** This might be one of those College Hoops seasons that just doesn’t make any sense.
** Evansville beats Kentucky. Virginia Tech beats Michigan State.
** Pitt beats Florida State, then loses to Nicholls, while Florida State then goes and beats Florida.
** Nope. No sense.
** Even less sense is winning a game when you turn the ball over 21 times, assist on just 2 buckets, and hit one single three.
** Just three weeks ago, it made nothing but total sense to suggest that the Panther backcourt would be our strength. We returned a brilliant sophomore plus and his inconsistent but talented sophomore sidekick, who offered a pair of 30 point games a year ago.
** How is it even possible that these two combined for 13 turnovers tonight? That doesn’t make any sense.
** The last time I can remember anything so completely nonsensical is when an All-Conference Vonteego turned it over 12 times in a single game.
** I’d like anyone who is reading this to raise your hand if you thought the strength of the Panthers in any single game would be with Terrell playing the four, Justin Champaigne the three, and Eric Hamilton playing the five.
** If you have your hand raised right now, I say NONSENSE! Or maybe I’ll just call you a liar.
** Those three combined for 33 points, 21 rebounds, and 5 blocks. Terrell altered about a half dozen other shots. And with this trio, somehow they managed to make the difference on the defensive end, win the boards, and get points without anyone really ever getting them the ball.
** No sense.
** Actually, something we said about the Panthers before the season started still makes plenty of sense.
** That is, the conventional wisdom was that the Panthers would likely go as far as Xavier and Trey would take them. This is probably just as true now as it was on November 1.
** We need for X and Trey to find their games. If they can find their games, it’s even possible that this team could somehow exceed pre-season expectations, knowing that Hamilton and, especially, Champaigne look so much more capable than it would have made sense to assert previously.
** But both of our sophomore guards have such a long way to go.
** Accordingly, our offense as a whole has an ever longer way to go. And thinking we can be even an NIT team really doesn't yet make any sense.
** I’ll go as far to say that we won’t win any more games this year when notching 2 assists and 21 turnovers.
** I’ll go as far to say that we won’t win any more games this year when we lose a six point lead in the final four minutes with four egregious errors, to put us down by a point.
** I’ll go as far to say that we won’t win any more games this year being outshot at the three point line 10-1.
** None of that makes sense.
** But toughness makes sense. The final score of Pitt +4 only makes sense knowing we were the tougher team on the Fort Meyers Court.
** The score makes even more sense knowing that Xavier was able to gather himself to hit a tremendous winning shot, then drawing a courageous charge for the difference.
** It's good to know that’s still somewhere inside him.
** On this night, as much as it doesn’t make any sense, I’ll end this night congratulating Xavier and the Panthers on a really fine win.
** And to be sure, I really don’t mind if this season ever really makes sense, as long as the wins keep coming.
** Evansville beats Kentucky. Virginia Tech beats Michigan State.
** Pitt beats Florida State, then loses to Nicholls, while Florida State then goes and beats Florida.
** Nope. No sense.
** Even less sense is winning a game when you turn the ball over 21 times, assist on just 2 buckets, and hit one single three.
** Just three weeks ago, it made nothing but total sense to suggest that the Panther backcourt would be our strength. We returned a brilliant sophomore plus and his inconsistent but talented sophomore sidekick, who offered a pair of 30 point games a year ago.
** How is it even possible that these two combined for 13 turnovers tonight? That doesn’t make any sense.
** The last time I can remember anything so completely nonsensical is when an All-Conference Vonteego turned it over 12 times in a single game.
** I’d like anyone who is reading this to raise your hand if you thought the strength of the Panthers in any single game would be with Terrell playing the four, Justin Champaigne the three, and Eric Hamilton playing the five.
** If you have your hand raised right now, I say NONSENSE! Or maybe I’ll just call you a liar.
** Those three combined for 33 points, 21 rebounds, and 5 blocks. Terrell altered about a half dozen other shots. And with this trio, somehow they managed to make the difference on the defensive end, win the boards, and get points without anyone really ever getting them the ball.
** No sense.
** Actually, something we said about the Panthers before the season started still makes plenty of sense.
** That is, the conventional wisdom was that the Panthers would likely go as far as Xavier and Trey would take them. This is probably just as true now as it was on November 1.
** We need for X and Trey to find their games. If they can find their games, it’s even possible that this team could somehow exceed pre-season expectations, knowing that Hamilton and, especially, Champaigne look so much more capable than it would have made sense to assert previously.
** But both of our sophomore guards have such a long way to go.
** Accordingly, our offense as a whole has an ever longer way to go. And thinking we can be even an NIT team really doesn't yet make any sense.
** I’ll go as far to say that we won’t win any more games this year when notching 2 assists and 21 turnovers.
** I’ll go as far to say that we won’t win any more games this year when we lose a six point lead in the final four minutes with four egregious errors, to put us down by a point.
** I’ll go as far to say that we won’t win any more games this year being outshot at the three point line 10-1.
** None of that makes sense.
** But toughness makes sense. The final score of Pitt +4 only makes sense knowing we were the tougher team on the Fort Meyers Court.
** The score makes even more sense knowing that Xavier was able to gather himself to hit a tremendous winning shot, then drawing a courageous charge for the difference.
** It's good to know that’s still somewhere inside him.
** On this night, as much as it doesn’t make any sense, I’ll end this night congratulating Xavier and the Panthers on a really fine win.
** And to be sure, I really don’t mind if this season ever really makes sense, as long as the wins keep coming.
