West Coast Conference 2011-12

[kccougar]

Holy crap, Gonzaga fans are whiners. On their board they are complaining about SMU running up the score.

[Commando]

Holy crap, Gonzaga fans are whiners. On their board they are complaining about SMU running up the score.

[Commando]

Common opponents:

St Marys:

Gonzagas front court (Sacre, Harris, Dower): 10-25 29 points 19 rebounds 3 blocks 7 turnovers

Brandon Davies: 11-18 28 points 7 rebounds 2 blocks

If I throw in Hartsocks 13 or Abouos 9 it is not close.

I wonder if there were any BYU posters on the GU board last night chiding them for being so overconfident coming into conference play and touting their 11 consecutive conference titles, strongly advising them that they have their work cut out for them in this conference and sternly warning them that if they think this is tuff, the Marriott Center won't be a cake walk either....

[kccougar]

And what is funny is the tone. Like how could they do that, don't they know who we are?

[Flystripper]

Maybe Gonzaga just had an off night and is a totally different team up in Spokane. But from what I saw last night I don't get the hype. Very average team.

I am sure they said the same thing about us after watching St. Marys

[cougjunkie]

I also want to congratulate the Zags for playing their 3rd road game of the season! They are now 1-2 on the road.

[Indy Coug]

I also want to congratulate the Zags for playing their 3rd road game of the season! They are now 1-2 on the road.

BYU has had 4 road games and 4 "neutral" this year.

[hostile]

I also want to congratulate the Zags for playing their 3rd road game of the season! They are now 1-2 on the road.

Looks like they are struggling on the road.

[MartyFunkhouser]

I enjoy it when the Zags lose basketball games. I enjoy it even more when they lose by a lot of points.

It is really too bad the Utes couldn't make things work with Randy Bennett. He is a very good coach and could have re-established the Aussie pipeline at Utah.

Also, screw you Boylen for cutting off our Aussie pipeline that we had established. Although, Giacoletti deserves some blame (Patty Mills was willing to commit to Utah but he went with another player), Boylen is ultimately the guy who cut all the ties we had developed.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Rob Jones: 6-6, 240 lbs
Brad Waldow: 6-9, 250 lbs
Clint Steindl: 6-7, 195 lbs

That is the lineup that out rebounded the Zags rebounding machine. The amazing Sam Dower (6-9, 245) managed only 8 points and 5 rebounds against a very undersized team. Future NBA center Robert Sacre was even more impressive going 1-7 from the floor. David Foster has a better chance at an NBA career than Sacre.

[higherroad]

St Mary's handed us our worse Conference loss since 1992!

Ouch.

No if's, and's, but's about it.

We were dominated last night. The worse I've seen us play since '02 and a lot of that had to do with SMC's scrappy play for all 40 mins.

No fight.

No hustle.

No game-plan.

Simply unprepared mentally & physically to compete on the road vs a team that doesn't let up & plays with a chip.

St Mary's isn't the best we've faced this season, but they were the best last night.

Our true-freshman backcourt had a rude awakening and guys like Rob Sacre played just 17 mins. It was ugly in every phase of the game.

St Mary's is in the driving seat. We were 2-1 vs SMC last season after they won the first match-up, so here's hoping history repeats itself.

The pressure is on BYU & Gonzaga if they want to compete for the title, b/c I simply don't see a motivated team like SMC losing any games the rest of the way besides @BYU, @Gonzaga and right now, those are big "If's".

Tough loss, but it was much deserved. Gonzaga has to pull ourselves up off the mat and rally vs LMU tomorrow.

That Gonzaga team last night that won 13 games & lost two close games vs Top-ten team & Big-10's #2.

Anyway, good luck tomorrow vs Santa Clara. We beat them last wkend by 20+, so the Cougs shouldn't have much of a problem.

[The_Tick]

St Mary's handed us our worse Conference loss since 1992!

Ouch.

No if's, and's, but's about it.

We were dominated last night. The worse I've seen us play since '02 and a lot of that had to do with SMC's scrappy play for all 40 mins.

No fight.

No hustle.

No game-plan.

Simply unprepared mentally & physically to compete on the road vs a team that doesn't let up & plays with a chip.

St Mary's isn't the best we've faced this season, but they were the best last night.

Our true-freshman backcourt had a rude awakening and guys like Rob Sacre played just 17 mins. It was ugly in every phase of the game.

St Mary's is in the driving seat. We were 2-1 vs SMC last season after they won the first match-up, so here's hoping history repeats itself.

The pressure is on BYU & Gonzaga if they want to compete for the title, b/c I simply don't see a motivated team like SMC losing any games the rest of the way besides @BYU, @Gonzaga and right now, those are big "If's".

Tough loss, but it was much deserved. Gonzaga has to pull ourselves up off the mat and rally vs LMU tomorrow.

That Gonzaga team last night that won 13 games & lost two close games vs Top-ten team & Big-10's #2.

Anyway, good luck tomorrow vs Santa Clara. We beat them last wkend by 20+, so the Cougs shouldn't have much of a problem.

I will admit that I only have a degree from a Junior College, but I did take a few Enlish/Reading classes, but from reading your post a few times I missed the following:

1. You admitting that you were wrong.
2. An apology.

Am I the only one?

[Jeff Lebowski]

I will admit that I only have a degree from a Junior College, but I did take a few Enlish/Reading classes, but from reading your post a few times I missed the following:

1. You admitting that you were wrong.
2. An apology.

Am I the only one?

[cougjunkie]

That Gonzaga team last night that won 13 games & lost two close games vs Top-ten team & Big-10's #2.
.

This is actually not correct. The two top 10 RPI teams they played (Michigan State and Illinois) they lost too.

The only win inside the top 50 was @Xavier a team that had lost 4 of 5 going in to that game.

Gonzaga has now played 4 teams inside the top 50 in RPI and they are 1-3. You are the Long Beach State of the Northwest. It is nice to schedule those teams but eventually you have to start beating them.

[MartyFunkhouser]

This is actually not correct. The two top 10 RPI teams they played (Michigan State and Illinois) they lost too.

The only win inside the top 50 was @Xavier a team that had lost 4 of 5 going in to that game.

Gonzaga has now played 4 teams inside the top 50 in RPI and they are 1-3. You are the Long Beach State of the Northwest. It is nice to schedule those teams but eventually you have to start beating them.

It is amazing the amount of common ground that cougjunkie and I are finding these days. It scares the hell out of me.