I was at the game today.

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I admit I didn't follow the team really closely this year until the end of the regular season. So, these are the thoughts of a casual:
-The team seems very well-coached. Obviously, they play defense hard and rebound their asses off. On offense, they are patient and disciplined. No shenanigans, but the patience is almost to a fault.
-We need more shooters. We just don't have enough guys who can put the biscuit in the basket, especially from the perimeter. Tru Washington was very hesitant; he passed up a few open 3-pointers. I don't know whether that was the gameplan or he was gun-shy.
-Shelton Henderson is amazing. Pay him whatever it takes to get him back.
-I was not impressed by Reneau. But the way he cried at the press conference made me like him because he clearly cares a ton.

Our program does not travel. Purdue had a ton of fans there, and they were loud. The Miami section was basically friends and family and a handful (probably <100) randos like me. I love that our team can thrive against a hostile crowd, but it's embarrassing how little support we gave. Toward the end of the game, some Iowa State fans came and sat near us in order to get ready for the following game. There were empty seats all around my girlfriend and me. By midway through the second half, there were fewer Miami fans there than Iowa State or Kentucky fans. Anyway, the Iowa State lady had a sign that she got at the Pop Tarts Bowl. She told me that UM was poorly represented there. I was shocked that we didn't even travel to Orlando to support the football team.

I'm going to become active in the local alumni group. It's time for me to do more than ***** around on CIS and make little donations. Time to put my time where my mouth is.
 
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I admit I didn't follow the team really closely this year until the end of the regular season. So, these are the thoughts of a casual:
-The team seems very well-coached. Obviously, they play defense hard and rebound their asses off. On offense, they are patient and disciplined. No shenanigans, but the patience is almost to a fault.
-We need more shooters. We just don't have enough guys who can put the biscuit in the basket, especially from the perimeter. Tru Washington was very hesitant; he passed up a few open 3-pointers. I don't know whether that was the gameplan or he was gun-shy.
-Shelton Henderson is amazing. Pay him whatever it takes to get him back.
-I was not impressed by Reneau. But the way he cried at the press conference made me like him because he clearly cares a ton.

Our program does not travel. Purdue had a ton of fans there, and they were loud. The Miami section was basically friends and family and a handful (probably <100) randos like me. I love that our team can thrive against a hostile crowd, but it's embarrassing how little support we gave. Toward the end of the game, some Iowa State fans came and sat near us in order to get ready for the following game. There were empty seats all around my girlfriend and me. By midway through the second half, there were fewer Miami fans there than Iowa State or Kentucky fans. Anyway, the Iowa State lady had a sign that she got at the Pop Tarts Bowl. She told me that UM was poorly represented there. I was shocked that we didn't even travel to Orlando to support the football team.

I'm going to become active in the local alumni group. It's time for me to do more than ***** around on CIS and make little donations. Time to put my time where my mouth is.
Doesn’t help that we were sent to St Louis against teams that were short car rides away, but yeah, our basketball fanbase is tiny and lousy.
 
Reneau had an off game. He carried this team for much of the season Henderson is a gem but he had an outlier game, best since early season. Could be special next year; he’d be crazy not to come back.

Lucas put the team back together. The pieces are in place to be good next year with the way he works the portal. We’ll be back in the tournament next March and I’m expecting at a higher seed than 7.
 
Not sure what happened. I saw us beat Illinois in Austin back in 2013 and we had a good showing.
 
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I admit I didn't follow the team really closely this year until the end of the regular season. So, these are the thoughts of a casual:
-The team seems very well-coached. Obviously, they play defense hard and rebound their asses off. On offense, they are patient and disciplined. No shenanigans, but the patience is almost to a fault.
-We need more shooters. We just don't have enough guys who can put the biscuit in the basket, especially from the perimeter. Tru Washington was very hesitant; he passed up a few open 3-pointers. I don't know whether that was the gameplan or he was gun-shy.
-Shelton Henderson is amazing. Pay him whatever it takes to get him back.
-I was not impressed by Reneau. But the way he cried at the press conference made me like him because he clearly cares a ton.

Our program does not travel. Purdue had a ton of fans there, and they were loud. The Miami section was basically friends and family and a handful (probably <100) randos like me. I love that our team can thrive against a hostile crowd, but it's embarrassing how little support we gave. Toward the end of the game, some Iowa State fans came and sat near us in order to get ready for the following game. There were empty seats all around my girlfriend and me. By midway through the second half, there were fewer Miami fans there than Iowa State or Kentucky fans. Anyway, the Iowa State lady had a sign that she got at the Pop Tarts Bowl. She told me that UM was poorly represented there. I was shocked that we didn't even travel to Orlando to support the football team.

I'm going to become active in the local alumni group. It's time for me to do more than ***** around on CIS and make little donations. Time to put my time where my mouth is.
Of course, who wanted to ***** with TSA? We were playing with house money. Columbia is 2 hours away and Lafayette is 4 hours away by car. It would have taken a half a day to get to St Louis.

We had 5k in College Station, 26k in Dallas and 23k in Phoenix.

At the Final Four we represented well. We had twice the students that UConn had for example.
 
Reneau had an off game. He carried this team for much of the season Henderson is a gem but he had an outlier game, best since early season. Could be special next year; he’d be crazy not to come back.

Lucas put the team back together. The pieces are in place to be good next year with the way he works the portal. We’ll be back in the tournament next March and I’m expecting at a higher seed than 7.
Totally agree on Reneau. He missed several close shots that he's made all season. Seems there was one stretch early in the game where it felt like he missed 4-5 point blank almost layups.
 
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