Boals dropped at least one f'bomb.

Mark Sears puppy die or what?

This is getting good! The threes are finally starting to fall for us.

Rollins and Dennis have been beyond outstanding tonight. What a solid Toledo team. All you can do is tip the cap and learn.

Jason Carter injury... Please be okay.

We allowed too much dribble penetration and on offense, too much iso ball, we don’t move without the ball. We just stand at the three point line, no cutting. We have too all Mac bigs that never establish themselves in the post. We have to fix that. Toledo got so many steals by just staying in the passing lanes. Any athletic team that watches video can scheme for us.

*Like*

Sears is spectacular and I am not looking to dump on him, but he needs to step up in big games to take his game to the next level. Look at his stat lines against LSU, Kentucky and from tonight. It’s like the opposite of what Preston did when the spotlight shined on him.

This should be a wake up call for the team. We have coasted by with a very soft schedule last month and a half. Toledo is a top 100 team and the clean our clock. We looked sloppy and piss poor on defense in the first half. Poor foul shooting and dumb offensive fouls back o back killed momentum. Clayton out clearly hurt depth. Boals in a tough spot. Ezuma not ready for key minutes. A disaster for him. Hope Carter ok because we have nothing right now behind him. This loss brought us back to earth. Now Boals can refocus the team before the stretch run. We had a off night. This was a big game and we failed to get the job done tonite. Team totally collapsed after Carter left.

I would bet money that nobody left on the schedule does it.

Creighton, cough, cough

Not too worried about this game other than finding a way of stopping dribble penetration by the two taller guards. McDay might have helped in this one but, oh well…

Towns should get more minutes for sure. I very clearly remember JT getting a post up on the baseline and as Sam came to help JT quickly changed his mind and kicked it out, even though he had the advantage on the guy guarding him…

AJ coming back will help with outside shooting and getting some rest minutes for JC and BVP… Unfortunately, specifically talking about Toledo, they have such mobile “bigs”, he may struggle a bit with man to man D…

Looking at our previous years team performance stats per Torvik, the last two Boals Ohio teams have peaked at the end of the season and, I expect this team will too…

Go Bobcats!

I love Sears also and God knows we wouldn’t be the team we are without him, but I was disappointed with his body language when we were down. He didn’t step up as a leader when it’s obvious guys look to him. I saw Coach Boals challenge him in many different ways (encouragement, screaming, staring,) and nothing seemed to work. It’s easy to be a leader when you’re winning.. it’s when the chips are against you and that’s when the real leaders shine. Unfortunately, it looks like Sears still has to grow up a little. I know he’s young, so I look forward to seeing him grow into that leadership role.

I noticed that as well. I just hope this is a learning experience and maturing experience for him. I'm sure he will bounce back. He really seemed to appreciate us in the student section encouraging him on after his shots started to fall.

Biggest disappointment of the trip to A-Town?

Jackie-O’s stops serving eats at 9:00 pm

It sounded really loud on TV. It has been awhile since we have had a student turnout like that... well done!

I hope the loss doesn't dampen enthusiasm, but honestly a good enemy is as great of a motivator as any!

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That first possession of the game set the tone for me. We played great defense for the entire shot clock (nearly forcing a turnover at one point) then as the shot clock was about to expire Toledo hit a 3 with hands in their face. Nothing you can do about that, and that was the story for much of the game (including multiple times as we made a run and seemed to have momentum)

On the positive side, it was good to see us mount a comeback in the 2nd half. We came out of the half firing and playing aggressive defense which was great to see. At times it felt to me like we were forcing 3's a bit but Toledo deserves credit for shutting down Sears ability to drive to the basket. The and-one Sears' had on the fastbreak as he was literally triple teamed is SportsCenter Top 10 material if we had actually pulled of the comeback. No clue how he finished that. Wish he could have drawn some more fouls driving the basket late in the game to get to the line.

The air definitely came out of the building when Carter got hurt. I hope that Arkley is correct and it was a bad cramp and not something structural. He was definitely in pain.

Crazy we see these guys again in 2.5 weeks. I'm now trying to talk myself into a Tuesday trek to Toledo (things no one says)