Lunardi Reports

[kcshocker11]

Winning solves all problems. Until proven wrong I say the future looks bright! Real Bright!

[SHOXAAC]

I think many of us on SN are like our beloved Shockers early season practices. We are reaching for anything to ocupy our mental focus. Sometimes we get chippy at the smallest things. We need some meat with our potatoes. I, like others, can't wait til November 6 & 10 so we can take our frustration out on a real opponent.

[wsushox1]

I think many of us on SN are like our beloved Shockers early season practices. We are reaching for anything to ocupy our mental focus. Sometimes we get chippy at the smallest things. We need some meat with our potatoes. I, like others, can't wait til November 6 & 10 so we can take our frustration out on a real opponent.

I agree. Can't wait for the HS Bball season to start but the first three weeks of practice are the longest, hardest but most important of the year. After those are done you just want to play anybody but the people you practice against. You wanna know if your good, if your bad, what you need to work on. Cause there is only so much playing against your team mates day in and day out can do. Things do get chippy sometimes but at the end of the day your team mates and I would do anything for my brothers on the court.

[Aargh]

I'll bet that Durley is already looking forward to seeing ANYBODY other than Blair, Stutz, Orukpe, or Ellis between him and the basket.

Yikes! 3 weeks of a steady diet that group of defenders can't be loads of fun.

[another shocker]

But The Valley IS multiple-bid worthy this year. For sure! At least two teams WILL get in. I'll take it back at the end of the season if I'm wrong. Wichita State has to step through Creighton, UNI, Missouri St, and Bradley, all of them quality NCAA tournament type teams, of course, if they expect to win the title. :-x

[ShockerFever]

Because, we play in the Valley. A one-bid conference for some time now. One fluke of a year in 2005-06 doesn't suddenly transform this conference into a multi-bid league. The Shox still have not done anything in the NCAA's for 20 years other than one magical season. Until we start becoming a consistent winner, get help from other Valley teams and put together consistent runs into the NCAA's the Shockers will continue to be looked at as a bubble team in a mid-major conference.

The thing is we were a multi-bid league for about 10 straight years, from 1998-2007. It was when Drake and Northern Iowa flipped everyone over that things seemed to change. Oh and the fact that our league stopped winning the big non-con games.

Honestly, I thought we got screwed a time or two in 2008 or 2009, thinking a second bid was certainly possible.

But you're right. We have to start winning consistently and stop losing to grenades like Drake and Evansville.

[ShockerFever]

Wichita State was a bubble team last year, not this year IMHO.

Still a lot to prove.

There's no such thing as a "lock" in November, ESPECIALLY if you're not part of the Big 6.

[another shocker]

The preseason MVC favorite is not a bubble team, ShockerFever.

[ShockerFever]

The preseason MVC favorite is not a bubble team, ShockerFever.

"Preseason" does not equate to "lock", another shocker.

[another shocker]

Who said it did, ShockerFever? Preseason equates to preseason. WSU is generally considered top 25, the MVC's best team, preseason. That should put them on the preseason "lock", not "bubble" or "nit", list.

Now, if you want to ask me, I'll say Wichita State is a definite lock-tite, solid, NCAA team.

[vbird53]

Because, we play in the Valley. A one-bid conference for some time now. One fluke of a year in 2005-06 doesn't suddenly transform this conference into a multi-bid league.

Whoa. It's time for some actual data to refute this.

Over the past twenty-five seasons, the Valley has had at least 2 representatives 15 times, including 8 of the past 11 seasons. Clearly, the three seasons without a second rep is the exception, not the rule. And, 6 times in those 25 years have had 3 or more teams in the dance.

[shock]

I'll bet that Durley is already looking forward to seeing ANYBODY other than Blair, Stutz, Orukpe, or Ellis between him and the basket.

Yikes! 3 weeks of a steady diet that group of defenders can't be loads of fun.

i wonder how hard it is for durley to score in practice? or any other big man for that matter. it should be a good year for them this year.

[tropicalshox]

Rush the Court bracketology:

WSU a 9th seed.

Missouri State in the last 4 in. UNI in the last 4 out.

http://rushthecourt.net/2010/11/02/preseason-bracketology-11-02-10/

[Snapshot9]

I see in that bracketology they have us playing Tennessee. That's good, we'll whip their butts again!!! .... lol

[wu_shizzle]

I see in that bracketology they have us playing Tennessee. That's good, we'll whip their butts again!!! .... lol

I would love to see HCGM get another shot at Bruce Pearl, but who knows if he'll still be on the bench in March.