Next stop, Memphis.
The UMass basketball team lost to Southern Illinois last night, meaning the Minutemen won’t be heading to Madison Square Garden to play Duke. There was good and bad in this game, but I’m glad the team – specifically Chris Lowe – got this performance out of the way.
Lowe knows he wasn’t exactly on the top of his game.
“A lot of teams are going to pick me up full-court. Tonight, I didn’t provide any leadership,” Lowe said.
“I didn’t do what (a preseason) all-league player should do, and 10 turnovers, that’s unheard of. But everybody has a bad game, and I’ll bounce back.”
Lowe had 10 turnovers and zero assists in what will probably go down as his absolute worst game in a UMass uniform.
Next the Minutemen have to travel to Tennessee to take on Calipari’s Tigers on Nov. 17. Having some time off will probably help mend some of the mental – and physical – wounds the Minutemen acquired in Carbondale … a place UMass can’t win for some reason.
Now we have to wait on the status of Luke Bonner, who went down with an apparent knee injury. Bonner isn’t exactly the focal point of the offense (or defense, for that matter), but we need all our big men healthy. We don’t have enough depth as it is.
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Travis Ford has the No. 9 ranked recruiting class at OSU.
