1.Chasanow said 60%. And it was Chasanow that said the coach was good, won 27 games in 1 season for Stephen F Austin and said that TSU had gone to post season, in the past.
2. I didn't know it was that far in the past.
3. I guess I can't go by what Chasanow the radio announcer said.
4. Also depends what defines post season. Some only define NIT, NCAA, as postseason, when there is also CBI, CIT, etc.
WSU'S Bennetball, made UCLA, Arizona look as bad as WSU did vs TSU.
Teams like WSU, do not do very well against Bennetball. WSU is semi mistake, unforced error, turnover semi prone against normal teams.
But you put WSU up against a Bennetball defense, or a extremely good stingy defense, and WSU will have have a lot of turnovers.
The way to beat WSU is either to Bennetball them so WSU has to play half court against a extremely stingy half court defense, or to be Arizona, UCLA, that would have the talent to run with WSU force WSU to play half court.
But WSU would do better against the half court defense of a run, and gun talented team, like a Arizona, UCLA, that stops WSU from running, makes WSU play half court, then WSU would do against a good Bennetball team, that plays extremely good, stingy half court defense.
That's why WSU had a lot of turnovers against TSU.
TSU did go thru long, key stretches of the game shooting 60%. About the only way your going to stop hot shooting like that is if you block every shot.
Sometimes lesser teams, live, and die by by hot, cold, streaky shooting.
It is why you see a lesser 12, 13, 14 seeds beat a greater 2,3,4 seeds, because they get hot, and then loose in the next round.
If Duke loses in the 1st round of the NCAA as a 2nd seed to a 15th seed, it's not because Duke played bad defense, it's because the 15th seed almost never missed a shot. The only way Duke would be able to stop that, would be to block every shot.
To say WSU played bad defense, is not giving TSU credit. WSU played good defense. And WSU kicked azz out rebounding TSU.
The only bad things that WSU did was unforced mistakes, errors, turnovers, which they can control.
But keep in mind TSU is awesome at forcing turnovers, which is a lot harder to control.
And the other bad thing was giving up such a high shooting percentage, which can only be controlled by not leaving wide open shots, but even if contest shot, get a hand in face, that is not going to stop a hot shooter.
And WSU didn't give a lot of wide open shots, and played ok, good defense, contested shots, got a hand in face of shooters.
So the only way WSU stop hot shooting, is to block every shot.
So WSU altho it may not seem like it, and altho the score doesn't show it, and some of the stats don't show it, the cougs played a good game.
Sometimes scores, stats, don't always tell the whole story.
WSU vs TSU, was 1 of those times.