If we're missing a (relatively) big like Sean in a team that is strong down low, that is not good. More offensively than defensively, but still, even in drawing fouls. Not letting Degenhart totally roll over us would seem to loom large.
   Excellent preview by dmvpirahna, as always.
   Hope we can surprise. 
Their rebounding margin on defense is less scary than if they are good on the offensive boards. We've
been hobbled by second, third, fourth and fifth chance rebounds.
  Other questions are which formerly unimpressive Boise State shooter has the potential to win the coveted career 3-point shooting award?
And how will the portal departures and Crown money affect play? Will Jun and Jacoi be more motviated to show their skills for a new audience? Will we play them much? 
Will the rest of team be motivated by the showcase, as such, opportunity and money?
performance award? Which Drumgoole will show up? Good time for the streak shooting to be positive--for Trey A as well. All we can ask from Castro is to be Castro, which is a huge plus.
   The most disturbing aspect of this is Boise State wanted this third-tier tournament so much they turned down the NIT. Money may be the factor. Also they will be pissed from being the first 4 out. Think without looking back again, they beat Clemson and BC in OOC.
    The hope is they will be overwound, Mountain West oversold and we play like we have nothing to lose.

Free Quebec wrote:

I’m going to post something that is behind a paywall, so I’m going to give the site a big plug.  There’s a Wordpress site I found not long ago called StaringAtTheFloorboards.Wordpress.com. 

It’s $10 a year for a subscription and if you want to better understand matchups, gamble, or play college basketball DFS, it’s easily worth that small subscription fee. 

Anyway, here’s his preview (which I think is great, though perhaps not giving enough thought to how much we’ll miss Hansen if he doesn’t play).



George Washington will reportedly have everyone available except possibly Hansen per a reliable source, and Boise State should have everyone of consequence in Vegas as well. The Revs work heavily at the rim offensively (98th percentile rim rate per Synergy) through Castro, and shoot the ball sideways from the perimeter, pairing a 97th percentile c&s rate with a 19th percentile efficiency rating. Boise typically islands the post to stay true on the perimeter, but GW is a team you have to help against in the paint, so we’ll see what Rice does. Boise has the same jump shooting issues GW has (95th percentile c&s rate with an even worse efficiency rating), but the Revs are extremely aggressive in their ball screen coverage and post denial, with a ton of high hedging, trapping, and blitzing, something that the Broncos saw a lot of in the MWC, but had very mixed results against (Boise doesn’t really run a ton of PNR, and prefer to post up their big wings, but how those wings shoot on the perimeter against the numbers advantage this Revs defensive structure gives you with two to the ball will likely decide the game). 8.5 seems too high and lean Revs

Understand Hansen is on a long ago planned family vacation out of the N. A. Continent

GW0509 wrote:

Poog wrote:

Understand Hansen is on a long ago planned family vacation out of the N. A. Continent

He didn't believe we'd be in the Final Four this week!?

Jabari Edwards, part 2.  Couldn't make it back to the CBI game against VCU back in the late Hobbs era.

 

I am going to assume that the thrilling (or, at least as thrilling as third-tier tournament´s opening round game can get) end to the first game will mean tipoff of the GW game is a tad late. The Crown Fever, catch it!

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

Game just doesn’t feel right.  3 lame ducks playing and a 4th player away with his mommy and daddy on vacation.   Season ended with blowout loss to Mason. Let it rest in peace.

Unless we win.  Then this tournament is awesome.

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

Game just doesn’t feel right. 3 lame ducks playing and a 4th player away with his mommy and daddy on vacation. Season ended with blowout loss to Mason. Let it rest in peace.

 Does this mean you and Vegas Vick did not trek out to southern Nevada for this event?

UGGGGGLY by both teams
 

When Gerald is off from 3 and drives, good things can happen.

Didn’t know Drumgold is from Israel.

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

Game just doesn’t feel right. 3 lame ducks playing and a 4th player away with his mommy and daddy on vacation. Season ended with blowout loss to Mason. Let it rest in peace.

 Does this mean you and Vegas Vick did not trek out to southern Nevada for this event?

Actually we spoke about it but neither Vic nor Wisconsin Colonial were available