Empire 8

[superman57]

The First Fisher ticket to the dance is punched as the women massacare Elmira 87-57.  Ending with PK getting a bath from the water bottles.  Hartmen was huge with 23 and 11 and Baum with 16.  the game was never close

[clearconceit]

Sorry to upset Suny people but this year the E-8 has the better teams and I believe Utica is better than both of these teams.

Time will tell.

Peace

[gobombers15]

Fisher out to a 20-7 lead with 12 minutes left in the first half. You have to hand it to Fisher how they just come out and pummel teams that seem to be their closest challenger. Last year it was RIT and this year Utica. I'm out for a bit, hopefully the game gets a bit closer.

[thebear]

Unfortunately facts would suggest otherwise.

Feb 7, 2006

@ Oswego

Oswego 63 Utica 49

Had Utica won that game, they would have still been in strong contention for a pool C bid.  With Oswego's record, that was a 13, possibly 15 point win, and Utica knew it.

Oswego's two losses since then were to the 5 & 6 seeds in the SUNYAC.

I like Utica, they have good players and a great coach, but they would be 10-6 or so playing in the SUNYAC.

[Javaman]

Fisher is winning 35-25 at halftime against Utica. Fisher is playing well.

[hawks1323]

Hartwick
Empire 8
Champions!!!!!






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Post-Season Wrap Up will follow within the 72 hours

[hawks1323]

Sorry for the large type. I am growing blind and Dislexsic in old age.

Fisher
Empire 8
Champions!!!!!!!

Pat Coleman, please delete my previous post as I accidentally hit the post button. Thanks!

[superman57]

Game was never with in less than 8, Props to Utica for not folding and keeping it some what tight,  But you can't win if you don't hit your shots.  Refs were whistle happy and Fisher was in some serious foul trouble.  There was also a small group of annoying Utica students that had inapropiate signs, so they got taken away, they then went and started complaing that Fisher had their senior poster hanging on the wall.  The poster than got taken down.  Fisher is going back to the dance

[jbl2006]

This is in response to (Tigerfan2 and Reggieball22) below you will see the statement that i was replying to.  This gentlemen was expressing his opinion that he thought Fisher and Utica were the best two teams in the region, and i replied by stating that i thought Oswego State and Cortland state were both better than Utica, but not Fisher. Now if that makes me an idiot (Oswego did beat up on Utica) and Cortland was the ranked #2 in the region until this past weekend) then so be it. It's not like my statements are off the wall or anything. But i explained below, hope you can understand now. 

(clearconceit, utica is not a better team than Cortland or Oswego State for that matter. St Johns Fisher yes, (AS IN YES THEY ARE BETTER) but not Cstate or O-state(AS IN NOT BETTER THAN C-STATE OR O-STATE), as witnessed by O-states MANHANDLING OF THEM IN THEIR HEAD TO HEAD MATCH-UP.


(As for tomorrow this is what everybody wanted, it is clearly the 2 best teams in the league - and it just may be the two best teams in the region)

[gobombers15]

Congrats to Fisher. To put it simply,they were the class of the league all season long. There was never a question.

Congrats to Utica, as well. No shame in being second best to one of the top teams in the region. The Pioneers will likely be one of the top two seeds in the ECAC's. It'd be nice if an E8 team could win it.

[notjoshreed]

Wow, Fisher played well after jumping to great start with two threes each by  bennett and mcgee and one by biegel to start the game.  A very well played game tonight with an awesome performance again by bennet on cichon.  Tonight he should have charged admission for his course on how to play defense and to avoid screens, while having a great offensive night. 
Great effort by everyone. Fisher was ready to play and time after time they got on the floor and won lose balls.  Mcgee in a great hustle play came up with one even though the utica defender was faster.  Speaking of McGee what a pure shooter he is  His shooting is a shot in the arm and helps distant Fisher from other teams.  Smalt came up with two or three lose balls while falling to the floor but getting rid of the ball to a teammate before travilling and or hitting the ground.
Great job again by O'Brien, who elses' hands would you rather have the ball in.  Kornecker did a nice job tonight going deeper into his bench for another big man Adrien Fenyn who gave some quality minutes.  This was so important as Fisher had several players with 3 and 4 fouls.
So any idea where the fisher will play.  Also any reason why the Fisher girls were never ranked in the top 25 this year?  Thay have had an awesome year and had a great win today

[Javaman]

Okay, everyone. Now we have to sit and wait till the seedings come out. I have no clue who will be in Fishers bracket. Any ideas anyone. About Cortland, I wouldn't be shocked if they had to play on the road the 1st round, but I really think they will still "host" the 1st round. Also, I really hope Amherst is not in Fishers bracket this year, if so, then the Sweet "16" will be back at Amherst again.

[gobombers15]

Also any reason why the Fisher girls were never ranked in the top 25 this year? Thay have had an awesome year and had a great win today

Because the E8 was garbage this year on the women's side. Fisher looked average at best when it played outside the conference. Many people look at them as the second best team in Rochester and that was only affirmed when UR handled them in the Chase final. I think it's fairly likely that we'll see a Cortland/Fisher game on the women's side, too. C-State lost in the final today but should get a Pool C considering they're 23-4 on the season.

[reggieball22]

Neither one of us had a problem with your post, it was your hideous grammer that we were dissing.

[jbl2006]

Oh i'm sorry about my grammer, by the way is "dissing" a word?  I think not Merriam.