Empire 8

[WICB Sports]

Tuesday's men's basketball game between Potsdam and Ithaca College will be broadcast on 92 WICB starting at 6 p.m.  The game can be heard locally in Ithaca at 91.7 FM and online at www.wicb.org.

[with age comes?]

Bombers- trust me when I tell you Elmira is not the absolute dog of the past (there for the kicking).  They cleaned Clarkson's clock.  They play a frenetic, frenzied zone with excellent help side defense and they have an overabundance of youthful overachieving enthusiam.  The style of play suits them perfectly as their bigs are pretty suspect, but the guards are extremely quick so they can collapse and recover so, unless you have a player  a la Burton, who can get off an accurate 3 off in the blink of an of an eye you could have problems.  These kids played with heart and beat Clarkson even worst than the scoreboard indicated.  Honestly Clarkson looked awful but Elmira I believe is on a 3 game win streak albeit against "modest" opponents and they will surprise people especially at home this year.  I'm truly afraid for AUpep because I've seen both teams play and I think AU will have missed the saxons sole victory of the season over Caz the college (if they played caz the poster they might have been winless).  P.S. Ithaca gets to avenge its early loss against Potsdam. My Bostic's back and you better watch out! oohla, oohla My Bostic's back!    (and my apologies to Marvellette's or whichever group sang that song!!)

[bamm]

Fisher and Naz play tonight, at Nazareth.  Is it just me or did these games used to be played on the weekend?  Now they've got both Naz/Fisher tilts scheduled for a Tuesday.  Kind of a bummer.

Anyway, Fisher could really use the win.  But I don't think it's happening.

[JQV]

If the administrators at Fisher and Naz are thinking anything like the administrators at IC and Cortland, I presume they are trying to reduce the liklihood of an injury by playing the game during the week.  For example, Cortaca starts at noon to cut down on the pre-game drinking time.  Maybe they moved Fisher-Naz because fewer students will because they think (probably hope) that fewer students will get ass drunk mid-week.

[FisherDynasty]

I don't think they put too much into scheduling the game.  Either way, its going to be out of control and sold out before the girls game starts.  The sad thing is most of the crazy loud students dont even get in because parents, local grown ups get their before hand while the students are still drinking.  But in past years pretty much every other year, at least one of the games is played when the schools are on break which is awful since the students are even on campus yet. Although the games still get sold out, just the crowd is much different. 

[JQV]

The only other reason you would play a conference game on a Tuesday night is if you are playing your travel partner (ie IC-Elmira).  But Fisher and Naz aren't travel partners (at least they weren't when I was in the league, has that changed?).

Of course the schools put a lot into scheduling.  If they didn't in the past, the brawl has certainly changed that. 

[bamm]

The only other reason you would play a conference game on a Tuesday night is if you are playing your travel partner (ie IC-Elmira).  But Fisher and Naz aren't travel partners (at least they weren't when I was in the league, has that changed?).

Of course the schools put a lot into scheduling.  If they didn't in the past, the brawl has certainly changed that. 

Naz and RIT are still travel partners. 

I agree with you, this has to be a product of that incident.  The part that still confuses me though is that I don't remember it being that way last season -- although I would readily accept that is just me.

[JQV]

It may not have been that way last year Bamm.  Most likely the league schedules a few years out so teams can arrange non-conference games.  I would guess, without knowing, that the schedule for the seasons after the incident were already set and this was the first chance they had to move it (if they did, in fact, play on the weekend since the incident).

[AUPepBand]

Pep sees that the schedule is nothing like years past. AU was "travel partners" with Fisher, Naz with RIT, Ithaca with Elmira, Hartwick with Utica... adding Stevens changed all that.

[AUPepBand]

Pep Jr., with broken foot and commanded to stay off the basketball court for four months and no running for three months, sends text message to Pep Friday night that reads, "Dad, what r u doing tonight?"

Pep texts back, as slowly as ever: "Ballin at Davis (Gym)"

Within seconds, Pep gets another message from Pep Jr.: "I hate you."

[Razor]

No offense Pep, but who cares about Pep Jr.'s foot injury and your text messaging dialogue??  Come on now buddy, let's stick to the important issues ala is the AU sub shop really closed down??  They make a mean turkey sub!!

[gobombers15]

Predictions for this evening's games:


NAZ over Fisher, 71-69.
ITHACA over Potsdam, 79-73.
Hartwick over GREEN MOUNTAIN, 66-59.
St. Lawrence over ELMIRA, 69-65.
FREDONIA tops Alfred, 74-62.

[JQV]

No offense Pep, but who cares about Pep Jr.'s foot injury and your text messaging dialogue??  Come on now buddy, let's stick to the important issues ala is the AU sub shop really closed down??  They make a mean turkey sub!!

I was all ready to come to Pep's defense until you made a sudden change of course.

+k.

[AUPepBand]

No offense Pep, but who cares about Pep Jr.'s foot injury and your text messaging dialogue??  Come on now buddy, let's stick to the important issues ala is the AU sub shop really closed down??  They make a mean turkey sub!!

After 40 years, indeed, the Alfred Sub & Pizza Shop is now closed. 
PEP preferred their roast beef sub with everything on it, easy on the PEPpers.

[sjfcards]

Fisher really needs a win tonight. They can still salvage the season if they go on a run here in the next few weeks. If they can get a 3 win week they may have themselves on a little bit of the inside track for a top 2 seed. Right now I am more worried about getting into the conference tourny, so these next few weeks are huge.