re: Mizzou (79)|| #23 WVU (83) II Final II Mizzou snatches defeat from the jaws of victory

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It's hard to read too much into blowing a 16 point lead with 2 minutes left.

Good match up or bad. WVU was down 16 with 2 minutes left.

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But they weren't...they were down 16 with about 8 minutes left; they'd closed it to within one possession with a couple of minutes left (or something close there).

I was pretty crushed by how they lost it; you essentially have to go several possessions without getting a shot off to lose like that, and they managed to. But they're really young, and despite getting their arse handed to them by A&M, WVU is a really good basketball team and will give teams fits all year. It would have been a great win, but it wasn't a loss that will hurt their profile at all come March.

The only thing I would have done would have been to try Phillips and Geist on the floor at the same time if you weren't going to give Harris a shot there...maybe with two OK ball handlers you could have gotten it across half-court? Realistically, if they would have gotten the ball to half-court and just sat on it for 30 seconds each possession they probably would have won.

But yeah, catching the ball in the corner between the baseline and sideline is pretty much Basketball 101 on how not to inbound the ball vs. a press.