MBB: MAC Freedom League

[NEPAFAN]

So is Scranton 1 and done or what?


I like them in (what else?) a close one.


Scranton 63 WP 61

Three pointer by Kirk, Cannon, Arnold (pick one) wins it.

[Knightstalker]

I might go about ten points lower for both teams with WPU's defense.

CJ4L, Jim Brown averaged a hundred yards a game for his entire career, no other running back did it before or since.  He walked away at the peak of his game just as Barry Sanders did.  Jerry Rice is the greatest receiver ever, but lay him out a couple of times in a game and his arms got a little shorter.  Jim Brown usually delievered the hit and then got slowly up and walked back to the huddle and came out and did it again.  Jim Brown would still be considered a big back today, he was as big as most linebackers are now if not bigger.  Sorry but Jim Brown is hands down the best football player ever, for any generation.  Watch some films someday of him, try to find some episodes of the Violent World of Sam Huff when the Giants played the Browns.

[cold_case]

knightstalker,
Patterson this, Patterson that. Baruch with a BIG win over Patterson during the season.
If that's the case, Scranton and Villa Julie shouldn't bother showing up, they're going to get rolled. In fact, with the location of the tourney, fans may get rolled.
You have Patterson made out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Is it great defense or lack of offense, as you said in a prior post?
I remember Scranton playing AT Patterson in the 2000 NCAA's and they never even looked at the basket until 10 seconds were left on the shot clock each trip down the floor.
I also noticed the two Mid-Atlantic Region schools are seeded third and fourth and the tourney is being played at the site of an Atlantic team again. All setup for an Atlantic Final?
Maybe Scranton can knock off Patterson, just like King's took care of a vastly overrated NJAC team in Ramapo a year ago. At Ramapo, of course

[Knightstalker]

CC take a xanex and chill.  With the way PATERSON, note the one T, plays I merely stated that someones predicted total may be ten points lower.  Not Paterson this, Paterson that.  I also recall people asking about William Paterson.  I see them play at least twice a season, I merely provided my observations.  If you chose to be thin skinned about what I post please do not read any further posts from me.  You really need to stop breathing so much coal dust.

[cold_case]

And I thought the Ramapo remark would rile you up.

[NEPAFAN]

And I thought the Ramapo remark would rile you up.

I thought the coal dust comment would rile you up!

Scranton 53
William PATTERSON 51

[Knightstalker]

You have to understand, I went to NJCU and am a Gothic Knight fan.  My first connection to D-III basketball came in the fall of 1975 when my brother was a freshman at the U of S and his room mate was a 6'9 or so drunken center from Long Island named Donald something or other, he drank himself out of school in two years.  But my brother would take me to games when I would visit on weekends.  I believe this is the year that Scranton won it's first title.  My brother then transferred due to financial concerns to William Paterson College and I would continue to go to games when visiting him there.  I actually root for Scranton when the NJAC teams are out of it.  I also follow the MAC loosely because several friends and now their kids have gone on to MAC schools to play football, basketball, baseball or wrestle.

I really don't know much about Scranton, I was unable to see the first game of the season when they defeated NJCU, but I would never go by that game now anyway.

Besides, I HATE Ramapo, almost as much as I hate Rowan.  But when NJCU plays them they are usually great games.

[cold_case]

My first connection to D-III basketball came in the fall of 1975 when my brother was a freshman at the U of S and his room mate was a 6'9 or so drunken center from Long Island named Donald something or other, he drank himself out of school in two years.

First of all, so much for a couple people thinking you were the Ramapo head coach.
Now, on to the fun. The 6-9 center you're talking about that dormed with your brother, Donald. There was a Donald from Long Island that played at Scranton named....drum roll please....Donald Agricola.
I don't know about his drinking habits which drank him out of school, but I do know he flunked himself out of school. Is this the same character?

[Knightstalker]

I believe it is, he flunked out because he was drunk all the time.  He thought it was like high school and all he had to do was attend class and he would pass.  He learned the hard way.

My brothers room mate at WPU was the opposite, he was a baseball player who was in the national guard and working three part time jobs to put himself through school and was on the dean list every semester.  I still think he did it with speed and caffeine.

[Knightstalker]

My first connection to D-III basketball came in the fall of 1975 when my brother was a freshman at the U of S and his room mate was a 6'9 or so drunken center from Long Island named Donald something or other, he drank himself out of school in two years.

First of all, so much for a couple people thinking you were the Ramapo head coach.
Now, on to the fun. The 6-9 center you're talking about that dormed with your brother, Donald. There was a Donald from Long Island that played at Scranton named....drum roll please....Donald Agricola.
I don't know about his drinking habits which drank him out of school, but I do know he flunked himself out of school. Is this the same character?

Coach McBreen will post under his real name.  He usually posts after the season ends to thank his players and the fans for supporting them and will sometimes discuss the season after wards.

[cold_case]

My brothers room mate at WPU was the opposite, he was a baseball player who was in the national guard and working three part time jobs to put himself through school and was on the dean list every semester.  I still think he did it with speed and caffeine.

Well, he certainly didn't get through it with xanax.
So you got to know Ag's, huh? Bessoir used to hollar at this guy all the time. He used to say he was the dumbest player he ever coached. He was kind of clumsy with long (kind of greasy hair) and glasses. Bessoir eventually started calling him "The Cyclops."

[NEPAFAN]

Was he really 6'9? Who is the tallest player to suit up for Scranton?

[Knightstalker]

My brother was 6'5" and Father Rock used to joke that he had over seven feet of boy in that room.

[Knightstalker]

WPU 67 Scranton 43 with about 2:49 left in the game.

[Knightstalker]

I'll post it, but at least they aren't one and out.  I was merely giving an update as no one else was giving them.