Good morning, FKPers. Hope you're doing well on this lovely Wednesday - I know I am. Today is day 1 of the Big East Tournament, and that means I'm watching 5 straight hours of video streams while I'm supposed to be working. Am I worried about it? Not really. As long as Cam Thoroughman gets some minutes in our game at 2, I'll be ok.
This is our third meeting with Providence this year, and of course the pundits are all over this fact. "It's so difficult to beat a team three times in a year blahblahblah I'm still mad about getting kicked out of Notre Dame for stealing my roommate's credit cards blahblahblah." Well, kids, I disagree. While we made our first meeting much closer than it needed to be, we're just plain better than Providence (exception: Wyenimi Efejuku, who is ten shades of nasty). If you can beat an inferior team twice, you can beat them three times. 'Nuff said.
Of course, a WVU victory really hinges on our ability not to self-destruct. If we take care of the ball, play solid Huggy defense, and shoot well from behind the arc, we ought to be alright. It really depends on whether our team wants to show up, though - if their heart just isn't in it (eg. 1st half of UConn), we can kiss it goodbye.
We should already be in the tournament, but let's not go nuts just yet. We all remember how last year turned out: 22 wins and we were still left out of the big dance. Let's just hope we have a great showing this afternoon to take any semblance of doubt out of the selection committee's minds.
Fearless prediction: WVU 74, Providence 60.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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