About Last Night....

Yeah.  Um.  .  That wasn't pretty.

Here's what Coach Orr said...as quoted in The Blade.

"It was a tough game to watch," Bowling Green coach Louis Orr said. "We didn't have any answers -- offensively, defensively -- we had no answers.

"If you had to draw up a worst-case scenario, this was probably it."

Hard to argue with that.

According to the Blade, there was a players-only meeting after the game. Here's what Scott Thomas said....

"We're still in the hunt [for a MAC Tournament bye] because everyone is so close. We have to think about this game, and think about what happened, but have a short-term memory and get ready for the next game."

And about this, he is exactly correct.  Keyword, short term memory.

I'm recommending something like this.




Because it was pretty horrifying.  Akron set an Anderson Arena record (one that is destined now to live in absolute perpetuity) by making 16 3s.  Overall, they shot 57% from beyond the arc...a percentage no team should get for all their FGs.  On a points per possession basis, it was BG's worst defensive game of the season, and probably on a bunch of categories that I haven't checked yet.  At 35 points, the margin was just one point better than the awful Duquesne match up, also on our home floor.

The offense was not much better.  BG had .84 points per possession and shot 30% overall, and 0% from beyond the arc.

You could literally write forever on the downsides of the game, but after a while, you'd just be wallowing in it.

NCAA Basketball Stats

Just one more thing on that.  At 10 minutes in, BG was only down 17-14.  From that point forward, in 30 minutes, Akron outscored BG 72-40.

College Basketball Stats

So, here's the thing....a point Scott Thomas made earlier.  This team has been here before after starting 1-8.  This doesn't count any more than a 1-point loss...unless you decide it does.  Everyone we will play is flawed, but our last 4 games are against what appear to be the 4 best teams in the MAC.  This team is certainly capable of winning and making last night an aberration.

But, it will require short-term memory.