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Post by hchoops on Feb 17, 2023 20:38:22 GMT -5
Drew Lowder and Cleveland Stare are currently in ESPNU, He has 14. He is listed as a junior
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Post by hchoops on Feb 19, 2023 20:35:37 GMT -5
The McCaffreys just set a family record for technicals. Pops had two, resulting in 4 made free throws which got him ejected and ended his team’s chance of winning the game at Northwestern. Son Patrick soon after received one of his own for 2 more made FTs. Good example, dad. The Northwestern fans chanted to the brothers, “Where’s your daddy ?”
And the 80-60 win gives Northwestern the first time their team reached 11 wins in the Big 10 since Hoover was president.(1931)
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 19, 2023 20:50:03 GMT -5
Fantastic- I hope this is repeated in the next Iowa game
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Post by res on Feb 20, 2023 7:21:27 GMT -5
The McCaffreys just set a family record for technicals. Pops had two, resulting in 4 made free throws which got him ejected and ended his team’s chance of winning the game at Northwestern. Son Patrick soon after received one of his own for 2 more made FTs. Good example, dad. The Northwestern fans chanted to the brothers, “Where’s your daddy ?” And the 80-60 win gives Northwestern the first time their team reached 11 wins in the Big 10 since Hoover was president.(1931) What about Mom? That would have made it a true trifecta.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Feb 20, 2023 7:45:01 GMT -5
Manhattan almost gave away their game away yesterday against Fairfield.
Just tuned in to see a Manhattan player foul a Fairfield kid shooting a 3 with 0.9 seconds left.......with Manhattan up 4 (he missed the shot).
Kid goes to the line, swishes the first 2 to bring them within 2, then deliberately misses the third. Really well executed, and Fairfield's Supreme Cook is able to get his hands on the ball. He is fouled with 0.3 seconds left.
Cook hits the first.....he gets iced with a TO.......then misses the second. No time left, Stags lose by 1.
Joe DeSantis kidded that the Manhattan player was going to half to walk home if it went to OT.
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Post by HC92 on Feb 20, 2023 7:52:32 GMT -5
Manhattan almost gave away their game away yesterday against Fairfield. Just tuned in to see a Manhattan player foul a Fairfield kid shooting a 3 with 0.9 seconds left.......with Manhattan up 4 (he missed the shot). Kid goes to the line, swishes the first 2 to bring them within 2, then deliberately misses the third. Really well executed, and Fairfield's Supreme Cook is able to get his hands on the ball. He is fouled with 0.3 seconds left. Cook hits the first.....he gets iced with a TO.......then misses the second. No time left, Stags lose by 1. Joe DeSantis kidded that the Manhattan player was going to half to walk home if it went to OT. I will never understand why teams play defense of any kind in these situations. You should literally tell all 5 of your players to go stand somewhere in front of your own bench in a pack if you are up by more than 3 with time about to expire. You shouldn’t even be on that half of the court. I blame the coach. Kids are stupid. Need to make it as simple for them as possible.
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Post by dadominate on Feb 20, 2023 9:24:05 GMT -5
Drew Lowder and Cleveland Stare are currently in ESPNU, He has 14. He is listed as a junior lowder has had a strong season for a what will likely be 20-win Cleveland State team, averaging over 10ppg with pretty good shooting percentages. looking back on his career, there is little doubt that lowder was/is a very good player. he can really score and while is certainly not a lockdown defender, i think he took more heat than was warranted regarding his defense, which is pretty clearly a program problem at this point. my feelings that the blame for his departure was primarily on nelson at the time are probably a mix of true and false in retrospect. nelson has shown essentially no ability to retain talent and his coaching style has pretty clearly turned off several of our players during his short tenure. however, the nature of the game today (read: "transferitis") in general and the seeming grass is always greener attitude that lowder seems to have as an individual (ala proctor) also likely contributed to his departure. in either case, lowder was a brief and interesting chapter in hc hoops history. i suspect we could see lowder in the big dance this year and i wish him and all of other transfers well.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 20, 2023 10:01:24 GMT -5
Considering that Lowder played for 4 AAU teams in two years was an indication of his wanderlust
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Post by timholycross on Feb 20, 2023 11:35:55 GMT -5
The McCaffreys just set a family record for technicals. Pops had two, resulting in 4 made free throws which got him ejected and ended his team’s chance of winning the game at Northwestern. Son Patrick soon after received one of his own for 2 more made FTs. Good example, dad. The Northwestern fans chanted to the brothers, “Where’s your daddy ?” And the 80-60 win gives Northwestern the first time their team reached 11 wins in the Big 10 since Hoover was president.(1931) What about Mom? That would have made it a true trifecta. Maybe she can dress up as a cheerleader and get tossed that way- like the young lady at Prairie View did.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 20, 2023 11:48:08 GMT -5
Manhattan almost gave away their game away yesterday against Fairfield. Just tuned in to see a Manhattan player foul a Fairfield kid shooting a 3 with 0.9 seconds left.......with Manhattan up 4 (he missed the shot). Kid goes to the line, swishes the first 2 to bring them within 2, then deliberately misses the third. Really well executed, and Fairfield's Supreme Cook is able to get his hands on the ball. He is fouled with 0.3 seconds left. Cook hits the first.....he gets iced with a TO.......then misses the second. No time left, Stags lose by 1. Joe DeSantis kidded that the Manhattan player was going to half to walk home if it went to OT. I will never understand why teams play defense of any kind in these situations. You should literally tell all 5 of your players to go stand somewhere in front of your own bench in a pack if you are up by more than 3 with time about to expire. You shouldn’t even be on that half of the court. I blame the coach. Kids are stupid. Need to make it as simple for them as possible. You're up 3 at the end, there's not enough time for the opponent to make a two; and don't want to use the foul-them-it's-only-two-shots strategy. Why hasn't anyone come up with some kind of zone that puts all 5 of the defenders on or a little in front of the 3 point arc? What's the point of having defenders inside the paint. In the up 4 situation, I'd play a 2-3 zone where none of the defenders are outside the foul lane. Impossible for someone to shoot a 3 and leap forward enough to draw a foul.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 20, 2023 12:12:19 GMT -5
Manhattan almost gave away their game away yesterday against Fairfield. Just tuned in to see a Manhattan player foul a Fairfield kid shooting a 3 with 0.9 seconds left.......with Manhattan up 4 (he missed the shot). Kid goes to the line, swishes the first 2 to bring them within 2, then deliberately misses the third. Really well executed, and Fairfield's Supreme Cook is able to get his hands on the ball. He is fouled with 0.3 seconds left. Cook hits the first.....he gets iced with a TO.......then misses the second. No time left, Stags lose by 1. Joe DeSantis kidded that the Manhattan player was going to half to walk home if it went to OT. I will never understand why teams play defense of any kind in these situations. You should literally tell all 5 of your players to go stand somewhere in front of your own bench in a pack if you are up by more than 3 with time about to expire. You shouldn’t even be on that half of the court. I blame the coach. Kids are stupid. Need to make it as simple for them as possible. I think the only plausible reason to have one player in the front court would be to avoid a delay of game penalty after a made basket.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 20, 2023 12:18:25 GMT -5
What about Mom? That would have made it a true trifecta. Maybe she can dress up as a cheerleader and get tossed that way- like the young lady at Prairie View did. I once saw a high school mascot get a tech for going on the court and stopping a fast break. He was a raven waving his arms with his back to the play. The ref was apologizing, but even the coach of the St Raymond’s Ravens, Gary DeCesare, was laughing. The opponent was Ron Artest’s LaSalle. February, 1995..
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Feb 20, 2023 13:18:52 GMT -5
I will never understand why teams play defense of any kind in these situations. You should literally tell all 5 of your players to go stand somewhere in front of your own bench in a pack if you are up by more than 3 with time about to expire. You shouldn’t even be on that half of the court. I blame the coach. Kids are stupid. Need to make it as simple for them as possible. You're up 3 at the end, there's not enough time for the opponent to make a two; and don't want to use the foul-them-it's-only-two-shots strategy. Why hasn't anyone come up with some kind of zone that puts all 5 of the defenders on or a little in front of the 3 point arc? What's the point of having defenders inside the paint. In the up 4 situation, I'd play a 2-3 zone where none of the defenders are outside the foul lane. Impossible for someone to shoot a 3 and leap forward enough to draw a foul. In this up 4 situation the shot came from the corner, with the Manhattan kid leaping at the shooter. Then he had this incredulous look on his face when he was whistled for the foul. I'm not around kids like many of you, but man, I just don't get the complete lack of awareness. And it happens all the time.
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Post by trimster on Feb 20, 2023 17:13:31 GMT -5
Yale trailed Princeton by 19 the other day with 8 minutes left in the game. The Elis won by ten.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 20, 2023 17:44:12 GMT -5
Three pointers versus two pointers is an inequity. No way at this stage of shooting prowess is a shot from beyond the arc worth 50% more than a made basket inside.
I would like to make the court wider so the corner shot is at least equal to the 3 from the top, and a bit further back. But it requires a lot of redesign of seating and would take more than an off season to implement.
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Post by trimster on Feb 20, 2023 18:27:00 GMT -5
Yale trailed Princeton by 19 the other day with 8 minutes left in the game. The Elis won by ten. The game ended up in OT. Yale won 93-83 after trailing 63-44 with 8 minutes left. 44 points for Yale in the first 32 minutes; 49 in the last 13.
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 20, 2023 21:20:46 GMT -5
Should a FG be worth the same 3 points when kicked from 20 yards out as it is from 55 yards out? Thems the rules.
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Post by res on Feb 21, 2023 8:11:21 GMT -5
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Post by efg72 on Feb 21, 2023 8:56:04 GMT -5
D.C. SPORTS BOG College hoops fan finishes his quest to see every Division I team in person
By Scott Allen Updated February 21, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EST|Published February 21, 2023 at 4:30 a.m. EST
Craig Caswell completed his quest to see every Division I men’s basketball team in person when he attended American’s game against Lehigh on Saturday. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post)
Early in his quest to see every Division I men’s college basketball team play in person, Craig Caswell resolved that he would travel to see the last school play at home. Caswell’s wife and most frequent travel companion, Jaclyn Meyer, lobbied to finish the journey in Hawaii, but when the Rainbow Warriors played a nonconference game at Illinois in November 2019 — the program’s farthest trip east in more than a decade — Caswell, who lives outside Dayton, Ohio, decided the opportunity to cross another team off his list without getting on a plane was too good to pass up.
Hawaii, which lost to the Fighting Illini that night, was the 330th Division I team Caswell saw play. Three years and 34 teams later, Caswell completed his quest Saturday at Bender Arena, where he watched American lose to visiting Lehigh with Meyer, his mother and his brother by his side.
“This feels more like a milestone than a conclusion,” Caswell wrote in an email Sunday. “I’ll still go to more basketball games this season and beyond, only now with a fresh air of confidence with this achievement under my belt.”
Craig Caswell at the box office at Bender Arena. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) Caswell’s college basketball odyssey spanned 21 years and took him to 442 games in 131 venues. The first Division I college basketball game he attended was Dayton’s 83-59 rout of George Washington on Jan. 9, 2002, at UD Arena. It was his second game, as a wide-eyed freshman at Bowling Green nearly seven years later, that lit the spark for his impressive and unusual quest.
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A Detroit Pistons fan who didn’t pay much attention to college hoops growing up, Caswell, 32, walked into Bowling Green’s Anderson Arena for the first time in the fall of 2008 and grabbed a seat in the front row for a game against Wayne State. He felt a bit like Spike Lee sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden, and he was hooked. Caswell went to most of the Falcons’ home games that season and again as a sophomore, when he made trips to see games at Wright State, Akron and Kent State.
The quest entered Caswell’s mind during his junior year.
“I thought: ‘I love to travel, and I love college basketball. How feasible would it be to see every team in Division I?’ ” he said. “I was determined to basically consume as much college basketball as I could going forward. All the years since have involved a lot of deliberate planning to try to achieve that goal.”
In 2011, Caswell planned a vacation to the Outer Banks the week between Christmas and New Year’s with Meyer, who was his girlfriend at the time. The itinerary included stops at the Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach and the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. — as well as games at Richmond, Virginia and VMI. Caswell saw six new teams on the trip, bringing his total to 67.
“That trip to the Outer Banks was the first vacation that I took without my family,” Meyer said. “We had such a blast, and I hardly remember any of the basketball.”
Jaclyn Meyer accompanied her husband to many games during his quest to see every team. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) Meyer has joined Caswell at dozens of games in the decade since, and she has embraced his planning vacations around the college basketball schedule. They have developed a routine for the new schools they visit together. If they arrive early enough, they like to walk around campus to take in the architecture and visit the bookstore. In the arena, they stroll the concourse, comparing it with places they have been before. Once in their seats, Caswell checks out the game preview on KenPom.com. Their basketball trips often involve stops at disc golf courses — a shared passion — and sampling new cuisines.
“There’s no way I could’ve done this without her,” Caswell said.
That was certainly true on a harrowing trip to Niagara to see the Purple Eagles play St. Peter’s on Jan. 13, 2012. A drive that should have taken five hours took closer to eight, thanks to a snowstorm that forced Meyer to shout directions “like a NASCAR spotter” from the passenger seat after they crossed the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
“We roll up to the gate, 12 minutes before tip-off, looking completely haggard,” Caswell said. “A woman came up and said: ‘Here’s two tickets. You guys look like you could use them.’ ”
Craig Caswell sat with his wife, brother and mother at his milestone game. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) On a subsequent trip to see Tennessee Martin host Samford, Caswell bought general admission tickets. The couple found seats in his favorite spot — center court, eye level with the rim — on a side of the arena that was otherwise completely empty. A game day operations employee walked over, looked at them quizzically and asked, “Y’all aren’t Samford fans, are ya?”
Caswell told the woman about his quest. A few minutes later, he and Meyer were announced as the winners of the “Best Seat in the House” promotion sponsored by a local furniture company and were relocated to a couple of courtside La-Z-Boys.
“We were laughing because we went from my favorite place to sit to the baseline, which is my least favorite place to sit,” Caswell said.
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Caswell tracked his progress through the years on a meticulously organized spreadsheet. During a trip to Las Vegas in March 2016, he attended 10 games in five days at three venues hosting conference tournaments and added 15 teams to his quest. According to his master list, Caswell has seen Bowling Green more than any other team (57 times), followed by Wright State (52), Dayton (41) and Cincinnati (17). He has attended games in 36 states and, as of Saturday, Washington.
“It’s kind of poetic, as a civil servant, to end it at American,” said Caswell, who works as a program analyst for the Air Force.
Caswell has been to several classic college basketball venues, including Indiana’s Assembly Hall, Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium, Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse and Kentucky’s Rupp Arena, where he sat courtside for a 2011 game against Georgia. His favorite arena, Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center, might come as a surprise.
“I’m 5-foot-5,” Caswell said. “If I’m in an arena that is built out instead of up, like at Dayton, oftentimes I have a hard time seeing. Petersen Events Center has great sightlines and is a more intimate venue, and the Oakland Zoo is one of the most underrated student sections in all of college basketball.”
Caswell keeps a spreadsheet of every Division I game he has attended and a graph of his progress by year. At the start of the 2022-23 season, Caswell was 12 teams shy of completing his quest. He knocked out Lindenwood — one of five schools making the transition to Division I this year — in early November and saw Kansas in person for the first time eight days later. Caswell made December trips to Dallas and the Bay Area for games, and he drove to Indiana to watch Stonehill, another Division I newbie, visit Valparaiso before Christmas.
This month, Caswell and Meyer flew to San Antonio and then drove four hours to see Abilene Christian, his 363rd team, play Sam Houston State. That left American as the only Division I school Caswell had yet to see.
“Traveling around to these games, it’s almost like being let into a special tribe for a single night,” Craig Caswell said. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) Caswell and his family arrived in D.C. in a rental car Friday afternoon and visited the observation deck at Washington National Cathedral. On Saturday morning, they explored the campus at Howard before making their way to American and doing the same. At the box office, Caswell purchased tickets in Section 105 near the free throw line. He said Bender Arena reminded him of other Patriot League venues he has visited and said that while it’s not terribly remarkable, it “carries its own independent charm.”
“Traveling around to these games, it’s almost like being let into a special tribe for a single night,” he said. “It’s: ‘Welcome to our tribe. We’ll show you how we do it. We’ll show you our traditions. We’ll show you what’s important to us.’ I love that the majority of Division I toils away outside the spotlight, but N.C. A&T basketball is just as important to the folks that support N.C. A&T as Carolina basketball is at UNC.”
With no schools making the jump from Division II to Division I next year, Caswell’s quest will be complete for the foreseeable future. The list of teams he has seen includes Savannah State, which dropped to Division II before the 2018-19 season, and Hartford, which will transition to Division III in the fall.
Going forward, Caswell will focus on adding new venues to his spreadsheet. He is especially eager to visit the Palestra in Philadelphia, UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, Kansas’s Allen Fieldhouse and perhaps catch a glimpse of Lee at Madison Square Garden. Oh, and he has never been to Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, home of the Rainbow Warriors.
“We’ll get to Hawaii at some point,” Meyer said.
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Post by Tom on Feb 21, 2023 9:11:23 GMT -5
Interesting story. Makes me wonder how many teams I've seen. Probably somewhere between 50 and 100. But unlike this guy, I don't travel much
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 21, 2023 9:18:28 GMT -5
This guy should get some kind of award from the NCAA. Something akin to the Oscars "Lifetime Achievement A ward."
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Post by res on Feb 21, 2023 9:25:37 GMT -5
Ending his quest at Bender must have been somewhat anticlimactic.
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 21, 2023 9:50:32 GMT -5
Outstanding! Nice picture wit the Holy Cross banner in the background.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 21, 2023 10:12:12 GMT -5
I would like know the opponent, where and when he saw HC play.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Feb 21, 2023 12:03:44 GMT -5
Beat me to it, Crucis.
If I won the lottery, that would be me......and I would probably do it exclusively by car.
I'm jealous.
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