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Post by Cujo on Feb 13, 2024 9:34:44 GMT -5
Since WCU has bonafide fans, who want to talk shop, I thought I’d start the game thread early. Post your “we have the guy with the most gaudy stats” posts here for your underachieving team. Wait, that’s not necessarily true, Furman may have you beat for most disappointing record to date. 🤣 Something we both can agree on is Furman sucks.
Should be a good game in just under 36 hours. Game should finished about 1 am in Cullowee. Not a big fan of the late starts, but TV is king!
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Post by SU DOG on Feb 13, 2024 10:39:57 GMT -5
We have an opponent here that has beaten teams such as Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, and McNeese State (currently #57 NET). Our winning margin was only 4 points in the previous game with the Catamounts. They are the second place SoCon team in the current NET rankings behind us. Their last game vs Mercer was a 79-46 romp where they played (obviously) really well. We get everybody's best shot, so WCU will be pumped to try to pull off the upset. I don't think they will be able to do it but I'm just saying I do respect this opponent. We cannot let up, but so far this year this Samford Team has found ways to git'er done. Line was not out last time I checked, but the Data Skrive computer has the score 81-72 SAMFORD.
GO DOGS!!!!!
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Post by Smurf on Feb 13, 2024 11:57:19 GMT -5
We also didn't have Marshall in the game at Cullowhee. With Campbell playing so well, I actually like Marshall coming off the bench now as opposed to starting. He makes our deep bench even deeper.
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Post by Cujo on Feb 13, 2024 12:34:06 GMT -5
An opposing team could drown our bench is so deep. Someone will go off for us tomorrow night. I hope WCU brings their swimmies or there could be some casualties. I can see their number 1 getting into the deep end of the pool (you know, the 5' area) and sinking lock a rock without his little arm life preserves things.
Re Marshall, he really helps with our rebounding, which was becoming an issue until he came back.
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Post by Smurf on Feb 13, 2024 12:39:16 GMT -5
He's shooting the ball very well.
His FG% so far is almost six percentage points higher than his previous career high. He's also shooting almost 40% from deep.
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Post by SamGrad19 on Feb 14, 2024 9:41:46 GMT -5
Vegas has Samford as a 6.5 point favorite, with the O/U at 156.5 points
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Post by Cujo on Feb 14, 2024 12:59:42 GMT -5
The chatter on the WCU board about this game is at an all-time high! I think there are three posts about it and two of them are from The Cats, one of which is just a repost of a tweet. The rats sure did scurry off the ship when WCU went on a 5 game slide (starting with their loss to us) in January. A couple of them got excited after they throttled some nobody team this past Saturday, but you wouldn't know it from their board (or should I say "bored").
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Post by sudog03 on Feb 14, 2024 13:05:44 GMT -5
Their coach ought to be ashamed. That team has no business being 7-5 in this league.
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Post by Smurf on Feb 14, 2024 13:35:04 GMT -5
Current Standings (Preseason Coach's Poll/Preseason Media Poll)
1. Samford (4/2) 2. Chattanooga (5/5) 3. UNCG (2/4) 4. Wofford (8/8) 5. Furman (1/1) 6. Western Carolina (3/2) 7. ETSU (7/6) 8. Mercer (6/7) 9. Citadel (9/9) 10. VMI (10/10)
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Post by Cujo on Feb 14, 2024 14:33:07 GMT -5
Well, to this point they got VMI and Cit right.
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