. It took a long time, and we never established a big lead, but we got the win.
No stand out player. 6 guys had between 14 and 9.
+5 RBs. They were worse from the line than we were- 62.5% for us, 51.9% for them. We held them to 40.7% but they made 10 threes. Once again, we won it in the paint, 38-16.
Disastrous injury. Starting PG Brian Ward broke his left foot and his season and college career are over. We'll put Gazu at the Point and Mike Wins at SG, but this certainly hurts our chances moving forward.
And, as expected, it's #2 seed, #4 ranked Georgetown, 29-4, 12-4, for the title. And for the third time this season we play them at less than full strength. They won by 3 in OT at our place and then we won by 2 at their place.
We need to stop their SG, or at least control him, and we need to come up big inside against a very good inside team. We hold a slight statistical edge in most areas but poor free throw shooting could do us in if all else is about equal, which it may well be.