Empire 8

[dcahill44]

Empire 8 is struggling in the nonconference so far. Lots of teams with 2-3 losses so far. Interested to see what happens in this league as well.

[dcahill44]

Alfred beats Stevens 65-58 on the road

Elmira goes to Ithaca and wins 75-60

Hartwick wins at home against Houghton 86-58

Fisher beats Utica on the road 68-47

[AUPepBand]

Alfred beats Stevens 65-58 on the road

Elmira goes to Ithaca and wins 75-60

Hartwick wins at home against Houghton 86-58

Fisher beats Utica on the road 68-47

Pep believes that's the first time AU has won in Hoboken, NJ. Saxons have no time to celebrate as they'll be at defending conference champ Hartwick tomorrow with a 5 p.m. tipoff. On Saxon Warriors!

[magicman]

Empire 8 is struggling in the nonconference so far. Lots of teams with 2-3 losses so far. Interested to see what happens in this league as well.

dcahill,

I thought for sure I'd see some kind of post from you trumpeting the fact that your Nazareth Golden Flyers took down John Carroll yesterday 85-80 in the Hilbert Tournament. Especially when they overcame a double digit deficit on several occasions.

So what's your prediction? Will they knock the Hilbert Hawks from the ranks of the unbeaten? 

You're up!!

[magicman]

Alfred beats Stevens 65-58 on the road

Elmira goes to Ithaca and wins 75-60

Hartwick wins at home against Houghton 86-58

Fisher beats Utica on the road 68-47

Pep believes that's the first time AU has won in Hoboken, NJ. Saxons have no time to celebrate as they'll be at defending conference champ Hartwick tomorrow with a 5 p.m. tipoff. On Saxon Warriors!

Pep
It was a   " close but no cigar"   night for your Saxons over in Oneonta last night. When I saw they lost to Hartwick by the single point I had to see how the game ended. I then saw that the end result was not as close as it looked. However getting to within a point after being down 10 with 1:05 to play is pretty darned good!!!   I'm guessing you'll have your revenge on Jan. 30th when the Hawks make their trip over to Mayberry.

[dcahill44]

As I hoped Magicman. Naz has won the Hilbert Tournament against John Carroll yesterday and Hilbert today. Hopefully this is the start of a winning streak going into conference play!

[dcahill44]

Interested to see what happens in this league with conference play it looks like Naz is starting to get it together and Alfred, Hartwick and Fisher are all playing well.

[AUPepBand]

Alfred beats Stevens 65-58 on the road

Elmira goes to Ithaca and wins 75-60

Hartwick wins at home against Houghton 86-58

Fisher beats Utica on the road 68-47

Pep believes that's the first time AU has won in Hoboken, NJ. Saxons have no time to celebrate as they'll be at defending conference champ Hartwick tomorrow with a 5 p.m. tipoff. On Saxon Warriors!

Pep
It was a   " close but no cigar"   night for your Saxons over in Oneonta last night. When I saw they lost to Hartwick by the single point I had to see how the game ended. I then saw that the end result was not as close as it looked. However getting to within a point after being down 10 with 1:05 to play is pretty darned good!!!   I'm guessing you'll have your revenge on Jan. 30th when the Hawks make their trip over to Mayberry.

Having seen the Saxons manhandle Elmira last night, 80-51, Pep is looking forward to that Jan. 30 matchup with the Hawks. Pep was real pleased with the Saxon defensive play last night...and Coach Phillips has his boys running, with quick ball movement. Fun to watch. Seems like the veteran players on the team are all a notch better than last year and the teamwork has been exemplary. Glad the Saxons are playing at home this weekend....Houghton on Friday night and Utica on Saturday.

Scores from last night:
Alfred 80, Elmira 51
Houghton 65, Nazareth 60
St. John Fisher 92, Ithaca 61
Stevens 71, Utica 52

Seems the Empire 8 is down some this year. Pep sees St. John Fisher as the favorite, given results to date. On Saxon Warriors!

[dcahill44]

Congrats to Head Coach Kevin Broderick on his 300th career win. Nazareth improves to 6-9 and is back in the mix at (2-4) with all these E8 teams losing a bunch of games in conference. A down year for the E8 but some good teams with bad records. Looks like Fishers year in the E8. 

[fisheralum91]

Looks like?
The way they have been on this streak I would say that there is no doubt.
6-0 in the league and on an 11 game winning streak.
Yeah i'd say 

[Bombers798891]

Outside of Fisher, whole conference stinks.

Ithaca's in 2nd place, and they've lost by 15 or more points SIX times. Alfred's the only other team with a winning record, but their OOC schedule is lame. Elmira might be a sleeper team, as they actually seem to have played some tough opponents, but they also have a 31-point loss to a 5-10 Washington and Lee, and 6-9 is still 6-9.

Just awful

[fisheralum91]

Its tough to have a conference league leader not even ranked in the top 25.
That is a direct result of a really down year for the E8, well that and losing to Medaille early in the year

[fisheralum91]

13 in a row for Fisher
Bad conference or not
Good run by all counts!

[Bombers798891]

13 in a row for Fisher
Bad conference or not
Good run by all counts!

Agreed. One thing I've learned from watching Ithaca's women's team dominate a generally weaker E8 is that it doesn't invalidate the wins, it just means you probably won't get noticed until and unless you do something in the NCAAs/

Ithaca has emerged as the clear number two. They have a half-game lead on Stevens, a full game lead on the #3 and #4 teams, and are the only squad to play Fisher twice. I keep wondering if Elmira_which beat Ithaca and a solid Oswego team, and only lost to Fisher by 10, might be good, but 6-11 is 6-11.

[sjfcards]

13 in a row for Fisher
Bad conference or not
Good run by all counts!

This is my first chance to post in a while, but I have been very happy with this Fisher team. You are right, down conference (which it is) or not, it does not diminish what Fosher has done to this pont.  They are not squeaking by teams. Most of the wins during this stretch have been very impressive. Fisher is on pace to go undefeated in conference play (there is really no indication they will not) which is something even the best (IMHO) Fisher team did not do.

It has been an impressive run for Fisher no doubt.