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It is a good time to find his game. I was yelling at Forrester when he missed another rebound.

Out rebounded 28-19 what a disgrace

A couple of misses, the team 3 point percentage is 14.

I agree 100 percent but that is only 2 games better than the best season and I do not think they will be 14-4 I believe is will be another 12-6 conference season. The 2 blow outs this season concerns me and not protecting home court against Boise State.

The NET seems to consider highly blow out wins and losses. I am sure when the selection committee considers an at large bid they do not want to select at team that could get blown out in the first in both halves. For an at large I think they look at the last 10 games and last season it would show 2 blow out losses to Davidson. I do not trust this team to not get blown out on the road again, it has happened twice this season.

Probably if they finish 14-4 in the conference with no home losses and going to the finals in the A10 tournament. What concerns me the most is potential blow out losses on the road. Our team is entertaining and coach Ford has them in contention again.

4) dedicated season ticket holders that goes to most of the games. I sit around a lot of those folks. I complain on this site but I am doing better. 3 seasons ago at the Dayton game the people next to us that hardly showed up did not go to the game because of the prediction of snow. I asked them when the showed up the next home game and they told me the weather.

The coach blamed himself for the problems and noted pulling Perkins and Okoro out to often and not allowing them to play through mistakes. I listened to the post game with Bob Ramsey on the way home and he said the same thing.

Another electric home game. The crowd participation made it electric. We stood for the entire time on the defensive end the last 4 minutes. The loss against Boise was tough but the participation of the fans was outstanding. Some good feelings about the team and coaches was lost but the games are fun to attend. We won, came back to beat a good team and earned a quality win. I do not understand comments that it should not have been that close when most fans knew this was going to be close. In my opinion Drake had nothing left in the tank in the last 4 minutes of the game. Giving up wide open 3 point shots is a concern but I will just enjoy attending the game for now.

It was a fun night at the end the crowd was outstanding we were loud.

Too many 3 pointers down to 28 percent shooting work it in

Enough of Hargrove he is playing well on defense but his offense is bad.

Our defense sucks

The Drake fan says got it ever shot which is mostly true but irritating

We had a foul to give with 4.6 even though it worked out on the line they should have fouled again before that shot. Jimerson slipping all over the floor like last season. Pickett has disappeared. Perkins and Okoro have been great. Fred and TJ playing defense they need to encourage the rest of the team to do that. A fan made the half court shot and a kid hit the put shot. I am sitting by Drake fans and I don’t like it.

Offense fixed defense is not

Hot start shooting 70 percent.

I am here with a better and adjusted attitude go Bills.

Our team may not beat teams on the court but they can beat teams in the class room. Great going Gibson congratulations and hopefully a masters to come next. Conklin and Cassidy got their masters in 4 years at SLU.

I respect your feelings about the coach and mediocrity. When I finally took a step back and let my anger go of the way the team lost to Iona and Maryland, blowout and the free throw meltdown at Auburn I realized that this team’s players are not as good as I thought they were. I think Okoro will look better playing against A10 teams and so will other players. The tough non conference schedule showed exactly what the team is this season It’s just not good enough to beat those teams. Boise State is 9-2 so it’s not a bad loss but it is disappointing. The team is composed of a lot of likable players such as Thatch, Jimerson, Hargrove, Okoro, Forrester, Perkins, and Collins and I wish them great success and will enjoy the games again for those players and likable coaches. It does not fix mediocrity but I really like coach Ford’s personality and I have really liked coach Tate being part of the team.

Good post, the program has been steady under coach Ford but the team cannot get over the top 50 hump. When posters complain about hitting the big shot has happened many times under Ford at big game. Lots of big shots on the A10 tournament win is an example. My issues are the beat downs under Ford the last 2 seasons. I am off the ledge and I will just enjoy Billiken basketball again and not worry about ratings.

Carawell played with great fundamentals. Carawell played the game the right way and if can teach players to play like him I would be all in for a local guy like that.

I am there with you ABomb on how much I am your self described absurdity. I got too caught up with this is finally the season this team performs like a top twenty team and I got mad when that did not happen. Its back to reality that this is a team of nice kids and coaches doing their best and their best probably does not get them to the big dance but will probably win 20 plus and have some other big moments like the Memphis win.

While posters have posted solid evidence about coach Ford my belief is that I overrated the quality of the players and that is an issue. During the bully ball days those players were much tougher than the players on this season’s team. There were some bad head scratching loses but those teams did not normally get blown out on the road. It’s time for me to kick back and enjoy the Billikens season and not be disappointed that the team did not play up to my foolish expectations.

What concerns me a lot about Perkins is that his 3 point shot is gone. In warm ups before the Boise State game he was hitting about a third of his shots he looked bad and it was no surprise he only played 6 minutes. Another observation before the game was Cisse hitting half of his 3 point shots in practice. I would like to see what he could do when he is in a game to get a 3 point shot instead of passing the ball inside and turning it over or missing the bunny.