Hell Week, 3 games in 5 days on the road, 5 games in 10 days in general

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The next several days will define our season. Need some of the bench guys to step up. Aren’t going to win this week with a 6 man rotation.

Vasic has really turned it on as of late. Really need a push from Bertram, Williams, Younger or all three.

I’d be thrilled with 2-1 on the road games, and fine with 1-2. 0-3 would be bad. Need to sweep the florida twins at home if we want to stay in contention. 3-2 would be a really good mark over this stretch. 4-1 even better. If we manage to come out 5-0, my non-Charlotte coworkers are going to be miserable around me.

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Agree with your benchmarks, if we’re going to be able to compete. I’ll be interested to see our substitution patterns, particularly in games 3-5.

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Younger is not geting of the bench. Bertram hopefuly isn’t.

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Why did CUSA not schedule our game in Norfolk last Thursday when both teams were idle. That would have kept us and ODU in a normal rotation. This sucks.

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I would assume they had an arena conflict?

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C-USA has scheduled back to backs among league members this season, with LA Tech and Southern Miss having already played each other for their first two conference games.

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I think a 4pm Monday away game is a good situation for us. They have the same stretch as well, but lose some of the home court advantage.

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Do they have volleyball scheduled afterward?

At least, it’s also their third game in six days. Since they shot 1 for 22 from behind the arc with fresh legs, they’ll probably shot 70% with tired legs.

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Even if you assume he meant “in front of them”, this is some prime word salad. What I can guarantee is that Marshall will shoot in front of, near, adjacent to, and anywhere else within the confines of the court and they will do it in haste.

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With Burks and Elmore gone, the 3 not as prominent for Herd this season. In fact, numbers are virtual deadlock stats wise - Herd averaging 6.7 made per game (per 22.9 attempts) to 6.6 for opponents (per 20.5 attempts). That said, MU is averaging 75.3 ppg, so hopefully we can control the tempo.

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The way I think it works is that one match-up between travel partners needs to fit in with a standard weekend slate and the other game is schedules on an agreed upon date by the two teams. I think both teams liked doing the MLK Day game last year and wanted to sustain that. I would have done the game on the Monday after a home weekend though.

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Bigtime W last night. Finally played well on the road. Need to hit FT’s down the stretch, but not much to complain about. Hope to keep it up @ WKU

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Road trip completed and we’re 4-2 in a four way tie for second with FAU, FIU, and LA Tech. With the Florida schools in Halton this Thursday and Saturday, important to get wins so that we can maintain a spot among the top five with co-leaders North Texas and WKU.