All Good Things Must Come to an End

Of course I am referring to both my recent Internet silence and Murray State's undefeated season. I have been expecting this loss for a few weeks now. The Racers have been just barely beating teams that they are clearly better than. I am not one of those people who say that a team needs to lose, but hopefully this loss will take some of the pressure off of them.

There could be more defeats on the horizon. Four of the five remaining matchups will be more difficult than this one. After Saturday's game against Peay, the Racers go to Cape, host a very good St. Mary's team, and then travel to Cookeville and Nashville for a rematch against the Tigers.

This was such an amazing winning streak. This past weekend pollsters ranked MSU #7/#9 and ahead of Duke. Take a moment to let that sink in. The question now is how far down the rankings the Racers will drop now that the novelty of the undefeated season has pasted. They will definitely fall out of the top 15. If they don't step on Peay's throat Saturday, they will be out of the top 20 or possibly unranked.

Of course a regular season loss hurts, but the most important thing for the Racers is to win the OVC tournament. Murray has been projected as a 6 or 7 seed in the NCAA since the win at Memphis. I am curious how much this loss will change that. It might be good for the Racers to lose another game to help them avoid the 8/9 game in Kentucky's bracket.

I am really glad that there was cake and ice cream at the house to comfort me after the loss. As bad as this hurt, there are at least 7 games left in the season.