In Reply to: One Of Our Best Games Of The Year. posted by NYBruin on March 14, 2026 at 14:45:57
We are definitely playing our best ball over the past couple of weeks. It took 3.5+ months, but we are finally playing defense the way you expect us to. I did think the rebounding would also improve more, Tho we did see that get a bit better, especially v MSU when the guards hit the offensive glass.
With a healthy Bilodeau and Dent, we finally look like the top 10 team we were thought to be at the beginning of the season.
We still have 2 issues:
1) defensive rebounding- is better, but a we saw, Fluff destroy us, it's just the waythings are.
2) travel. That firstgame v. Rutgers was not quite the same level as our other games recently. If we get shipped out east, especially for an early game, we may not come out strong. On the good news side, CBS et al have been scheduling our first games in the tourney lately as a prime time game in the west (tho frequently then shoving us intothe first game of the day on the weekends...)