Empire 8

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is anyone else having trouble with the video feed from Fisher/Elmira?

Apparently they lost the feed from the arena

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Bombers win 81-63

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livestats had a 60-59 ec win, now it's 59-58 sjf in ot...interesting

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Fisher survives a big time scare tonight. Gettings hits a 3 with 9 second left in regulation to force overtime, and Fisher outscores EC by 7 in overtime. Wow...tough one to watch/listen to, but give EC a lot of credit sticking to their gameplan, and hitting some big shots all game.

Fisher moves to 18-4, but they better bring a much better effort the next few games. Lucky they laid an egg against one of the lower tier teams in the league tonight.

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Bombers getting their doors blown off at Nazareth, down 53-32....

Cue up obligatory "Live by the three die by the three"

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Bombers open half on a 16-7 run, down 60-48 with 13:25 to go

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Unreal 60-55 with 11:38 to go...Otztemel with four fouls

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65-64 Bombers 8:38 to go...IC has outscored Naz 33-11 in the second half

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70-66 IC with 7:19 to go

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Naz rallies, 71-70 Flyers with 5:22 to go

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Naz trying to pull away up 77-70 with 4:21 to go. Bombers may be out of gas....

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83-76 Naz with 2:36 to go

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Nazareth wins 91-85

Once again, the Bombers find themselves in a massive second half hole, and despite taking a lead, run out of gas.

This team will never take the next step unless they learn to play 40 solid minutes. Yeah, it's cliche, but it seems like unless they're playing a very bad team, Ithaca's games always seem to have these massive up and downs. Not like 5-6 point swings. But 15-20. Hopefully, next year's team can learn to play more consistent.

The Bombers now find themselves just one game up in the loss column to RIT for the final spot in the E8 tournament. Things are wide open

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Happy Super Bowl everyone. Enjoy it.

It is starting to come down to the wire in the E8 and several teams are still in the running for a tournament spot. I could see any team from Fisher to RIT winning the AQ. Honestly, would anyone be suprised if IC shot the ball well and beat Stevens and Fisher on back to back nights? Same with Naz. Makes things fun down the stretch.

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It may be somewhat open but I think IC has a pretty strong grip on the 4th place spot over Hartwick and RIT.  RIT may have only one fewer loss but IC has 3 more wins - which is 75% more than RIT has in conference all year.  Also, IC has the tiebreaker over RIT right now (due to comparable records against Nazareth - IC 1-1 and RIT 0-1 but play them tomorrow).  The only way I see Ithaca missing out on the tournament is if RIT can beat Nazareth, Utica, Hartwick, Elmira, Alfred and Stevens.  I see Ithaca losing one of their remaining four games but no more than two(Utica, Elmira, @ Hartwick, @ Stevens).  That means RIT would have to run the table and hope to get the tiebreaker.  Even if IC does lose twice RIT would still need to win 5 of 6 and hope the tiebreaker scenario works out. I don't see that happening.

IC automatically has the tiebreaker over Hartwick so they have essentially a three game lead with four to play.  IC beat Nazareth and Stevens so even if Hartwick beats Stevens it wouldn't matter because IC did as well.  Hartwick was 0-2 against Naz and IC was 1-1. 

Sorry to spoil your morning FROMAFAR but it looks like the top 4 are pretty close to being locked up.  RIT/Naz tomorrow and IC/Utica as well.  It might be over after that...