Game was similar to the win over Christian Co a week or so ago. Got behind big and looked pretty poor while doing so, but we're able to turn it on down the stretch and pull out the win.

 

This is both impressive (beating a top 10 and top 20 team while playing subpar basketball for a lot of the game) and dangerous as in a one and done situation you leave yourselves vulnerable to a loss you shouldn't take.

They hit 7 of 10. The two issues they had were:

 

1) They missed the last three, which they badly needed. Two misses when they were up one and would have gone back up by three and missing the front end of a one and one when they were down one.

 

2) They didn't shoot nearly enough of them. Two guys went to the line for Franklin. One was Lovan, who was a perfect 7/7. The other was Payne, who went 0/3. Payne entered the night as a 35% free throw shooter. They shot 20 less free throws than BG and the biggest ones of the night were not by Lovan.

 

Even if Payne had hit half his free throw attempts (and let's say for argument's sake that would have included the front end of the bonus he missed), they'd have still been vulnerable. And that would have been an improvement on his average. They simply got the ball to the wrong guy. And instead of making Bowling Green foul them when they were up one, they tried to score. I'm not saying I blame them, but I am saying you'd better KNOW you're gonna hit those shots. It's the only reason Payne even had the ball.

 

Completely agree. I didn't think FS got to the FT line enough at all and Payne probably wasn't the best player to get the ball to.