My gut agrees with you that the overwhelming majority of the blame falls on Porter, but the more I think about it, it's probably 60% Porter, 40% a senior laden team who played carelessly and made dumb, silly mental mistakes all game.

Yeah remember when Wichita State was still in the conference and we were struggling? We would have lost by at least 30 if the league did that 5 years ago.

Imagine you're the Ramblers and you are ready to play the other top team and then they pull out the rug and say "Just kidding. Here's one of the worst teams."

Now flip it for ISUblue.

Who do you think that favors? It favors the underdog at home. It's a hell of a lot easier to get pumped up for the #1 team than it is to stay pumped up for the cellar dwellers

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A totally unacceptable loss but not surprising.
The pandemic environment has worn a lot of people out mentally. So many people I talk to feel that way. I have seen so many stupid things happen in business everyday. It is a bullshit environment. A lack of focus.
I have been at some of the pregame preps on road games. I doubt that the pregame prep was insufficient.
That said, the players expected to win and got caught in the arrogance of certainty. They expected to bail themselves out but there was nothing in the tank mentally. A lot of dumb mistakes.

I said Loyola was going to get screwed by this, and Swellafelon accused me of mental illness. Jus' sayin'.

To be fair, Swella always accuses you of mental illness...

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True but good teams would have still at the least found ways to grind out a win. This team for the past three years rarely wins when it plays poorly. Yes we all would have came on here and talked smack about improving if we won a too-close-for-comfort game with a B- effort, but that never happens. Either we execute or we completely shoot ourselves in the foot for long stretches at a time.

This team had EVERY opportunity to put the game away for about 25 minutes and just didn’t.

I agree. That's why I put this on Porter.

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You also predicted on this thread that Loyola would cover the 8 point spread. So at the very least you're suffering from cognitive dissonance.

And I think you have a Personality Disorder which doesn't (yet) rise to the level of full blown psychosis.
Jus' sayin'.