MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[Matt Letourneau]

Salisbury will be the team to beat imo.  They have 2 4 year gaurds, 2 fresh faces who have been contributing, and the most improved player in the league in ozi menakaya.  With decent bench play, they will be hard to beat on any given night.  The only way they should lose a game in conference this year is if they lose it themselves.  Hands down best team in the league.  4th year with the creighton offense and it is finally paying off. 8)

No way are they "hands down" anything.  They are a good team that is going to be hard to beat.  But the same thing could be said for Mary Washington, and despite the slip up against Goucher, its also true for Catholic.  Way too early to tell.

[Pat Coleman]

Matt - a couple of thoughts that you made that I had to reply to because they were either very interesting... or funny.

Catholic panicked, got flustered and frustrated. 

Very interesting... and could be the Cardinals achilles (sp?) heal all season.

You nailed achilles but blew "heel" there.

[mwgoonie]

Echoing Matt's comment, manofgor just described a good number of team in the CAC much less all of D3. Conference play is just getting under way, let's get the first meetings out of the way before we start seeing the true nature of these teams. Injuries, poor play, and tough games will show us the "team to beat".

Go Eagles.

[ex_mu14]

As long as coach Finney and his wife are in charge of the athletic dept, you will never find anything out about the men's program. The men's program is second when it comes to basketball at marymount.  I wouldnt be surprised if Finney is running both programs.. It would be nice if they could at least update the men's web page. That the same web page from when i played in 1998-02.

[TheGrove]

- Marymount, who knows... we would know a lot more if their SID office paid attention to the men's team as much as the women's team.

Haha - good luck on that.

[manofgor24]

I admit I may have gotten ahead of myself.  I forget that Peirce is still at umw and lee, baker, and fitz are a solid supporting cast with much experience.  I must say that i am biased towards the bury and some comments may reflect this.  As we all know, the top 4 teams in the league may be competing for the title this year.....and that will make for an exciting year.

[Matt Letourneau]

Matt - a couple of thoughts that you made that I had to reply to because they were either very interesting... or funny.

Catholic panicked, got flustered and frustrated. 

Very interesting... and could be the Cardinals achilles (sp?) heal all season.

You nailed achilles but blew "heel" there.

Just for the record--it looks like I wrote that from the way its positioned, but it was actually D-Mac's typo!

Manofgor, of course when you watch one team (not to mention root for that team), you tend to see all of their strengths and have a hard time picture them being beat, but of course that is true for some of the teams in the league also, which you seem to realize.  We all do have our biases.  Over the years I've tried to do a better job evaluating other teams and being realistic about everyone's chances.   Its hard because if you follow one team exclusively, you only tend to see the other teams in the league twice, and everybody can have a bad game on occassion.   Still, the internet makes it a lot easier to at least get some sense of what's going on with various other players and can confirm impressions made in person.

BIG game for CUA at Marymount Wed.  One thing about Catholic is that you usually get everybody else's best show.  Nowhere is that more true than at Marymount.  Regardless of the kind of year the Saints have, they always play the Cardinals tough.  Coming off of a disappointing loss, it will be interesting to see how CUA reponds.

One thing that was lost (briefly mentioned by Bison) was the shot that Sean Stolzenthaler hit at the buzzer before halftime.  He was pretty much on the ground, facing away from the CU basketball somewhere between midcourt and the Goucher 3 point line--so I'd say he was about 2/3rds a court away from the basket.   With around one second left, he chucked it up there....and swish!

I've been to a LOT of basketball games, everything from NBA to high school  I've NEVER seen somebody hit one of those before.  It was incredible.

[Pat Coleman]

Matt - a couple of thoughts that you made that I had to reply to because they were either very interesting... or funny.

Catholic panicked, got flustered and frustrated. 

Very interesting... and could be the Cardinals achilles (sp?) heal all season.

You nailed achilles but blew "heel" there.

Just for the record--it looks like I wrote that from the way its positioned, but it was actually D-Mac's typo!

I think people know how to read the quotes.

[mwgoonie]

depends on where they went to school....

[Matt Letourneau]

Well, hell, I went to the same school as Pat, and it confused me. 

[kitchenrat]

A tip of the cap to Chad McGowan and Kristen Daly for picking up CAC Player of the Week honors. I think we may end up seeing more big numbers out of Chad as the team continues to gel around him. The rebound numbers will be high as long as the shooting percentage stays were it is, and he is just going to keep taking the ball to the bucket for big point totals. 

[kitchenrat]

Most York fans know by now that Coach Gamber is on the verge of his 400th career win. But for those of you who didn't have as much time to kill at your desk today, I just wanted to hip you to one other milestone on the horizon. Chad McGowan has 954 points going into tomorrow night's game, which will be his 68th. So he may reach the 1000 mark as soon as the next three games, which are all at home (5/6 Gally 5/8 UMW, and 5/12 Juniata).

[mwgoonie]

No game tonight for the Eagles but you can bet they're gearing up for McGowan and Co this Friday. CAC GOW (Game of the Week) easily. Early predictions?

[mwgoonie]

Just some interesting stats that'll shed some light on the teams this year:
1. UMW leads the league in scoring margin +7.8
2. Catholic shoots 38% from the floor but leads the league at 174 times to the line and a FT% at 69% (Matt. L)
interesting become UMW has only gone to the line 62 times!!!
3. Salisbury has 9 times as many blocks as Goucher does (29 to 3)
4. UMW averages 14 3pt FGM per game.....per game!
5. McGowan grabs 9.0 def. rebs a game.....amongst other things

yup.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Just some interesting stats that'll shed some light on the teams this year:
1. UMW leads the league in scoring margin +7.8
2. Catholic shoots 38% from the floor but leads the league at 174 times to the line and a FT% at 69% (Matt. L)
interesting become UMW has only gone to the line 62 times!!!
3. Salisbury has 9 times as many blocks as Goucher does (29 to 3)
4. UMW averages 14 3pt FGM per game.....per game!
5. McGowan grabs 9.0 def. rebs a game.....amongst other things

After watching Salisbury a few times this season (and again, I will tonight)... I wonder how much those "stats" are tainted by those who don't know stats. That being said, I am a little surprised by the "3" for Goucher. They are not a huge blocking team, but what are the chances people don't know stats in those games either (of course, only two Goucher games have been away - and I know the Goucher crew knows their stats .

Anyway... just trying to point out that in an early season... while those stats above are interesting... some can be twisted.

I will be at the Goucher/Salisbury game tonight - as I am at all Goucher home games. I will make sure to constantly keep the score updated through the scoreboard. You can also listen to the game via Goucher College Radio, if you choose.