MBB: Landmark Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Not as far back as going back to talk about college golfing days! 

[saratoga]

I don't think there were helicopter parents back when Andy played.

At that time they were just known as pains in the a--.

Susquehanna still missing Dominick Dunn...must be finishing up another novel.

[Pat Coleman]

I'm definitely retroactively assigning that description, for sure.

[ronk]

I can't resist:
  I think Sr became a medical doctor - do u think his specialty was gastroenterology?

[Rofrog]

Panko was almost at Scranton with Fisher!(Little tidbit)Remember going down to LV Fishers Sr year and Pankos.I think they beat Scranton by 17 .But the game before that we saw a rising star in Henry Condron he had a game against Albright!

[Rofrog]

I have a name Kermit Sharp out of Clark University.Talk about a scorer!!!

[CardsFan]

Preseason-wise, I would have Scranton as the favorite because every other contender lost more through graduation. However, Drew picked up a Xfer from Del Valley(Lybrant Robinson) who has made up the disparity such that they are an equally probable choice. I see Moravian,Susquehanna, and E-town battling for the other 2 playoff spots. Susquehanna has been missing their best player(Dominic Dunn). Catholic doesn't seem to be strong enough to contend but should finish above Juniata and Goucher.

A few weeks back I suggested that Scranton should remain firm favorites. Drew has played 4 decent teams since then and beaten 3 of them. I could be mistaken but I don't believe that the transfer of Lybrant Robinson would have come into the thinking of pre-season polling? According to Matt Snyder's fantastic site www.tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com (click on the tab that says "Regional Rankings") Drew has the strongest strength of schedule of anyone in the league at this moment in time. I think Drew has closed the gap with Scranton, but I'm not writing the Royals off.

I agree that Susquehanna and Moravian are battling it out for the other 2 spots. Maybe E-Town makes a push, but right now I don't see them overtaking the other two. I still feel that this season the league is clearly divided into an "upper" tier of Scranton, Drew, Susquehanna, and Moravian and a "lower" tier of E-Town, Catholic, Juniata, and Goucher. We need Wednesday to get here so the upper tier teams can start playing each other.

In CUA news, the team lost the championship game of their annual holiday tournament this past Sunday to an impressive Hobart team, 65-55. From my perspective, Catholic showed some real grit in this game and they had a solid defensive game plan that kept them in the game into the second half. Unfortunately, the offense went ice cold and Hobart was able to pull away. Challenging for the conference tournament appears to be a step too far this season, but the team is improving.

[ronk]

 The Cards' Riley Hayes is back after missing some games; he's a quality player and the only one left on Scranton's schedule that could defend Matt Mancuso in the paint.

[jmcozenlaw]

Truly unbelievable.

They honestly need to hire someone with a PR background to get this corrected.

I'm sure Bess has a few ideas

Get a Communications Major and give me a Internship/Work Study......let's see if the attendance gets any better with the doubleheader's..

Also Drew with a buzzer beater to beat Carnegie Mellon....they are looking really good.

What did the transfer from DelVal (Robinson) have? It looks like he's made a difference.

Lybrant Robinson had 23 including 5-12 on 3-pters.

WOW!!!!!

[jmcozenlaw]

Preseason-wise, I would have Scranton as the favorite because every other contender lost more through graduation. However, Drew picked up a Xfer from Del Valley(Lybrant Robinson) who has made up the disparity such that they are an equally probable choice. I see Moravian,Susquehanna, and E-town battling for the other 2 playoff spots. Susquehanna has been missing their best player(Dominic Dunn). Catholic doesn't seem to be strong enough to contend but should finish above Juniata and Goucher.

A few weeks back I suggested that Scranton should remain firm favorites. Drew has played 4 decent teams since then and beaten 3 of them. I could be mistaken but I don't believe that the transfer of Lybrant Robinson would have come into the thinking of pre-season polling? According to Matt Snyder's fantastic site www.tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com (click on the tab that says "Regional Rankings") Drew has the strongest strength of schedule of anyone in the league at this moment in time. I think Drew has closed the gap with Scranton, but I'm not writing the Royals off.

I agree that Susquehanna and Moravian are battling it out for the other 2 spots. Maybe E-Town makes a push, but right now I don't see them overtaking the other two. I still feel that this season the league is clearly divided into an "upper" tier of Scranton, Drew, Susquehanna, and Moravian and a "lower" tier of E-Town, Catholic, Juniata, and Goucher. We need Wednesday to get here so the upper tier teams can start playing each other.

In CUA news, the team lost the championship game of their annual holiday tournament this past Sunday to an impressive Hobart team, 65-55. From my perspective, Catholic showed some real grit in this game and they had a solid defensive game plan that kept them in the game into the second half. Unfortunately, the offense went ice cold and Hobart was able to pull away. Challenging for the conference tournament appears to be a step too far this season, but the team is improving.

I was at the Scranton - Arcadia game. Ugly!!

Who would have thought that a transfer from DelVal (issue was grades I hear.........makes it even more strange if you catch my drift) could come into play at the top of a conference with Scranton in it? Not me in 100 years!!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Preseason-wise, I would have Scranton as the favorite because every other contender lost more through graduation. However, Drew picked up a Xfer from Del Valley(Lybrant Robinson) who has made up the disparity such that they are an equally probable choice. I see Moravian,Susquehanna, and E-town battling for the other 2 playoff spots. Susquehanna has been missing their best player(Dominic Dunn). Catholic doesn't seem to be strong enough to contend but should finish above Juniata and Goucher.

A few weeks back I suggested that Scranton should remain firm favorites. Drew has played 4 decent teams since then and beaten 3 of them. I could be mistaken but I don't believe that the transfer of Lybrant Robinson would have come into the thinking of pre-season polling? According to Matt Snyder's fantastic site www.tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com (click on the tab that says "Regional Rankings") Drew has the strongest strength of schedule of anyone in the league at this moment in time. I think Drew has closed the gap with Scranton, but I'm not writing the Royals off.

I agree that Susquehanna and Moravian are battling it out for the other 2 spots. Maybe E-Town makes a push, but right now I don't see them overtaking the other two. I still feel that this season the league is clearly divided into an "upper" tier of Scranton, Drew, Susquehanna, and Moravian and a "lower" tier of E-Town, Catholic, Juniata, and Goucher. We need Wednesday to get here so the upper tier teams can start playing each other.

In CUA news, the team lost the championship game of their annual holiday tournament this past Sunday to an impressive Hobart team, 65-55. From my perspective, Catholic showed some real grit in this game and they had a solid defensive game plan that kept them in the game into the second half. Unfortunately, the offense went ice cold and Hobart was able to pull away. Challenging for the conference tournament appears to be a step too far this season, but the team is improving.

Keep in mind the data Matt is using is based on the NCAA SOS numbers which halfway through a season, when most conferences have barely gotten into conference play, are seriously skewed. Those numbers change daily because conference play has a significant affect on those things.

I'm not saying Drew doesn't have a strong schedule - their out of conference is very good this year. I'm simply saying, take those numbers with a grain of salt right now. Even Matt would tell you that. Those SOS numbers are one of the biggest reasons Regional Rankings aren't done until far later in the season. The numbers can sway wildly in the next few weeks and don't seem to settle too much until February.

[CardsFan]

Preseason-wise, I would have Scranton as the favorite because every other contender lost more through graduation. However, Drew picked up a Xfer from Del Valley(Lybrant Robinson) who has made up the disparity such that they are an equally probable choice. I see Moravian,Susquehanna, and E-town battling for the other 2 playoff spots. Susquehanna has been missing their best player(Dominic Dunn). Catholic doesn't seem to be strong enough to contend but should finish above Juniata and Goucher.

A few weeks back I suggested that Scranton should remain firm favorites. Drew has played 4 decent teams since then and beaten 3 of them. I could be mistaken but I don't believe that the transfer of Lybrant Robinson would have come into the thinking of pre-season polling? According to Matt Snyder's fantastic site www.tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com (click on the tab that says "Regional Rankings") Drew has the strongest strength of schedule of anyone in the league at this moment in time. I think Drew has closed the gap with Scranton, but I'm not writing the Royals off.

I agree that Susquehanna and Moravian are battling it out for the other 2 spots. Maybe E-Town makes a push, but right now I don't see them overtaking the other two. I still feel that this season the league is clearly divided into an "upper" tier of Scranton, Drew, Susquehanna, and Moravian and a "lower" tier of E-Town, Catholic, Juniata, and Goucher. We need Wednesday to get here so the upper tier teams can start playing each other.

In CUA news, the team lost the championship game of their annual holiday tournament this past Sunday to an impressive Hobart team, 65-55. From my perspective, Catholic showed some real grit in this game and they had a solid defensive game plan that kept them in the game into the second half. Unfortunately, the offense went ice cold and Hobart was able to pull away. Challenging for the conference tournament appears to be a step too far this season, but the team is improving.

Keep in mind the data Matt is using is based on the NCAA SOS numbers which halfway through a season, when most conferences have barely gotten into conference play, are seriously skewed. Those numbers change daily because conference play has a significant affect on those things.

I'm not saying Drew doesn't have a strong schedule - their out of conference is very good this year. I'm simply saying, take those numbers with a grain of salt right now. Even Matt would tell you that. Those SOS numbers are one of the biggest reasons Regional Rankings aren't done until far later in the season. The numbers can sway wildly in the next few weeks and don't seem to settle too much until February.

Sure sure. I may have been unclear in my original message that those numbers are only a snapshot of where a team stands right at this moment. It would seem to me that Drew's SOS will tick downwards as we move into conference play. 5 of their remaining 13 games are against teams with below .500 records.

[Tim the Enchanter]

I don't know what Danzig said at halftime, but maybe he should consider saying it before the game...

[saratoga]

Tim:

Agreed...say it pre-game, at the 10 minute mark, halftime & every other opportunity he gets.

I thought they finally put it all together during their game at Wilkes but, there have certainly been a few bumps in the road since then so I'll remain cautiously optimistic.

Really nice second half...Logan shot near 85% from the field today.

[NEPAFAN]

Today's attendance: 256