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.’ We’re gonna have everybody saying ‘oh, you’re bad, you suck, you’re this, you’re that.’ At the end of the day we’re…