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Title: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: mudclods on November 09, 2022, 12:24:12 PM
YSU is an 8 to 9 point favorite.

UTM was 8-22 last year ending the season losing their last 7 and are coming off a 22-point loss to Pitt on Monday night. 

They have 3 seniors and a graduate student, Parker Stewart, who started his career at Pitt then went to UTM followed up by Indiana and now back at UTM.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: ucfpengbuck on November 09, 2022, 03:50:27 PM
Penguins need to play a complete game as we know they lost intensity the 2nd half againt Canisius.  Need to cut down on the turnovers.   Very excited about this group and probably need to temper my enthusiasm.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: mudclods on November 09, 2022, 03:56:25 PM
Penguins need to play a complete game as we know they lost intensity the 2nd half againt Canisius.  Need to cut down on the turnovers.   Very excited about this group and probably need to temper my enthusiasm.

Agree 100%
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: YsuPride on November 09, 2022, 07:59:27 PM
37 to 29 us.   UTM looks good.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: ytownchief22 on November 09, 2022, 08:46:08 PM
These home jerseys look so cheap.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: ucfpengbuck on November 09, 2022, 09:01:01 PM
Not bad for a team that's still learning to play together.  Need to clean up the transition defense.   Cohill was Cohill tonight and frosh Lovelace is exceeding my expectations.  Brandon Rush looks like a scoring machine off the bench.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: guinpen on November 09, 2022, 09:05:36 PM
We won like we should have.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: ucfpengbuck on November 09, 2022, 09:06:17 PM
Want to say Tenn- Martin was picked to finish 3rd in the OVC.  They have the preseason conference player of the year and a transfer that started for the Hooisers last season.  Quality win.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: mudclods on November 09, 2022, 09:58:16 PM
Other than settling for too many 3's in the first half which kept it close until late in the half, and giving up too many easy baskets the second half, I  thought it was a pretty complete game.

Green was outstanding the 2nd half and has played 2 really good games.  Nelson adds a lot of size that we've been lacking in recent years.  Lovelace was really impressive...hard to believe he's a freshman. 

The talent level on this team is something else.  If they can jell and play like a team and not get complacent, this could be a special year.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: YsuPride on November 10, 2022, 07:11:01 AM
Now we have to set out sights on Notre Dame this Sunday and then a quick turnaround to play an 11am game on Tuesday.   That's less than 2 days form Notre Dame,  hopefully not a let down.   Need a big school crowd for that game
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: chezmustache on November 10, 2022, 11:21:13 AM
     Let's not permit enthusiasm to supplant rational thinking.  A bit of reason and logic may help manage expectations. 

     Canisius is ranked 301 of 363 Division 1 teams by Saragin.  UT Martin is ranked 317 of 363.   Defeating the 317th ranked team at home is not exactly a quality win. 

     We may want to give this team an opportunity to earn respect before bestowing it summarily.   

     YSU has climbed into the 215th position (the 41st percentile).  We have a ways to go.  Let's see what Sunday brings.     
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: ucfpengbuck on November 10, 2022, 01:43:44 PM
chezmustache Telling me that a my beautiful wife looks equiavlant to a rottwieler.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: Double ET on November 10, 2022, 02:25:12 PM
IMO, YSU ‘s 215 rating is not indicative of how good or bad we are. It’s because we have beaten two teams only ranked 301 and 317.
We will have to wait till after the ND game to gauge how we are. Does anyone remember how we were ranked at the end of last year? I think this team is better than the team of last year.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: IAA Fan on November 11, 2022, 08:11:23 AM
I think MudClods and Mustache are right on. Neither is saying how good/bad we are, just that we need to see how we play against someone real. We do not look like a single unit out there.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: YsuPride on November 11, 2022, 11:29:26 AM
But we beat both handily.   Canisius wasn't even that close until the end and same with win over UTM.   I think we got a good shot at upsetting ND Sunday.   They lost lost to Radford last nite.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: BushwoodCC on November 11, 2022, 02:33:56 PM
But we beat both handily.   Canisius wasn't even that close until the end and same with win over UTM.   I think we got a good shot at upsetting ND Sunday.   They lost lost to Radford last nite.
I think you meant to post "almost lost" to Radford last night, which is an accurate assessment. The Fighting Irish only won the contest by 3 points.

If we can avoid thescoring droughts, which have been an issue for Calhoun's squads in these Power 5 games, then I think we can keep it close.

Be the Irish!
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: SAHDPanda on November 11, 2022, 02:49:28 PM
YSU is 188 in KenPom rankings. They’re the third team in the Horizon League behind Purdue-Fort Wayne at 156 and Northern Kentucky at 180. All other Horizon league teams are higher than 200.

The Penguins did quite well for a mid major in the transfer portal and the team is still meshing/building cohesion and flow. As long as that happens (and that’s still an if) - arrow would be pointed up for us when we enter Horizon League play.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: YsuPride on November 11, 2022, 09:24:04 PM
Ysu is 150 according to ESPN.  Oakland is 118.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: YsuPride on November 11, 2022, 09:35:32 PM
Notre Dame is 29th.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: YsuPride on November 12, 2022, 07:22:34 PM
Notre Dame at 4pm.  Did you see they had to hang on to beat Radford the other night.  So i believe YSU has a chance for the upset.  Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: Dmorton on November 13, 2022, 12:41:14 PM
Canisius beat St. Bonny the other night! Not that comparitive scores matter, but ask yourself was Canisius really that bad, are we that good, or is Saint Bonny worse the Golden Griffs team we played!
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: Penquin68 on November 13, 2022, 04:01:42 PM
The YSU Notre Dame game is on the ESPN app.
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: Dmorton on November 13, 2022, 05:01:35 PM
Nelson is a monster so far!  Glad he is own side this season!
Title: Re: Men's Basketball Home Opener against UTM
Post by: YsuPride on November 13, 2022, 09:44:29 PM
The game was on the ACC network so if anyone gets that Spectrum has it.