University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball coach John Shulman has been a little depressed the last few days.
That's what an 89-57 whipping at Austin Peay will do to the coach.
"We've gotten that out of our system and worked on things we needed to," said Shulman, who gave his squad Wednesday off. "You have to have a very short memory to get over some stuff. We have a short memory with that one."
But Shulman must be feeling better than the coach he'll shake hands with prior to the Mocs' next game on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Greensboro Coliseum.
UNC Greensboro coach Mike Dement has yet to win a game during the 2010-11 season.
"I have no sanity," Dement joked.
Yet, it's understandable.
The Spartans have played the fifth-most difficult schedule out of 345 NCAA teams according to Ken Pomeroy's ratings.
"Our top nine guys are first or second-year guys and they've been thrown to the wolves," Dement said. "At times, we've shown that we're getting better because of it. We're hoping that all of this experience escalates the speed of our maturation."
UNCG played six schools from the Atlantic Coast Conference before New Year's Day and surrendered Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski's 880th career win last week.
Other ACC losses have come at home to Florida State and Virginia Tech with road losses at Maryland, Clemson and Wake Forest when they lost by two to the Deacons. There are no non-Division I teams on UNCG's schedule.
"We've been close, but we haven't won and we don't know how to win," Dement said. "It's a young group, a talented group, they're working at it, and at the same time, I feel bad for them."
Facing Samford on Thursday, UTC on Saturday and SoCon schools for the rest of the way -- with the exception of a visit from the ACC's Miami in the middle of February -- provides the Spartans with a whole new season.
And it's the most important season -- SoCon season. But playing such a difficult schedule may have contributed to double-digit losses in early SoCon games against Furman and at Wofford.
"We're not consistent enough to play with some of those teams early and we weren't really ready for Wofford or Furman," Dement said. "We talk a lot about what we have learned?
"What have you learned that you can carry over to league play?"
He'll get a clue to that answer this weekend.
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