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Post by crusaderguy08 on Jan 30, 2011 16:19:15 GMT -5
Milwaukee takes down Wright State after coming back from a big deficit Friday night to beat Detroit while Green Bay splits the weekend losing to WSU and beating Detroit.
IMO, these results play in our favor by creating a log jam in the middle of the standings and providing a bit of separation between CSU and Valpo at the top and the rest of the field.
Any thoughts?
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Post by valpofan56 on Jan 30, 2011 16:36:30 GMT -5
Yeah, it's definitely a good thing for now. The only negative I see about this weekend was that maybe, just maybe, Milwaukee has gotten themselves on a roll now. There is a lot of talent on that team and with them possibly having their confidence back it makes the future Wisconsin weekend a much more difficult task.
Then again who knows, Milwaukee could get beat by 20 next weekend by Green Bay.
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Post by wh on Jan 30, 2011 16:45:12 GMT -5
WSU losing really changes things. With CSU and Valpo now having a minimum 2-game lead over the rest of the field, it makes our Thursday match-up even bigger. If we beat them, we will not only be a game ahead in the loss column but have the tiebreaker in the event we finish with the same record. We will in effect have a 2 game lead with 7 games left and would be the prohibitive favorite to win the conference.
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Post by 78crusader on Jan 30, 2011 18:46:12 GMT -5
WH is dead on. If we win against CSU, we probably take the conference title. If we lose, chances are very good that we won't.
An argument can be made that this upcoming CSU game is the most important game of the year for us.
Go VU! Paul
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Post by agibson on Jan 31, 2011 7:16:35 GMT -5
An argument can be made that this upcoming CSU game is the most important game of the year for us. Until the conference tournament. I agree with the sentiment, but I'm amused that there will almost certainly be other "most important games of the year" later  If, further down the stretch, we wind up tied with CSU again then I suppose every game will fee like a "must win to host the tournament". As for whether beating CSU would make us the prohibitive favorite, or even the probable conference champions, I guess I'm having trouble getting quite that high on this team! Excited for sure, but I can't quite bring myself to think of a conference championship as "probable". Call it cold feet, perhaps. Let's say we beat CSU in a close game. We'd be at 9-2 and CSU at 9-3, we'd have the tie-breaker. It's pretty easy to imagine splitting the Wiconsin road trip (especially with the Brakcetbuster sandwiched in the middle!), and similarly easy to imagine we'd drop another game somewhere, to finish 14-4. 13-5 would be disappointing, in that chain of events, and hopefully even unlikely. I hope Wright State and Butler, at least, will give CSU trouble. But, losing to us, could they still finish 15-3? I'm afraid they might be able to... (Then the Green Bay loss would really hurt!) But, yes, after beating CSU I guess we'd become the favorites. So, I guess that mean's a conference championship becomes "probable"  Anyhow, fun to dream! Nice problems to have, at this point in the season. P.S. Looks like CSU's already mathematically avoided the 10th seed. It'll take at least one more game before Valpo can do the same. |
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If, further down the stretch, we wind up tied with CSU again then I suppose every game will fee like a "must win to host the tournament".