Ed Cooley has tried every lineup combination possible this season, and after a 75-61 loss to Xavier that Cooley deemed “one of the worst games I’ve ever coached in” he went with maybe the last hand he has left to play this year — us against the world.
“What I like about this situation here, if I’m going to take a positive from it, the fact that there’s a lot of non-believers,” Cooley said after the loss. “And in my life we always prove people wrong. There’s a lot of non-believers in the Friars right now. And as I told our guys, ‘there will be better days, today’s not our day.