Makes sense. I forgot all about the Quad wins factor. Still frustrating as I would hope we’d have done enough to get off that 8/9 line at least.

I think this game is a verification of Porters philosophy of defense first.....you can always bring the D but the O comes and goes for most teams.

Our underclassman won us this game on the offensive end. Norris was huge in the second half, Kennedy was aggressive as could be (both were super vocal as well). I thought Cooper came in and played some really solid and aggressive defense as well in spurts.... and how about Hutson? He’s clearly got work to do, but he didn’t look overwhelmed by the moment at all.

Shots will fall soon. We’ve seen it before, we’ll see it again. SIU also shot the lights out from 3 and we held them to 52 points. I really think they’ll be dangerous next year, Jones can play.

PM should have been giving Hutson more minutes during the season, especially when we were blowing teams out. Without Frank, we are not that tall and foul trouble against a team with bigs could be a problem in NCAA. Asher and Tom work hard, but when are giving up a couple of inches and 20-30 pounds it a big ask to defend some of these 5’s.