Empire 8

[fpc85]

Too much reliance on stats is a bad thing if done within a vacuum. Otherwise, numbers are a great indicator of what happens. You guys are the same people who would vote Don Mattingly into the HOF b/c his nickname had the word "baseball" in it.

donny could hit with the best of them!

[bamm]

In what must be a satisfying victory for the Tigers after blowing the last-minute lead last week, they prevail in Ithaca 81-70.

The Bombers and RIT remain the two most difficult teams to predict. 

[AUPepBand]

This just in Fisher beats Alfred by 13454566!  They played the game early during free period.

Final score Fisher 58, Alfred 54

[sjfcards]

Wow...Fisher squeaks out a victory. Kornaker is not happy at all listening to the post game interview. At least they got a victory I guess. Fisher basically was sleep walking the entire game. Nothing to be proud of, but they still are inching closer to the tourny.

[gobombers15]

Tonight reaffirms what everyone should have probably already known, namely that there is no prohibitive favorite in this league, whatsoever. I honestly think that if the E8 Tourney took all nine teams (8 vs. 9 play-in), six teams would have a legit shot to win it. I mean, would anyone be that surprised if RIT knocked off Ithaca, Stevens and Fisher in a three-day span? Of course not. But would anyone be surprised if RIT got bounced by Naz in the 1st round, either? Nope. Would just depend on which teams got favorable matchups. I think this is the first time in the history of the E8 Tournament that you could say that more than 1 or 2 teams could win it. This is a very crazy league this year.

[bombersquadron]

Bombers looked to be sleep walking for most of their game too. RIT took the lead to start the game and i'm not sure if the Bombers ever held the lead. Battled back many times in the second half to be down by one by RIT would just hit a big shot. RIT's bench poured in 33 points. Gethers stepped up big in the second half scoring 11 of his 13 points down the stretch. RIT also hit their FT's minus Gethers and Carson.

Ithaca once again struggled from 3 (5-25) and from the line (13-21), with all of the players who shot high percentages missing them. Bostic played hard and had about 15 and 19. He pinned Gethers off the backboard and it looked as Ithaca might finally get over the hump but they couldn't.

Looked like RIT was the hungrier with their season on the line. They got every loose ball and converted every loose ball into points. I'm serious with it being every loose ball was two points at the other end and that just hurt Ithaca. Ithaca takes a step back and really shoots themselves in the foot with trying to host the E8 tourney.  Ithaca may have had the largest crowd so far yet this season with some students sitting on the RIT side and the Ithaca side was packed but left disappointed.

[magicman]

Hey Pep

I would consider that an Alfred victory. 

[AUPepBand]

Unless they've changed the rules when Pep wasn't watching, Pep believes the team scoring more points wins a basketball game. Pep hasn't seen the Saxons this season but did sneak into McLane for the tail end of last year's AU win over the Cardinals. Despite the team being 1-17 this year, those players in the E8's cellar program still have their own pride for which to play. Pep thinks highly of those who would endure such adversity and wishes for them much better days ahead.

[jasper]

That was an awful game last night at Fisher. I should have stayed home. I guess you play down to the worse teams level as in the case of Stevens/Elmira and last night. Fisher looked like a bunch of zombies. No defensive pressure, turnovers on the fast break that should of been easy lay-ups, stupid fouls, you name it just a terrible college basketball game.  Don't know if they thought Alfred was just going to lie down and let them run over them or what. Baltz didn't play because i believe he has a nagging ankle injury but still very sloppy played game on both ends. Good thing for Fisher Alfred is terrible and they have Elmira Friday and not Ithaca or Naz to get things back on track.

[Bart1117]

Bombersquad...


Appreciate the old nickname "BOBBLE HEAD" coming back..you see I sit at a desk all day now and its very seldom that I get a good laugh like that..In an attempt to clear up this little situation we have here, about this whole Jeff Bostic and/or Ithaca situation you must understand what happened...See, I work in an accounting group with 4 other people...1 of the other group members happens to be an Elmira grad from '99 or '00.   Well last year, Hobart beat Elmira, so I shove that in his face all day every day...I went so far as to mess up his little SOARING EAGLE mascot, so I guess looking back on it, I had something coming for me...So I had this D3posting name, and little did I know at the time, he knew my password...So after making about 3 posts which concerned Hobart and nothing about the E8, he took my password and has been writing some rather amuzing things...

The only reason I am coming out and saying this is because I have buddies down at Stevens and some of the things he wrote were retarded and wanted to make that clear..Also, this whole Bosstic situation, I know the kid, his cousin went to Hobart, why would I say he was soft?  I said dude on St Lawrence and dude on Clarkson last year were soft, and they were...I played against Bostic once in my career and he did well, so no need for that..And if you knew anythign about me, youd know that I played 1 fulls eason at Hobart...Frosh/Jr year, I was injured so I maybe played in about 10 games...So throwing up a stat line for 3 years when it basically consisted of 1 year, goes right out the window...I am not comparing myself to anybody..Bostic or anybody else in the league..



So bomber you seem to be a liked dude on this site and I am sure its well deserved, and the "bobble head" comment got you a plus in my book, but if you want to talk about something or if you want to ask me a question, be a man and ask me...dont be a tool and try to start a funny thread over the internet...
One thing I wasnt was soft, so if I feel someone is soft in the LL, I will say it...Stats mean nothing to me when it comes to whether a player is scared of the paint or not...So relax with the comments although extremely funny..Loook forward to some Ithaca comments because I am sure you think they are going to win the National Championship..


Fellers, sorry for the long post, just had to put it out there because i have coaches and players that see it and I did not want them thinking I talked trash bout them..

[Caz Bombers]

Well Stevens lost to something called Baruch out of conference last night.  No word yet if this will cause the Ducks to cancel future games against Atah and Adonai (maybe only Superman57 gets that, maybe not).

[Bart1117]

not only did Stevens lose to Baruch..



Waleed Farid lost to his brother who plays for Baruch...that'll cause a discussion at the dinner table..

[FROMAFAR]

Another amazing night in the E-8.  Fisher at home taken to the limit??? I guess, as they say on any given night. Ithaca losing not that big of a shock, RIT is dangerous every night. Stevens against Baruch is a real upset. I saw the LIVE STATS, for some reason Grey sat out the first half and Greco had 3 early first half fouls. That really hurts. They need those two guys on the court or their in trouble. They need points from Grey, and Greco keeps them organized. It's going to be a huge weekend. Either the picture will get clearer or may become even more confusing. Naz and RIT in Hoboken ( Stevens probably looking ahead to weekend). Ithaca gets a break this weekend, and look for Hartwick (they are due for a win) to put Utica to sleep. Time for Utica to sit the seniors and start getting ready for next year. (sorry UGRAD).  Naz plays 6 of the last 8 on road, that's tough. Fisher may look ahead to Naz, and Elmira hungry for the upset... I'll tell you this is incredible.
Monday should make for good posts. DUCKMAN.. has my read on the Stevens game last night...?

   

[Duckman]

Monday should make for good posts. DUCKMAN.. has my read on the Stevens game last night...?

I only caught the second half of the game on livestats.  From what I saw it was "Baruch: Layup, layup, layup layup...".
Not sure if I just caught it at a bad time, but it seemed like Baruch was getting a lot of easy layups (going back to the inside D thing).
And as for FT%:
Baruch: 23 for 29 (79.3%)
Stevens: 13 for 24 (54.2%)
Ouch!

Well the game was at least exciting to follow on livestats.  I was sitting on the edge of my seat for a full half hour.

[bamm]

Bostic and Carson were seemingly fighting it out last night for those 1st Team honors:

Bostic:  15 points, 19 rebounds
Carson:  14 points, 15 rebounds

Nice game by both players.

Brutal, brutal, brutal game for Burton.  3-16 from the field, 0-9 from behind the arc.