FalconBlog--Triumphs and Trials in the BGSU Falcon Nation

Falcon Hoops Review Part I

--or, where I drank some bad kool aid and wrote down what I thought.

If you've read the DaVinci Code, you've read the part about the Opus Dei guy (The Albino) wrapping barbed wire around his thigh as a testament to his devotion to the cause. Consider that a metaphor for the 2005-06 Year in Review. Appropriate to the metaphor, I will start with my own predictions on what the season would look like, in all its painful glory. (Let he who has not sinned....)

Basically, I thought we would start off slowly and get better, and finish about .500. Instead, we started off slowly and did worse, and finished with our worst record in 20 years. The left hand column represents how we did...the right hand column represents what I thought was going to happen. Picks in red are ones I missed.

I got 18 right (missing 11), and that's without even knowing who the Bracket Buster opponent would be (although I would have picked us to beat Wright State at home).

Its all not too bad until you get to that little 4 of 5 run I saw at the end, and see it turned into 0-5. I only picked us to lose three times where we actually ended up winning--(Toledo, @Kent and @Virginia Tech), so 9 times I thought we would win and we lost (again, with four of those coming down the stretch). Finally, in full disclosure, two of the 18 right picks were picking us to beat a non-DI team, so that doesn't really count.

We'll dig into the gory details soon, but suffice it to say that we did not improve like a young team should, and we finished playing our worst basketball of the season, and two players have left after that. Ouch.

Thu	11/10/05	Western Carolina	Blacksburg, Virginia	L	W
Sat	11/12/05	Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, Virginia	W	L
Sun	11/13/05	Radford	Blacksburg, Virginia	L	L
Sat	11/19/05	Urbana	Bowling Green, Ohio	W	W
Wed	11/30/05	Oakland	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	W
Sat	12/03/05	Bradley	Peoria, Ill.	L	L
Sat	12/10/05	Arkansas-Little Rock	Little Rock, Arkansas	L	L
Sat	12/17/05	Florida State	Mobile, Alabama	L	L
Mon	12/19/05	Troy	Troy, Alabama	W	W
Thu	12/29/05	Notre Dame (OH)	Bowling Green, Ohio	W	W
Wed	01/04/06	Central Michigan	Bowling Green, Ohio	W	W
Sat	01/07/06	Western Michigan	Kalamazoo, Michigan	L	L
Wed	01/11/06	Northern Illinois	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	L
Sun	01/15/06	Toledo	Bowling Green, Ohio	W	L
Wed	01/18/06	Eastern Michigan	Ypsilanti, Michigan	W	W
Sat	01/21/06	Ball State	Muncie, Indiana	L	L
Tue	01/24/06	Buffalo	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	W
Thu	01/26/06	Kent State	Kent, Ohio	W	L
Sun	01/29/06	Akron	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	W
Wed	02/01/06	Miami (Oh)	Oxford, Ohio	L	L
Sat	02/04/06	Ohio	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	L
Tue	02/07/06	Eastern Michigan	Bowling Green, Ohio	W	W
Sat	02/11/06	Toledo	Toledo, Ohio	L	L
Tue	02/14/06	Akron	Akron, Ohio	L	L
Sat	02/18/06	Bracket Buster	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	W
Tue	02/21/06	Kent State	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	W
Sun	02/26/06	Buffalo	Buffalo, NY	L	W
Wed	03/01/06	Miami (Oh)	Bowling Green, Ohio	L	W
Sat	03/04/06	Ohio	Athens, Ohio	L	L