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I saw nearly every home game and I never got the sense that the players had “given up” on their coach or weren’t giving their best. Instead what I saw was a team that at times seemed lost offensively and at times seemed lost defensively. I saw a team that did not adjust well in-game to their opponent. Sometimes the team would play well defensively for the first 10 minutes and then lose that intensity for the rest of the game. And occasionally I saw McBride and Kareem giving their all but being a little fatigued from the huge number of minutes played. I believe to the end the players were giving their best effort but for a myriad of reasons it wasn’t good enough this season.

There is never a reason for a coach not to be able to find 2 to 3 minutes per half of rest. No matter what. Between timeouts and short breaks that should be sufficient. Have to be able to catch a break for them. Way too many minutes for both players. Should be a learning season for Coach Springmann. Very big difference sitting in the 1rst chair instead of the 2nd one.

ORU put on a great display of speed, tenacity, and defense in putting down North Dakota today, 91-68. Oglesby was fantastic in coming off the bench and the team worked well together. They will have a tougher time in playing NDSU tomorrow. It should be SDSU and ORU in the finals on Tuesday afternoon, but that is why they play the semifinal games - to be sure that no one thinks differently.

Max is a second team All Big 12 selection, and was also named to the Newcomer Team.

More specifically, it is my understanding that she picked players that could play her system. I emphasize that because I feel that is crucial for any coach…get players that fit your style of play. Coach Musick has a system and she found players that are capable of playing in that system. Frankly, I don’t know what HCRS’s system or style of play is. I hope he has one. Okay that was unfair. I know the alternative is great coaches conform their style of play to the talent that they have. Like Coach Musick, HCRS has an opportunity to turn this roster over and make it in his own image. Should be interesting.

Let's go Tommies!!!!

Omaha with the great comeback win on a late bucket 73-72 yeah coach Crutchfield !

ORU is scrappy but loses 75-66. Hopefully they can get some more size to go along with their speed and some 3 pts shooters. Keep on improving as you are every year

6'6" and 6'3" are coming in June. It would be nice to convince Ruthie to come back for her COVID year. The girls (except for Cooper, Tramble, and Rodrigues) should be back for 2024-25.

It was very similar to last night's Denver win: Omaha looked out of it but went on a big second half run and hit the dagger with about 3 seconds to go. Who would have thought that Denver and Omaha would face each other in the semifinals.

Embarrassing to lose this series like that....ugh...

I find this statement by HCRS so important on several levels for coach to improve going into his 2nd season. First of all, Kyle isn't successful because he keeps things simple; Kyle is successful because his coach keeps things simple for him! They are not trying to make him a 3-point shooter or learn spacing on the perimeter, they are teaching how to make himself available in the paint and good, simple, basic footwork. They are teaching him solid rebounding fundamentals on both ends of the floor and good position team defense played with his feet and not continually getting dumb fouls because he is reaching and trying to block every shot. You watch SDSU and they do such a good job with their bigs, they are so well coached on the basics. Kyle is a great athlete, so he looks incredible, Appel is an average athlete, at best, but still very effective. I think one area where we can really improve next year is in the post; keep it simple coach, let's get our bigs to be able to score around the rim and play good team defense and rebound. Coach needs to go get an asst. coach that can teach solid post fundamental skills; footwork, stop playing D with our hands and getting the same dumb fouls over and over. How to post up strong and provide the passer a target, and a couple basic post moves, like the up and under. And finally, how to box out, our bigs are too big and athletic for us to be getting out rebounded like we are every game. Don't over think it coach, keep it simple and do the basics consistently well!

Although, I don’t think that was the point he was making. He was saying Tulsa is a beautiful city and an excellent place to host the tournament. He said in other sports the school that wins the conference title gets to host the postseason tournament, and he thinks basketball should be that way as well. I don’t think he was blaming the loss on the location. At least that is my take on what he said. The things he was saying made me wonder if he was actually responding to some of Paul Mills arguments from last season more than about this season, because in effect, the team that won the regular season title is more or less hosting the postseason tournament.

I like McBride but the tournament being held in Sioux Falls had no bearing on the early exit. The lack of development and regression to iso ball we witnessed all season was a much larger factor than all the Jackrabbit fans.

I do wonder if Coach Fulmer sometimes makes choices that we may question in these early season nonconference games to allow players opportunity to fight through battles, in hopes that the confidence it provides will be helpful later when the games are more important.

Well I was at a tournament game when UMKC beat ORU way back when but I guess it was the Mid Continent Conference then (not the Summit League).

After looking through the recruits we have coming in, and the ladies that are coming back from this year, it will be us and SDSU competing for the title next year - hands down. And it is possible that both of us could get bids to the Big Dance in March if we play to our potential. You heard it here first!