Every year it's fun to read New names complain about the program. The same old crew of people who post frequently when things are good get replaced by the Jay Wright haters and Debby owners. I understand this is a place to vent I just think it's funny how most people only post when the chips are down

Great season, tough night
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.... until proven otherwise.

Pretty disappointing but that's reality. Nice job in November and December, though.....

We suck at it. I thought we had crossed that hurdle after the BET, but NOOOOO. People are barking up the wrong tree with talent. Plenty of teams go on deep tourney runs without NBA talent. We lost because we can't handle our own nerves. I told my wife after we went up 21-20 or whatever it was and promptly lost it that we were going to lose. I felt it in the way they were shooting. Ochefu with the missed layups and dunks....multiple airballs from deep....not getting 50/50 balls.

Jay needs a different approach...figure out how to get his team's mentally prepared to go when the pressure is greatest. I'm talking out of ass here a bit, but whatever this one game at a time thing is supposed to do isn't working. Our guys cracked under pressure again.

...Jay Wright...per text from a "friend"...my phone is blowing up with "well wishes"...

I just was able to bring myself to watch that last minute of the game. On Ennis's three attempt....he obviously was wide open, however there was so much more to it. JVP slip screened the top he was wide open in the paint. Even though Ennis missed him, JVP was there for the rebound with a guard behind him. He was in perfect position for a rebound. In saying that, the shot of course caromed off to the right which the only place we wouldn't have gotten the rebound. That summed up the entire game. We were a step slow identifying the open guy and when we were in position for a rebound the ball bounces in the other direction. Oh, and josh hart was open in the left.

I will not sleep until Tuesday at the earliest.

Great players. Great representatives of the university and class acts. Pinkston sacrificed for the good of the team.

This one stings. I'm already sick of the Nova is overrated talk but we deserve that criticism for the last few tournaments.

Great season but a salty taste in my mouth again.... Go Cats.

Never have I been so upset...

When the Nation is watching in March, and it's time to put up or shut up,
The perception in Rollie's tenure was that you DIDN'T want to play Nova.
The perception now in JW's tenure is you WANT to play Nova.

Right or wrong, hunter vs. hunted arguments aside, along with any other peripheral rationalizations, that's reality.

I feel bad for the team, and as a fan, feel that all that positive energy and glow from a historic year by Nova standards, went up in smoke, especially coming off last year's abrupt ending.

You have to really appreciate what being a Nova fan is. We've had tremendous success. These past 2 years have been awesome. The team play has been a joy to watch. Unselfish and inspired.

That said, I think a lot of what I feel in the sense of disappointment is the perception that now Nova is becoming the team you want to play in March rather then team to avoid. That hurts.

You have to see and accept the burden of expectations to be successful.
Maybe we haven't done a good job there.

It's a year till next March. JW is a great coach and is a wonderful representative for Nova hoops, but he needs to recognize that gorilla on his back rather then avoid it. It's growing larger by the year.
It's not so much about roster, break down guards, bigs or 4 guard lineups. We had plenty of opportunities to win last nite. Make March your mission. That's what we ultimately will remember and celebrate as Nova Nation.
We won the BE tourney. Small monkey dead, but the gorilla of March is there and growing.
Let's hope he kills it next March. Unfortunately it's a year away just to have a shot at killing it.

From Dana ONeil. Had to laugh at the Bills comment being from upstate Ny.

Let the criticism begin. Should the Wildcats have been a 1-seed? Is Villanova vastly overrated? Are the Cats basketball’s Buffalo Bills, good in the regular season and a postseason flameout? Those are all fair questions, and all certain to be asked after what can only go down as an epic disaster of a loss for the Wildcats. Six years ago Villanova made it to the Final Four. March has been a mess for the Cats ever since, with five consecutive first-weekend exits.
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...will be handing out some serious "cherry bellies" to many of you tomorrow!

Guys - appreciate what you have! A 33-3 Big East Champion and #1 seed at a small Catholic school is nothing short of a miracle - and there are studs on the way.

I make us 7 fave

In 1955 we played the Wolfpack twice coached by Everett Case. I think they were ranked 4th in the NCAA. We won 91-78 at the Palestra and 107- 96 at NCState, I think Cole Field House. Bob Schafer was our star shooter. Bob was the first VU 2,000 point shooter. His fellow senior, Jack Devine was an excellent rebounder.

Go Cats. Emulate your former Cats up at Pitt.

N/M

can't take anymore , feel like crap, can't read anymore, can't analyze __ going to bed , maybe i will wake up and it will just be a a bad dream>>>
Tom

Hurt more than anything in my opinion. He's our best rebounder. Could've turned everything around.

Did anyone DVR the game and double check the travel call that Corbett called on DO with 1:55 to go after an offensive rebound and which could have cut the lead to 3? Looked like a God awful call to me and it was a big one.

For the record, I thought the refs were putrid tonight.

Let's face it, for all the hating on the ACC from this board, it's time to admit that that league is putting in one of the best performances in memory so far. Might lose a game tomorrow (I think Louisville goes down), but the top of the ACC is really, really good. In the end Kentucky will win it all, but the ACC is going to win the recognition as the best conference in the country, hands down. The new Big East is 0-2 so far - we made some progress but we're still closer to the A-10 than the ACC. Maybe next year...

Not even sure what to say. Very much like the ODu feeling and it's pretty devastating. Lost In all the anger and frustration, I do want to recognize what a great season that we had. Just BC we are angry about tonight, saying it was awful, questioning jay and so on, I think we have all been pretty respectful, and there is no reason not to be. They are all great kids On this team and had a great reg season. Jay runs a classy program. At this point it's more a monkey on our backs than anything else and don't know what the answer is except we will give it a try next year. Jays deer in headlights set the tone for the team and that has to change in tourney play. Easier said than done.

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"Survivors" by conference (bolded conferences remain undefeated)

ACC: 6 bids - 6 remaining (ND, UNC, Duke, NCSt, L'Ville, UVA)[/B]
Big Ten: 7 bids - 4 remain (MD, Iowa, Mich St, Wisc)
Big East: 6 - 1 (Xavier)
Pac-12: 4 - 4 (Ore, Az, UCLA, Utah)
Big 12: 7 - 3 (WVU, KU, OK)
SEC: 5 - 1 (KY)
MVC: 2 - 2 (Wich St, N. Iowa)
A-10: 3 - 1 (Day)
Mt West: 3 - 1 (SDSU)
American: 2 - 0
WCC: 2 - 1 (Zags)
Other: 21 - 0
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Down only two at half

This was not Wichita State Kentucky last year where haymakers were being exchanged and WSU just came up short. That team just ran into a buzz saw.

NC State did not play out of its mind. Solid, sure. But we simply didn't step into the ring. For the second straight year, we got punked. Tired of hearing about size. It is as much about attitude.

Five minutes into the game and all it took was a couple missed bunnies to make us play completely out of character.

As some mentioned on the board, Jay seemed in a haze in the halftime interview. Very strange how he has struggled in March as his first few teams at Nova in the tourney really played well. He has shown he can do it.

I have no problem losing playing our game. But that simply has not been the case.

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Now, don't get me wrong - I'm having a great time with March Madness. Last night I was at Gramercy Ale House and did plenty of celebrating after.

But I saw some stats which basically confirms that the NBA is just as good if not better than ever (IMO) and wanted to get some feedback. See the link:

Basically, if you look at Offensive Rating (points scored per 100 posessions) league wide over the years, defense is actually tougher now than it was in the 90s. The early 2000s were actually the peak of defensive play. I bring this up because of the constant claims that Jordan had it harder and would somehow score more points today even though the numbers strongly disagree with that. Just because guys were more physical doesn't mean they were superior defenders. You can be much more effective on defense by knowing which shoulder a post player prefers to turn towards than being a goon who just bruises you.

Another interesting state is the changes in FG% vs. eFG%. eFG% basically takes into account that 3 pointers are worth 50% more and assigns them the proper value in terms of cost/benefit. FG% has decreased over the past 20 years but eFG% has been generally higher over the past 7-8 years (when the NBA started to become good again imo).

3 Point Attempts per game by team increased from 2.3 in 1982, to 9.9 in 1994, and then made a huge jump to 15.5 in 1995, and then essentially leveled out until (once again 7-8 years ago when NBA started to become good again) 2007-08 when it rose to 18.1 and has increased since to 22.4 this year. Basically, teams are playing better defense than they have in 35 years, but players who are able to get open looks (through impressive ball movement typically) are more efficient than ever before and doing it from the spots on the court that capitalize upon these opportunities the most.


You can definitely see that Nova has drawn inspiration from Golden State. I know Barkley said Atlanta, but I think he was saying that as a reflection of the lack of household names. Barkley also watches more highlights than games it seems. We are definitely more GSW. Constant ball motion, stifling D, and a coach who brings out the best in his guys.


http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_stats.html

when you choke year in and year out in the tournament.

no more "one and Dunphy" jokes when you're coached by Jay Wright,Mr. Tight

Doug Gottleib was 100% right!

The seniors did not disappoint and should hold their heads up.

The Junior class could not have sh*t the bed any more.

Onto to baseball

Dropped 30 in his team's State Championship win

The big east will he bashed and trashed all next year with nobody watching and we have done everything we can to help the mid major label. Really gets me discouraged.