MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[ycp]

Live stats for the York - Gallaudet game available here:

http://faculty/%7Esguise/mbb/xlive.htm

The link will go live a few minutes before the scheduled 8 pm tip.

[unreallawns]

I would imagine SU's stats are accurate.  They have more than one person logging them.  Ozi Menakaya has 11 of those blocks.  It says on Gouchers website that they only have 4 blocks.  Aren't they the ones logging their stats.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Actually... Goucher's stats are only kept by their people... when at home games. Stats at away games are compiled by the home team's SID department (if they have a good one ).

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

YCP - link seems bad for the live stats!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Found the problem - here is the link:

http://faculty.ycp.edu/~sguise/mbb/xlive.htm

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

At the half at the Goucher Sports and Recreation Center...

Salisbury 29
Goucher 37

The game started very slowly... SU didn't get thier first points until about the 7 minute mark.

But the half finished like a track meet!

Salisbury is being lead by Ray Williams with 9 points on 2 of 6 shooting
Goucher is being lead by James Russon with 12 points on 5 of 6 shooting

[mwgoonie]

Of course stats that are accummulated slowly through out a season, such as blocks, etc. don't show up well early but again 29 vereus 3 or 4 is big, not within a margin of error. nor is there a margin of error in FT attempts, i imagine those stats are kept accurately, if spelled so. and certainly there will be slumps or a flurry of stats from any number of teams...

[ycpfinal4]

Galludet started slow and York had a big lead at half. Nick Brady was 4/4 from 3pt land and 1/1 from the field.  After half time YCP controlled the pace and maintained a lead.  Up as many as 25 or so.  As I was leaving Galludet cut the lead to 15.  Big Scottie G. over at YCP will have a spectacular complete write up in no time.

[ycp]

Congrats to Spartan head coach Jeff Gamber on his 400th career victory.

He needed only 143 games to reach 400 after his 300th win on November 24, 2001.

[unreallawns]

Big win for SU on the road.  I only caught the last 5 minutes of the game on the radio.  SU is turning out to be a strong 2nd half team.  Protect home court and steal em' on the road.  Congrats SU!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Final from the Goucher Sports and Recreation Center:

Salisbury 73
Goucher 67

Salisbury is now 6-2, 2-0 and Goucher is 3-4, 1-2.

Not a very pretty game... very chaotic and tons of turnovers (31 total at the half).

Salisbury is a very good team... but they have a tendency to play to their competition. That's great when the teams are very good (i.e. York and Virginia Wesleyan), but it might bite them against teams like Gallaudet, St. Mary's, and Hood.

Ray Williams had a pretty good game... but the Seagulls star tonight was Frank Gerald.

Goucher travels to Marymount on Saturday... no more games at the SRC until mid-January!

[Matt Letourneau]

In what could be Catholic's last game at the Verizon Center, it was same old Marymount.

Catholic 68, Marymount 55.

This was as ugly a game as you will ever see, and not just because neither team played all that well.  It was one of the worst displays of sportsmanship--even by Marymount standards--in this rivarly, at least at their own gym.  I just can't believe that year after year this continues.

Marymount had 3 technical fouls, and an intentional foul called, one tech by Bryant Majors for shoving Wasilenko (twice), and two by Scott McClarly.  The first one was in the first half, when he thought that a foul that was called on Fred Stanback was actually on somebody else, the second one in the second half, when it was a 6 point game, and frankly I have no clue what he was even arguing.  He was ejected.  From that point, it was ugly.  REALLY ugly.  Clawing, grabbing, blows to the head, you name it.   Fumai got smacked in the face, Wheeler got a bloody lip, etc.  And this contact was not incidental.  There actually should have been a few more intentional's called anyway. 

So, as a result, Catholic ended up shooting 38 free throws--33 of them in the second half.   When McClarly was ejected, Catholic was up 48-42, and looked to be pulling away, but nevertheless, Marymount was IN the game.  They had the lead at halftime, were playing tough defense, Catholic had been cold (though they were starting to heat up).  There was no reason to lose composure and get tossed.  And what happens is that the team followed the coach's lead and just totally tanked, stopping playing defense and started playing hockey.

Scott Fumai led the Cardinals with 21 points.  Catholic scored just 20 points in the first half, but shot 50% in the second half.   Wheeler had 10, I think all of them were in the second half also.   Majors led Marymount with 18.  He's a good shooter.

Frankly, Marymount's just not all that good anyway.  They've got absolutely no inside game whatsoever.  A few guys that have, shall we say, width, but not height, and no moves.  They're athletic like they always are, and can catch you napping on dribble penetration.   Other than that---I don't even know how they beat St. Mary's.

But anyway, I just don't get it...you'd think one of these years the AD would wake up and fix that program.   The Cardinals will take the win in their gym--ALWAYS tough--and move on. 

And by the way--I'm getting a kick out of the hyperbole some of these schools put out there.  This is in McClarly's bio:
"McClary and his staff have now landed three recruiting classes ranked among the top of Division III."

REALLY? By who? And what happened? If that was true, then they must suck as coaches because they aren't getting results.

[ex_mu14]

Cu defeated Mu by 12 points. Mu was winning most of the game until the last six minutes of the game. Then everything blew up for Mu, starting with the coach being ejected.  Five minutes left in the game and Mu down by six the head coach picked up his second tech. After the free throws, Mu fouled a Cu player on the inbound pass. The Mu player loses control and picks up a tech. A couple minutes later MU picks up an intentional foul. Therefore Cu is up by 12 without any time coming off the game clock....Then Cu #21 goes to the free throw line for two shots. He missed the first shot then Cu subs a player off the bench to shoot the second free throw.  I think that's a questionable move but I'm upset about how MU lost their cool....

I know Matt probably will post about Mu acting like thugs but i blame this lost on the head coach. You do not get ejected when your team is only down six points with five minutes to go. This had to be the worst coached game in the history of Mu basketball.. You have Cu on the ropes and you let them off by losing your cool.  Then the assistant coaches could not calm the team down after the head coach was ejected.  They called a time out during a free throw to sub a player in and for a players only meeting...

[ex_mu14]

i knew it........haha

[Matt Letourneau]

Well, 14, if you read what I say though, I think its pretty clear that I put the blame the same place you do:
"There was no reason to lose composure and get tossed.  And what happens is that the team followed the coach's lead and just totally tanked, stopping playing defense and started playing hockey."

The team followed their coach's lead.   I agree with you 100%.  Catholic most likely would have won the game anyway, because that's the way it was trending, but you CANNOT pick up another tech there.  You just can't, and I agree that it completely blew the game up.  The players do have to take some responsiblity--I'm sick of excuses.  They had to know better than that even with McClarly gone.  But even so, if you know your team and how they react, then you should know you can't let that happen.

On the Wheeler sub, he should not have ever been made to take that free throw.  He was literally dripping blood.  He took one free threw, missed it, the CUA bench was point at the blood the whole time, and finally the ref went over, looked, and ordered him off the court as is the rule.  He did need treatment on the bench. 

On that time out, they may have intended just to sub, but they didn't tell the ref and actually huddled for about 20 seconds, THEN decided to sub and role.  The timeout was called on the Marymount end of the court, and Catholic had barely even settled into their huddle before Marymount tried to end the timeout.  The officials never should have let Marymount back on the court anyway, but one of them did, and then eventually was overuled because at least somebody knew the rules.