Drexel Game Thread (Last of the Season?)

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Is this the way the season ends? Not with a bang (like the ACCT run), but a whimper (an injured, mentally and physically exhausted Pack squad playing out the string in front of a handful of fans)? Sadly, it seems likely, as this previous post explained. To clarify, I sure as hell hope we win, and will even make the trek to a sports bar in about an hour to watch on ESPN-Unavailable. But I won’t fault the staff or these kids in the slightest if we lose – even if we lose by 40.

Anyway, your in-game comments belong here. Let’s ride it out together!

8:12 update: I hate to say I told you so, but…

Halftime update: Really proud of the guys for hanging in and grinding it out. Drexel never met a shot they didn’t like, that’s for sure.

Damned near midnight update: Being wrong never felt so right! What incredible character. Go Marist!

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286 Responses to Drexel Game Thread (Last of the Season?)

  1. packpigskinfan23 03/13/2007 at 9:26 PM #

    if Marist wins, and we get a home game it would have to be at Renyolds!!!! concert at the RBC that night!!!! man I hope we get a home game!!!!

  2. ktpritch 03/13/2007 at 9:26 PM #

    Great effort – don’t know if you all saw it, but Bill Simmons gave the pack some run in his weekend recap article (posted yesterday) and said they were a very “tough” team. At this point, how could anyone not agree!

    6 days
    5 games
    3 top 25 teams (as of last week) + 1 top 30 team
    4 wins

    Not bad for a weeks work!

  3. bTHEredterror 03/13/2007 at 9:27 PM #

    They should have know better than to seed us 6th! I’m as proud of this team as I have been in a LONG time. Some heart and guts and we steal one from a solid ballclub, and a three day rest and then somebody else gets it. Way to go Pack!

  4. highstick 03/13/2007 at 9:27 PM #

    Were there any fouls in the first half? I don’t think there was a one called. Must have been some Tarhole refs, i.e. Drexel gets a lead and don’t call anything to get them out of their tempo.

    Sure am glad Elegar shoots “some of Sadaam’s old scuds” as free throws!

  5. beowolf 03/13/2007 at 9:27 PM #

    TAU

    I was wrong. Mea maxima culpa. O me of little faith.

    But in my defense, Tony just said he thought almost the exact same thing as I did.

    This team is mentally tougher than I gave them credit for. Heckuva six-day stretch; 5-1 with the one coming down to the last minute against a top-5 team playing flawlessly.

    Massive props and awe to Lowe & the boys.

  6. jwrenn29 03/13/2007 at 9:28 PM #

    Way to go State! Sid, you’re a heck of a coach! These dudes love you and so do we! And it’s evident your players love you!

  7. BoKnowsNCS71 03/13/2007 at 9:29 PM #

    I love these guys! I am more excited about the Wolfpack than I have been for years. It’s hard to desctibe but the kids going to school now are going to witness the return to glory. I love it.

  8. Jeremy Hyatt 03/13/2007 at 9:29 PM #

    cool, we win. who’s next?

  9. Rochester 03/13/2007 at 9:30 PM #

    The guys aren’t going to know what to do with two entire days off. Great win. Actually it was kind of ugly, but it was still great. Hack-a-Frank worked great. If we had any kind of scouting report we might have started that earlier, but then we wouldn’t have had any fouls left to give at the end.

    Go Marist!

  10. Wulfpack 03/13/2007 at 9:31 PM #

    Oklahoma State/Marist winner…they are playing as we type.

  11. Redblogger 03/13/2007 at 9:32 PM #

    At least we can get a few days rest until the next game.

  12. MrPlywood 03/13/2007 at 9:32 PM #

    Marist 9
    OK St 4

    hehe

  13. bTHEredterror 03/13/2007 at 9:32 PM #

    I bet Gav knew Elegar had FT problems. they were teammates in HS.

  14. Tau837 03/13/2007 at 9:32 PM #

    Sorry about the dead horse thing. I’m sure we’re all on the same page now. 🙂

    Marist is leading 9-5!

  15. justaguy 03/13/2007 at 9:33 PM #

    OK St. needs a legacy. Eddie Sutton’s name is written in script in big letter on the court. Sheesh.

  16. branjawn 03/13/2007 at 9:35 PM #

    “The guys aren’t going to know what to do with two entire days off.”

    Classes and school work. Poor guys.

  17. Karpaasi 03/13/2007 at 9:35 PM #

    It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

    Theodore Roosevelt

    GO PACK!

  18. branjawn 03/13/2007 at 9:36 PM #

    recap: http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/recap?gid=200703130172

  19. Redblogger 03/13/2007 at 9:39 PM #

    Good point about Elegar

  20. E-RO 03/13/2007 at 9:39 PM #

    Fells is becoming my favorite player. The guy is as talented as anyone on that team, and very explosive.

    And I’m glad Mejia is gone, the guy really didn’t impress me.

  21. dawgitall 03/13/2007 at 9:39 PM #

    If you have Charter cable check and see if you can get ESPNU. I knew we didn’t have it but checked the menu for basketball and low and behold there it was on channel 155. I have extended basic so I figured that they must have added it to some high priced sports tier but when I punched in 155 there it was! I couldn’t believe my luck and I’m just wondering if it’s been there all season and I didn’t know it.

  22. Pack92 03/13/2007 at 9:40 PM #

    Tom Suiter at WRAL had a good article today about how tired these guys must be. I am really starting to believe heart never gets tired. These guys from the coach on down are absolutely amazing.

    GO PACK!

  23. Karpaasi 03/13/2007 at 9:42 PM #

    How long is it going to take wral.com to figure out that State is in the NIT…and they just won their first game against a good Drexel team…

    Oh, that’s right, there’s too much space devoted to who Carolina is going to play when they make the Final Four…no doubt they’ll get that far, easily.

    Plug in sarcasm…

  24. CaptainCraptacular 03/13/2007 at 9:44 PM #

    *but Bill Simmons gave the pack some run in his weekend recap article (posted yesterday)*

    Linky?

  25. gopack968 03/13/2007 at 9:44 PM #

    Karpaasi – Great “Man in the Ring” quotation! Just the time to pull it out.

    Lets win the whole thing!

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