MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[cugrad]

Catholic over Marymount, 91-52.

[spalding77]

UMW 84 SMCM 82

[smcmsid]

Mary Washington  84,  St. Mary's (MD)  82

Great atmosphere and a great college basketball contest.

Sophomore guard Justin Baker posted game-highs for the Eagles with his 25 points and ten rebounds. He also contributed with seven assists. Sophomore forward Jon Pierce added 16 points with sophomore guard Mike Lee scoring 14 and junior guard A.J. Fitzgerald tallying 13 points and eight assists.

Sophomore guard Tyson Lesesne led the Seahawks with 22 points and eight assists. Junior guard Dan Engelstad scored 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field and also dished out five assists. Senior forward Tommy Bushell and junior guard Valdez Preston each added nine points for St. Mary's.

[unreallawns]

Congratulations to Salisbury for beating Shenandoah University 67-62 to move to 5-3 on the season and winning 5 out of the last 6.  Ray Williams was M.V.P. of the tourney.

[unreallawns]

Segun Odumeru led Salisbury with 16 points and Rico Stewart had 12.  Kyle Harmon scored 11 points and pulled in 8 boards.  Onyie Onunaku scored 22 points and had 14 rebounds for Shenandoah and was also named to the all tournament team.

[Matt Letourneau]

It was clearly very unfortunate for Marymount that CUA got upset at Mary Wash in their previous game.  The Cardinals came up with incredible intensity and worked up a 18-4 lead in the first 4 minutes, en route to a 51-18 halftime lead that was as dominant as any half of basketball I've ever seen at any level.  They did it without Shane Sowden, as he picked up two quick follows and left the game less than 3 minutes in and didn't come back until the 2nd half.

Marymount came out of the 2nd half on a 14-0 run of their own to cut the CUA all the way down to 20, but after that it was lights out and CUA went on a 14-3 run of their own to put it away.  The Cardinals ended up getting some good minutes from their young players like Nick Olivero.

Overall, Catholic shot 49% to Marymount's 33%, totally turned things around from 3 with a 9-19 night, and outrebounded Marymount 49-26--they even had twice as many offensive rebounds as Marymount, which is incredible when you consider how much more often MMT missed.

Pat Satalin regained his stroke with 18 points, Fumai had 14 (4-6 from 3), and Sowden had 12 (in 13 minutes).  Stephen Wheeler added 8 points and 8 boards.

Overall, a really nice bounceback win against a team that has historically played well at the DuFour Center.  Marymount has some issues...there is no way they can be as bad as they looked today, but they were totally without discipline and were not playing much as a team.  Let's see if they get it together.

Next game is a fairly tough road game against Fitzgerald and Villa Julie...

[cuainfo]

http://d3hoops.com/releases.php?release=48516

WASHINGTON, — Despite a 33-point halftime lead, Catholic University Coach Steve Howes exhorted his team to play the second half like the score was tied. The No. 19 Cardinals responded in a 91-52 romp over Marymount University in Capital Athletic Conference action at DuFour Center on Saturday.

Pat Satalin totaled 18 points and five assists to lead CUA. Scott Fumai added 14 points, and Shane Sowden 12. Patrick Dwyer contributed 10 points and eight rebounds, and Stephen Wheeler had eight points and eight boards off the bench.

The Cardinals (5-1, 1-1 CAC) put the memory of their 87-73 Wednesday loss at the University Mary Washington behind them quickly by jumping to a 27-8 lead on a Satalin 3-pointer with 11:42 to go in the first half. Fumai, who hit 4 of 6 3-pointers, nailed two on consecutive possessions to put the Cards on top, 39-16.

Trailing 51-18 at halftime, the Saints (2-4, 0-2) scored the first 14 points of the second half to cut the Cardinal lead to 51-32. CUA didn't get on the board until Steven Papageorge hit a free throw with 13:39 to play. That began a 24-6 spurt that put the Cardinals in total control, 76-38, at the 7:26 mark. Sowden, who had six rebounds, a block and a steal, punctuated the run with a three-point play.

Freshman reserve guard Nick Olivero, a starting safety on the CUA football team, hit two 3-pointers and grabbed two rebounds in six minutes of action. Andrew Baker had eight points and four rebounds.

Corey Diamond led Marymount with eight points and four rebounds. Bryant Majors and Pooyan Rahimi had seven points each. The Saints made just 7 of 28 (25 percent) first-half field goals, while the Cardinals were 19 of 36 (52.8 percent). CUA outscored Marymount 40-34 after halftime.

The Cardinals play at Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Md., on Dec. 8 at 8 p.m.

NOTE – Patrick Dwyer's grandfather, Bob Dwyer, celebrated his 90th birthday at the game. The elder Dwyer coached some of the greatest teams in the Washington area at nearby Carroll High School.

[Matt Letourneau]

Wow...Apparently Gallaudet beat Goucher 78-47...

Congrats to Gally, they already have 1 more league win than all of last year.

I know D-Mac says that Goucher is going to fight hard, but...a 31 point loss? How hard could've they fought?

[cugrad]

Catholic looked very good today against a much smaller Marymount team. Matt refers to UMW's victory over the Cards as an upset. I disagree! UMW, led by a very talented Justin Baker, blew the Cards out of the gym. That's no upset! If Catholic is to challenge St. Mary's, York, and UMW, they must do a better job shooting the three and defending the three. Salisbury and Gallaudet will also make some noise in this conference. This year is not going to be a race between Catholic, UMW, and York. The CAC is very competitive. The Cards are going to have to step up if they want to play in the post-season. I hope that they run the table, but that isn't going to happen. Cards, good luck at Villa Julie, and God bless you at Davidson.

[bisonpride]

Matt,

Yeah, Gallaudet did win 78-47 - or refer to Gallaudet Athletics website, "Men's Basketball Crushes Goucher..." - to improving to 5-2 overall record and 2-0 in conference play. The highest lead they had in the game is 38 points in second half before last line of the bench subs in the game with 6 minutes left. All players did play in the game for the Bison.

Not only that they had more league win than last year but highest in past 4 years that I'm aware of, maybe more than 4 years ago. It was one win in each of those last four years. Not only that, but it's great see them to eclipse over 1 conference win in just first two CAC games instead of later in the season. The season isn't over for Gallaudet, they know that they still have long way to go. They know that the celebration haven't begin yet.

There would be highlight story and stats between the Gophers and the Bison posting it up later in the morning. Go Bison!

[bbald eagle]

Mary Washington  84,  St. Mary's (MD)  82

Great atmosphere and a great college basketball contest.

Amen! A real see-saw with MW on top at the buzzer.

[bisonpride]

D-Mac,

Remember your own predictions yesterday..

Now... predictions for tomorrow:
GOU vs. GAL - Gophers win by three. Close and could go both ways, but the Gophers are due for a win.
MMT vs. CUA - Cardinals by 12. Marymount doesn't look good right now, and despite the lose on Wed., the Cards are a good team.
UMW vs. SMC - Eagles by 5. I am very tempted to pick the Seahawks in this game, since they are at home and because of their recent addition. But I am going to take UMW because of their experience.

Guess what??? Goucher by 3? Hmm..

Goucher     -  47
@GU Bison -  78   (Halftime: GU leads 36-23)

GALLAUDET WIN BY 31 POINTS!!! Gallaudet improved it's record to 5-2, 2-0 in conference play and 4-1 record at the Field House. Bottom line of the story is that the Bison defense held CAC leading scorer and CAC Player of the Week, James Russo easily by allow him to have just 9 points (3-15 FG, 3-9 3FG) in whole game. It's more than half below his average of 23.0 ppg. He had 0-6 FG (0-2 3FG) for first half along with a Technical Foul. Jonathan Garritt, their second leading scorer was also held down to 8 points from his season average of 17.7. Again, it's more than half. Several key stats to point out for the outcome of the game was turnovers (GU- 16, Goucher - 27), and assists (GU- 23, Goucher - 9). Gallaudet had 14 offenses and 26 defenses for total of 40 while Goucher only had 6 offenses and 23 defenses for total of 29 rebounds. Bison's stingy defense had 20 steals compare to just 5 by the Gophers. It's enough to be told about tonight's exciting game at Field House to prove D-Mac's big mistake with his prediction. Maybe you meant by 3 for the Gallaudet-Goucher women's game after Goucher won in Dickinson tourney by 4 against Gallaudet women's. Try to be like "Swami" Chris Berman or Dickie V or even Lee Corso? Speak of your predictions, you need some more works along with research on your own predictions and study those analysts. Enough is enough; here are short stats of the game.

Goucher (0-7, 0-2):
Esbrandt - 14 points (11 in 1st Half) on 5-7 FG, 2-3 3FG and 2-2 from FT line
Merritt - 12 points and 9 turnovers
Garritt - 10 rebounds along with 8 points
Russo - 9 points (all in 2nd half) on 3-15 FG (3-9 3FG), and 3 rebounds.

Gallaudet (5-2, 2-0):
Jackson - 18 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and a block in 27 minutes
Haney, Jr. - 14 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 steals in 27 minutes
Eby - 6 assists in 19 minutes

Gallaudet would move on and look forward to next Thursday, December 8th game against Wesley College (DE) at home once again. Gallaudet would look to avenge 69-54 lost last year at Wesley.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Bisonpride - 31 huh... didn't see that in the previous few posts on the game. Don't get too excitied... I did say this game could go either way.

To start with... I 'm not surprised by the result (Bison win), but I am surprised by the spread. My heart was telling me Goucher couldn't start 0-7. However, my brain was saying it was certainly possible the way GAL had been playing recently. Congrats to the Bison on a very good win.

Goucher needs to retool its offense. Sometimes I think I am watching an ugly version of the Grinnel offense. Unfortunetly, Goucher simply has no size inside and Merritt and Martin can't handle the load and pressure. Rumors are that Goucher may improve on that over the break... but I am not betting on it. Goucher has some very good talent (Russo and Garritt for starters)... but are simply going to be overmatched. I still say they will fight to the end, but sometimes they just might not be able to do it night in and night out.

At this point... after the first few games in the conference... here is my prediction of how this season will end.

#1 YCP
#2 CUA
#3 UMW
#4 SMC
#5 SAL
#6 GAL
#7 MMT
#8 GOU

[seahawks]

Hats off to mary wash for a very well played game, justin baker has improved his game tremendously.  They seemed like they didnt miss any three point shots and almost always hit the "big shot" to change the momentum of the game.  Spencer Way fouled out of the game with over 10 minutes to play in the contest on what seemed to be a very, very, questionable technical foul call.  I didnt realize that screaming after a big tip in was completely out of the context of college basketball in a game that was being played that hard and was that exciting.  Refs need to hold thier whistle and not discourage that type of emotion.  Spencer stays in the game we may have seen a different outcome of the game.  But to be fair, Mary Wash deserved the win just as much as the seahawks and which promises to be quite a rematch when mary wash hosts smc.  Salisbury and Gally appear to be wild cards in this tight CAC race and I wouldnt be too surprised to seee Haney and Jackson combine to give coaches headaches late into the season.   

[thebison]

Yooo d-mac and everybody else-

How 'bout that? You put Gally at six to finish off the conference, putting even Salisbury on top of us. That's alright, because we always like being the underdogs. I'm gonna go ahead and be bold here, and say that we're gonna as high as third. With due respect to York and Catholic, we'll do our best to upset our way to the NCAAs. This is gonna be our year.

Anyone who follows Gallaudet basketball knows that the turnover around here is seriously high. How often do we find a four year player who can actually play, and after being plagued by the ball hogging Valencias for several years, we've finally gotten our program on track. This just may be the first time ever we have eight seniors on the same team, and with the addition of some dyanmic freshmen and sophomores we have weapons from all over the floor. This is the first year where the bar is set as high as 15 wins when we've been thrilled to get 8. You can consider the Goucher game a statement game from the Bison, and Haney's buzzer beater, which will forever be known as "The Shot" (or "The Turnover" for Salisbury) is something that shouldn't be considered luck- you have to put us higher, especially when we've already beaten Salisbury (and be we'll be happy to do it again). It's a major confidence booster that's sure to carry with us throughout the season since we've been on the losing end of those shots so many times. I know Gallaudet has a ways to go to earn respect in the CAC or anywhere else, but I'm rather suprised at how little you've given them sofar, considering this is the first time in 10 years we've won two straight CAC games, doing both in respectable fashion and with clear ball distribution. Keeping in mind that we've got former cac ROYs and POYs Haney and Jackson both entering their senior years playing some of the best basketball of their lives. Adding our newest weapon, freshman point guard Jon Mowl, who is averaging 30-plus minutes a game and the ballhandling and court vision we've not had in the past, we're better able to distribute the ball to the duo evenly, and finding more opportunties for the open three than ever.

The lack of respect here is probably because Gallaudet is underrepresented on this board, something I'm willing to remedy. But with all honesty, I don't see the need to do much talking here, because we're going to be doing it on the floor.