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The same reason the near loss to Lincoln Co. was on Britt.

Mercer Co. had superior talent to both SW & LC and still found a way to almost get beat by Lincoln and get beat by SW. I agree, Cinnamon didn't show up on the offensive end last night. However, if the coach had put more pressure on Southwesterns guards Cinnamon could have gotten off playing defense to offense in transition off of turnovers.

True. Britt will tell you himself that the Lincoln loss was on him. He took full blame for that one. Mercer has scored a ton of points from their defense(average @ 70 points/game) so I do give credit to Southwestern for slowing down the game a lot. Mercer's inability to force turnovers and get easy baskets like they normally do, Southwestern winning all of the hustle plays, Robby Lewis and Mercer's lack of execution and missed free throws down the stretch got them a 4 point loss, IMO. When you look at everything they did wrong and the fact that they lost by 4 is why in this instance I can't blame the coaching. I can't use the word outcoached. Southwestern did everything they needed to do to win. I don't think Mercer executed well at all. Especially down the stretch. Southwestern wanted it more and they definitely played with more confidence than Mercer as well.