Furman @ Miss. St. Dec. 17th

[DungeonRealm]

Win @ Miss. St. and maybe at large hopes are still alive, if only lose a few socon games and lose in title game, guess we could get consideration at about 26-8 with OOC wins at Louisville and at Miss. St.

That would be:
9-4 OOC
15-3 SoCon
2-1 Tourney


Lose this game however and those hopes are probably dead

Unfortunately no SoCon or other mid-major is getting in with 8 losses. Should they be considered yes, will they no. You have to remember the selections are controlled by the Power 5’s(fb term) but same. They would much rather give a break even team with one or 2 good wins, ignoring all the losses and keep the money to themselves. They throw a bone ever now and then but not often. It’s all about money, they want to keep it all, and not about deserving. Our best case scenario is win the regular season and secure the auto to the NIT.

29-5? lol

[DungeonRealm]

Miss. St. favored -9

[apaladin]

29-5 might be iffy. UNCG didn’t get in at 28-6. If a SoCon team could go 31-3 or 30-4 with one of those losses being in the tournament final they MIGHT have a shot.

[apaladin]

Miss. St. favored -9

Looks like Vegas is still in love with the Paladins and still believes in them. Espn on the other hand virtually gives FU no chance of winning.

[DungeonRealm]

[DungeonRealm]

[apaladin]

Miss. St. favored -9

Line down to 7.5. Seems a lot of peeps still believe in the ‘dins.

[Paul C]

Miss. St. favored -9

Line down to 7.5. Seems a lot of peeps still believe in the ‘dins.

i was just about to post that....interesting. I'm worried about our energy and legs after what I would imagine a hellacious travel week. 8 hours on a bus round trip to Chapel Hill and then 8 hours the day after we get back to Starkville...

[DungeonRealm]

This would be a huge win for our season and program tonight if we can pull it off, last chance to make some national noise until SoCon Tourney.
Truth is 8-4 with wins at Louisville and at Miss. St. would feel so much better than 7-5 losing 3 of last 4.

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[apaladin]

Quote from espn article on Hubert Davis this morning. “More recently on Tuesday the Tar Heels took Furmans best shot for a half before flexing their defensive muscles in a 74-61 win over a quality Paladins team”

[furpop16]

I gather "really good 14 seed" is a compliment. But I prefer the first reply (from an apparent long-time 'Heels fan who was at the game): "Furman wins this one--they were an impressive bunch of older men in Chapel Hill".

[Fork457]

I think the biggest divide between what a lot of people on this website(dungeon realm) and how college basketball actually works is that teams have strengths and weaknesses. This is especially True at Furman’s level where you have to have a system to overcome your talent to compete at a high level. Our system is spreading the floor with skilled players that can shoot, we know we’re not going to be big. Would it be great to have guys that fit that system that are also 6’10 and above? Of course but those kinds of players don’t go to schools like furman. You can’t just take all the things we Excel at and say “well now let’s just add big men.” That would simply negate everything we’re good at in the first place lol. Another thing I don’t understand is why is our style so bad for the Socon tournament? Obviously we’ve struggled in March the last couple years but why does playing small and shooting 3s work in the regular season and then magically become a bad strategy because it’s the conference tournament. One more thing please can we stop complaining about the refs guys. Yes there’s missed calls here and there every once in awhile but to look at just the number of fouls on both teams is simply idiotic and shows you are quite far from an “expert of furman basketball”. They pounded the ball inside and sent 3-4 guys to the offense the entire game and we played on the permitter and Hardly touched the paint on offense, of course we’re going to have way more fouls than them that’s just common sense. In the future please don’t embarrass yourself by self proclaiming yourself an expert on furman basketball when you clearly no little to nothing about college basketball

[DungeonRealm]

I think the biggest divide between what a lot of people on this website(dungeon realm) and how college basketball actually works is that teams have strengths and weaknesses. This is especially True at Furman’s level where you have to have a system to overcome your talent to compete at a high level. Our system is spreading the floor with skilled players that can shoot, we know we’re not going to be big. Would it be great to have guys that fit that system that are also 6’10 and above? Of course but those kinds of players don’t go to schools like furman. You can’t just take all the things we Excel at and say “well now let’s just add big men.” That would simply negate everything we’re good at in the first place lol. Another thing I don’t understand is why is our style so bad for the Socon tournament? Obviously we’ve struggled in March the last couple years but why does playing small and shooting 3s work in the regular season and then magically become a bad strategy because it’s the conference tournament. One more thing please can we stop complaining about the refs guys. Yes there’s missed calls here and there every once in awhile but to look at just the number of fouls on both teams is simply idiotic and shows you are quite far from an “expert of furman basketball”. They pounded the ball inside and sent 3-4 guys to the offense the entire game and we played on the permitter and Hardly touched the paint on offense, of course we’re going to have way more fouls than them that’s just common sense. In the future please don’t embarrass yourself by self proclaiming yourself an expert on furman basketball when you clearly no little to nothing about college basketball

Good job, I know you're the same person with multiple accounts


Anyone who thinks FU against the big boys is not unbiased officiating is either a fan of the big boys or just plain blind and dumb, 90% of those games are unfairly officiated for the Power schools, just facts
Seen it a thousand times for the past 35 years of college hoops, sure that has always been the case and always will be unfortunately, just one of the huge downsides to college athletics

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The only thing Bob Richey can do from FU's past failures in March is learn and adapt, learn and adapt, learn and adapt