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Mathewson attended Keystone Academy, which was a local HS at the time - on the edge of Mathewson's hometown of Factoryville, northwest of Scranton.   Much later it morphed into a juco and then finally a four-year college.

After graduating from Keystone Academy, Mathewson attended Bucknell, where he was a three sport star.   Was an All-American kicker/punter.

And any College that wanted Records probably could’ve had him. He did not receive any college offers until the latter part of his senior year in high school.

Bucknell’s Cecilia Collins, who is a preseason All-PL selection and who is by far their best offensive player and by far their best defensive player, suffered a foot or ankle injury and was unable to play. She is on crutches and wearing a boot. Cannot put any weight at all on that foot, so I suspect she will be out for a fair amount of time. Without her, Bucknell certainly is not a contender. 

It definitely is a young team.   The core eight includes three sophs and three frosh. Four of the five starters are sophs/frosh.    Team has four juniors - none of whom are really D1 players.    Three were Woodruff recruits, and he and his staff did not do a good recruiting job his first year, possibly because none of the four coaches had ever coached at the D1 level.   But his recruiting classes since then have been good and they should be a contender for at least the next four years.   I judge his recruiting ability mostly by his last three classes, which include a lot of players who had multiple offers from schools higher than the PL.    (One note btw is that Bucknell's starting PG, freshman Blake Matthews, was unavailable for the HC game.)

As for development, he and his staff did a great job developing Brugler, Ceppi, O'Brien, Shaffer, etc - who all got a lot better after Woodruff's arrival.     We'll see how the current sophs and frosh develop.

I think it is possible, although I think Bucknell‘s height advantage in the middle could be decisive. A lot will depend on who makes their threes. Bucknell has actually been good in that category this season, ranking 45th in the nation.  

Pomeroy makes Bucknell a five point favorite.  As a coach, Nathan Davis is lost in the final two minutes of a close game, so that at least means HC will not be at a disadvantage in the final minutes.

at best, that is extremely hard to believe.  For a number of reasons, there is zero chance of him taking the HC job. One of the many reasons is that 90%One of the many reasons is that 90% of the players he has recruited at Iona would not be admissible at HC. And he is a bad guy. I have known about his character for well over 50 years and he hasn’t changed.

if that is the case, then it was beyond absurd for you to make a judgment as to which team is better with virtually no evidence.

I am sure that if the only Celtics game you watched this season was last weeks loss against Indiana that you would state that Indiana is a better team than Boston.

HC is not as strong in the paint as Loyola, but they are a much better team overall.   HC is tied with Bucknell as the top PL team (Massey), while Loyola currently ranks eighth. Massey views HC as being about seven points better than Loyola.

BTW, the PL coaches and SIDs, who have all seen Therien multiple times and know how good she is, picked Loyola to finish 9th of 10 teams in the preseason poll. Loyola hasn’t really done anything that would cause anyone to change their vote.

but they offset the good shooting with atrocious Defense.

I think you might be surprised as to how often injuries do get disclosed in college basketball. Even at Bucknell’s level it is not uncommon and at the P6-conference level injuries are often disclosed. All it takes is for the player to say it’s OK. For another example, take a look at the UConn women, where all of their numerous injuries have been reported on in great detail.

Once upon a time, Toole was a hot commodity.   But over the past seven seasons, his RMU teams are 40 games below .500.     His record over that time span has been much worse than that of Milan Brown while he was at MSM.

Also in Horizon League play over the past 2+ years, RMU is 9-29.