Mailing It In

The 16,000,000,000,000 ManWelp, all the doom and gloom around here has finally come to fruition. Teams that lose the 5 of their last 7 don't go dancing (but they do get pizza parties!). SOS does not matter. RPI does not matter. You just don't get to go to the big boy's tournament when you shit your pants in the homestretch. That goes doubly for mid-majors.

I don't know about you, but it's almost a relief. The resignment is official and lasting now. As much as we enjoyed yelling about MUST WINS and waiting with baited breath for Smilin' Joes freshest brackets, we can pack that shit up and concentrate on the ensuing baseball season and finally get around to cataloging our porn collections.

Honestly, I don't know what to chalk this disappointment of a season up to. I think we were incredibly lucky last season and played well above our heads, thus leading to our present outlandish expectations. As the season wore on, and the detachment allowed us to view the team a bit more objectively, it become obvious we weren't all that talented of a team. We've got two very nice players in Chrises Wright and Johnson (though the cool kids swear Johnson is the better of the two, we know that's not true) and a bunch of inconsistent dreck. Some probably wouldn't in Brad Brownell's rotation (Mickey Perry, I'm looking at you). There's hope for some of that dreck, but for the most part you didn't have a clue what they were going to bring to the table night in, night out this year.

In the spirit of the Flyers 1st half performance, we're going to mail the rest of this one in bullet-style.

• Paul Willie put up a 16 trillion tonight. That is more astonishing than you think. Walk-ons across the country give PW much respect tonight. They'll be whispering about it for years to come, Jordan-lore style well into the future.

• Kurt saw the scouts in attendance and brought it tonight. 13 and 7. TANGIBLES! He also was 3-10 from the free throw line which makes me all the more confident I could take him in a game of HORSE.

• Big Dog and Benson combined for 8 and 5 in 14 minutes. Saint Louis could use some size.

• Not sure what to make of Pop-A-Shot. Is he going to be this fragile his whole career or was this some freakish lingering injury? Anyways since the Rhody game he's contributed 6 points on 2-16 shooting and 3 rebounds, albeit in very limited time.

• When you allow the other team to go on an 18-0 run, you can pretty much head to the showers. 10 minutes without scoring, go ahead and check your messages and start making plans for the evening.

• Willie Reed is averaging 12 and 8. Against the Flyers, he's averaging 3.5 and 6.5. Clearly, frightened by the color red.

• We pounded them on the boards 37-25 and surprisingly didn't give that advantage back in turnovers. We did, however, manage to shoot the ball poorly enough to negate it.

Hater. I want to get this out there, I'm already opposed to Jesse Berry. SAT style: Kavanaugh: Donny::Berry:myself.

Word is leaking out now that  the reason he was suspended for a game earlier this year was a run-in with the police. He was charged with "conversion," which to the best of my knowledge is a euphemism for theft. There's also plenty of internet chatter about his character and what type of kid he is (which needs to be taken with a double helping of salt). He happens to be the most loathsome of player-types as well, the volume scorer. He's getting a hefty 22 a game on 46% and 35%, but he's also tallied only 23 assists to 61 turnovers. I would like nothing more than for Mr. Berry to make me look like I fool, but I remain dubious.

NCAA Basketball Stats

Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%): adjusts for the fact that a 3-point field goal is worth one more point than a 2-point field goal.
Turnover Percentage (TO%): is an estimate of turnovers per 100 plays.
Offensive Rebouning Percentage (OR%): measures a team's ability to get offensive rebounds.
Free Throw Rate (FT Rate): is a measure of both how often a team gets to the line and how often they make them.

		S	MIN	PTS	FGM	FGA	FG%	2PA	2PA	2P%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	OR	DR	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF
	K. Cassity	*	37	11	4	7	57.1	1	2	50.0	3	5	60.0	0	0		1	4	5	5	1	0	2	1
	K. Mitchell	*	35	20	5	9	55.6	1	2	50.0	4	7	57.1	6	9	66.7	0	5	5	2	0	0	3	3
	C. Ellis	*	28	10	3	8	37.5	1	2	50.0	2	6	33.3	2	2	100.0	0	3	3	0	1	0	1	3
	C. Salecich	*	22	8	2	3	66.7	0	0	0.0	2	3	66.7	2	2	100.0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	1
	W. Reed	*	19	5	2	5	40.0	2	5	40.0	0	0		1	4	25.0	1	5	6	1	0	2	1	4
	J. Jordan		23	11	3	5	60.0	2	3	66.6	1	2	50.0	4	4	100.0	1	0	1	4	1	0	2	0
	B. Conklin		16	2	0	4	0.0	0	3	0.0	0	1	0.0	2	2	100.0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	3
	C. Remekun		11	1	0	3	0.0	0	3	0.0	0	0		1	2	50.0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	3
	J. Smith		9	3	1	1	100.0	1	1	100.0	0	0		1	1	100.0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	SLU		200	71	20	45	44.4	8	21	38.0	12	24	50.0	19	26	73.1	5	23	28	14	4	2	13	18
		S	MIN	PTS	FGM	FGA	FG%	2PA	2PA	2P%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	OR	DR	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF
	UD		200	66	25	55	45.5	20	40	50.0	5	15	33.3	11	21	52.4	14	24	38	11	5	3	14	19
	C. Wright	*	32	15	7	13	53.8	7	13	53.8	0	0		1	4	25.0	4	4	8	0	2	1	1	4
	K. Huelsman	*	27	13	5	7	71.4	5	7	71.4	0	0		3	10	30.0	5	2	7	0	0	0	5	0
	L. Warren	*	24	8	2	3	66.7	2	3	66.6	0	0		4	4	100.0	0	3	3	3	0	0	1	5
	M. Johnson	*	23	3	1	5	20.0	0	3	0.0	1	2	50.0	0	0		1	2	3	0	1	0	2	2
	R. Lowery	*	20	11	3	7	42.9	1	3	33.3	2	4	50.0	3	3	100.0	0	4	4	4	0	0	1	4
	M. Perry		20	5	2	7	28.6	1	3	33.3	1	4	25.0	0	0		0	2	2	3	1	0	2	1
	C. Johnson		18	3	1	5	20.0	0	2	0.0	1	3	33.3	0	0		0	3	3	0	1	0	2	1
	P. Williams		16	0	0	0		0	0	0.0	0	0		0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	J. Benson		8	4	2	4	50.0	2	4	50.0	0	0		0	0		2	3	5	0	0	1	0	0
	D. Searcy		6	4	2	2	100.0	2	2	100.0	0	0		0	0		1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
	L. Fabrizius		6	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	2	0.0	0	0		0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
		S	MIN	PTS	FGM	FGA	FG%	2PA	2PA	2P%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	OR	DR	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF

Comments

[Adam]

You stole my exact thought in the second half: Thank god it's over. Baseball season, where I expect mediocrity at best out of the Reds. I doubt I'll even watch them play Xavier on Friday. How's that for a shitty season, I couldn't care less about playing a rival in the conference tourney.

[vern lundquist-troyer]

did we really need more bad news with the whole Berry situation right now? that's like shitting on top of a nicolas cage shrine. overkill and uncalled for. 10 hail mary's

nonetheless, my first feeling was relief as well.

[the situation]

fuck it sucks being a flyer fan.

[Dick Fitzwell]

Did they lose their games in Cheerleaders whup or what? They went through the last ten or so games like they were mailing it in.

[timmycouch]

p-willie's stat line........WOW. But hey, he plays great defense!!!

[Rick]

On to the next disappointment, Go Reds!

[The King]

P-willie may have just set the record in the trillion club! 16 trillion are you kidding me!

FUCK THE FLYERS

NOBODY SLEEPS WHEN THE KING IS ANGRY!

[Matt]

Sooooo....next year's line up? Staten, Parker, Johnson, Wright (NBA Draft lulz), and Big Dog?

[Tom Blackburn]

I was out of town and missed this one completely. I'm still in shock at Paul Willie's 16 trillion. I'm sure no one has this stat handy, but that has to be THE record, right? I can't see any D1 ballplayer logging 16 minutes without so much as a whiff of contribution. Is there a way I can look this up, a trillionaire site that I don't know about?

[Adam]

@Matt - I'm calling next year's starting lineup as Staten, Paul Trillionaire, Wright, Benson, Big Dog

[Paul Williams]

According to the ESPN college basketball nation "On Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2001, Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils guard Elvis Robinson played an entire 31 minutes -- second most on his team -- without recording a single stat. 31 trillion" Here is the link -

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/5326/more-trillion-fun-lots-more

[Pk]

@Oliver - You are pretty close on your Berry story. I am a Lafayette native, and I heard a similar story. I heard he was caught stealing..... caught stealing at Wal-Mart..... caught stealing at Wal-Mart a $10 cell phone cover. Huh? Although it is fun to say a UD recruit is going to UD, this kid does not look like a UD guy. He doesn't play defense and is just a one man show. He gets most of his points from the free throw line. I would put Vegas odds 8:1 that he will be playing at IUPUI in 2 years time. (BTW Purdue fans here have no memory of UD destroying them back in 2001 in Indy.)

[Beerman]

Wonder if Wright starting with the seniors was a tip of the hat that he is gone?