MBB: Liberty League

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · January 13, 2025, 08:36:41 AM

The lowest active win total on the NCAA coaching stats list is Eric Bridgeland who entered the season with 412. Anyone below that, we don't really have any way of tracking without looking up each coach individually (and I'm not even sure that database is publicly available).

d3hoopstories · January 13, 2025, 08:44:28 AM

https://stats.ncaa.org/head_coaches

This should work and is updated all season.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · January 13, 2025, 08:58:53 AM

Thanks. The NCAA made a ton of really helpful improvements to stats this year. I guess I missed that one.

Pat Coleman · January 13, 2025, 10:29:30 AM

Regardless, it's going to be highly unlikely I check on that at the end of a night on Wednesday or Saturday to see which schools might have had milestones they didn't tell us about. All of the schools have access to post content and they all know our email address as a backup to that. John Baron's 400th at Gwynedd Mercy made the roundup because they included it in their news release that they posted on D3hoops.com.

stlawus · January 17, 2025, 09:09:45 PM

For the 2nd straight year SLU screws around at Union and loses on a last second three by Matthew Garside. Same player, same situation, same venue. 2 years in a row the exact same thing happened. Clutch shot, but SLU has nobody but themselves to blame. Dumb hero ball on their last offensive possession, bad missed free throw to make it a 3 point game. They had an opportunity to put it all together this season, just can't finish on the road. Was the difference in hosting the final last year and having to go on the road.

UfanBill · January 17, 2025, 09:35:11 PM

Great win for Union over St. Lawrence tonight with the Garnet playing like they need to to win. St. Lawrence dominated inside, outscoring Union 40-19 in the paint and 14-3 on the fast break but the difference was the Garnet made their free throws 8/8 and hit their 3's shooting 10/22 from behind the arc. Including a buzzer beater 3 to win 60-59. That thrusts Union back into the LL playoff hunt.

d3d3d3 · January 17, 2025, 09:46:34 PM

Union over SLU by 1 at the buzzer
Bard over Hobart by 1 at the buzzer
Ithaca over Clarkson by 3
Vassar over RPI by 4
RIT over Skidmore by 5
What a night

Liberty League teams beat the hell out of each other every week

Bartman · January 18, 2025, 07:00:17 AM

Quote from: d3d3d3 on January 17, 2025, 09:46:34 PMUnion over SLU by 1 at the buzzer
Bard over Hobart by 1 at the buzzer
Ithaca over Clarkson by 3
Vassar over RPI by 4
RIT over Skidmore by 5
What a night

Liberty League teams beat the hell out of each other every week

Indeed. Hobart battled back but drops a tough one on the road to Bard as their shot making goes cold on the road again. Too bad they can't take the Bristol gym rims with them. At this point it seems anything is possible when the LL gets to the playoffs. Can Ithaca hold on to host at the end of the regular season? Hobart is a very talented team with 5 starting Seniors that won the Championship on home court last year , but unless there is more disruption, last nights buzzer beater loss at Bard could have cost them the chance for home court in this year's playoffs.

stlawus · January 18, 2025, 05:56:48 PM

Given the extreme home and away splits again this season it's still hard to predict what happens, but pretty safe to predict at least one of RPI or Ithaca finishing top 2. All going to come down to who can steal the most road wins. The difference between RPI/Ithaca and SLU right now is that the former has at least 4, often times 5 players on the court that can all make a shot. SLU rarely has more than 1.

Caz Bombers · January 18, 2025, 06:10:42 PM

Ithaca good? Interesting development if so.

stlawus · January 18, 2025, 06:19:11 PM

They've tightened up on defense, at least the past few games, made a big difference. As I mentioned, most of their lineup throughout the game can make a three. Last year they just got nothing on the defensive side of the ball, and while they struggled a bit out of the gate this year they've adjusted. That and they defend home court well in the league, good combo to have.

LLFan23 · January 18, 2025, 10:24:14 PM

A forgotten storyline in the league is Vassar handling business. Quality wins against Hobart away and RPI at home. Fitzgerald is mounting a POY campaign, they are deep with many pieces contributing. A team to watch if the they continue to pickup wins.

Bartman · January 19, 2025, 08:51:23 AM

Quote from: LLFan23 on January 18, 2025, 10:24:14 PMA forgotten storyline in the league is Vassar handling business. Quality wins against Hobart away and RPI at home. Fitzgerald is mounting a POY campaign, they are deep with many pieces contributing. A team to watch if the they continue to pickup wins.

A quality win at Hobart by Vassar has put Vassar in the mix for sure this year. It is a long season, but that and the buzzer beater win by Bard this weekend have impacted our plans for a repeat. But we are 2-1 combined against Ithaca and RPI who look like the lead dogs and Hobart will be very hungry at playoff time.Good luck to Vassar , it should be an entertaining league all the way through the playoffs.

d3d3d3 · January 21, 2025, 09:16:05 PM

Skidmore's first LL win of the season comes at Vassar. Thoroughbreds shoot 62% from the field. Yowza

LLFan23 · January 22, 2025, 10:10:07 AM

Ugly loss for the brewers halts their momentum and makes this upcoming weekend against Bard and Union at home more important if they want to seriously contend this year. Skidmore jumped on a sluggish start for vassar to take an early lead. A late run back from Vassar was snuffed out by timely shot making from Roy and Daphnis who went 4-4 and 2-3 from three on the day respectively. Hard to win games when your opponent shoots 58% from three and score 92 points.