NCAA BBall: Major college team scores only 41 points AT HOME

Ouch!  This doesn’t happen every night, so we thought we would mention it.

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Both coaches took over programs in need.  But, while playing on the road, the coach in only his 3rd year was able to best a coach in the 5th year of building his program by a 55-41 margin.

The good news for this team is that they scored 37 points last year in a conference game and were still able to qualify for a first round NIT game (which they lost).

No wonder they were selling tickets to the game for only $5.

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33 Responses to NCAA BBall: Major college team scores only 41 points AT HOME

  1. 61Packer 01/07/2011 at 10:11 PM #

    ASU basketball is a program that historically has an indifferent fan base and mediocre talent. For the past 5 seasons, their coaching has been better than previous coaching but their talent has been about the same, except for the previous two seasons. This season, the cupboard’s pretty bare again.

    NCSU basketball is a program that historically has had a great fan base and mixed talent, but generally good talent. For the past 5 seasons, their coaching has been worse than previous coaching and in fact their talent has been better in recent seasons. This season, the talent is way up but the results are at best mediocre.

    No matter how many 41-point games ASU has this season, their coach will return next season if he wants to. I don’t think Sun Devil fans will care one way or another.

    No matter how bad NCSU continues to look this season, win or lose, I think the overwhelming majority of Pack fans will want a new coaching staff.

    ASU has been selling tickets for as little as $5, but many of us Pack fans can’t even give our tickets away.

    I ask you, which program is worse off?

  2. Lunatic Fringe 01/07/2011 at 11:19 PM #

    Scenario 1: A fan base that is passionate, maybe too much so for it’s own mental health at times, who refuses to be mediocre and wants to better itself even if it means letting go of an instrumental figure of it’s past.

    Scenario 2: A fan base that is so dispassionate that it continues to allow a coach to return that has not progressed the program any further in 5 years despite getting a once in a lifetime 3 year head start on it’s in state rival that was in complete disarray.

    It’s pretty easy call to me – NOTHING is worse than a fan base that no longer cares.

  3. BloggerEsquire 01/08/2011 at 1:32 AM #

    Have to admit some idle curiosity as to their record against Arizona in the past five years- even with Arizona being down.

  4. Wolfy__79 01/08/2011 at 12:29 PM #

    Herb should find a major program and return to being an assistant. that’s his ceiling. -or- coach womens like the uconn guy. that’s a fitting place for the princeton offense. it is really EMBARRASSING when at the time Duke’s incorporation of princeton was better than our full fledged princeton… ntm ol roy coming in and blowing herbtek out of the water 🙁

  5. Lunatic Fringe 01/08/2011 at 12:33 PM #

    6-3 vs. Arizona. The James Harden years were good for ASU (think Harden was 5-0 vs. Arizona). Sendek is 2-2 vs. Sean Miller including time he was at Xavier.

    Sean is now in his second year at Arizona and is starting to bring in some serious studs. The window of opportunity has now closed for Sendek to make up ground on Arizona and honestly he has no one to blame for the “cupboard being bare” other than himself.

    Sendek is described by many pundits as a great recruiter, but the amazing thing is that the best two players in Sendek history at ASU were James Harden and Derek Glasser who followed (former HS coach and current ASU assistant coach) Pera to ASU.

  6. 61Packer 01/08/2011 at 12:44 PM #

    The two best players at ASU under HWSNBN were Harden and Jeff Pendergraph. No disrespect to Glasser (who was ASU’S version of Atsur), but Pendergraph was a stud inside. Harden and Pendergraph were the main reason ASU got up on U of A. Two seasons ago, had ASU had a “game coach” instead of HWSNBN, that team would’ve been Pac-10 champions and would’ve gone deep into the NCAA tourney. Instead, we saw a flame out vs Southern Cal similar to the demise vs Duke (a 15-point lead with 9 minutes to go becomes a double-digit loss in the conference title game).

  7. packalum44 01/08/2011 at 4:21 PM #

    hahahahaha i love these threads.

  8. StateFans 01/09/2011 at 9:50 AM #

    We were ahead of Wake Forest by 29 points at one point on Saturday. ASU only scored 12 more than that in the entire game.

    Sun Devils lost again on Saturday. Sidney Lowe & Herb Sendek’s current records at their current schools are almost identical.

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