ISU 74-72 WVU

HIp Hop Hooray!!!! Nader is Naughty by Nature.

Someone please post video of Hogue's fifth phantom foul. I got to see that again....he as 12 foot away from the shooter!!!!

Kind of glad we lost to South Carolina.......because if we had not, I would now be spending a bunch of money prematurely booking hotel rooms and such in INdy for the Final Four.
 
HIp Hop Hooray!!!! Nader is Naughty by Nature.

Someone please post video of Hogue's fifth phantom foul. I got to see that again....he as 12 foot away from the shooter!!!!

Kind of glad we lost to South Carolina.......because if we had not, I would now be spending a bunch of money prematurely booking hotel rooms and such in INdy for the Final Four.


I don't think we win tonight if we had won against South Carolina...
 
Considering who we were playing I was expecting more blood. No bleeding and no flagrant fouls. Surprised me.
I think McKay had to be wrapped up on his arm late.
Hope that WVU kid that had to be walked off the court is okay. Hopefully it was just bad cramps.
 
When Morris fouled out, I thought, "We're toast." But found a way to win it.

WVU suddenly going cold from FT line helped, even if ISU wasn't securing the rebounds (and meanwhile, Nader sank four straight, Niang 1 of 2).

Especially when Niang threw that pass away right after Morris fouled out. At least, I think I'm remembering that correctly..
 
Especially when Niang threw that pass away right after Morris fouled out. At least, I think I'm remembering that correctly..

That's when I thought we were toast. But WV couldn't ever seem to capitalize on all our screw ups down the stretch luckily for us.

That was just one of our completely boneheaded plays down in the final few minutes. We're sitting on 2 timeouts, and Niang inexplicably throws it right to the WV player as his 5 secs are running out on him.
 
That was exhausting even as a fan watching on TV. ISU was clearly, clearly the better team. But WV is tough. They hack and shove and make the game sloppy. I'm very happy with a close win. Refs really helped keep this game closer than it needed to be. WV is just more used to that style and know how to get away with it better.

Props to Nader, who was good handling the ball on the press, hit a dagger 3 and HIT HIS FREE THROWS. Great job by McKay too. He altered a bunch of shots. Decent games for Niang, Morris and Hogue. BDJ once again pretty much disappeared and Naz is now officially in a major slump.

IMO we pretty much have our 8 man rotation now.