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Date Posted: 07:28:20 02/17/05 Thu
Author: Tom Huckaby
Subject: Re: Pepperdine on Thursday Night! ... playing for ...
In reply to: Bronco66 's message, "Re: Pepperdine on Thursday Night! ... playing for ..." on 19:44:58 02/16/05 Wed

Very cool re Kyle. Man he has carried us in SO many games... really been a warrior for so darn long... and overcome such adversity... well, like Brian Jones before him, he deserves to play in a post-season game, as I say. Here's hoping it happens. The old-man pessimist in me says he (and we) shouldn't hold our breath... but hope springs eternal.

Now as for the difference between 2nd-3rd-4th, well... I am well aware of the potential opponents. I'm just not sure it's a benefit to be playing SMC again over Gonzaga. Do you REALLY think we have a better chance against SMC for the 3rd time? I don't. In the two games against them, the first they played awful, the second we played GREAT. Seems to me a repeat of either of those things - which would be required to beat them - is damn unlikely. Also the law of averages is against us... they are physically better than us, you can't deny it... so beating them a third time, well... I don't see it. Then contrast to the home game against Gonzaga, where we really didn't play that well, shot horribly, but damn near beat them anyway... and I'm not sure we wouldn't rather play the Zags in the semi. Remember too the Zags will have nothing to play for really... oh, their seed could be impacted by a loss, but that's nothing compared to playing for you tournament bid lives, like the Gaels will be.

Hell I don't want us to have to play either of them, to be honest. But surely we will... so to me, there's no huge difference either way.

So that's why I say 3rd/4th is unimportant.

Now if we can get 2nd, that is HUGE obviously because it gives us the extra bye. But we need an extra SMC loss for that. Oh, it could happen, but again I am not holding my breath.

The main thing is we need to win just to keep winning, get a swagger, get over this horrid inconsistency that has plagued us all year long. Take a winning streak in the tourney, and then we can really get excited.

TH

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