Another underwhelming NCAA tournament for Whitworth. Love and Jurlina are so good, it's too bad they could never make a deep run in the tournament during their time at WW. A combination of bad luck (the waived off Love 3-pointer), poor free throw shooting...I think Roach missed 4/5 down the stretch, poor shot selection (what was Isaak doing shooting that corner 3?), and 3 straight offensive foul calls did the Bucs in. The 1-3-1 defense was really working for a while in the 2nd half, but they went away from it for a while and CMS pulled away.
I suppose the good news for WW is that Ben Nick and Ben College look like college-ready players. Those two plus a return of Roach means the 2017-18 Pirates will be a tough out. It's easy to second guess now, but it was pretty clear by the end of the season that Nick had probably equalled or surpassed Sears, and College had really overtaken Isaak, yet the older guys continued to get more minutes. The NWC looks like Whitman's for the foreseeable future. Good luck to the Missiona...uh, Blues the rest of the tournament.
I suppose the good news for WW is that Ben Nick and Ben College look like college-ready players. Those two plus a return of Roach means the 2017-18 Pirates will be a tough out. It's easy to second guess now, but it was pretty clear by the end of the season that Nick had probably equalled or surpassed Sears, and College had really overtaken Isaak, yet the older guys continued to get more minutes. The NWC looks like Whitman's for the foreseeable future. Good luck to the Missiona...uh, Blues the rest of the tournament.