TSpoke said:
Yeah there were a lot of things that added up to this game being hard to win. Amazing shooting from Fresno(and it wasn't really bad defense, they made some tough 3's) who isn't a good shooting team. Our leading scorer having an off night shooting(was getting decent boards and assists), some tough calls(not complaining about reffing, just some toss up calls down the stretch that didn't go our way), poor free throw shooting.
And one that I haven't seen mentioned but zero energy in the arena. Until we made our push the final couple minutes the crowd was pathetic. Both in the term of numbers and energy. No student section. What was going on? They had been good all year. The bottom level wasn't even close to being full. I know you could say the crowd didn't have much to cheer about most the game but it seemed to be Shroyer era level of no energy in the building.
this new configuration of the arena has truly taken the life outta this building, not allowing those that want to sit in the student section to be a little more "vulgar" and such and actually want to sit in their seats and cheer for their team and have fun at a game. at least the old way you could have some fun, anymore get a ticket in the
lower bowl and it's like a library anymore and when you do cheer people stare at you like you have a disease. Also to have games on TV and seeing all those empty yellow seats really doesn't do us justice as well. if there was a way for those season ticket holders to give those tickets to the University and give them to those that want to be there or an upgrade from high to low. I don't know but it's a quiet sad place anymore compared to how it used to be!!! don't get me started on the ticket "nazi" checkers...lol