Not too surprising, their NCAA tourney drought goes back to the LBJ administration.
I did not expect that large of a victory at Toledo. Nice win!
Antwone isn’t asked to do much on offense with all the weapons we have, and yet his improvement on that side from last year is very apparent. He did not have many moves in his bag last year. He still isn’t going to light up many highlight reels, but he is much better around the hoop than last year. He’s been effective on offense the last 4 MAC games, and wasn’t bad against Ball St.
Shooting 3-4, 4-4, 3-4, 5-6, and 8-13 in MAC games this year.
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BG has cut Akron’s lead to 5.
Akron won by 10
I don’t know if anyone saw this but I would imagine the ROI of free media on ESPN is not hurting recruiting students or getting more donation monies. Watch this.
https://x.com/miamioh_bball/status/2009794582003712016?s=46&t=Ry6smEDGYjFubmgi-1Cn6g
(And yes, I wrote that only to say monies)
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Yep. It was CBS College Sports Network and not ESPN, but your point is still valid. Nice that our hoops tipoff came before the football playoff kickoff, so the 6 pm game was probably preferable to 8 pm Akron / BG.
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Yep and before Miami hockey played so I could watch both games (they won too)!
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I will never bitch about beating Toledo by double digits at Toledo! Even if the last few minutes were a bit sloppy. We dominated and controlled start to finish!
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I was extremely impressed by the intensity of the defense (as were the announcers.) I think it’s the best team defense we’ve played, especially in the first half, and has improved even over the last month.
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Toledo’s radio guys basically could not believe what they were watching, both offensively and defensively.
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A true shit-kicking. We’re going to the second weekend of the tourney. Lock it up. Sackman guarantee.
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My favorite line from the AP article:
Unbeaten Miami (Ohio) ups win streak to 17 with 87-73 victory over Toledo
“Miami took the lead for good 14 seconds into the game.”
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We played 32 minutes of spectacular basketball at both ends last night. I loved the intensity we brought at the defensive end. Not only were we great in 1-on-1 situations, but we were great on help side as well. Coach talks about being connected. Well, we were the definition of that last night defensively. The 36 points Toledo scored in the 1st half didn’t bother me because that was more their offensive ability than any defensive lapses. If we can be disruptive like that for that long, that will serve us well.
Toledo’s defense was the opposite of ours. They let us do whatever we wanted and didn’t disrupt us at all until the end of the game when we started making some bad decisions. The action we ran more so in the 1st half with a high post or foul line entry and then either running dribble handoffs or cutters off whoever was in the high post era just crushed them. Instead of spreading the floor and going a little more 1-on-1 in the 2nd halves of games, I’d like to see that high post action again.
With 8 minutes or so left, I thought I wouldn’t have anything to be unhappy about, we played that well. We scored all these points without going to the foul line because of how unaggressive Toledo’s defense was. But then we started either passing up 2s or not finishing around the rim as effectively and took a 2 or 3 bad 3s. When we’re up by that much in the last 10 minutes, I would tell the guys, take the 2 and finish strong because you’ll either score or draw a foul and we didn’t do either in that stretch.
But last night, especially the first 30 minutes or so, it was a master class. Let’s move on, 1 at a time, keep it rolling.
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But then you remembered this is MHT
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Great road win- sloppy at the end - starters appeared to be tired - any ideam why TS kept them in for the last 4/5 minutes?
Is Perry sick or injured?
Steele said sick
Sick, and Steele expects him back on the court next game. No long term issues. I sent Perry a care package of vitamin C and magnesium!
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