Student protest of offensive Halloween costumes forced shut down.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/11/student-protest-forces-postponement-of-basketball-game-at-franklin-and-marshall-college.html

You can't make this stuff up.

Quote from: hopefan on November 09, 2019, 08:21:33 AM
With the postponing of the F&M - York season opener, hoping that it has nothing to do with Coach Robinson's health... I saw nothing but the postponement statement on the F&M site....

Did not see that.  Seems very unusual...no other insight from anyone?

I had exactly the same reaction when I saw the pre season rankings...I kept scrolling down for the prose about the upcoming year.  The pre season polls/analysis are intended to get you interested in the upcoming year and potential players.  It left me wondering why they do it at all. 

Quote from: CCD3Basketball on October 29, 2019, 04:51:37 PM

Quote from: Dave 'd-mac' McHugh on October 29, 2019, 03:21:15 PM
This page is silent considering today's big news: https://d3hoops.com/notables/2019/10/preseason-mens-top-25

Was waiting for someone else to chime in, but I suppose I'll go ahead with it then

Good for the Garnet, and good for the Centennial Conference as a whole as well. I thought the Garnet would be in the top 5, but was surprised to see them be #1 and was even more surprised to see how many first place votes they have.

Although, after thinking about it, it makes sense. The Garnet return the most out of the teams at the top of the poll. Yes, losing Cam Wiley is obviously huge, but at the end of the day, he is the only player gone off of a team that made it all the way to the title game. The core of bigs on the inside is outstanding and there's shooters a plenty on the perimeter. I think Sallah can step into the Wiley role nicely, he showed flashes of doing so in spurts last year; not saying he will replace Wiley, because it's hard to replace that; but if he can step in as a starter and be valuable, with the rest of that corps that returns, there's no reason why the Garnet can't be near the top again.

Obviously, the only poll that TRULY matters is the final one in March, but, this is a big day, not only for Swat but for the conference as a whole.

That was my question...whether they could replace Wiley and this was helpful.

My bigger surprise was that no other schools received any votes which suggests the gap is very wide between Swarthmore and everyone else. 

1,000 round mega draft?!? 

Understand it is a bit early but any buzz about the teams for the upcoming year?

Any decent recruiting classes?

Favorites likely Swarthmore/Hopkins/F&M?