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Providence @ 11 Creighton, 7:00, FS1 - Adam Alexander, Bill Raftery
Line: Creighton -9/145

I definitely expect Zegarowski to play. Mac sat him as a precaution on Saturday thinking he could beat up a young Butler team without him and got burned. I doubt that he makes the same mistake.

Time to start a new winning streak. Considering Ballock was essentially a no-show in the scoring column at the Bluejay's personal house of horrors named Hinkle, I expect him to continue his up and down shooting this year by going something like 6-8 from three tonight and the Jays to go near 50% from 3 as a team. If we get into the dance, I sure as heck hope they don't schedule us in any games played at Hinkle. Honestly, that may be a quick ticket home. I'd rather the played on a court tucked into one end of Lucas Oil Stadium, then play at Hinkle.

Omaha1 wrote:I definitely expect Zegarowski to play. Mac sat him as a precaution on Saturday thinking he could beat up a young Butler team without him and got burned. I doubt that he makes the same mistake.

The internet: where you state as fact something you don't know and then issue a strong opinion about it.

The bank is open!

Jays didn’t show up. No explanation. Good work PC.

Xudash wrote:The bank is open!

cu blujs wrote:Time to start a new winning streak. Considering Ballock was essentially a no-show in the scoring column at the Bluejay's personal house of horrors named Hinkle, I expect him to continue his up and down shooting this year by going something like 6-8 from three tonight and the Jays to go near 50% from 3 as a team.

Ballock has to be the biggest disappointment in the conference. He was a top 10 BE player preseason on every list you could find, but he's nowhere near that now.....what the neck is going on?

I know Coach Mac loves the guy but if his recent production doesn't do a 180 soon, how can he continue to get 30+ minutes per?
That line from last night was crazy....36 min. 2 points. 0 rebounds. It has to be a chemistry/confidence thing but that is way too many minutes on a night like that. Why did Bishop only get 15?

Help us out Gtmo.

Nate Watson is pretty good for being the 38th best player in the BE, or whatever. They showed a stat least night that he is either the 2nd or 3rd best center in the entire country depending upon what stats you look at behind Garza.

Xuperman wrote:

cu blujs wrote:Time to start a new winning streak. Considering Ballock was essentially a no-show in the scoring column at the Bluejay's personal house of horrors named Hinkle, I expect him to continue his up and down shooting this year by going something like 6-8 from three tonight and the Jays to go near 50% from 3 as a team.

Ballock has to be the biggest disappointment in the conference. He was a top 10 BE player preseason on every list you could find, but he's nowhere near that now.....what the neck is going on?

I know Coach Mac loves the guy but if his recent production doesn't do a 180 soon, how can he continue to get 30+ minutes per?
That line from last night was crazy....36 min. 2 points. 0 rebounds. It has to be a chemistry/confidence thing but that is way too many minutes on a night like that. Why did Bishop only get 15?

Help us out Gtmo.

I'm not Gtmo and will not even try to be. Ballock can't get his own shot. Every few games opponents back off because Z or Mahoney is hot, and then Ballock gets less attention and scores. That and just the law of averages means he is inconsistent in scoring. His value comes when his deep range pulls a defender away, and a teammate takes advantage. Ed is great, figured out DD could play with 4 fouls by guarding Ballock, who wouldn't test him. In sum, I never thought he deserved to be a pre-season all BE choice and posted his limitations on an earlier thread ranking the players by position. He's a great team player and all that, but he doesn't deserve the star treatment he gets for hitting logo shots.

He also played poorly on defense last night, allowing PC's worst offensive threat to blow by him several times and coming slow to help our bigs with Watson. My wife thought he was sick, I don't know. I think Mac wanted to pull him but O'Connell got hurt and couldn't go.

FYI, Mitchell couldn't play the second half because of his ankle so Z got way too many minutes and probably will be limited against UConn. We now have two hobbled PGs and another out for the season with an ACL. Our dumbass fans think "we don't care" or "we got overconfident" or "we overlooked an opponent" but the fact is that the injuries hit right after we ran the Hall.