This team is playing really, really well right now. The last 2 games were as good of wins as you're going to get against quality teams in this league. YSU has beaten the teams they should beat this year and that Wright St win that stopped the heartbreaking losses was the first win against a good team. Now to cap off a 6 game win streak beating Oakland & Detroit shows this team can beat anyone. I kept saying early in the year that this team could play with anyone. They were with PSU until the last 6 mins of the game, the first Oakland game you had that ridiculous 22-0 run in 3 mins, and were within 1 of WVU until the 2nd half. Outside of those 3 situations, YSU has either won or been in every game until the end. Now they just need to finish the weekend off beating Robert Morris and look forward to 2 more home games next week against UIC & IUPUI.
Akuchie was unbelievable tonight. Had he not missed a couple early shots in the paint and almost had a couple others go when he got fouled he could have scored 40+. Olison and Cohill continue to play great. Shemar had a nice game and did a good job against Davies. The fact Davis only made one 3 and YSU was great at the FT line was the big difference. And even though YSU turned it over 12 times compared to 6 by Detroit, YSU actually turned them into 10 points compared to just 6 by Detroit.
I think Coach has done a great job of coaching these games during this win streak. Good game plans, good usage of timeouts, and great job at managing who's playing. Some of those games early on it just felt like he had to play everyone rather than who was playing well and who was hot. I notice Coach is always complimentary of the bench guys and what they do for the team in practice. Akuchie mentioned it as well in his presser.
It's too bad RMU couldn't have knocked off Oakland tonight as they only lost by 3. Milwaukee upset Wright State. NKU just keeps on winning. YSU is now 5th in the standings only a 1/2 game out of 4th and 1 game back of 2nd place Oakland basically (2 more losses). PFW is the team that concerns me. They will probably beat UIC at home on Saturday to tie YSU for 5th, but they have the tiebreaker.