Some intereting parallels to that magical 1995 season. Let’s hope CCC’s carpet ride makes it all the way to the Final Four.
Is Chicago State CCC’s Miami, (OH)?
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He’s referring to the key injuries towards the end of the season. Try to keep up.
Miami (OH) football was/is a good MAC program with a lot of history, multiple MAC championships, and is known as the "Cradle of Coaches" for being a place where multiple young coaches performed well and then moved on to major programs. Chicago State is a fledgling program that has bounced around multiple divisions and conferences in its relatively short basketball history dating back to the late 1960s. 1995 football swept the Big Ten on the road to the conference title, while 2023-24 basketball has an upper division conference finish but has not won any championship (yet).
The one single similarity is each team may have not been fully mentally prepared for each game with the "trap game" syndrome. Both the 1995 football team and the 2023-24 basketball team were ranked teams who had recently defeated a top team in a stunning upset and basically took a mid-major team for granted in an upset loss. At least Miami was an solid MAC team (#2 conference finish), while the Chicago State loss is still a head-shaking outlier.
I don't want this basketball season to be a parallel to 1995 as we made the bowl game but lost, unless the basketball parallel to going to the Rose Bowl would be at least making it to the Final Four.
The one single similarity is each team may have not been fully mentally prepared for each game with the "trap game" syndrome. Both the 1995 football team and the 2023-24 basketball team were ranked teams who had recently defeated a top team in a stunning upset and basically took a mid-major team for granted in an upset loss. At least Miami was an solid MAC team (#2 conference finish), while the Chicago State loss is still a head-shaking outlier.
I don't want this basketball season to be a parallel to 1995 as we made the bowl game but lost, unless the basketball parallel to going to the Rose Bowl would be at least making it to the Final Four.
WTF cares about Chicago State at this point? I hope I never hear that name again, but I will settle for 20 minutes.
Chicago State should be paying rent to some NU fans living inside their head.
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