for another top 4-5 finish in conference and 6/7 seed in the NCAA.

with 13 left I'll take 8-5 the rest of the way with one win from vs. Cuse/vs. ND and a loss @ Rutg for a final of 11-6 in conference play for 5th place.

beating a Cuse vs. beating a ND (in congruence with a BEasy tourny W or 2) will be the difference of a 6 or 7 seed and a S16 or 2nd round exit for this team this year. I, for one, think Cuse can been beaten now with Southerland out and barring a revenge win for Pitt in the BC, we should be riding a 25 game winning streak going into the contest.

This team isn't sexy, but they seem to have been learning the lessons given in their 3 very different losses (outside of the last minute of regulation).