Rising: Again do you really think that Duqesne had tons of NIL money to throw at its players after not being in the Big Dance for 55 years! You seem to suggest that money is 95% of the equation and coaching is 5%. Maybe we should put the money we pay our coaches into our NIL program. 

Rising: Amazing that you haven't said one negative thing about a coach that lost 14 out of the last 15 games! Again if it's all about NIL money, maybe we should scrap the progam altogether! By the way, I would be surprised if a team like Duquesne-- which hasn't won in the big dance in 54 years-- is loaded with NIL money, Also GW at the moment isn't rising. .

GWRising: If you think those problems are enough to explain losing 14 out of 15, you don't expect much at all from the coach. In fact, all you have done is make excuses for him. You are the one that must have missed all the second half games.because I thought we were watching the movie "Groundhog Day" on a basketball court!

Nor does youth and inexperience.

The biggest concern now is how do we keep the young players from bolting after this disastrous season. As for Johnson, the assistant coach at the last President's Club lunch told me point blank that Johnson's hip wasn't the reason he wasn't playing. However, the announcers today said that it was. The bad news never ends. 

We were told that Johnson was "sick" for the last game. That's all we know. Hopefully he'll be back today--we need him!

If we didn't play so poorly, the announcers would have had very little or nothing negative to say. Don't kill the messenger! The players and coaches need to clean up their act if they don't want negative comments made about them. 

When is Caputo going to start yelling at these guys? Everyone does want they want to do. They keep jacking up 3s-- sometimes as soon as they get their hands on the ball. Nobody can make shots. Inexplicable!

The boys were due for a fall. Same problems keep coming up that they mostly and luckily overcame. Not today. The problems can be summarized as sloppy overall play:  poor 3-point defense, not blocking out on defensive rebounds (we are not a tall team and need to do a much better job), spotty free throw shooting (unlike earlier in the season), poor decision-making with the ball, etc. These things must be corrected if we are to succeed in still-to-come, tough league games. No patsies this year. I know we are very young and inexperienced, but we have too many games under our belt now to keep making the same mistakes. Also  when the starters are struggling, coach needs to play Weluch Ume, Schroeder, Smith and even Harvey more. At least in todays' game, Schroeder and Harvey made their free throws--something the team has been struggling with lately.

Nice win and I don't want to be a stick in the mud, but this team is still much too sloppy! Not slowing the ball down when necessary, too many turnovers and bad decisions with the ball, not blocking out on defensive rebounds (except for Stretch taller teams are hurting us), not extending out defensively against 3-point shooters, etc. If it hadn't been for Stretch, Mason's poor play, and our free throw shooting the outcome of the game, in my opinion, would have been in doubt.14-3 is certainly terrific, but we need to correct these problems or we will struggle as the season progresses. Last, I'd like to see Caputo yell at his players once in a while as the message often doesn't seem to be getting through.