Official WSU vs VCU Game Thread - NCAA Tournament Second Round

[XManCometh]

That's pretty heartbreaking.

Couldn't agree more. My heart sank when I read that.

[Upside-Down Cake]

Bummer. Two game losing streak.

[ShockerPrez]

Lets be honest. We want marshall back next yeaf. This program is ready to be a perrenial top 25 team. I am so pissed right now. I am freakin trying not to beat my wife.

[ShockBand]

Garrett and all the team need to remember the part they played in hanging a conference championship banner in the rafters. We don't exactly have dozens up there. I doubt it will be a six year wait till the next one.

[shocker2012]

This should tell you everything you need to know about what kind of a person Garrett Stutz is:

https://twitter.com/#!/ShaneEwing/status/180473225350881280

I feel really bad for him. Because it wasnt. If the TEAM had played their game in the first half and not let VCU play their game, I believe we would have won. You cant play one bad half and then one good half. Even on that last play, mean, that seemed completely broken to me. Was Garret even supposed to get it?

[1979Shocker]

Some of you seem to forget there is another coach telling his players how to defend that last play and they executed better than our guys executed. We're not likely to learn what that last play was supposed to look like.

On the post game show on the radio, DK said he was the first option, Smith was the second option, and Ragland was the third option.

[jocoshock]

I blame myself. I said I wouldn't watch the game, but I broke down and watched parts of it. You just knew when all the 5 seeds won earlier today that we would fulfill the madness and be the 5 seed that got busted. I said the outcome of the game would depend on how well the guys performed against their tenacious D, we know the answer. Bama's pressure D is not VCU's, even though the guys played against this type of D earlier in the season, VCU's rendition is a different monster.

Oh well, at least my bracket is still in good shape. Other than West Virginia, I'm perfect - whooo hoooo!

You didn't jinx anyone, you just did your homework and presented your observations. Unfortunately, the team just didn't respond in the first half...

[shocker2012]

Lets be honest. We want marshall back next yeaf. This program is ready to be a perrenial top 25 team. I am so pissed right now. I am freakin trying not to beat my wife.

No offense meant Prez, but your last sentence, even if its not meant to be serious...talking about committing violence against someone is never a joke.

**No, I know I havent been on here long, maybe have no right to call out another member, but I am a woman who has experienced domestic violence so I dont find it funny or appropriate to joke about.

[tw805]

No offense meant Prez, but your last sentence, even if its not meant to be serious...talking about committing violence against someone is never a joke.

Oh, calm down, Captain Sanctimony.

[GoShockers89]

Good grief, I don't see anybody demanding an apology or shouting for HCGM's head. The straw man arguments on here are on fire tonight.

I think a lot of us are saying that we had a team with a better record, against a better schedule, with more senior players who lost to a team that was inferior to us in all of the categories above. Was VCU better than us tonight? Yep. Were they better than us from November through March 14? Nope. That's what makes it an upset.

And the coach is ultimately the one who accepts responsibility for that. Just like a CEO takes credit when business is booming, he also has to take responsibility when there is a hiccup. It doesn't fall on the peon low-level managers (or in this case, volunteers).

I am sure the staff learned from the loss. On to next year.

[KC Shox]

I'm not mad we lost, we got beat fair and square. But I'm way PO'd watching Shaka Smart flippantly extend his hand out for the handshake with GM and speed past by him like we're wasting his precious time. GM was looking at Shaka the entire time, slowed down, extended his hand and ended up watching the little smurf breeze past by him. Anyone else catch that, or is my beer goggles kicking in?

[shoxlax]

Garrett need not blame himself for the loss. If Carl Hall knew how to draw a charge and cover a three point shooter in the corner out of zone, VCU would have seven less points. If KC wouldn't have watched the game we would have won.

How's that for spreading the wealth?

[shocker2012]

Oh, calm down, Captain Sanctimony.

Again, I am a woman who has experienced domestic violence. So no, I wasnt trying to be sanctimoneous. Its just not funny when you've been on the receiving end.

[hizzshock]

I'm not mad we lost, we got beat fair and square. But I'm way PO'd watching Shaka Smart flippantly extend his hand out for the handshake with GM and speed past by him like we're wasting his precious time. GM was looking at Shaka the entire time, slowed down, extended his hand and ended up watching the little smurf breeze past by him. Anyone else catch that, or is my beer goggles kicking in?

No you're right. Shaka is not a class act, not even close.

[shoxlax]

I'm not mad we lost, we got beat fair and square. But I'm way PO'd watching Shaka Smart flippantly extend his hand out for the handshake with GM and speed past by him like we're wasting his precious time. GM was looking at Shaka the entire time, slowed down, extended his hand and ended up watching the little smurf breeze past by him. Anyone else catch that, or is my beer goggles kicking in?

Not really, but if true, he's probably ready to accept a job in the Obama administration.