MVC Non-Conference Games

[Cdizzle]

I can't believe you left of your most important asset. Fixed it for you.

Winner.

[Rixtoy1]

I think I need to clarify some things. Yes before the season I felt like we would finish above of your team. That is a fact. As it turns out our newcomers are pretty awful. In fact I believe that some of them are new to the game of basketball. Their much ballyhooed HS numbers were evidently a lie or the level of competition was pretty awful. I lean towards the latter.

Yes we are terrible this year. Horrific in fact. A disgrace to the game that James A. Naismith created. Even that dorky Kansas fan that conviced some KU sucker boosters to spend like $4 million on the rules of the game mourns for us. Our coach is in over his head. I don't even what to dignify him by mentioning his name again. The fact that my name has him in it saddens me to my core and if possible I wish to change it. So if somebody can point me in the direction of how to do that then I would be grateful.

Now to the crux of what I need to clarify. Do not mistake this season, our young team, or our clueless coach for the true basketball program at Missouri State University. Once we have a competent head coach we have the fanbase, infrastructure, and desirable geography to be a genuine basketball power. The fact that we are urinating down our collective legs at the moment and have been doing that for the better part of the last decade should not embolden you enough to think that the current state of affairs is how it will be in the coming decades. Do NOT make this mistake. So get your laughs in now and perhaps the next season or two by 2015 to 2017 with a new coach and AD we will surpass you. This I have no doubt in my heart or mind whatsoever.

So yes you are clearly much better than us at the game of basketball right now. And for that you can laugh it up, call me what you want, and share whatever time you like enjoying our misery. In very short time we will have our next Spoonhour. Our next Alford and order will be restored. Call it karma. Call it the natural order of things. I'd say evolution but as I understand it that does not take place within the borders of your state anyhow. I am getting sidetracked. In time we will have our day and it will be greater than the day you are experiencing now. And I will be there to enjoy it. Hear my words.

Call me crazy (wouldn't be the first one today), but if you read this and think of a devout Shocker booster about the time of Randy Smithson's tenure, this could have been written about Wichita State at that time. The key words are "surpass you" - perhaps, but likely not. Anyway, He is saying don't throw out the baby with the bathwater regarding what appears to be a pitiful season coming up. I respect that - just glad all the things he describes as needing to happen have already occurred here.
Love me some Shockers!

[Ta town]

10-8 CU over NU with 10:18 to go in first half.

Nebraska's center is cracking me up, must weigh 350lbs + I don't care what the roster says.

[ShockerPhi]

I keep forgetting that Etch-a-sketch just looks weird as hell when he plays basketball.

And I agree about that Nebraska Center. Dude is bigger than most FOOTBALL Centers. LOL

[WuDrWu]

Nebraska is flipping awful. This is going to be a gynormous blowout.

[Jeffrey Korchek]

Nebraska is flipping awful. This is going to be a gynormous blowout.

They're really, really, really bad.

[tropicalshox]

28-17 CU at half

[The Mad Hatter]

Call me crazy (wouldn't be the first one today), but if you read this and think of a devout Shocker booster about the time of Randy Smithson's tenure, this could have been written about Wichita State at that time. The key words are "surpass you" - perhaps, but likely not. Anyway, He is saying don't throw out the baby with the bathwater regarding what appears to be a pitiful season coming up. I respect that - just glad all the things he describes as needing to happen have already occurred here.
Love me some Shockers!

While I get what you are saying, there are two problems with that comparison:

1. WSU, in spite of an awful 1990s, had a proud basketball tradition. MSU - not so much.

2. There is no comparing fan support at the two schools. Let's compare the attendance during Lusk's first year and during Randy's first year:

WSU 1996-1997: 9,449 (following an 8 win season)
MSU 2011-2012: 7,050 (following an MVC championship)

This year, when MSU was 1-0 and hosting a top 25 team in San Diego State, they only managed 7,272 fans and that is their best attendance mark of the season by nearly 800 fans.

[tropicalshox]

51-30 CU with a little over 10 to play.

[WuDrWu]

51-30 CU with a little over 10 to play.

Hard to believe, but CU actually found a BCS school that is less athletic than themselves.

[newshock1234]

haha this husker fans tweeted this to me lol

please Shockers, beat the Blow Jays this year!

[ShockTalk]

Really surprised that in a game like this, Chapman played 37 min, Gibbs 36, and SoW 32. They played only 7 players for most all the game.

Where was Josh Jones tonight?

[KC Shox]

So for those who watched, is Creighton the MVC equivalent of the Duke 'Flopping' Blue Devils?

[Jeffrey Korchek]

Where was Josh Jones tonight?

He apparently blacked out during practice and was taken to the hospital.

So for those who watched, is Creighton the MVC equivalent of the Duke 'Flopping' Blue Devils?

I don't really get that from them. Have they been floppers in the past? I don't really remember that under McDermott, at least. UNI and Evansville are the floppers in the league from what I remember, right?

[shox1989]

I was surprised to hear the espn3 announcer say that Cu had not won in Lincoln since 2004. UNL has had some pretty bad teams since 2004. The 13,300 was also the biggest crowd at the Devaney center since that 2004 Cu game. (I think the Devaney Center holds nearly 14,000).