Was looking at our losses and trying to see any patterns in our scoring and I noticed that if you divide the game up into quarters that there tends to be a trend where play good for 3 quarters but then get blown out 1 quarter which results in the loss. We're winning the battles, but losing the war.

Below I've charted our losses with scoring by quarter and margin, highlighting the worst quarters. The Robert Morris game, for example, was decided in the first quarter, we outscored them over the next 3 but it wasn't enough. Memphis was the worst example as we only played well for 1 quarter. We won 3 quarters against Winthrop but still lost, played UMass and Oklahoma even for 3 quarters and still lost too Akron's 31-13 run in the 2Q was the difference maker and Belmont dominated 2 quarters.

I don't know if this is more frustrating or encouraging, but I hope we can avoid a blowout quarter against Akron Wednesday, if we stay focused for 40 minutes we should be ok.


Robert Morris
1Q 10-26 (-16)
2Q 21-11 (+10)
3Q 22-21 (+1)
4Q 23-26 (-3)

Memphis
1Q 15-12 (+3)
2Q 13-24 (-11)
3Q 19-27 (-8)
4Q 11-21 (-10)

Winthrop
1Q 12-9 (+3)
2Q 13-11 (+2)
3Q 11-18 (-7)
4Q 13-12 (+1)

UMass
1Q 19-19 (0)
2Q 21-29 (-8)
3Q 20-20 (0)
4Q 16-17 (-1)

Oklahoma
1Q 17-14 (+3)
2Q 12-15 (-3)
3Q 14-25 (-11)
4Q 20-20 (0)

Akron
1Q 23-10 (+13)
2Q 13-31 (-18)
3Q 14-18 (-4)
4Q 21-25 (-4)

Belmont
1Q 10-19 (-9)
2Q 14-22 (-8)
3Q 17-16 (+1)
4Q 21-24 (-3)

Problem with this thread is that college basketball plays halfs not quarters.

Try to expand your brain, man. Try to think outside the box.

Billythecat has his ^ critics ^ but at least they let slide his plural spelling of "half".

And, another second half lost!