Empire 8

[AUPepBand]

What an ending!! Leahy hits a 3 at the buzzer to give Ithaca the 87-85 victory. Scott Young, RIT's leading FT shooter, misses two FT's with under 10 seconds left, leading the frenetic final sequence. Burton dribbles down the floor, throws a cross-court pass to the left wing and Leahy hits a contested 3 to win it. It was Leahy's third 3-pointer in the final minute or so. What a game. Certainly worth the $2 it cost to watch on E8TV. Though, and I hope they're reading this, periodic shots of the scoreboard would be much appreciated. You know, right after fouls and during timeouts. I had to turn on the IC radio broadcast for the 2nd half so that I'd know what the score was.

Also, this gives IC a good shot at the regular season title. This conference is wide open right now.

Bomber fans should know that same Scott Young is IC Bomber QB Brian Young's "baby" brother. Could there have been a payoff?   

Scott is son of AU football star Bob Young from the early 1970s. Bob's the one that knocked out my mother, sitting on the sideline, at a football scrimmage at RIT back when Tom Coughlin was coaching there. Wow. All kinds of connections there now for Pep.

[JQV]

Interesting weekend.

Kudos to all that predicted a Naz letdown against IC.  IC may be the better team but probably are not that much better.

Also, it appears obvious now that Stevens is going to play poorly in Rochester.  The bus ride has to be the culprit.  For them to win this league in the coming years, they are going to have to either add a travel day or host every E8 tournament.

[sjfcards]

Fisher has a huge stretch coming up. 4 straight games, all against teams that they should be able to beat, with three of the games at home. They really need to go on a run during this stretch, and get this season on track. At this point it seems like Fisher needs to focus on getting into the tournament, and then hope they play well there.

I am really impressed with Ithaca this year. They seem to have gotten things figured out after that little dip early in the year. After the Fisher/Naz game I left thinking that Naz may not lose another E8 game. But, it didn't take too long for that to happen.

[NYBB]

St. John is going to win the conference playoff.  Wick is going down the tubes again, this is true as well.

[FisherDynasty]

although i think it is highly unlikely, how funny would it be if Fisher hosts the e8 tourny this year? Hopefully ithaca will knock off stevens at home, and fisher will redeem themselves vs naz, and sweep ithaca.  Thats about the only way i see it happening.  However, I think Fisher will drop one at Utica or at Ithaca,  and possibly at RIT. 

[WICB Sports]

Both the women's and men's Bombers basketball games at Elmira Tuesday evening will be broadcast online.  The women's game can be heard at 6 p.m. on 92 WICB, available online at www.wicb.org.  Following the women's game, the men's game will be broadcast on VIC Radio at www.vicradio.org, with tip-off at 8 p.m.

[gobombers15]

although i think it is highly unlikely, how funny would it be if Fisher hosts the e8 tourny this year? Hopefully ithaca will knock off stevens at home, and fisher will redeem themselves vs naz, and sweep ithaca.  Thats about the only way i see it happening.  However, I think Fisher will drop one at Utica or at Ithaca,  and possibly at RIT. 

I think you have the "highly unlikely" part correct. Keep in mind that Fisher is just 3-2 in the conference, while Stevens is 8-2 and Ithaca is 6-2. That's pretty significant, especially considering Fisher's longest win streak of the year is two games. Fisher has three difficult road games left (at Ithaca, at RIT, at Utica), while Ithaca (at Fisher) has one tough road game and Stevens (at Utica, at Ithaca) has only two tough roadies to go. There's a lot more that can go wrong for Fisher with their remaining schedule than can go wrong for IC or Stevens. Given Fisher's extremely inconsistent performances this year, I think they'll lose at least two or three more conference games. Fisher should just focus on playing better basketball as the E8 Tourney approaches and hope to get hot at the right time a la the NY Football Giants.

[FisherDynasty]

I agree, although, now that they are healthy and may have finally come together they might be able to do it.  However, seeing as that was only one game its too early to tell.  the 3-2 versus 6-2 and 8-2 is crazy, how is the league games so out of whack? yeah the Chase tourny but still, thats pretty awkward.  If they do pull it out i think im going to stop discussing the e8 forever as there is no way ithaca, naz or stevens should ever let that happen.  If it happens they should stop playing basketball all together haha, not really but you know what i mean. 


Great win for the G-men, im feelin good about the superbowl.

[scooterman]

A few of us called the Fisher upset or Stevens!!! Go Cards!!! Coach Kornaker and crew will finish in top two .

[NYBB]

St. John wins the Empire 8...hands down.

And on an unrelated topic,

Tom Brady & the All Americans will destroy the New Jersey Football Giants.

[gobombers15]

St. John wins the Empire 8...hands down.

And on an unrelated topic,

Tom Brady & the All Americans will destroy the New Jersey Football Giants.

Hands down, huh?

[FisherDynasty]

Yeah idk about hands down either.  I think they can win it, its hard picturing Fisher not winning.  But they have been dissappointing by any standards so far this year.  I'm not giving them anymore credit for past season success.  This team needs to re-earn the respect they are capable of earning.

[bamm]

Yeah idk about hands down either.  I think they can win it, its hard picturing Fisher not winning.  But they have been dissappointing by any standards so far this year.  I'm not giving them anymore credit for past season success.  This team needs to re-earn the respect they are capable of earning.

Fisher wins one game, after losing two in a row, and we're suddenly back to arguing whether or not they'll win the conference?

This team is 7-7, guys.  It's not happening this year.  Take a deep breath and try to accept it.

[FisherDynasty]

I'm going to hold ya to that quote.  I dont know if they will win or not, but they have as good of a chance as anyone else in the conference.  7-7 most of them are very good losses (UofR, Geneseo, Bport, at Naz, at Stevens) consolation game against RIT and hobart are not good, however, consolation games dont matter, and hobart was first game of the season with out one of their better players.  I wouldn't look too much into their record, they have 4-5 easy (utica medium) conf. games coming up there conference record will be good in about 2 weeks, at 7-3 or 8-2. 

[ALFREDHOOPS]

I'm an old Alfred grad who lives and works in the city " Manhattan". My team is not very good, and not much to root for, but being an E8 guy I have been attending the Stevens games. ( right across the river). I have sort of adopted them when they don't play Alfred. This team is actually better than you think. I saw Fischer and they were dominated at all positions, I'm sure the game at Fischer ( I didn't see it) was your typical Fischer game... no breaks no calls, but I could be wrong. Also, they have two starters who are playing hurt but seem to be on the mend. Watch out for them, they won't be an easy out. Ithica is probably the only other team with a chance to take over 1st. place.  Hey, what do I know?  It's fun getting back into it. Glad Stevens joined.