There are certain teams and certain styles that certain teams just don't match up with. Iowa St. and K.State (thanks Tang!) are those two for us this year. Say what you want about effort and quitting (Ha!) and Drew (HaHa!), but there is a reason we lost to Iowa State twice and K State twice. These two teams are tough defensive, grind you into the ground type of teams. They are blue collar and very physical. A good comparison was the National Championship game when our in-your-face, work-for-every-shot team just cut the legs right out from under Gonzaga. No different than what Iowa St. and KState (and Marquette) did to us this year. Our guards are undersized and our bigs are not offensive threats. Now the question is, can we do something about it after two beat downs during the regular season? This first round game will say a lot about our tournament chances. If we don't recover and adjust then we have just certified the blueprints on how to beat Baylor. Time for our coaches and players to make the necessary adjustments to beat this menace.

If it was to get our team fired up, I'm sad to say it didn't work.

wongobear said:

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Timbear said:

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How is it possible, that on Sr Day, last home game of the Ferrell Center era, virtual packed house just waiting to erupt, the team is not energized? It doesn't make sense. Drew needs to read his room better, but he said he depends on a player led team, not a coach led team. His words after the Natty win.

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Can anyone who was at the game comment on Drew's technical foul? Did it look more like he was trying to get the team fired up or that he actually lost control?

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1:36 mark of the 1st half, about the 49:00 mark of the replay. IowaSt puts up a 3 from left baseline. Bonner under basket with Kunc from IowaSt. Kunc hooks Bonner's right arm with his left, and when ball bounces off rim comes around and rabbit punches Bonner in the face with his right fist while still hooking him. Bonner goes flying down out of bounds. Ref under basket calls common foul with no apparent attempt to review. Drew goes ballistic and points at ref right in front of the punch. Older ref at half court who had no view of play under basket immediately T's him up. This was after 3-4 no calls when IowaSt was clearly shoving on defense or going over the back on rebounds.

During the game I was noticing that the tall dark haired ref was the one with the most dubious calls. On the broadcast I noticed Fran said that he (Casey) was a young ref who had never called a BU game and the older ref T'd up Drew to protect him. Cursory review of replay because refs aren't going to retract a T they called for pointing out they missed an obvious Flagrant 1.

We've been blown out several times this year, we should definitely know what loss feels like