So much for that Marist without their best player most of the game loses by 5 and had a crack at a 3 to tie the game.
They led late and should have closed that out. It was funny. I was tired of the historic fieldhouse talk before the game. Didn't get it. I always liked Jamal Tinsley's quote about Fogg Allen, "It's just a gym". Seriously. It's their men's team with the success, and their students, with little else to root for, that back a winner? Surprise! Their (Duke's) crowd for this game was a joke. Had we had a game at home, there'd be people ringing the place. We've got great fans. It about cost them, too. It shows me how close we were. We play a better 1st half, and we're not talking about this. We were watching it tonight, or for the lucky few, we were there.
BTW- Playing at home seems to matter. See Gonzaga, who just beat UCLA. That's the intangible about the women's tourney.
I played on a terrible high school football team. It was funny, and frustrating. But, the coach told me after the season one time, he slept great on Thursday nights. Know why? He'd done all he could do.
We'll be better, and Bill is a great X's and O's coach. The criticisms of his temper are valid, though. You lose the ability to register a response when you've gone to the well too many times.