It was just surreal and deflating in Williams today when the buzzer went off. I was speechless thinking about how we managed to let this one slip away and then thought of the implications of the loss and realizing it might have been the first nail in the coffin.
But as I was walking in the Pacific Northwest Rainforest-like winter weather, I thought man there's a lot to follow this year.
-We might have our first scoring option from the 5 in years developing in Sampson.
-It's Devoe's show we'll see if positions himself to inherit a lot of Westbrook's touches next year.
-There's the Cory Joseph saga still to play out and possibly another scholarship offer.
Lastly, I think UConn played in the NIT a year or two before it was in the title game. No doubt that this was the perfect storm- Mbwake, Royce, Nolen, Johnson struggling, and Westbrook doing his best Voshon Lenard senior season impression-becoming a black hole on the perimeter when he gets the ball and dribbles for 12 seconds and winds up throwing a hail-mary with a second on the clock and grimaces when somehow it doesn't go in.
I'm excited to see how things play out. If we open next year with Mbwake and Royce on the roster, we're back. If we can land Cory Joseph, we can make a run at the conference title.
But as I was walking in the Pacific Northwest Rainforest-like winter weather, I thought man there's a lot to follow this year.
-We might have our first scoring option from the 5 in years developing in Sampson.
-It's Devoe's show we'll see if positions himself to inherit a lot of Westbrook's touches next year.
-There's the Cory Joseph saga still to play out and possibly another scholarship offer.
Lastly, I think UConn played in the NIT a year or two before it was in the title game. No doubt that this was the perfect storm- Mbwake, Royce, Nolen, Johnson struggling, and Westbrook doing his best Voshon Lenard senior season impression-becoming a black hole on the perimeter when he gets the ball and dribbles for 12 seconds and winds up throwing a hail-mary with a second on the clock and grimaces when somehow it doesn't go in.
I'm excited to see how things play out. If we open next year with Mbwake and Royce on the roster, we're back. If we can land Cory Joseph, we can make a run at the conference title.