SF Austin vs. Furman (Dec. 17th 4:30pm)(Bon Secours Wellness Arena)
Couldn't watch because of a family get together so I followed on my phone. Up 27-10 looking good. Up 44-22 at the half. Wow, gonna be a blow-out!
Checked again about 30 min. later and it was 60-60 and I thought there was something wrong with the damn cell phone.
Checked again and it was 72-68 SFA with 39 secs. AW S**t.
Then it was FU 72-70 Final. How did that happen?
You won't believe how unstressful it is to watch on replay. The first half, except for some early turnovers, was the best BB we've played all year. The D was very very good.
The second half was bad but I never saw any panic in any player or coach. And the effort was 100% even if the ball handling wasn't very good.
Injured players or not SFA was a good win.
Checked again about 30 min. later and it was 60-60 and I thought there was something wrong with the damn cell phone.
Checked again and it was 72-68 SFA with 39 secs. AW S**t.
Then it was FU 72-70 Final. How did that happen?
You won't believe how unstressful it is to watch on replay. The first half, except for some early turnovers, was the best BB we've played all year. The D was very very good.
The second half was bad but I never saw any panic in any player or coach. And the effort was 100% even if the ball handling wasn't very good.
Injured players or not SFA was a good win.
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Attendance was 4,117 which is a little disappointing but considerng the time/situation not too bad.
FurmAlum, they had a 3 point shot originally ruled good but changed to shot clock violation,
Yep we gotta clean up the ball handling, good thing the schedule sets up nice right now for us to work on some thingsFurmAlum wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:46 pmCouldn't watch because of a family get together so I followed on my phone. Up 27-10 looking good. Up 44-22 at the half. Wow, gonna be a blow-out!
Checked again about 30 min. later and it was 60-60 and I thought there was something wrong with the damn cell phone.
Checked again and it was 72-68 SFA with 39 secs. AW S**t.
Then it was FU 72-70 Final. How did that happen?
You won't believe how unstressful it is to watch on replay. The first half, except for some early turnovers, was the best BB we've played all year. The D was very very good.
The second half was bad but I never saw any panic in any player or coach. And the effort was 100% even if the ball handling wasn't very good.
Injured players or not SFA was a good win.
Ill give CU fans some credit though, it was cool to see the majority of them pulling for us in the final minutes yesterday
Richmond also lost to William and Mary, who are sub 300 in the Pomeroy rankings. Richmond made the NCAA tourney last year mainly because they had about 5 5th and even 6th year seniors who decided to stay and use their extra Covid year. Those guys are are all gone now and replaced by less experienced guys who have been inconsistent. Richmond has been bad away from home and mediocre at home. Clemson also lost to Loyola Chicago which has only one win against a team rated in the top 240 in D1. Yes, I think we would do better than Richmond.Oh yeah Clemson also lost to South Carolina who we beat by almost 20.affirm wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:49 amWould we have done better against Clemson last night than Richmond did?
And would we have done as well as 7-4 Davidson did yesterday if it had been us instead of Davidson* playing #1, 11-0 Purdue?
Two surprising outcomes.
(As you may know, and documented elsewhere by affirm in UFFP, Richmond and Davidson are 2 of the 22 colleges considered as “peer colleges” by Furman.
Others with athletics programs similar to Furman include Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, and Bucknell. None of those is doing super so far this year, although Colgate won at Syracuse. Holy Cross had a super year in FCS, but in basketball so far they’re 3-8 with no wins of particular note.)
*Davidson stayed close to Purdue entire game (played at Indy). Davidson appears getting stronger in time for A-10. So far, other than the “close” loss to Purdue, their only losses were a couple of 2-pt games (one in OT), and one “bad” loss to CofC.
Purdue had to go to OT to beat 6-6 Nebraska the game before they played Davidson. They have some good victories on their resume but have played down to some opponents. I haven't seen them play this year but most seasons they are big man focused and can have trouble in games that they aren't hitting enough threes to open up the post.
Came across this, I had forgotten about it
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I noticed that too. The game yesterday was a rare one. Been watching FU basketball a long time and FU winning on a last second shot is certainly a novelty. The only 2 that come to mind was a couple ov tip ins. The one in the CBI against La. Monroe and Croone’s tip in against WC. Can anyone else remember an actual game winning shot?FU Hoopla wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:35 pmIll give CU fans some credit though, it was cool to see the majority of them pulling for us in the final minutes yesterday
I know some folks on here don't care for Clemson, but I'll say this... I know a lot of Clemson people who pull for Furman. I also remember back in the 80s when we had a lot of home football playoff games, many Clemson fans attended our games.FU Hoopla wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:35 pmIll give CU fans some credit though, it was cool to see the majority of them pulling for us in the final minutes yesterday
It could, fortunately it was not called. Funny thing Bothwell got a Tech down in the Charleston Classic after scoring a bucket and you can see here he goes right to Slawson to nudge him back down court, Bothwell learned something from his Tech apparently
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I'd hate for a facial expression to justify a technical. Of course, I've seen some strange calls. -- MD
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I think if Slawson had leaned toward or taken even the slightest step toward the opposing player, they would have called it. The look alone would have been a pretty harsh call IMHO.
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