First NCAA Tournament in 10 Years. Well well well. We're back

I’ll be there. #MtHGA

Don’t fret over the past. Be happy in the present.

Yep , had Elgin Bailey been retained and Renardo Sidney kicked off the team, we would have been much better off. Oh how it would be nice to turn back the clock about 10 years.

Sigh, as a result, we were in basketball wasteland for 6-7 years. Feels good to be back in the mix. Future appears bright as well. Howland has done a nice job recruiting and I believe our success will sustain itself going forward.

I was not on this board in those days. But I was always and still remain a Stans fan. The Sidney deal was big risk/big reward. Unfortunately, it was worse than any of us could have imagined at the time starting with him not getting to play along side Jarvis Varnado in 2009-2010. Then it just went from worse to worst.
I remember Rick Cleveland’s column in 2009 which said if the Sidney experiment did not work , he would lose his job. Very prophetic.

But glad Coach Howland is our coach. Obviously, he is older and I hope he can coach another 5-8 years before retiring. He certainly is not going anywhere else at this point in time.

Thankfully 2011-2017 is receding in the rear view mirror and growing dimmer with each day that passes. No pun intended.

Idk. Howland to me is the best recruiter we've had. He's locked down MS like Stans did and he's done well regionally with out of state kids like perry or ado.

In fact Howlands recruiting is the big reason why we got out the abyss.

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And because of that idiocy, we lost a generation of basketball.

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And ended up with a mirror image of stansbury coaching wise(howland sucks). If we had chosen kermit instead of Ray, the move would have been perfect.

I hate watching this team. Its infuriating. We dont have a base offense.

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I hate watching this team. Its infuriating.

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This team is frustrating to watch. I've said this before. We have some very good to great individual players, but as a team, we are way too inconsistent. It's as if we have three different teams in conference play.

One game, everyone looks good (plays their role) and we win. Next game, one or two players look unprepared or uninspired for most of the game, and we might win or lose by a couple of buckets. Then, we have games where almost everyone looks off of their game (crazy number of turnovers, lack of rebounding, missing easy shots like the Tennessee game) and we just lose outright.

My point is that they are frustrating to watch even when they win. With as much experience as they have plus two really good freahmen, they aren’t reaching their potential. There is no plan or direction.

Perry was headed to Arkansas and if we don't have Howland, Woodard goes to Alabama. I think you would agree both of those players have been a difference this season and will be for the future.

This team won’t get past the 2nd round. Like our football team they win the games they’re supposed to and lose against anyone better than them.

Vastly underachieved, and when they face a 3 or 4 seed in the round of 32 they’ll get beat. They’ve yet to beat a team this year that will be seeded that high