Same ols same old! We led this game for 33 minutes and again we fall apart down the stretch. Caputo can't win the big one unless his guys shoot 60% from three and his players make mistake after mistake at the end of games. This is incredibly painful!

A heartbreaker of a loss given the comeback, but was pleasantly surprised by the comeback when they got down 7.  Baby steps.  Hopefully this gives them some confidence for the A-10 Tournament.  They can definitely hang with anyone in the conference.

Caputo is paid a good deal of money to come in first and he can't when it really counts.

Amazing that the difference in this game was that prayer from 40 feet at the end of the half that almost broke the backboard and went in.  The basketball gods were with the ugly billikens.  It was like the Heidi game blacking out for me.  Couldn’t even watch to the end.
Proud of the heart they showed and nobody is going to want us in the tournament-go Revs!!!

I believe we are 0-8 in games decided by 12 points or less.

Free Quebec wrote:

I believe we are 0-8 in games decided by 12 points or less.

haha what? this has got to be some kind of record

Again, we melted. 15-0 run. I’m telling you and I will repeat it until one of these guys hopefully reads this, gets mad enough, and decides enough is enough … we lack grit and leadership. Talent will only get you so far. You can check all the analytics at the door. Without grit and leadership you won’t win on nights like tonight, at Dayton, at Mason etc. Let’s face it all of those teams are grittier than we are. Talent isn’t the problem. It never was this year. If we had grit and leadership we would be St. Louis or Mason. Instead we are 13-8/4-4. That’s the difference.

In conference play, we so far only lost one game we were predicted to win (Davidson). If you look at ESPN, the only game left in conference play we’re predicted to lose from here on is at VCU. Not saying we’ll live up to the prediction for every other game, just saying that, at least in conference play we’re doing almost exactly as expected and the harder road games came early. And for all three hard road games (Dayton, GMU, SLU) we lost by single digits. All of our home wins, we won by double digits.  This team is good - but the A10 is good this year so it’s tough.

Last edited by GW 2005 Alumna (1/27/2026 10:46 pm)

Free Quebec wrote:

I believe we are 0-8 in games decided by 12 points or less.

1-8.  We beat South Florida by like 5.  That is still a crazy stat that I don't think I've ever seen before from a basketball team.

GW 2005 Alumna wrote:

In conference play, we so far only lost one game we were predicted to win (Davidson). If you look at ESPN, the only game left in conference play we’re predicted to lose from here on is at VCU. Not saying we’ll live up to the prediction for every other game, just saying that, at least in conference play we’re doing almost exactly as expected and the harder road games came early. And for all three hard road games (Dayton, GMU, SLU) we lost be single digits. All of our home wins, we won by double digits. This team is good - but the A10 is good this year so it’s tough.

Exactly, as I mentioned earlier in the thread. It's clear to me that this team is not one of those special GW teams that comes along once a decade or so, as many of us had hoped. They just can't put it together down the stretch in close games. At the same time, this team is significantly better than we have been in a while. Three of our 4 losses in conference are games I fully expected us to lose, and there is only one more really tough one from here on out. I for one am looking forward to seeing a lot of wins down the stretch.