Signs of Life?

As mentioned earlier, I've already proclaimed the Baylor Basketball season dead. However, I can appreciate that they gave some effort in the last part of the 2nd half and pulled away from an absolutely awful opponent. Please, don't tell me how they played KU tough or this and that. They are a horrible team. The win pretty much locks up the 9th spot in the standings unless Iowa State wins out. There is a chance we climb to the 8th as well. I know I was crowing about absolutely needing to be out of the 8/9 spots due to having to play OU in the 2nd round of the tournament. Now that the Sooners have fallen to the 2nd spot, you want to stay out of the 7/10 slots. I don't care if they are the 2nd seed, the Sooners are the best team in the conference and a nightmare match up for us.

Since the name of this blog is Baylor Kool Aid, I'll give the ideal scenario of how our team could find its way into the tournament (however unlikely). We win our first game (likely against Nebraska again), then we need to beat KU (obviously easier said than done). Now the tricky part: We need to be pulling for upsets of the other 3 top seeds. If this happens, it opens the door (more liked cracked).

All of this is moot if we play like we have the past few weeks of course. I'm just trying to give the sunshine pumpers hope.

It was also good to see Drew pull the cliched stunt of removing the players names on the back of the jersey. Bravo. I always smirk when coaches do this kind of thing. As if the players are going to consciously play more unselfishly during the game because his name isn't on the back. That kind of attitude is built through the season and during practice. I think we all know the staff failed on this point this season. Next thing you know they'll pull a coach K and remove all the chairs in the locker room. The team will surely play better to "earn" their chairs back. Good grief.

Murph