Empire 8

[fisheralum91]

So - is it going to be broadcast?

In other develpoments from Utica- IT beat Potsdam- am I living in some weird twilight zone episode?

[superman57]

in case any one was wondering they will be clearing the gym in between the tourny's. IE if you pay for the womens game you get two women's games, but not the mens

[gobombers15]

in case any one was wondering they will be clearing the gym in between the tourny's. IE if you pay for the womens game you get two women's games, but not the mens

My understanding was that the women's semis are Friday night. The men's semis are Saturday afternoon at 12 and 2:20 (approx) with the women's final on Saturday night at 8pm, the gym being cleared between the two sessions. The men's final being Sunday afternoon.

That's what was on the IC website earlier this week.

[gobombers15]

My mistake, apparently the men are playing their semi-finals on Friday and the championship on Saturday night. The women play their semis on Saturday afternoon with the final Sunday afternoon.

I have to think this is a financially motivated move to put the women during the day with the men in prime-time. Not saying I necessarily disagree with it but I would never raise the topic before a feminist.

[fisheralum91]

It's all about the money!

[superman57]

Women's Basketball

Friday

No. 4 Ithaca vs. No. 1 Fisher, 1:30 p.m.

No. 3 Utica vs. No. 2 Elmira, 3:30 p.m.



Men's Basketball

Friday

No. 4 R.I.T. vs. No. 1 Fisher, 6:30 p.m.

No. 3 Ithaca vs. No. 2 Utica, 8:30 p.m.



Saturday

Women's Championship – 4 p.m.

Men's Championship – 7 p.m.





Admission to each of Friday's doubleheaders, as well as each championship game, is $5 for adults and $3 for students with valid ID. 

The gym will be cleared after Friday's 3:30 game and after the women's championship game and a new ticket must be purchased for the men's games.

[fisheralum91]

Fisher didn't get the prime time game?
WOW!
That is a big shock to me.

[bamm]

To allow time for IC and UC fans to get to Rochester?  Makes sense to me.

[col]

GB, I'm a feminist.

[fisheralum91]

Sense for travel- yes.
But I have a bias.
My team won the league, they have home court-
PRIME TIME should be included!

[gobombers15]

Of course you are, Col. Anyone whose favorite game is called "Holey Boards" is obviously a feminist.

[gobombers15]

Superman, are you absolutely sure of that? Ithaca's website has the women playing Saturday afternoon and the men playing Friday night.

The utter clusterf___ that would be the logistics that Friday in Fisher's gym if all four games were there, would be off the charts. Would there be any way to accomodate 8 teams that were coming and going as the day went on? Also, by NCAA rule, I think the host team must allow all visitors (including the ones they aren't playing) to have the opportunity to participate in a shootaround at the venue prior to the game. There's no way that could happen if this is the case.

Also, it would make no sense to schedule games during the day on Friday. First, for some schools it's a midterm week. Second, nobody would go to the games because everyone would be at work or at school. Unless the E8 has absolutely no desire to earn any income off this tournament, I'm pretty sure there's no Friday afternoon games.

See my post about what I think the schedule is.

[fisheralum03]

according to the Fisher Website, which probably would be the best one to look at since they are hosting both tournaments, it would be correct that the women's games would be at 1:30 and 3:30 (or 20 min after the Fisher vs Ithaca game ends) and then would clear the gym and the men's games would start at 6:30 with Fisher vs RIT and then 20 min after that ends, Utica vs Ithaca.

[superman57]

That is the email that I recived from the Athletic Department

[AUPepBand]

Looking at everyone's rankings I can't help but notice that, with some minor variations, the league has looked almost exactly the same for the last 7-8 years.  It really seems to break into four groups.

3. Alfred: Had some great talent about 5 years ago (Downing/Docteur/guy that wore Cow Suit and heckled me) but unnoteworthy since. PS-Cow suit guy actually made me laugh, at myself, during a game.  He was the funniest heckler of all time.

I know there may be some disagreement on the board.  Perhaps some will think a team or two should be a spot higher or lower.  Aside from that, why does the league always break out this way? Is it recruiting?  coaching? (which I don't think has changed in that time period) or just general dedication to men's hoops in the respective athletic departments?

I have my own theories but I am curious to hear what you guys think first since I generally just follow IC.

The Cow Suit guy is a good friend of AUPepBand....was a reserve running back on the AU football team who teamed with a few other "clowns" as the "Saxon Sillies." He was an education major who now substitute teaches but worked into a decent job with Bose. The Saxon Sillies' purpose was to have fun and to be a distraction to the opponents. Apparently, he had your number, Jose. He used to perform an utterly provocative dance during timeouts. Attended the Cow Suit guy's graduation party and was happy to give him a black and white cow pillow.

I miss those Saxon Sillies!

As for ranking of Alfred....it's been said many times on this board that AU suffers from poor coaching. Recruiting is so-so as well, although AU was fortunate to pick up Q (Alfred State grad who missed the move to greener pastures) and Stein, who was heartily recruited. Seemed this year, coaches were happy with status quo...didn't want to change anything from last year. So, AU didn't have any better results....13-12 in 2004-05, 12-13 in 2005-06.