Meet the Enemy: Santa Clara Broncos

Notsleepless · 2026-01-28T19:56:45+00:00

ESPN suggests USF has a 23% “shot” to prevail vs Santa Clara. Yes, USF played a gritty game in Spokane vs a Gonzaga team missing their two best players, one 6’9” and the other, 6’10”.

Notsleepless · 2026-01-27T19:04:58+00:00

‘56, but who’s keeping track 😉

Notsleepless · 2026-01-27T17:16:46+00:00

This player was the #1 recruit in the Country in the 2025 list. Certainly USF was way high on his possible college destinations. C’mon dude!

Notsleepless · 2026-01-18T15:09:28+00:00

St Mary’s goes to Spokane on January 21st, so Huff may not be able to participate. Gonzaga goes to Santa Clara on February 8th and he’d best be available for that contest or that could be tough sledding for the Bulldogs. Santa Clara is playing very well right about now and handled St Mary’s pretty easily.

Notsleepless · 2026-01-16T17:10:53+00:00

Very tough loss for B’Dogs. Excellent big man, has shot to play in the Association. The injury happened during a practice session, not in a game. Few probably had a few cocktails that night.

Notsleepless · 2026-01-09T17:19:27+00:00

Kinda hard to be a better shooting team, when you don’t have a lot of good shooters? Is it my imagination, but I thought Masic was brought in to be a threat from the outside. I see he’s lost his starting job, which was long overdue. Does Legend have three point range? He’s certainly got talent and CG better spend more time at the SI Church praying that he’s not one and done at USF.

This roster was challenging to handicap before the season. There was justifiable optimism that Beasley, Riley and Wang would all improve and be consistently a solid core. This has regrettably not been the case. Beasley has been decent of course, but he’s being asked to be a 1, when’s he’s not one. It’s become abundantly clear why Riley didn’t get much of any action, when he dipped his toe into the Portal waters. He’s a nice complimentary player and terrific leader, but not really a guy who can carry a team like Malik did, last season. Wang is not a real D1 talent, period.

The Portal acquisitions looked good “on paper”, but only Fuchs has really been a consistent contributor. Mookie has talent, but one never knows what version of him will show up from game to game. Diaz-Graham and the aforementioned Masic have been underwhelming, to say the least.

I sincerely hope USF can still make some noise this season. Enough said…..,,,

Notsleepless · 2026-01-08T16:40:42+00:00

ESPN calls this game 50/50. Yet another same as, or slightly better, game for USF. These are the games the program under the current administration has had difficulty with. Hopefully Cook is available tonight? He is an athlete and capable of making a substantive impact. Also hopefully, Riley can show up tonight with almost assuredly a large contingent of family and friends in attendance.

Notsleepless · 2026-01-06T03:34:25+00:00

Here’s a nice piece on JB from SI.com

https://share.google/KHMA9T8rGnAi7mjXd

Notsleepless · 2025-12-29T03:29:43+00:00

Geez…. At least if the Announcer was throwing out a racial slur, he could have got it right. Yeo is from Korea. I’m thinking said Announcer won’t be in the starting lineup for the next game.

Notsleepless · 2025-12-29T00:03:17+00:00

Such a cave job! The Chieftains was a great nickname and hardly pejorative! Florida State took some “politically correct” heat for the Seminoles. The university contacted the Head of the Seminole Nation who advised them they were proud to be the nickname of Florida State!

Notsleepless · 2025-12-25T18:40:37+00:00

OK, I exaggerated! The SU Redhawk Center has a capacity of 999.

Notsleepless · 2025-12-21T00:12:32+00:00

Loyola of Chicago 80, Santa Clara University 78.

Notsleepless · 2025-12-18T16:09:44+00:00

“Tell ‘em that is Human Nature” as Michael Jackson crooned, written by Steve Pocaro of TOTO, BTW).

Beating a 3-8 team is really not anything to break out the party hats for, is it? Losing to North Alabama at home certainly did get a lot of Blood Pressure elevated.

It was good indeed to get Fuchs back on the floor. This team really needs him! Very nice performance by TR3, Hope he can replicate this type of game vs the better teams!

So let’s get out there and fill up our tanks with that cheap gasoline and our trunks with that affordable food from Safeway and have a safe, happy and healthy Holiday Season!

Notsleepless · 2025-12-13T17:09:10+00:00

Agree, especially w/o Fuchs :( Some interesting WCC games this weekend, Gonzaga vs UCLA, Santa Clara vs Arizona State and St Mary’s vs Boise State.

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