Well said....

Absolutely.

Taking 2 of 3 from Oakland-Portland-UNI would be huge. Getting the first one tonight was GREAT! Nice to see what life on the road has become.

Good win . . . we need to keep up the momentum . . . as we move forward.  I'm listening to the Oakland coach's show and he is out of his goard about the 22 TOs his team committed.  He claims that's the worst he's ever seen at home.  He says 38 points off those turnovers.  One of their players just said that our pressure had nothing to do with it; it was just his bad decisions, and "It won't happen again."  Now, the coach is saying that we are a "great dribble penetration" team and we shot a much greater three point percentage than our average.  I don't know if that's true or not.  Did not seem that way watching the game.

I'm pumped.

Couple of big things that is different than in years past.   We have a bench and I mean a good bench.  Our bench outscored their bench 42-8.    Not only that but we had much fresher legs than they did at the end and I think that played a huge part in the win.

The other thing is we play defense. For the first time in I don't know how many years we potentially have a very good team.  Other teams really have to work hard to get good shots.  Tonight's high shooting percentage by Oakland had more to do with one very big mismatch who is going to do that to a lot of teams.  But everybody else really had to work to get shots. 

Big win. I thought we had a very good chance here - "Did Not Flinch"! This deep bench is great, what an asset!

Was on the road between Cleveland and Cincinnati during game time - was getting too far south of the Columbus radio station signal area with 8 minutes left. I had to stop and sit in a parking lot to listen to the finish - rest of that drive to Cincy was much more enjoyable than usual!

HA. Way to ruin an optimistic thread anorris.

Speaking of Bryant...while they overachieved toward the end of last season, it appears that they are off to a terrible start this season. 

Please, you live for raining on parades.

I got news for you.  In the landscape of college basketball today Oakland and Portland are good wins, particularly on the road.  And Northern Iowa is a good win for any program in the country.  Kentucky would be very happy to go into their arena and walk out with a win.  Oakland and UNI will both have good RPIs at the end of the season and be helpful for our resume.  Only people who aren't paying attention don't realize that.  I've said it a thousand times but I would rather play home and homes against teams like these three than play nothing but road games against BCS teams.

The secret to getting big teams to come to us is to become a very good team year after year that won't hurt their RPIs and reputations with a loss.  We won't get there either by doing what Miami does (or Western this year) which is to play all the big boys on their terms.  The secret is to play good teams but have a reasonable chance to win.  If we get enough of the wins like we had last night over time then the big boys will start to come to us. 

Last night was a huge win for the program. Whether you choose to pay attention to it is your choice. 

We keep talking about the big wins against Portland and N. Iowa.  Have we already beaten them?  Seems a bit premature!  Let's take them one at a time.

Fantastic post. And it's why college hoops' system is so far superior to CFB and the BCS. Big programs in hoops  are rewarded for playing quality teams even if they don't have name recognition.