It was not so very long ago that a game against Monroe could be pencilled down as a probable win even on the road. Those days are gone, it appears, and that says much about where this Monroe program is. They have lifted themselves up from the very bottom run of the Sun Belt and now are a tough out any time, any where.
The good news, once again our perimeter defense was working. That makes three in a row and that is a very good sign. Again we did not shoot the 3 very well, but our main problem in this game was that we did not shoot anything very well. when you shoot 29%, you just are not going to win many ballgames, and that is the story of this game. Josh Hagins scored double figures, but he had to take a bunch of shots to do it. We were 19 of 23 from the FT line, including 4 of 4 for Roger Woods.
We just could not make shots. How much Monroe's defense contributed to that I could not say, not being at the game, but they did not shoot any better than we did from the arc. In fact, oddly, each team was exactly the same: 3 of 15 from the arc. Shots were clanging all night from outside. Our problem was that we could not make shots inside, either. Roger Woods was 1 of 9, Mareik Isom was 1 of 5, Gus Leeper 3 of 9, and James White did not even play.
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