This has been checked and re-checked several times by several different people, so I think it is accurate: Four teams remain in the hunt for the final playoff berth. The only one of the five who haven't clinched so far that can't make it in is Drew. It is conceivable that all four games on Saturday could help determine the final playoff team.

Men's Basketball
-   Scranton is the No. 1 seed.
-   If Catholic defeats Moravian or Susquehanna loses to USMMA, Catholic is No. 2.
-   Susquehanna has clinched a spot, but could be No. 2, 3 or 4. If Susquehanna defeats USMMA and Catholic loses, Susquehanna is No. 2. If Susquehanna defeats USMMA and Catholic wins, Susquehanna is No. 3.
-   Goucher gets in if Catholic, Drew, Goucher and Susquehanna win. It forces a 3-way tie between Drew, Goucher and USMMA and Goucher wins the tiebreaker.
-   Juniata gets in if Goucher, Moravian, Juniata and Susquehanna win. It forces a 4-way tie between Goucher, Juniata, Moravian and USMMA and Juniata wins the tiebreaker.
-   Moravian gets in Drew, Moravian, Scranton and Susquehanna win. It forces a 3-way tie between Drew, Moravian and USMMA and Moravian wins the tiebreaker.
-   If USMMA wins, they're in and clinch the No. 3 seed. If they lose, they need Scranton and Catholic to win to clinch the No. 4 seed.

In response to The Grove, I did two stints at the Gettysburg Times, the first time ending up as the sports editor and then returning for nine months as sports editor before coming to Goucher. Where did your husband work?

first time catching up with the Landmark board since last season. I have two responses, both for ronk.

You can't vote for yourself in the preseason coaches poll, so that's why Goucher, picked to finish in last place by all seven other head coaches, received only seven points.

Also, I appreciate you sharing the news about Jim Dooley. Before getting back into sports info., I was the sports editor of a small daily newspaper in south-central Pa. and we covered Jim's teams at Gettysburg H.S. and later at Delone Catholic H.S. He certainly had a knack at getting the most out of what he had to work with. And it was certainly never hard to get a quote out of him!

Best of luck to all the Landmark teams in 2013-14.

This is Marywood's second year as an affiliate member of the Landmark Conference in the sport of swimming and diving. There was an announcement: http://www.landmarkconference.org/sports/swimdive/2011-12/releases/LCswim_marywoodaffiliate_9_1_11.

Pat, if you are taking nominations for banishment, I'd like to propose Dave McHugh. Of course, without Cold Case, there may be no second to my motion.

Now for why I really logged on to post something: Some of you are really being too tough on the Landmark commissioner. He didn't make the ultimate decision to go to the new scheduling format. It started with the coaches and there was a wide range of opinions, so I don't think anybody totally got his or her way on this. But one thing more than a few coaches mentioned was that the Friday-Saturday format we were using was taking a tremendous physical toll on the players. We think a lot of you fans and are certainly willing to listen to your comments and take them into consideration, but the players will always be our No. 1 priority.

The Landmark does operate under a similar schedule for soccer. With the exception of USMMA which doesn't have a women's team, soccer teams in the Landmark play doubleheaders (mostly on Saturdays). Until this year, it was women first and then men, but in 2011 the men's games were played first.

anybody else catch (or attempt to catch) any of the broadcasts from Goucher Saturday? The comments we've received so far have been all over the place -- some extremely positive, some really negative and even a couple that like cold case weren't able to connect to it.

Fans will be able to watch both of the Scranton-Goucher basketball games on Saturday even if they can't be at the Decker Sports & Recreation Center as there will be live streaming video. The men's game begins at 5:30 p.m. and will be followed by the women's game. As this is the first attempt at providing live streaming video at Goucher, we encourage fans to let us know how much they would like the opportunity to see more of Goucher's intercollegiate athletics events in this manner. Here is the link to watch the games: http://www.firstteambroadcasting.com/organizations/goucher-college.

The biggest problem we have at Goucher with the different starting times for games is whether or not our PA announcer will show up at the right time!

announcement on Tuesday

Matt,

Although your most recent post does seem like your boasting just a little bit, I can't let you get by with saying that your Catholic Univeristy Cardinals are all alone in first place in the CAC when they actually are in second place.

Just to clarify something I've seen both sides of the argument getting wrong: Goucher had only one player (Jonathan Garritt) make the All-CAC team in 2005-06, not two. And there is only one player (Pierre Jones) on this year's roster that has been an All-CAC selection, not two.

Quote from: Salem, VA on February 21, 2006, 09:50:01 PM
York 89 Goucher 68

This game was over with about 35 minutes to go as York connected there first 8 3's of the game.  Fass had 25 and now only needs 45 points to reach 1,000.  Looks like Salisbury is coming in here for another game and we all know what happened last time, it was not pretty at all.  31 and counting, hopefully they show up and are ready to bring there game to Wolf Gym.

McGowan for MVP

And I am sorry but Garritt and Russo are not POY, they do not share the ball and just jack up 3's.  If anything Russo is the better player.

24-2 for York College
See everyone Thursday
Salisbury please show up.
There has not been a game here since Mary Wash
Peace

York missed two of its first three 3-point attempts of the game, so I can't figure out how you can say the Spartans connected on THEIR first eight three-pointers of the game.

OK, that's nitpicky.

If I had a vote for CAC POY, I would cast it for McGowan. I do believe both Goucher players should be considered for All-CAC honors, but even if I wasn't the Goucher SID, I wouldn't vote for a player from a 3-21 team to be conference POY. But how do you say Garritt and Russo are not POY because they do not share the ball and just jack up 3's. Last night they were credited with a combined eight assists (not close to a record, but to me suggests they do share the ball) and they attempted 17 three-pointers and 16 two-pointers (hardly a ratio that suggests they just jack up 3's).

I, like the other CAC SID's, tend not to express my opinions on here very often. However, every now and then there is that one post that just begs for a reply.

The issue of starting times for CAC playoff games was addressed last year and by a unanimous vote, it was determined that single games on Saturday could start at 2:00 or 7:00 at the discretion of the home team. If the same school is hosting both title games, the times would be 2:00/4:00 or 6:00/8:00.

Goucher DOES NOT move up to the 7th seed just by beating Marymount on Saturday. If St. Mary's beats Salisbury earlier in the day, Goucher is locked into being the 8th seed regardless of what the Gophers do against the Saints.

Goucher won back-to-back CAC titles in 1993-94 and 1994-95. Catholic did the same in 2000-01 and 2001-02.