(01-23-2018 03:28 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  

(01-23-2018 03:02 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  WSU needs to come to grips with this: UH imposed their will on them. WSU didn't beat themselves, UH beat them. Samson outcoached Marshal. UH took it to them and won. Nothing more, nothing less.

WSU is going to have to accept that there will be games in the AAC where the other team imposes their will on them. I don't think that happened in the MVC where if WSU did lose, they probably did beat themselves. In the AAC, there are nights you will be defeated, even with your best effort. Sometimes your best effort just isn't good enough. That's basketball in the AAC.

If that is true then Wichita State's current "Golden Era" will have peaked last year and we are now in decline. You see, Wichita State is (has been) a National Power program as defined by the entire college basketball world. National Powers can goof up from time to time, they can even lose hotly contested battles between other National Powers, but they don't get "imposed upon" by the likes of a Cooga.

We've been doing the imposing for the last half decade against the Flagships of the B1G, B12-2, Pac12, Gonzaga etc. Of course we slip up from time to time against the Creightons and the Houstons of the world, but so does everybody.

I keep forgetting we joined the ACC and not the AAC. It's a clash of the bball titans in America each and every night in this league; Houston, Tulsa, Tulsane, ECU, SMOO, UCF, USF... a veritable who's who of ESPN Sportcenter's nightly focus!!!111

The Shockers just need to learn their place. That place being somewhere between ECU and Coogtown.


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