Just an absolutely awful performance. We did everything we could to give that game away—we missed all three front ends down the stretch despite being the best FT-shooting team in the country—and are very, very lucky that Brown simply couldn’t make anything tonight and take advantage.
Eisendrath played good defense as usual, but he missed all four of his shots and had four turnovers; we need to play Mannino over him more. Batties got sucked into a slugfest with Lewis down low and couldn’t finish a thing. Pigge kept trying to spin in traffic and was pretty quiet offensively, although he did have the two huge steals the last few minutes. Hinton and Barbour were the only guys who gave us what we needed.
We’re going to need to play orders of magnitude better tomorrow night.