Agree that a team in our position needs every win it could get. The point I was trying to make was that, in my opinion, the game was a bonus relatively speaking. If last Wednesday at noon I had offered 2-1 over the next 3, I think everyone on this board would have taken it. Doesn't mean you don't want (or even need) 3 wins, but realistically we weren't going to do better than 2-1 playing 3 games in 7 days with a 6-man rotation, with the latter two being 2 of the 3 toughest road games in conference (other being Nova).
So while it may not have been house money under the traditional definition, I do think it was circumstantially. I don't think the loss really impacted us much in the Tournament Committee's eyes, and think it was mostly an upside game (massive upside at that, no doubt). Especially if we take care of business on this homestand, we can render last night neutral at worst, again contextually.
As I noted in another post, I think the real impact of not winning that there is no surplus and a continued lack of margin for error. I don't think we need to go 4-1. I do think we need to go 3-2. And even that will be difficult which is the benefit last night would have provided were it a W.
