Games of interest

[AndShock]

Yahoo has them losing by 1 in regulation.

Indeed they did. ESPN had the score at 66-66 but it's been corrected. A&M won by 1 in regulation.

[bunck]

UNI loses by only 11...

[jocoshock]

I would rather do that as a 4 seed than as a 8 or 9 seed.

I just don't understand the mentality that some profess that they somehow think WSU losing games is a good thing and then hoping they get hot at the end of the season? That is a recipe for NIT. Play Angry and destroy our competition.

Not sure where you come up with assessment. I said nothing about being an 8 or 9 seed. Simply stating my preference of not being an "overrated" number 1. Much more fun being the underrated seed knocking off the entitled overrated blue blood..

Dont need to be a number 1 seed to feed my ego. Much better to finish number 1 than start there and not finish...

[shocktheheart]

UNI loses by only 11...

Sounds like they are trying for the at large route like last year

[ShockTalk]

Milwaukee has lost to both DePaul and Loyola. They barely beat a horrible UMKC team. Not good for the Frostbitten Flops if they lose.

Wow! UNI was the best RPI team Milwaukee had faced this year.....60 RPI places higher than second best DePaul. Big ouch for the Valley. More conference slippage in the conference RPI rankings.

[Cdizzle]

The Valley is terrible. Just, terrible. I hope we boatrace some peeps. Many times.

[ShockTalk]

Lose of the Day: As bad as UNI did, it did not come close to being the worst.

Previously 7-3 Florida International U lost 59-77 to D-II Nova Southeastern who came into this game 1-5.

[ShockerFever]

Not sure where you come up with assessment. I said nothing about being an 8 or 9 seed. Simply stating my preference of not being an "overrated" number 1. Much more fun being the underrated seed knocking off the entitled overrated blue blood..

Dont need to be a number 1 seed to feed my ego. Much better to finish number 1 than start there and not finish...

Why can't we strive to be a blueblood? We have bigger fish to fry now than being a cute little "mid major" cinderella story.

Don't be afraid of success.

[ShockerFever]

UNI is not very good. They've been over-inflated again this year.

[jocoshock]

Why can't we strive to be a blueblood? We have bigger fish to fry now than being a cute little "mid major" cinderella story.

Don't be afraid of success.

I dont fear success and Wichita State will not be a blue blood in our lifetime and should not strive to be.

Getting to the top as blue collar is a much greater accomplishment. If people want to be blue blood then they should jump on the KU bandwagon.

You might consider Louisville a blue blood program, but I can assure you Kentucky does not, and why would Louisville want to be? They got to where they are by banging down the door multiple times and I bet they dont give a rat's ass about number 1 seeds. They are freaking Louisville. We are freaking Wichita State. Or Rick Pitino says - Wichita State tough...

You dont have to blue blood to be successful. I seriously dont get the insecurity on this board...

My take is not about fearing success. It's about knocking the blue bloods off their perch. Its about hard work versus entitlement. A national championship is no less valid if you were a 4 or 5 seed. A 1 seed is worthless if you are KU or Gonzaga and you get bounced in the round of 32 by a Cinderella. Why would we need a number 1 seed to validate ourselves?

Seems to me you are letting other people define us when you get insecure about Cinderella tag. Cinderella may not have been the richest chick at dance, but she was definitely the hottest.

Question to you is: do you want to be successful and authentic, or a poser?

[ShockerFever]

I dont fear success and Wichita State will not be a blue blood in our lifetime and should not strive to be.

Getting to the top as blue collar is a much greater accomplishment. If people want to be blue blood then they should jump on the KU bandwagon.

You might consider Louisville a blue blood program, but I can assure you Kentucky does not, and why would Louisville want to be? They got to where they are by banging down the door multiple times and I bet they dont give a rat's ass about number 1 seeds. They are freaking Louisville. We are freaking Wichita State. Or Rick Pitino says - Wichita State tough...

You dont have to blue blood to be successful. I seriously dont get the insecurity on this board...

My take is not about fearing success. It's about knocking the blue bloods off their perch. Its about hard work versus entitlement. A national championship is no less valid if you were a 4 or 5 seed. A 1 seed is worthless if you are KU or Gonzaga and you get bounced in the round of 32 by a Cinderella. Why would we need a number 1 seed to validate ourselves?

Seems to me you are letting other people define us when you get insecure about Cinderella tag. Cinderella may not have been the richest chick at dance, but she was definitely the hottest.

Question to you is: do you want to be successful and authentic, or a poser?

You do fear it. Otherwise, you wouldn't be preferring 4 seeds to 1 seeds. That's spoken like a fan of a team that would rather fly under the radar. I don't care how we get to Final Fours or National Titles. If we get them as 9 seeds, so be it. If we get them at 1 or 2 seeds, awesome. But to prefer losing a few games to get to where we wanna be is just completely pussyish and asinine. And that's what you'd be doing if, you prefer a lower seed.

So we shouldn't strive to be a reloading, successful basketball program? Because that's what a blueblood basically is. We don't have to change our recruiting or identity, necessarily, but we don't have to endure losses to evansville or whoever, get 9 seeds and upset our way to a Final Fours either. Sure, it was fun, and if it happens that way again, cool beans. But to not wanna be the best in your sport? Yeahhhh. Okkkkkkkk.

I'm pretty sure Rick Pitino and Louisville fans like being No.1 seeds. They were last year and guess what? They won a National Title... and not their first one either. They are pretty damn close to blue blood status. Just because UK fans don't want to acknowledge a state rival, doesn't mean it isn't true. If we accomplished everything L'ville has accomplished, we'd be a damn close blueblood also. But you don't want that?

We don't need 1 seeds to validate ourselves. But we sure don't need to be afraid of them if we ever do get them. That would mean we are winning. And winning a lot.

Stop fearing success.

[wushock27]

Just something I want to add about Louisville...
They consider themselves "blue bloods" and their fans, players, and coaches do too... Everyone here seems to pick on Kentucky as their fans are arrogant, but believe me, Louisville fans are just as bad, if not worse at times!!

[jdshock]

This conversation seems dumb to me. I'm certain one seeds typically go further in the tournament than any other seed. Why wouldn't we want to be a one seed?

[pogo]

I think your first sentence sums it up for me.

[Play Angry]

If you gave Gregg Marshall a choice between a 1 seed and a 4 seed, I can tell you with absolute certainty which one he would choose.

Strive to be the best.