MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[dayv4life]

Anyone who wants to listen to the York vs. Mary Washington Men's and Women's games can get them on www.wvyc.org and the streaming FM audio. im not positive if you have to have real player or not, but it helps to make it easier.

girls tip at 2, guys tip at 4.

[Matt Letourneau]

Big game for Gallaudet vs. Catholic today.....

Seems like you pro-CUA folks are taking Gally for granted....don't be surprised if they come up and give you Cardinals a fine whipping. 

Gally this year reminds me of Texas Tech a few seasons ago.  They have a crazy coach.  They are having one of their best years with the help of a weak schedule.  But when it comes to big important games, they fold.

I can only recall Gally beating CUA at home once.  I believe that was a playoff game (am I wrong there)?  I can recall this because some friends of mine attended to that game and overheard some of the Catholic football players getting upset.  Something like this "...phucking deaf people, just wait for football and we'll kick their a$$".   Sure enough that following fall, I opened up the Washington Post and see a score of 72-0 or so.  I don't think Gallaudet and Catholic vs. each other again after that.  So if the basketball team really cherish their "new improved" football team, they probably should roll over so that Catholic football team won't take it out on theirs'.

Then again...it just maybe Gallaudet is that good and gonna beat CUA this afternoon...

Hopefully I'll be able to pick up the game on the radio

Well #1, Gally hasn't beaten Catholic  (until last month) for over a decade, so whatever you're referring to must have happened a LONG time ago.  I'll see if I can find out exactly when the last time Gally beat CUA at home was.

#2-Nobody is taking Gally for ganted, seeing how we lost to them earlier in the season!  What we've been talking about is seeding for the CAC playoffs.  It turns out that the CUA-Gally game today is completely meaningless in terms of league standings.  It has no affect on seeding--the outcome of the Mary Washington-York game will determine whether or not Catholic gets the #2 seed regardless of whether Catholic wins today. 

Now, that being said, its senior day at DuFour, so some of us at least expect our seniors to step it up and have a much better game today.  Keep in mind, when you saw Catholic at Gally, they had their 2nd worst game of the season (at the time it was their worse), they got themselves in a mountain of foul trouble (all 3 big guys sitting for big minutes including a large portion of the 1st half), and nobody could hit a shot.  And it was still a very close game.

But don't go feeling all disrespected, nobody's disrespect Gallaudet in the Catholic corner.

EDIT: Let me be clear---this is NOT a meaningless game for Catholic, because if they want to remain alive for an at-large bid,  they've got to win.  And that is by far their best route into the tournament at this point--so in fact its a very meaningful game, I was just referring to discussion on the board the last few days, which has centered around important games for the league seedng.

[Pat Coleman]

The Anthony Jones-led Bison came into the DuFour as the No. 5 seed in 1994 and did beat the No. 4 seed Cardinals 87-74 in the CAC quarterfinals. Catholic finished 9-16 that year.

Indeed, Catholic did beat Gallaudet 66-0 in football that fall, the last time the teams have met. If I recall, Tom Clark didn't want to play that game, but CUA's president made them fulfill the contract.

[mwgoonie]

Update from the goolrick?

the web cast isnt working to well. bush league stuff.

[mwcsid]

You don't wanna know.

YCP 47, UMW 25 at the half. Fass 18 pts (mostly layups off O boards)...

[mwgoonie]

Ouch...

[dayv4life]

At WVYC, we've been having technical difficulties with our remote broadcasting equipment. Despite our attempts at remedying the situation, we were unable to address our problems in a way that we felt ensured the quality of the broadcast.
We can ensure everyone that we will be up and running from Wolf Gymnasium both on the airwaves and the Internet for the Spartans first round game on Tuesday.

[Akela15]

WVYC is weak.  Come on Dayvlife4 how am I suppose to listen to the game up here in York if you cant get your equipment to work.  Anyone have any updates from the game?

[ycp]

Final from Mary Washington...

York 88-Mary Washington 75

The Spartans win a regular season school record 23rd game.

Game Box
http://www.ycp.edu/sports/mens_basketball/2005/YCPMBB25.HTM

The Dallastown duo of Chad McGowan and Kenny Fass lead the Spartans with 28 and 24 points respectively.

[Matt Letourneau]

Catholic 72, Gallaudet 64.

Details later...good game, both teams played well, Cardinals never trailed after the first few minutes.

[Matt Letourneau]

Catholic played a great team game on offense today--19 assists on 23 baskets (compared to Gally's 6 on 22). They shot 47% to Gallaudet's 39%.  The problem for Catholic was 22 turnovers.

Player of the game on the Catholic end was Mike Waslienko--14 points and a remarkable 12 assists. Satalin had 11 points on some big 3's in the first half.  The CUA big guys not really got going, with the exception of Josh Mish who was rather electrifying off the bench...8 points in 11 minutes on some great hustle plays.  On the other hand, they played great defense on Haney and Jackson who had subpar games even though they got their points--17 for Haney, but on 5-17 shooting, and 16 for Jackson on 6-16. 

The standout for Gally was PG Jon Mowl--7-9, 18 points.  Played really solid on offense, but his defense was rather suspect--he commited some really dumb fouls.  So did Brad Miller.

On senior night, Matt Spirenberg also contributed with 6 points and 5 rebounds in 8 minutes.

So, overall, a good game, good atmosphere.  Lots of Gallaudet fans.  I'll leave it at that...

Catholic captures the #2 seed in the conference with York's win, and will host St. Mary's Tuesday night.

I see that Goucher won again, doing their part to get out of the York trip, but St. Mary's didn't cooperate.  Salisbury losing is certainly a bit of an upset.

So, the matchups are set at #1 York vs. #8 Goucher,  #2 Cathoilc vs. #7 St. Mary's, #3 Mary Washington vs. #6 Marymount, #4 Gallaudet vs. #5 Salisbury. 

Congrats on Gally on hosting a game...that's going to be a tough one for Salisbury. 

[Matt Letourneau]

More good news for Catholic's at large hopes, as Johns Hopkins dropped its third straight.  Hopkins was ahead of Catholic in last week's regional rankings.

Urisnus also lost today, giving them an identical regional record to Catholic's. Urisnus was also ahead of the Cardinals. 

If Catholic can make it to the Championship game, they've got a real shot at a Pool C bid.  But, of course, they have to take care of business.

[BisonKiller]

Catholic played a great team game on offense today--19 assists on 23 baskets (compared to Gally's 6 on 22). They shot 47% to Gallaudet's 39%.  The problem for Catholic was 22 turnovers.

Player of the game on the Catholic end was Mike Waslienko--14 points and a remarkable 12 assists. Satalin had 11 points on some big 3's in the first half.  The CUA big guys not really got going, with the exception of Josh Mish who was rather electrifying off the bench...8 points in 11 minutes on some great hustle plays.  On the other hand, they played great defense on Haney and Jackson who had subpar games even though they got their points--17 for Haney, but on 5-17 shooting, and 16 for Jackson on 6-16. 

The standout for Gally was PG Jon Mowl--7-9, 18 points.  Played really solid on offense, but his defense was rather suspect--he commited some really dumb fouls.  So did Brad Miller.

On senior night, Matt Spirenberg also contributed with 6 points and 5 rebounds in 8 minutes.

So, overall, a good game, good atmosphere.  Lots of Gallaudet fans.  I'll leave it at that...

Catholic captures the #2 seed in the conference with York's win, and will host St. Mary's Tuesday night.

I see that Goucher won again, doing their part to get out of the York trip, but St. Mary's didn't cooperate.  Salisbury losing is certainly a bit of an upset.

So, the matchups are set at #1 York vs. #8 Goucher,  #2 Cathoilc vs. #7 St. Mary's, #3 Mary Washington vs. #6 Marymount, #4 Gallaudet vs. #5 Salisbury. 

Congrats on Gally on hosting a game...that's going to be a tough one for Salisbury. 

I was at the game...A friend of mine came down to visit.  I told him that theres this deaf team playing today vs Catholic and wanted to know if he was interested in seeing them play.  So off we go to DuFour Center...

The last time I was at DuFour was about 10-11 years ago.  Dematha was playing....and boy....I've never seen such a discplined team.  That team really kicked a$$!!!!

About the game....

I get there and the score was 8-3 in Gallaudet favor.  Hmmm....maybe Catholic are resting their players and let Gallaudet win the game...

Nope...Catholic goes on a major run to be up by 10 or so and never looked back....

The Cardinals had Gallaudet alllllll figured out.  And I wonder if other CAC teams do too.  Here is what I saw:

Every time Gallaudet went "zone" defense, its a bunch of passes and then boom a 3 pointer.  You can see those guards slowly becoming more open at each pass.  It was just a matter of time before they fire one.

Every time Gallaudet went "man to man", Catholic takes it in the middle for a cute lay up by one of their big men.

It was pretty much this way allll afternoon...  Catholic really had a major height advantage.  This is what Gallaudet's problem is (except for the Mike Kent era).  They have no "HEIGHT".   They have a bunch of great "leapers" but just done have those big boys to take up space and "hop" for easy rebounds.

Gallaudet was also playing the game of "rebounding is boring, lets just take turns shooting".  If Gallaudet want to do well in CAC they need to start blocking.  Every time there was a missed shot, theres no one around to crash the boards.  I believe their point guard Mowl had the most rebounds.  That boy is pretty aggressive.

Speaking of Mowl....The boy is very good....but he is very raw.  Matt is right about some silly fouls...give him a year or two to tweak a few things.

Luther is too skinny....needs to hit the weight room in two weeks unless Gallaudet pulls a major upset over York and then MW.  Gallaudet doesnt test their players for drugs so he can do a few cycles.

Speaking of fouls....referees suck!!!!  ohhhhh have mercy....terrible calls on both ends.  At the end of the game, the first thing my friend said was that the referees sucked.  No wonder Gallaudet's fans went ape sh1t.

Speaking of Gallaudet's fans...they were loud...they acted a little retarded...BUT...its a big game for them and their program.  I believe Duke and UMD fans are 50x worse so.....

Sorry to be blunt here but Haney was terrible.  From my point of view, I think he went 7 for 60 or so.  Trying to pull a "Kobe Bryant"...  Need to learn to trust and have faith in Frank Jackson, Mowl, and Luther a little more.

[Akela15]

Ok, maybe WVYC isnt weak, but Dayv4life is weak.  I actually listen to WVYC everytime I can get to the homes games.  Keep up the good work guys.

[Matt Letourneau]

Good analysis, Killer...

Anytime you have 6 assists for the whole game, you're not playing team basketball, and that was Gally's problem--no real ball movement, only Haney and Jackson free-lancing.  Those guys are good, but they aren't THAT good, and I don't think that Haney is 100% in terms of health.  And Haney got to the line a lot, I thought he was leading with his elbow and creating space through push offs, but that wasn't going to get called, so more power to him.  I guess when you're a talented senior...

Mowls is going to be very good, certainly.  Whoever said that he was the big difference for Gally this year is right.  Most teams don't have the height Catholic has, so Gally's lack of height was a little more pronounced.