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does our non con misery continue this week or do we start winning a bit more?

Today

Drake vs. Western Kentucky 5:00pm

Hofstra vs. Indiana State 5:30pm CBS Sports Network

Tuesday

Oakland vs. SIU 7pm (tough test for the 4-0 Salukis)

Drake vs. Weber State 7:30pm

Illinois State vs. #3 Maryland 7:30pm CBS Sports Network (could get ugly)

Wednesday

Drake vs. Pepperdine 6:00pm

Illinois State vs. TCU 5pm CBS Sports Network

New Orleans vs. Bradley 7pm

Dubuque vs. Northern Iowa 7pm

Thanksgiving Day

Loyola vs. San Diego 1:00am CST (they're in Alaska)

WSU vs. USC 1:00pm

Evansville vs. Providence 8:00pm

Unfortunately, Van Vleet will be out for the entire Advocare tournament and Shamet is questionable for the Shockers. It could be a tough tournament for the Shocks with FVV out.

http://espn.go.com/ncb/story/_/id/14203 ... vitational

I don't know anything about USC basketball but I assume Shox should still win despite FVV's absence. What are the follow up games in that tournament?

USC is pretty good this year.

Red wrote:I don't know anything about USC basketball but I assume Shox should still win despite FVV's absence. What are the follow up games in that tournament?

I'm not going to claim they are world-beaters, but they are 3-0 with wins over Monmouth (beat UCLA) and New Mexico. With Fred out, Shamet likely out and Frankamp not yet eligible, the Shox start getting real thin at the 1-2 spots. We shall see. Definitely enough talent on this roster to win the game, but they need to start showing progress.

Next game is against #23 Xavier/Alabama. #17 Notre Dame/Monmouth and Iowa/Dayton are on the other side of the bracket.

Cdizzle wrote:

Red wrote:I don't know anything about USC basketball but I assume Shox should still win despite FVV's absence. What are the follow up games in that tournament?

I'm not going to claim they are world-beaters, but they are 3-0 with wins over Monmouth (beat UCLA) and New Mexico. With Fred out, Shamet likely out and Frankamp not yet eligible, the Shox start getting real thin at the 1-2 spots. We shall see. Definitely enough talent on this roster to win the game, but they need to start showing progress.

Next game is against #23 Xavier/Alabama. #17 Notre Dame/Monmouth and Iowa/Dayton are on the other side of the bracket.

Latest says Shamet is out 6 to 8 weeks. So it could be a rough few weeks for WSU. Hitting the toughest upcoming part of the schedule without an All American, and the most promising Freshman.

Red wrote:I don't know anything about USC basketball

You can say that again.

Stickboy46 wrote:
Latest says Shamet is out 6 to 8 weeks. So it could be a rough few weeks for WSU. Hitting the toughest upcoming part of the schedule without an All American, and the most promising Freshman.

Tough blow, so how does the rotation go now? Baker at the 1 and Brown starting at the 2? with Taylor and Simon backing up the 1 and 2?

If they can go 2-1 in this tourney without Shamet and FVV I'd say that's a pretty good showing

Rollbird5 wrote:

Stickboy46 wrote:
Latest says Shamet is out 6 to 8 weeks. So it could be a rough few weeks for WSU. Hitting the toughest upcoming part of the schedule without an All American, and the most promising Freshman.

Tough blow, so how does the rotation go now? Baker at the 1 and Brown starting at the 2? with Taylor and Simon backing up the 1 and 2?

If they can go 2-1 in this tourney without Shamet and FVV I'd say that's a pretty good showing

Brown hasn't been great so far this year. Hasn't shown yet that he could keep a '2' in front of him on defense. But your guess isn't a bad one. I guess we'll all find out on Thursday. It was obvious on Saturday, against a D2 team, that Marshall had WSU in "get ready to play without Fred" mode, and was doing more coaching than he has in 2 years. Add the loss of Shamet to that, and things get even more interesting. Starting to look more and more like 2012-2013 in Shockerland. Hopefully it ends similarly.

Cdizzle wrote:Starting to look more and more like 2012-2013 in Shockerland. Hopefully it ends similarly.

I guess that year didn't end too bad