As I stated last night in the football thread, who would have thought in September that by November, basketball would be where the hope would lie for the rest of the season? I mean beating two quality opponents on the road, especially in this game where Iona kept coming back. The tough part comes this Saturday with what one would think would be an angry Villanova squad, returning to the Wells Fargo Center in Philly after getting thumped in Columbus tonight.
It is amazing to think that we are doing this without key players. It will be nice for a change that MAC opponents might be a little nervous when facing the supposed cellar dweller Bobcats. You just gotta wonder what's going through the minds of those who were in Athens last year, but aren't this year?
Well, to be fair, what's going through Jason Carter's mind right now is that he's starting for a top 25 team which is also 3-0. I doubt he's looking wistfully eastward.
I wasn't exclusively thinking about Jason, more specifically members of the former coaching staff. Though they may be happy for the success, yet human nature has got to kick in and wonder in light of the basement projections and last year's more lofty pick, what's happening and why?