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Are There Moral Losses?
Published: 1/24/2008 4:15 PM
Last Modified: 1/24/2008 4:15 PM

According to many reports, Tulsa's basketball team achieved a moral victory versus Memphis.

How losing by 15 at home can be considered in any way positive is hard to figure, particularly when you're talking about a program that used to collect actual victories, not moods.

And if scoring 41 point at home is a moral victory, coaching college basketball is the place to be, all right.

Before anybody gets too eager to pass out the dreaded moral victory, consider this: Memphis can't shoot a lick. Hitting the rim with a free throw, hey, not bad. Kansas or Carolina would mop the floor with Memphis. What the Memphis coach does best is find the TV camera.

Moral victories show on the records of pantywaists, not proud teams.

Here's what's worst about moral victories. Losers collect them.








Reader Comments 9 Total
bob plunk (5 years ago)
You'd better tell Soutern Cal, Georgetown, Oklahoma, Arizona, Cincinnati, Arizona and Connecticut that the Tigers can't shoot! Memphis has one of its worst shooting nights and STILL wins by 15 on your HOME FLOOR! Give me a break!
Mark Davis (5 years ago)
Sure wish we would have brought Mike Anderson in when we had a chance. Pooh Williamson had a great coaching staff lined up and he was on top of the best recruits but he didn't get the chance to be the man for a few seasons to build a program. To play Memphis tough is to be respected but not something you brag about. Good luck Hurricane!
Recommend a Shrink (5 years ago)
Wow, this picker persona is nothing but negativity. Kind of startling, actually.
MG (5 years ago)
The Picker is partially correct, Memphis is not a great shooting team. That's not their M.O. Memphis is instead perhaps the most physical and athletically talented team in America. They make up for their lack of shooting with their physical presence on the boards and their unbelievable defense. To say that Kansas or UNC would "mop the floor" with Memphis, simply because Memphis isn't a great shooting team, is a rather ignorant statement.
WORLDPICKER (5 years ago)
Memphis fans: If you think shooting 55 percent free throws will get you through a tournament, that would be a first, wouldn't it.

Memphis is athletic, all right.

But this isn't gymnastics.
Zach (5 years ago)
Hate to admit it, but the picker is right. Not about Memphis, they are good enough to overcome poor shooting (at least most of the time). But he is dead on about TU, they stink. I am an alum, and it pains me to say it, but this is not going to cut it.
Jeff (5 years ago)
MG -

I think the point about Kansas and UNC is that they are also very physical and atheltic and can ALSO shoot.

I've seen Memphis play and The Picker is right... they win games by physically dominating inferior teams. They will run rough-shot through C-USA, but they are Sweet Sixteen at best come Tournament time.

They actually remind me a lot of Bob Huggins' old teams at Cincinnati. They would always compile a gaudy record in a relatively weak league and then flame-out come tournament time, because they would run into teams that they couldn't just "out physical."
john (5 years ago)
TO MARK DAVIS: I don't know what planet you are from, but Anderson has a bunch of thugs at Missouri, if you haven't noticed with all the fights and suspensions. And now way on Pooh. He still isn't ready for a head coaching job, so how was he ready at that point. And he was not on top of the best recruits. Pooh is the one that evaluated Caleb Green while at TU, and he passed.
Pat (5 years ago)
So, Picker, moral victories are for losers, huh. Guess what, so are bankruptcies.
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