Miami Wins Regular Season Finale.....

Maybe we should have prayed for more snow....anyhow, not our day in Oxford. We didn't score our 10th point until there were 6 minutes left in the first half, capping our third straight half of putrid offensive basketball. The spread was 11 at that point, never got within 10 and was as high as 21 in the second half. This was simply never a game (75-59).

On top of struggling to score points, Coach Orr had benched Chris Knight for missing "some" practices. He says Chris will play in the tourney, and has hopefully learned a lesson. Amen to that. Anyhow, all that adds up to real trouble, and even though Nate Miller matched his career high with 21, the rest of the effort was poor. Otis fouled out in 19 minutes, Larson contributed little statistically in 27 minutes, Clements shot 1-8 (0-5 from 3), and we were smoked on the boards. And other stuff....a better team smoked us on their floor. What are you gonna do?

So, we finish the regular season 13-16 and 7-9, and in 9th place in the 12 team conference. More post-mortem later, but suffice it to say it was going to be a tough year, early optimism notwithstanding. With Samarco, Marschall and Hamblet eventually gone from last year's already bad team, doing this well was an accomplishment.

Now we go to the Gund, where we play....The Rockets....at 5:30 on Tuesday. Bad medicine here, my friends, given that we beat them the first time, they just got their first road win since W was popular, and well, its just a feeling I have. It would be great to get a win....and then the winner plays Kent.

Anyway, more players will continue to come in next year, and I hope the program continues to grow. Right now, its the kind of season you expected, but its a third straight losing season, too.