Yep, overall he's good, and he didn't do as many ball screen analyses last night.

Gotta break free from the numbers. How about the A-MAC?

Yeah the non-con home slate has decayed. The close higher profile schools don't wanna play anymore. We had to leverage the Hoop Hall to get us BC this year, and Springfield was the best we could do.

And then when we lay the occasional egg at Mullins against Central CT or Lowell, watch out.

Don't jinx it but Bowling Green is decent this year. They just beat K State by 16 in Manhattan on Monday.

The argument about directional Michigan schools is valid though.

I did a road trip to St. Bonaventure / Olean once. Pretty unlikely that I'm ever make a road trip to Mount Pleasant for Central Michigan.

This is what some will argue: with the A10's slide into one-bid territory, what difference does it make if we're in a one-bid MAC league?
Hard to come back against that.

I'm not sure I'd characterize it as accelerating our decline, but it certainly isn't going to help. You're spot on about trying to draw a crowd for Western / Central / Eastern Michigan on a Tuesday.

I share this view.
We saw what UConn did with their run to the Fiesta Bowl in 2011, and said why not us? Problem was: we tried to do it on a shoestring budget and with lack of institutional/statehouse support.
We all see where that got us.

Calipari got us on a meteoric rise and a slide was all but inevitable. The amount of slide is the eternal debate.
Student interest is indeed frustrating, but we've been meh for a decade now so part of me gets it.

Banks 29 (10-19 / 5-9 / 4-4), plus 4 boards ⭐
Bettiol 18 & 5 but also 5 turnovers
Ndjigue 10-6-3
Parker 10 pts in 7 min off the bench, might have been more but 4 fouls
DHS 7 & 4, just 5 FGAs
Carbuccia 4 & 3 plus 13 assists ❤️
Clerc 4 boards
Luka & Wimbley 1 board each

UM got a little lucky that Harvard, who came in at 37% from 3 on the season, only went 16% (3-19) tonight.
UM's 67% from the stripe. Better than average, which itself is not great, but still work to do.
-1 on the glass, and interior D allowed 42 points in the paint.

2/2 Frank...
Need DHS and Leo to be better, Leo disengaged defensively.
Gotta correct these inconsistencies.
Bench needs to help more.
Placide (foot) out for a bit.
Likes the Harvard rivalry. Playing them makes us better. Respect for Amaker.

Frank postgame...
Happy for the first 26 minutes, awful 12 minutes after that.
Thank God for Banks. Likes his confidence. Gotta learn to play with more pace. Tries to do a bit too much off the dribble, but Frank tries not to hold him back. Played thru some early season bruises.
1/2

Mind-boggling to think how UM's run in the mid 90's might have hurt the program overall.

Banks leads all scorers with 13 pts (5-10 / 3-5)
Ndjigue has shots falling (3-5 / 1-1), 7-2-2
Parker 8 pts but limited with 2 fouls
Leo 6 & 3 and 4-4 from the stripe
Danny 2-3-5
DHS 2 boards, 0-3 FG
Clerc 2 boards, 0-2 FG
Luka 1 board
Wimbley minutes

Jay Burnham said Placide might not play tonight.

Dude, that’s been a discussion on my board since about 2002.

Threes aren't falling for the M'women, but they are shooting 74% from 2 at the half, +7 on the glass, and forced the Huskies into at least some of their 13 turnovers.
38-23 UM

I don't remember a team incident from that time, but I do remember that season had the Mike Williams trouble near the end of the season. A big "what if" for sure.
Years later, and unfortunately at Mike's funeral, it was nice to see Calipari go and pay his respects.

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