Congrats to Wesleyan and Trinity. Great for the league and for all of us to get to see that matchup one more time.
Great point re Trinity's second unit, D3BBall. In games that I have seen this year, there have been countless times Trinity gets off to a slow-ish start before the second unit comes in and puts things back on track. Teams are forced to either (a) keep their starters in beyond maybe a common 6-8 minute range to start the game or (b) go to their generally weaker players off the bench. Either way it seems the Bantams' second unit consistently takes advantage. I don't think there are 2 better guards in the country to be bringing off your bench than Berry and Ayles. Berry is one of the purest scorers this league has to offer, despite his modest playing time, while Ayles is incredible defensively and does a good job of directing traffic on offense. I'd add that McDonald in the frontcourt is just a classic Cosgrove player. Gritty/grinder/hustler etc. etc.
Great point re Trinity's second unit, D3BBall. In games that I have seen this year, there have been countless times Trinity gets off to a slow-ish start before the second unit comes in and puts things back on track. Teams are forced to either (a) keep their starters in beyond maybe a common 6-8 minute range to start the game or (b) go to their generally weaker players off the bench. Either way it seems the Bantams' second unit consistently takes advantage. I don't think there are 2 better guards in the country to be bringing off your bench than Berry and Ayles. Berry is one of the purest scorers this league has to offer, despite his modest playing time, while Ayles is incredible defensively and does a good job of directing traffic on offense. I'd add that McDonald in the frontcourt is just a classic Cosgrove player. Gritty/grinder/hustler etc. etc.