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Conference play gets underway this Saturday at Sac State. The only DI team the Hornets have beat is Cal St-Northridge but they did play Portland tight last weekend on the Kings home court. Viks riding high so the Hornets would love to be the first Big Sky team to bring us back to earth. This game should be an easy one right from the start, but conference road games are anything but easy. We have to be ready.
 
"SR F Traylin Farris has now missed seven games this season due to an ankle sprain. He is expected to return against Sacramento State."

Farris and Tucker. Oh my. I think the last time these guys were on the court together was early last season against Pepperdine.
 
TeamHolt said:
Portland state will take the L Sac state played well.
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Regardless of record, conference road games are always tough to get. Even so, we should have had this game. We let Sac State slow us down and dictate tempo. What's worse, with the late start, everyone else around the conference saw how to do it. It looked like we were going half speed, like we already had it won (and jumping out to a 16 point lead didn't help). Like I pointed out before, no one in the conference cares how you did in non-conference. These are the games that count.

We're coming in with a big bullseye on us. We have to be ready.
 
Like Icarus it appears we were flying a might too high. After a very successful 10 win OOC schedule the good ol' Vikings show up in Sacramento and drop a real buzz killer to the 3 and 10 Hornets. That ought to attract enthusiastic crowds to the gym on Palintine Hill.
 
We had a pretty good non-conference slate last year, then started conference play losing in OT to the lowly Sac State team. That set the tone last year. It better not set the tone for this year. We get four or five conference losses, we're coming in to the tournament as a #15 or #16 seed. We get only one or even two losses (which we are capable of doing) and we could come in as a #13 or even a #12.

Next weekend is more difficult. Cheney and Moscow are not easy places to play. Idaho was picked by some to win the conference and EWU was not that far behind. Starting conference play 1-2 (or 0-3) does not bode well for the year. We have to be ready.
 
I just thought I would share what I saw Saturday night...your team came in with a ton of confidence and when they got up by 16 they probably expected us to quit, but when things started to change, they didn't seem to dig down and go for that last ounce of energy....when your team came out after halftime, they looked tired even though they led by 6, they came out of the locker room in small groups of 2 or 4 players just walking back on the court, not running out together as a team but as small individual groups...I mentioned to my wife that they looked like a team that was down by 20 not ahead by 6...just my observations, not intended to start anything....does your team always come out after halftime like that??
 
sacstateman said:
I just thought I would share what I saw Saturday night...your team came in with a ton of confidence and when they got up by 16 they probably expected us to quit, but when things started to change, they didn't seem to dig down and go for that last ounce of energy....when your team came out after halftime, they looked tired even though they led by 6, they came out of the locker room in small groups of 2 or 4 players just walking back on the court, not running out together as a team but as small individual groups...I mentioned to my wife that they looked like a team that was down by 20 not ahead by 6...just my observations, not intended to start anything....does your team always come out after halftime like that??
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I think this is close. Hornets did not play like a team that had won one DI game so far this year and being down 16, it would have been easy for them to quit. Instead, we thought the game was won and moved forward with our thinking. When the game got close, we had already lost our edge. Watching the stream, I though we were going about half-speed. I attributed that to the Hornets dictating tempo, but maybe we were tired. Whatever reason, we seemed to not be able to pick it up like the other games.
 
We may not be a power house team this year but we will fight till the final buzzer no matter what the score is....sometimes that is enough to beat a more talented team which is what I think happened last Saturday...
 
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