LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Basketball is a simple game.
When you can put the ball in the basket, it allows teams to get away with having a lot of deficiencies.
Friday night, the Lobos couldn’t hit a shot and a team that hasn’t proven yet it can defend or rebound had nowhere to hide as the Towson Tigers won a wire-to-wire beat down, 73-58, in the consolation game of the Las Vegas Invitational in the Orleans Arena.
“We haven’t had a night yet where we couldn’t make a shot. Our first six games, we’ve had terrific offensive performances, where tonight was the first night where we couldn’t score and our lack of defense and our lack of rebounding caught up to us,” Lobos first-year coach Richard Pitino told the Journal after the game.