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11/9   @ Creighton L 62-74
-Blew a 20-4 lead to start the game

11/17 Northwestern W 54-53
-Ugly win against a bad team

11/24 N.C. A&T L 93-96
-The mighty Mid Eastern Conference

11/28 Texas A&M C.C. W 85-70
-Lucky it was not A&M without the C.C.

12/8  @ Kansas L 66-84
-Another loss to a team with a Chicago player

12/12 Vanderbilt L 85-91
-Blew an 18 point lead with 4:45 left

12/15 Ill. Chicago L 80-85
-Is UIC the best team in Chicago area?

12/20 @ Mississippi L 63-69
-Was Wainwright game planning in Puerto Rico or tanning on the beach?

12/21 @ Clemson L 74-90
-An expected loss, and of course they didn’t even cover the spread.

12/22 @ La Salle W 93-88
-Blew a 16 point first half lead, and barely held on to win against a terrible La Salle team whose most recent win was against Puerto Rico-Mayaguez.

12/29 @ Detroit  W 70-64
-Demons hang on to beat Detroit.  Is there really anything to be proud about with this win?

1/3    Villanova  W 84-76
-An impressive win.  The lone bright spot in what has been a dismal season thus far.

1/5    Providence  W 70-65
-Demons hold off Providence rally and hang on to continue their winning streak.  Streak will be ending Tuesday though.

1/8    Georgetown  L  76-60
-Yeah Jerry, Wesley Green can cover Roy Hibbert one-on-one.  That wise decision and many others helped Georgetown score the first 11 points and end up routing the Demons.

1/12   @ St. Johns  W  60-54
-Dar Tucker leads the Demons on a huge second half run sparking the victory.  Jerry will continue to leave him on the bench in crucial situations in the future.

1/16   @ Villanova  L  76-69
-This time its Villanova who goes on a late 15-0 run rallying to victory.  How does a coach allow a 15-0 run?

1/19    Rutgers  W  75-73
-A pretty wild game between two very average teams.  The home team was going to win this one, and DePaul happened to be at home.

1/21    Fla Gulf Coast  W  92-60
-Why even schedule this game?  Does a Big East team really need this little confidence boost during conference play?  There’s no positives here, it was Fla Gulf Coast.

1/26    @ Marquette  L  79-71
-Demons just can’t win the big game.  That’s the sign of an average team.  Marquette started ice cold.  DePaul wasn’t in the game in the second half.

1/30    Syracuse  L  60-55
-The Demons can’t execute down the stretch and lose at home.

2/2      @ Notre Dame  L  89-80
-For some reason, Jerry goes with Wes Green to run up and down the floor with Luke Harangody. Obviously, Green can't keep up with him and Harangody goes for 29 points and 14 rebounds in another Big East loss.

2/5      @ Providence  L  79-65
-Same old story, DePaul takes early lead but can't hold on and the interior defense stinks again against a bad Big East team. Not only do they lose, but they watch Randall Hanke score 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting. Waingwright stays with Wes Green despite six turnovers
from the big man. DePaul gets outscored 51-30 in the second half.

2/9      South Florida  W  69-61
-Jerry and the boys get a win against a bad South Florida team at home. DePaul trailed most of the first half, but freshman Dar Tucker came off the bench and scored 11 points in the half to get the Demons back in the game. In the second half, Wainwright rewards the freshman with one minute of playing time. It doesn't look like Jerry cares too much about the future.

2/12    Louisville  L 88-68
-This one was a disaster.  Louisville shoots 62.5 percent in the second half. No interior defense again, David Padgett scored 20 points on 9-of-12 shooting as Louisville defeated DePaul by 20 points at home. Bright spot, Freshman Dar Tucker scored 22 points. At 5-7 in the conference, Jerry might miss his second Big East tournament in three years.

2/19    @ Connecticut  L  65-60
- You will like this one if you're into moral victories.  DePaul managed to build a 13-point lead on the road to No. 13 Connecticut, but somehow can't hang on. We saw this against Creighton, North Carolina A&T, Vanderbilt, UIC, Villanova, Marquette and now this.  The fact is, Jerry and the boys have lost six of its last seven Big East games and the conference tournament is in jeopardy again. We saw Wes Green jacking up another bad three-pointer in the last two minutes and the interior defense was awful again.  Hasheem Thabeet led the Huskies with 16 points, eight blocks and 13 rebounds.

2/23    @ Seton Hall  L  73-71
- Another opposing player had a career-high against DePaul. This time it was Brian Laing, who went off for 22 points and made a career-high five three-pointers. In the final minute of the game tied at 71, Cliff Clinkscales was covering Laing in the paint. Laing took advantage of his 6-5 frame and backed Clinkscales down in the lane to hit the jumper. DePaul had a foul to give but Clinkscales and the coaching was not aware. A similar situation happened earlier in the season when Syracuse's Paul Harris backed Clinkscales down for a late bucket, but apparently the Blue Demons didn't learn. With four games remaining, DePaul has lost seven of its last eight games and are fighting St. John's and Providence for the last spot in the Big East tournament.

2/27    West Virginia  L  85-73
-22-0 run, 4-for-16 from the free throw line in the first half, where do we begin?  It was an absolute disaster for Jerry and the boys.  The only positive of the night was when Jerry was boo'd in the introductions.  Does this team have a pulse? DePaul has just as much as talent as West Virginia but obviously it is not showing. Enough said.

3/2       Notre Dame  L  98-91
-After a brutal defensive performance against West Virginia it somehow got worse against Notre Dame. The loss puts them in 13th place in the Big East with two games remaining and only the top 12 teams getting in. It doesn't look likely that Jerry will be packing for New York for the second time in three years with games at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh remaining

3/6      @ Cincinnati  W  60-54
- Well Jerry and the boys pulled one out for their second win in 11 games by beating a mediocre Cincinnati program. The Bearcats (13-16) have lost four straight games so this win shouldn't be much of a selling point even though Jerry will try to spin it that way. 

3/9      @ Pittsburgh  L 98-79
-They needed a win to get in the conference tournament and of course they got blown out by 19 points at Pittsburgh and the season is already over. But this is exactly what we expected. Jerry has guided three of his last four squads to sub .500 records and failed to make the Big East tournament for the second time in three years. Jerry's team finished with 19 losses, it's only the third time in school history where the program has lost 19 or more games in one season. Jerry may be a great person, but is he the right coach for the program?

3/11-3/14 Big East Tournament
-Keep dreaming

 

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