MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[cuabigdog]

For all those in the Wash. Metro area .. very good article on CUA in todays Washington Post.. Good Luck tonight  vs Lincoln.. They seem to be a very strong team with very good outside shooting.. CUA has to control the pace of the game ... Made Free Throws and Low Turnovers are the key.. Games are won and lost at the line ..

GO CARDS !!!

[Matt Letourneau]

Thanks for the heads up BigDog...and with the magic of the internet, everybody can read it!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030202149.html

[MuMu]

Matt,
Rick Van Pelt of Messiah a great coach that's a great win! let's shift gears to Lincoln we played them my Senior year, the coach has no class and either does his player's look out. Hopefully the CUA bigs Head fake all game. Smash them talk about Thugz. After the game the coach took his team and did not even shake hands.

[njlincolnlion]

MuMu:

And you're talking about the Lincoln Coach and players not having any class, re-read your post and talk about class.  Stop hating on the past and get over it.

[njlincolnlion]

Matt:

Thanks for the Washington Post link.  It was a very good article.

[cuabigdog]

FINAL SCORE: #1 Vermont 81, #8 Hartford 62 - Box Score
BOSTON, Mass. – The reigning America East Fans' Choice Player of the Year Mike Trimboli (Norwalk, Conn.) paced a balanced attack with 21 points as the #1 seed University of Vermont men's basketball team defeated eighth-seeded Hartford 81-62 in the America East Championship Quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon at Agganis Arena. The Catamounts will play the winner of the #4 Maine/#5 UMBC contest on Sunday at noon in the semifinals

congratulations to Coach Lonergan and good luck in the semi's

p.s. does anyone know what a catamount is ??

[Matt Letourneau]

Type of mountain lion, I think.

What's the story on that southbender? I hadn't really heard. 

I will say that Catholic has had some problems with adult York fans in PA (really ugly racial language in particular), but never with coaches or players, or really even students.  Certainly never on the road.

[bbsquared]

Let's see, a common element in the tourney is an inside presence, kicking out for the occasional three leads to success. Let's hope we will see that in Goolrick next year! Good luck CUA, make the CAC proud.

[Pat Coleman]

Talk about no class.....

Any reason we should believe you? Got some proof or backup you want to share?

[Salem, VA]

did catholic lose to lincoln?

[njlincolnlion]

Lincoln defeats Catholic 81-70.  Pat Coleman did an excellent job broadcasting. 

I got in late and only heard the last two minutes, and was not happy with the intentional Lincoln foul by Wooten with the game already in hand.  It's those types of mistakes that can cost teams in close games. 

Congratulations to the Lions as they move onto the sweet sixteen for the 2nd consectutive season.

[Matt Letourneau]

Pat, yeah, after what I saw tonight, I think there is.

I'll post up later...thoughts on the game and Lincoln.  I'll say right off the bat that they were deserving winners and very talented.  I'll also say that they can keep winning from now to Salem, but they're never going to be champions.  You don't take 3's up double digits in the last 2:00, you don't commit a body slam/horsecollar intentional foul with 11 seconds to go, and when you get the ball back with 6 seconds left, you don't attempt an reverse slam dunk (only consolation being that he missed it).

Champions don't do that.  Learn how to win, Lincoln, you're embarrasing yourselves. Nobody is going to respect a team that does that. 

In a little bit I'll post some more positive thoughts on their actual game (impressive, which is what makes their ridiculous behavior at the end of it a shame) and the hard fought effort by the Cardinals tonight.

[Pat Coleman]

I will say this -- because of my unique position on the floor at the end of the game, I saw both exchanges between Howes and Yuille at the end of the game. The handshake was a brushoff. As Yuille finished the handshake line, I grabbed him for the postgame interview on NCAASports.com. As Howes came back from the other end, Yuille excused himself from the interview to go apologize.

[Matt Letourneau]

Well, it was a good game tonight at DuFour.  At the end of the day, Lincoln just had too much talent.  Those guys really aren't a D-3 school in terms of ability, which mostly showed up in jump shooting.  Whenever they couldn't get anything offensively, they had the ability to rise up and hit jump shots even when they were well defended.

Catholic came out fairly strong, and it was a close first half with Lincoln up 5.  The Lions jumped out of the gate fast in the second half and built a 9 point lead, but Catholic clawed back using a Jeff Sparrow 3 to get it to 51-51.  At that point, the building was rocking and the Cardinals had all the momentum.  And then boom...Kenyon Johnson hit a ridiculous 3 point show that had to be at least 28 feet.  Even more ridiculous was the fact that he did the exact same thing next position.  (And then of course he got greedy and tried a third and missed).  But those two shots are what won the game for Lincoln.  You can't defend that.

At that point, Lincoln took off, went on a big run and put the game away.  Catholic did make up a little ground in the last few minutes, mostly because Lincoln is perhaps the most obnoxious team I've seen and didn't know when to stop fouling and letting the game run out.  

As far as where they go--if anybody can hang with them until the last few minutes, I have no doubt they'll lose.  They have great ability, good quickness.  Interior defense is weak, but they are an offensive juggernaut.  But they don't play smart, and even worse, they showboat.  They tried three alley-oops tonight and missed all of them.  They missed two other dunks besides that.  As good as their jump shooting was, they push it a little too far and miss.  They got by Catholic on ability tonight, but they are the type of team that will beat itself.

For Catholic, Wheeler and Olivero had 18, while Dwyer had 12.   Scott Fumai had a really tough night--he was very well defended all night--and had just 5.   White had 15 for Lincoln, other than that they distributed evenly.  

Frankly, considering Lincoln's depth and speed, I was pleased that Catholic hung with them.  CUA won the turnover battle but got badly outrebounding--I would have guess that it would go the other way.

It will be interesting to see how Lincoln fears--I'd be surprised if they got past VWU.

[Pat Coleman]

Pat, yeah, after what I saw tonight, I think there is.

This is related to southbend's post about another CAC team?