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Post by bison137 on Feb 26, 2022 17:45:41 GMT -5
Holy Cross earns a home game! HC will host American. HC tied for 7th and 8th , but owns the tiebreaker over Lafayette.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 25, 2022 11:24:56 GMT -5
Caro, Perhaps you could explain Nelson usually staying with the full court man defense throughout games with no double teams even when down a few at the end. It does not affect the offense, other than sometimes giving them a number advantage if the dribbler beats our defender. As far as I can recall, no recent coach of note has played this defense so consistently. Colgate is tough to double because they shoot the 3 so effectively. RJ Evans spoke to season ticket holders before the game, I asked if they were planning on doubling the Gate bigs. He said no, Colgate shoots the 3 at about 45%, so it makes better sense to stay home, double and they will kick it to the open man for a wide open 3 who will probably not miss… He was not exactly accurate. They actually shoot it at 39%, which is still quite good. But only one team in the nation shoots much above 40%.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 24, 2022 18:57:40 GMT -5
better to win and steal a playoff game I don't think we can win the playoff game against any of the potential opponents we might face in a play-in game, and our chances are much better in the 6 spot vs Navy or BU If Bucknell, American, and Lafayette would likely beat us, and those three coaches will be gone, why should we keep Nelson? A question, not a position. Bucknell and American would not likely beat HC. And you wouldn’t be playing Lafayette in the play-in game.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 23, 2022 23:30:37 GMT -5
It is a long shot but Langel could get a new opportunity, and Hardy, with a strong tournament, is rumored to be on the move?? Yes very possible. Especially Langel, who could have his pick of a lot of jobs, but he’s not interested in something that he doesn’t consider a good fit. I was only thinking of coaches with a chance to be fired, which means Mike Brennan and Nathan Davis.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 23, 2022 22:22:49 GMT -5
With Hartford downgrading to D3, I would like to see Coach John Gallagher become an assistant or part of the HC program as a coaching consultant. I really like his court side demeanor and enthusiasm. Tonight after a close lost to UMBC at home, he conducted a very nice and complimentary post game interview. It is available on ESPN+ Gallagher has been a good coach in a very difficult position, and he should land on his feet. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him get another D1 coaching job or else an assistant job at a much higher level than the patriot league. He is still only 44 years old and was an assistant at LaSalle, Lafayette, and Penn prior to getting his head-coaching job. He has been head coach there for over a decade. Was coached by Phil Martelli during his playing days.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 23, 2022 22:17:31 GMT -5
With one regular season game remaining how many PL jobs will be open by the Final Four? Guessing of course, but one is known, and another two possible and three others are a stretch, but wouldn’t be a shock In other words the sidelines might look significantly different in 22-23 Thoughts? The known one is Fran O’Hanlon, of course. Next in line are Mike Brennan and Nathan Davis, followed possibly by Brett Nelson although I think he will definitely be back. After that, I don’t think any others have any chance whatsoever of being fired.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 23, 2022 18:51:38 GMT -5
During Adonal Foyle's senior year, a pretty bad HC beat Colgate. On any given night. . . Adonal did not have a senior year. He left for the NBA after three seasons at Colgate.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 22, 2022 22:30:00 GMT -5
AU's definitely coming on. Defense today was outstanding. Lehigh missed a couple of open looks from deep but I thought part of that, at least, was because we really locked in early on running them off the three-point line and getting into any kind of rhythm. Have beaten BU, Bucknell and Lehigh in the last two weeks. Will be hard to beat Lehigh on back to back days but if we win Wednesday we obviously get the season sweep and tiebreaker over them and all but clinch a top-four spot. Congrats NotJuan. American looked very good today. Had balance which is key. I think if Lehigh takes the same approach on defense tomorrow as they did today that the Eagles will get the sweep. No idea why they guarded so far out on the perimeter and didn't pack the paint. I thought AU's weakness was perimeter shooting? Sue Troyan is a good recruiter but not good in x’s and o’s, so Lehigh underachieving is never a surprise. AU has a big edge over LU in the coaching department.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 22, 2022 21:02:59 GMT -5
Copied from the Bucknell board:
American knocked off Lehigh this afternoon. They play again tomorrow. That makes the current standings look like this:
Boston U . 11-4 Holy Cross 11-4 Lehigh . . . 10-5 Bucknell . 10-5 American . 10-5 Army W.P. . 9-6
Boston U currently owns the tiebreaker due to a win over HC. But they play HC again at the end of the year. Bucknell is 3rd at the moment due to its 3-1 record vs LU and AU. AU is 2nd due to a 2-1 record against the group. AU meets LU tomorrow in a crucial game, which will knock one of them out of the 3rd place tie. It probably would be better for the Bison if LU wins, since the Bison swept the series vs LU and would thus own the tiebreaker in any two-way tie.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 21, 2022 19:54:46 GMT -5
I noticed Howard took his mask off prior to throwing the punch. Will this possibly result in a lifetime ban from college basketball? Death penalty.😊 I'm thinking both head coaches will be disciplined with the Wisconsin Coach who grabbed Howard getting a game or two and Juwan getting benched through the league tournament but being free to coach in the NCAA or NIT. Howard got off easy - suspended for the rest of the regular season (five games) only, plus a $40,000 fine. Two Michigan players and one from Wisconsin suspended for one game. This is Strike Two on Howard. It's possible that one more incident will lead to his termination as coach.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 21, 2022 19:49:04 GMT -5
Obviously, we weren't prepared for their zone. No energy at the other end. Fran has shown Holy Cross a zone a few times over the years And he's shown it on occasion this year in other games as well.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 21, 2022 15:29:34 GMT -5
The league is unbalanced with several schools not providing football, baseball, etc. It certainly places the Olympic sports at a disadvantage against their peers. If the PL needed to give us a New England neighbor to balance adding Navy and American neighbor Loyola, Fairfield is farther away than BU but aligns more with our financial realities. BU not offering FB or Baseball is one advantage for the Terriers, and having 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students compared to 3000 students at HC means 30,000 extra tuition and fees to spread costs over. BU is probably a higher profile university than Fairfield but the amount of positive spin off that filters down to HC's benefit as a league partner is minimal. Yes, it was a disastrous addition - and it was obvious at the time.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 20, 2022 21:55:35 GMT -5
UNH amazingly has only three varsity spring sports - men’s T&F, women’s T&F, and women’s lacrosse. That is an amazingly low number for a so-called major university. Holy Cross, I believe, has 12 D1 varsity spring sports, as does Bucknell. My local high school has 10 spring sports, as do most of the other nearby high schools.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 20, 2022 18:29:49 GMT -5
Some crazy scores in this first weekend of the season - how about Austin Peay scoring 3 on the 7th and 2 in the 8th to beat BC 18-17 (game shortened because of BC travel plans I'm guessing) BC, btw, had an 11 to 1 lead in the middle of the fourth. You’re correct that the game was shortened due to a travel curfew.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 20, 2022 18:03:47 GMT -5
Tough to find number of pitches anywhere but that easily could have been a 70+ pitch inning (17 batters x 4+ pitches per batter). He had a lot of walks and a few strikeouts so at least those were likely deeper counts. Guess the coach believes in letting him work through it but that is a long inning and probably not great for the arm of a Frosh making his first appearance of the year. His outing actually was spaced out over two innings. He entered with one out in the fifth and faced ten batters in that inning, then seven the next. Only one walk the first inning, then four the second one (out of seven batters). Might have been a wise move not to bring him back for the second inning.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 19, 2022 22:21:50 GMT -5
Lafayette lost a tough one to Bucknell today...Funk hit a 3 at the end of regulation to put it into OT..Falling out of bounds as the shot clock wound down from 2.2 seconds from the corner....How will they bounce back? No. Funk’s three point shot was the game winner in overtime. He hit it as the shot clock was running out and with perhaps seven seconds left on the game clock. Lafayette actually had a three pointer late in regulation to tie it up and force overtime.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 19, 2022 21:46:53 GMT -5
There's a very realistic path to first for Bucknell, Bison137. Yes, if they run the table there is a good chance they get the #1 seed. But beating Boston U on the road will be a very tough task.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 19, 2022 21:22:41 GMT -5
This will be a difficult year. This will be the 3rd coach since 2017. With the recruiting calendar set for most high school juniors and minimal help with transfers, it will take time for Coach R to bring in his guys. The team competes at the highest level of the sport, with the Pl fielding 5 nationally ranked teams, who are fully funded programs. Bottom line, at least to me, is that the team needs more scholarship money. Right now the PL has three nationally ranked teams (Army, Loyola, and Lehigh), plus two others getting votes. One of the two getting votes (Bucknell) just started getting scholarships this year for the first time. They have two in total and will be nowhere close to being fully funded at any point in at least the next few years.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 19, 2022 21:09:51 GMT -5
My early guess: 1. Lehigh 2. Holy Cross 3. Bucknell 4. Boston U. Who's got a view? 13-5 probably gets the tie at the top. Tiebreakers will be in play no doubt. Worst guess buys the rounds at Leits. Tiebreaker scenarios right now are very close. These are the records of the top five against other top five teams: Bucknell 4-3 Boston U 3-3 American 3-3 Lehigh 3-3 Holy Cross 3-4 Sweeps: Lehigh over Boston U Bucknell over Lehigh
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Post by bison137 on Feb 19, 2022 9:35:34 GMT -5
1. The WPI facility is not nearly as good as those of Navy and Bucknell. 2. It's extremely unlikely the PL would move a championship to a rented facility on some other school's campus That is your opinion (BU only has seating for 500 and WPI is listed at 250) but it does host D-1 conference championships for conferences on par with the PL. The PL is still paying to rent the facility no matter what. The PL is not paying to rent Bucknell or Navy. And if you think WPI's facility compares to Bucknell or Navy, then you are clueless.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 18, 2022 13:59:38 GMT -5
Navy has totally dominated PL swimming since they day they joined. Army, although usually 2nd, is a distant also-ran. The Naval Academy brings in about 20 strong swimmers a year and gets enormous support from Admissions, who put a lot of emphasis on athletic prowess in the admissions process. As for Bucknell, they have a few women's scholarships in swimming but none for the men. But they do have a fairly good amount of need-based aid and an ability to give recruits an early decision on admission. Bucknell has been successful in the sport due to a strong swimming tradition, one of the better natatoriums in the nation, good alumni support for recruiting, and a strong coaching staff. The PL Championships, btw, are held only at Navy and Bucknell - which are the two best facilities by a very wide margin. Bucknell's Kinney Natatorium: bucknellbison.com/news/2013/7/19/209105197.aspxHoly Cross could host at WPI like several other conferences do. Dates might just not work out. 1. The WPI facility is not nearly as good as those of Navy and Bucknell. 2. It's extremely unlikely the PL would move a championship to a rented facility on some other school's campus
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Post by bison137 on Feb 18, 2022 13:04:06 GMT -5
I am not surprised the academies are leading. This is a sport which attracts the kind of driven kids who might also appreciate Army and Navy. What I want to know is why Bucknell does so well in this sport (currently third for both men and women) and, for that matter in track. I asked Bison about this as to track and he advised that Bucknell does not have men's track scholarships. Do they have them for swimming? No hockey. Navy has totally dominated PL swimming since they day they joined. Army, although usually 2nd, is a distant also-ran. The Naval Academy brings in about 20 strong swimmers a year and gets enormous support from Admissions, who put a lot of emphasis on athletic prowess in the admissions process. As for Bucknell, they have a few women's scholarships in swimming but none for the men. But they do have a fairly good amount of need-based aid and an ability to give recruits an early decision on admission. Bucknell has been successful in the sport due to a strong swimming tradition, one of the better natatoriums in the nation, good alumni support for recruiting, and a strong coaching staff. The PL Championships, btw, are held only at Navy and Bucknell - which are the two best facilities by a very wide margin. Bucknell's Kinney Natatorium: bucknellbison.com/news/2013/7/19/209105197.aspx
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Post by bison137 on Feb 18, 2022 1:13:56 GMT -5
Not great! How many pL teams are well-positioned to lose their best two players? Well, Colgate lost their best, Burns, and one of their next best, Richardson. Tucker Richardson has started every game this year for Colgate. He leads their team in minutes played.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 17, 2022 9:32:27 GMT -5
Duke’s academic standards for basketball players are far different from those of non hoopsters Based on what. I am not saying you are wrong but just curious why you say that. 15 years ago, according to a decade of data from the NCAA, the average Duke basketball SAT was 968. Quite a bit different from the student body. At that time, Stanford basketball had an 1123 average SAT and UNC had a 915. I doubt there have been major changes since then.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 17, 2022 9:17:12 GMT -5
Isn't it strange that foley would come to that conclusion, considering HC has had a colorful bus for many years. Anyone who travels to away games sees it, including AWP a few weeks ago It is very likely that the Holy Cross bus is at the patriot league swimming championships, which started yesterday. Foley rarely uses any logic.
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