I will give the Toppers credit, their fans travel well. Their team - They find a way to get to the FT line. albeit the refs were not very good tonight. They have some talented players that made tough shots. But it's still a Stansbury team. His zone offense was terrible at Miss State and it was terrible tonight. Not sure the volleyball pass and then attempted 1-on-1 drive works. They were beat halfway through the 2nd half -basically gave up with 10 minutes to go. No sense of urgency. No attempted pressure. Just the same old thing. They are more talented than a lot of NCAA teams, but they played like crap as a team tonight. Hard to win if only 2 players showed up. Enjoyed breaking their spirit.
For us, that was about as fun, well balanced beat down I have seen in a while against a pretty good team. Besides a few spurts of poor decision making / shot selection, we got great looks and just took over. The effort and balance was exceptional. Loved it. Hoping the experience leads to 9000 plus this weekend against Marshall. That is the student section experience I wish we had every game.
Depending on the matchup, and if we play like that, we really could be a Sweet 16 team.