Irish in trouble
The Fighting Irish lost last night to the West Virginia Mountaineers 79-68. After fallin to the Mountaineers the Irish have to go 4-1 the rest of the regular season and do atleast some work in th Big East Tournament to have a shot at the big dance.
The Irish failed to do the little things last night like box out/rebound, free-throw shooting, not closing out/pressuring shooters, and they put the Mountaineers in the bonus early in the 2nd half. The Irish were out rebounded 40-28 and let the Mountaineers grab 15 offensive boards. If we could have just gotten about 12 of those offenive boards that WVU got from us, thats 12 more possesions for us. If we score on a third of those possesions (6 points), that would have prevented WVU from second chance points and that would have been a win for ND. We shot 10-20 from the free throw line, unacceptable. Alex Ruoff made four three pointers and finished with 24 points, much of that because of not closing out on shooters and not even putting a hand up.
I dont think the Irish will be making the tourney after the loss last night unless they go 4-1 with only loss to Uconn. After doing that i believe the Irish have to win at least one maybe two games in the Big East tourney. The next game is against Providence this saturday.
Oh i just wanted to put this in here. Oregon made it to the dance last year has a 8 seed last year with a 18-12 overall record and a 9-9 conference record. This years Big East is better than last years Pac Ten
