Every team shoots free throws worse against other teams than they do against us but Ward was just ridiculous. We could have guarded him with Danny Hummer and probably would have beaten them. Really hard to figure out how good Sparty really is because if Winston does not put up huge numbers I just did not see them going as deep as most people have predicted.
Sparty is falling off a cliff since the loss at Purdue. It is as if they were operating at their peak performance for most of January, and took a tough loss at Purdue when they still played well. Could have had some hangover from the Purdue loss deflating their confidence to an extent, but losing vs IU and at Illinois today, I would say fatigue may be slowing them down somewhat and they have fallen off of their peak.
