not a good performance today. i haven't watched the first half yet, so I missed our poorest parts of our performance. but I'm going to take a wild guess and assume our defensive intensity in the first half was not nearly as high as it was in the second half. and we relied rather heavily on perimeter shots, which didn't work out too well (to say the least). both farmar and thompson had poor shooting days, which is almost impossible for us to overcome. one of the only bright spots was Shipp's performance: though still hampered by his ankle, he seemed to contribute plenty while he was out on the floor (5-9 shooting and 11 boards). if you want, check out the recap and box score.

anyway, now we get to sweat out Selection Sunday. i still think we go dancing, but certainly nothing is guaranteed. let's hope that all the conference tournaments are won by schools that are locks to make the tournament. the Pac-10 tournament would be a good start - Arizona or Washington (or even Stanford) winning helps us out. and we don't need teams like Southern Illinois losing in their conference tourney so a team like Creighton gets an automatic bid (which already happened, if you're not keeping track). also root for teams we've played (Michigan state, for one), as we could probably use every bit of help we can get. Notre Dame and Boston College did us no favors by losing early in the Big East tournament.

oh well, hopefully this is not the end of the season, as it would leave a horrible taste in my mouth. but pretty much all we can do at this point is wait.