WE HAVE A Basketball team!!!!

[cheewgumm]

Welcome back basketball!

Now the Hump will be packed and it?s gonna be a fun couple of months!!!

[DanDority]

Welcome back basketball!

Now the Hump will be packed and it?s gonna be a fun couple of months!!!

No doubt!

[Turfdawg67]

Everybody on the wagon!!

[shannondawg]

Music to my ears!

[KOdawg1]

No more excuses. Get to the Hump. SEC play is going to be fun.

[MadDawg]

This has to be the happiest I've ever seen this board after a loss.

And no, I'm not arguing that we don't have a pretty good team.

And I hope you guys are right that the Hump will be packed.

[HoopsDawg]

It's been a long road back since Coach34 got Stans fired. **

[Saltydog]

We have the "potential" to be really good but until we beat someone other than the teams we're supposed to beat, I don't want to get overly excited. The pieces seem to be there but I've seen MSU teams in the past that had the pieces fall miserably short of expectations.

[HoopsDawg]

We have the "potential" to be really good but until we beat someone other than the teams we're supposed to beat, I don't want to get overly excited. The pieces seem to be there but I've seen MSU teams in the past that had the pieces fall miserably short of expectations.

The only expectation is to make the tournament. You make the tournament then whatever happens, happens. We've seen a team in the play-in game make the Final 4.

[Saltydog]

Yep and we've seen good MSU teams lose in the first round.

[Liverpooldawg]

We have a team. We will see if the Hump is packed.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Yep 7 pt game without our best 2 defenders. Looking good. Loved the fight and effort.

[Liverpooldawg]

The absolute best thing to me is I don't see any head cases or attitude problems. These guys appear to actually listen to their coaches and attempt to do what they say, ALL of them. It's literally been over a decade.......it's awesome. I'm in, all the way, at least as far as I can be since I'm one of the long ago kicked out locals. Let's see how far they can go!

[Bothrops]

Maybe we can get the Hump to over 6k

[KB21]

Ben finally has his type of team. These guys play with effort. They are not out there showboating. They defend. The attack the offensive glass. They are physical.

It’s not an exciting style to watch, but when you have guys who are all in, it is an effective style. Ben’s best teams have always been hard nosed, tough, physical teams that are tough to score on.

[TheLostDawg]

How many more games until Nick is back

[Dawg_Lover]

How many more games until Nick is back

Bump, hoping someone will notice and answer. Thanks.

[smootness]

Bump, hoping someone will notice and answer. Thanks.

He will sit 10 games total. We've played 6, so he'll sit another 4.

He'll be back for NM St. and will also play against Kent St. and then we hit the SEC schedule.

[Dawg_Lover]

Great, thanks again!

[maroonmania]

We have a team. We will see if the Hump is packed.

Yep, we may just have a big increase of people streaming the games.

[RougeDawg]

Was nice to see much fewer turnovers yesterday. Hard to beat a good team when you shoot 42% to their 58.5%. If the averages are any closer together we win the game. Because we took 14 more shots. The team has potential when they ply like yesterday. A clean team game.

[R2Dawg]

This team has all the pieces to make a serious run this year and we are playing like a team late in season right now. Nova had to shoot 58% to beat us; an average night and we win that game. Most excited I've been since 2004 I think. We have great chemistry to go with our talent.

[NCMSTFAN]

We need to take care of business tomorrow and get back home. Leaving at 2-1 with a close loss to Villanova wont be bad. We can play with anyone, especially with our defense. This team can be special and getting Nick back can take us to another level.