I was really hoping we could get a signature win this year. It was the type of game that a good team finds a way to win, and we needed that. Down 7 with 2:30 to go and to finish on a 9-0 run to beat Oakland is impressive. Despite getting killed on the glass last night, YSU did a great job turning Oakland over, which kept us in the game. We also played pretty smart and didn't turn the ball over.
It's great to see Cam playing so well again...sure didn't want to see him end his YSU career like it was going at times early in the year. He's playing with confidence and looks like he's having fun. He's been damn near perfect from the foul line against the league shooting 30-32 and had that one rim out last night.
Covington was amazing last night. He had a steal, took a charge, and the block at the end before the winning bucket. He impresses me so much in his press conferences...seems very intelligent and speaks so well. It's hard to believe he's a freshman. Going to be fun watch him progress in the coming years.
YSU's biggest weakness besides defense for the most part seems to be finishing strong inside and converting fast breaks. I feel we've missed so many opportunities this year in both categories that has cost us a few games this year. More often than not we're winning the turnover and rebounding battle, but not converting.
YSU really has a great opportunity now to finish the regular season strong with home games against Detroit and Cleveland State along with the road game against N. Kentucky, which will be tough. Would be tremendous to end the regular season winning 4 of 5 to head into the conference.
I think we'll see if YSU is making progress if we can take care of business Friday night against Detroit. Will probably be favored for only the 2nd time this year. We should have never lost in Detroit and then followed that up with a tough loss at Wright State that we played well enough to win. I thought that was a key juncture early in league play that started the tide going the other way. We had opportunity to be at least 4-2 and a good opportunity at 5-1, but was instead 3-3 and lost all the momentum we had after starting 3-0.