Furman @ NC State (Dec. 13th 6:30pm)

[Furmanoid]

Of course all will become clear looking backward after March, but from our position right now the excitement of this team is taking place off the court: observing how CBR figures this out. Lots of moving parts, lots of levers to pull. I remain highly confident.

I get what you are saying, but it will be hard to tell if we are getting better or not due to the lower quality of competition. We could likely go out with no improvement at all and beat up on the SoCon. The next test will come in the first round of the NCAA. Nothing will be clear until after that game.

[FU Hoopla]

Of course all will become clear looking backward after March, but from our position right now the excitement of this team is taking place off the court: observing how CBR figures this out. Lots of moving parts, lots of levers to pull. I remain highly confident.

I get what you are saying, but it will be hard to tell if we are getting better or not due to the lower quality of competition. We could likely go out with no improvement at all and beat up on the SoCon. The next test will come in the first round of the NCAA. Nothing will be clear until after that game.

This year is all about ending the NCAA drought, one step at a time

[Davemeister]

This year is all about ending the NCAA drought, one step at a time

Right, but we can't really do anything about going to the Dance till March.

In the meantime, we need to win the SoCon regular season. Not only does 1st Place position us well for the Tourney, it gives us a bid to the NIT. While the NIT is not our goal, it takes a certain amount of pressure off our players knowing their year won't end in Asheville. So we go up the Hill loose and confident, finally win the darn thing, and give the NIT the Middle Finger.

[FU Hoopla]

This year is all about ending the NCAA drought, one step at a time

Right, but we can't really do anything about going to the Dance till March.

In the meantime, we need to win the SoCon regular season. Not only does 1st Place position us well for the Tourney, it gives us a bid to the NIT. While the NIT is not our goal, it takes a certain amount of pressure off our players knowing their year won't end in Asheville. So we go up the Hill loose and confident, finally win the darn thing, and give the NIT the Middle Finger.

Right, my point was to anyone who says well we did not perform well in the NCAA tourney so this season was not a success type of outlook.
We have only won 1 NCAA game in our history, this season will only be judged on getting to the dance to be considered a success, one step at a time.

We will win this Saturday, we will win the SoCon regular season title, and we will win on March 6th!

[FurmAlum]

Of course all will become clear looking backward after March, but from our position right now the excitement of this team is taking place off the court: observing how CBR figures this out. Lots of moving parts, lots of levers to pull. I remain highly confident.

I get what you are saying, but it will be hard to tell if we are getting better or not due to the lower quality of competition. We could likely go out with no improvement at all and beat up on the SoCon. The next test will come in the first round of the NCAA. Nothing will be clear until after that game.

I don't think the SoCon is going to be all that easy.

[apaladin]

Of course all will become clear looking backward after March, but from our position right now the excitement of this team is taking place off the court: observing how CBR figures this out. Lots of moving parts, lots of levers to pull. I remain highly confident.

I get what you are saying, but it will be hard to tell if we are getting better or not due to the lower quality of competition. We could likely go out with no improvement at all and beat up on the SoCon. The next test will come in the first round of the NCAA. Nothing will be clear until after that game.

I don't think the SoCon is going to be all that easy.

It certainly won’t be. Right now I would say.
1. UTC
2. Samford(Glover out)
3. FU
Subject to change.

[purplehorse123]

We have a tendency to not ever make things easy for ourselves. If we win the regular season, I doubt we win it going away. If you quit reading or hearing about how “scary good” we could be and only based your evaluation on performance on the court t-date, your prediction would be middle-of-the-pack. I sure hope we improve!