Summit Semi-Final vs South Dakota State

[Coyote Fan]

Tonight the Coyotes find out their opponent. Let's hope like hell that everything goes right for Denver tonight and they somehow find their earlier season magic and the Jacks revert back to the early season Jacks. I wouldn't hold my breath though but this has been a weird tourney so anything is possible and almost probable.

Looking at the Jacks and getting to them. I said in an earlier post that guard play and defense win in the post season including in conference tournaments. The Jacks have made three NCAA tourney appearances and all of them (I believe) have come with either Wolters or the combo of Marshall and Parks, excellent guard play to say the least. Obviously with Nagy as coach who preached defense. They are a totally different team now with an offense first coach and guard play that is marginal at best. Daum is all world and no one would question that but he still needs help and as much as people talk about the Coyotes lack of tourney experience the Jacks are probably even more inexperienced with a first year coach and many new players, or players playing much bigger roles.

The Coyotes just cannot lose to South Dakota State on Monday, they just can't. If they do it's not the end of world and the sky would not be falling but it would lose several of it's support beams. In D1 the Jacks have dominated the Coyotes in the sports that matter and even in Women's basketball they tend to win the games that matter most. With a #1 vs #4 probable for Monday the pressure is unfortunately on the Coyotes but they are simply the better team with more ways to beat you then what the Jacks can beat the Coyotes with. That doesn't guarantee a win but the Yotes simply do more things well than SDSU does.

[Yotes]

In tonight's Denver-SDSU game I am rooting for overtime. So glad we have a day off after our OT game to recover and figure out what exactly happened.

[usdtator]

Mar 5, 2017 15:43:14 GMT -6 Yotes said:

In tonight's Denver-SDSU game I am rooting for overtime. So glad we have a day off after our OT game to recover and figure out what exactly happened.

How about double OT with an ag school loss...!

[Yotes]

Denver looks lost on both ends so far. Bobbit's hot shooting is the only thing keeping this from being an ugly blowout before halftime.

[Yotes]

Well, Denver made their last 6 field goals of the half to go into half down 7. They were looking completely out of sorts most of the half, had some really careless turnovers, and have yet to figure out how to rebound. Skeptical Denver gets it any closer in the 2nd half. They just don't seem to matchup well enough to keep state under 85 points tonight.

[usdtator]

You take Daum out of that game, the bunnies are nothing. Telli has hit a few shots, but Daum is their entire team.

[Yotes]

Mar 5, 2017 19:12:43 GMT -6 usdtator said:

You take Daum out of that game, the bunnies are nothing. Telli has hit a few shots, but Daum is their entire team.

Denver has no posts athletic enough to guard a big man who can score from anywhere on the floor. No way he puts up 21 in the 1st half against us, Flack and Hagedoorn are about as good of a matchup with him as you can hope for. They will have to beat us with guys who aren't used to winning games for their team.

[usdtator]

Telli always seems to find his stride vs the Yotes as well. It's gonna be a helluva game tomorrow night.

[yotebewithyou]

I wanna live in a world where putting a finger in the direction of Daum doesn't result in a foul

[usdtator]

It is absolutely ridiculous how many times he has been to the line tonight. But I guess when you are the only one who ever shoots, you are gonna be the one who draws fouls. I have yet to see what what the bunnies have to do to be called for a foul.

[yotebewithyou]

Mar 5, 2017 19:44:27 GMT -6 usdtator said:

It is absolutely ridiculous how many times he has been to the line tonight. But I guess when you are the only one who ever shoots, you are gonna be the one who draws fouls. I have yet to see what what the bunnies have to do to be called for a foul.

I can count on one hand how many times he went inside tonight and didn't at least get free throws. Maybe the strategy should be to drop a shoulder every time he goes inside since you already know he's getting a whistle. At least make him feel it

[yoteforever]

Here's my take tomorrow night.....put up or shut up.

No more hoping it happens. Do it.

USD is regular season champs and the Jacks are the hottest. No more excuses. My only wish is that it was the finals.

Go Yotes

[Yotes]

He gets more attempts than he probably should, but it helps that Denver's posts just can't get into a good defending position when he drives from the perimeter.

[Yotes]

If we play as crappy as we did last night we can lose to anyone in the league.

If we play like the team that won 6 straight to take the regular season title, it will take another inhuman effort from Tellinghusen to keep us from our spot in the title game.

[Coyote Fan]

Unfortunately the Denver game for the Jacks was a very low stress game for them. The Jacks were in cruise control and Daum even got a little more rest than he would have in a tight game. There are so many things that should favor the Coyotes but the key word is SHOULD. I am so damn tired or losing to that school in everything that matters and tomorrow needs to be the Coyotes night. If the Yotes don't take the game tomorrow we would be looking at a senario where over the last 3 games head to head in the Summit tourney the Jacks would have been the lower seed in the Women twice and the men once and come out of it 3-0. That cannot happen and for the Love of God please let the basketball gods give us a break tomorrow. I am very nervous about tomorrow night. The Jacks played loose today and the Coyotes were kind of tight against WIU.