MBB: Landmark Conference

[cold_case]

Drew over MMA
Catholic over Goucher
Juniata over Susquehanna
And, until the Royals show they can win on the road...

Moravian over Scranton???

[NEPAFAN]

Great game in Bethlehem yesterday, including Tommy Morgan throwing one down. Danzig with 28 pts and 9 boards.

[cold_case]

Despite Catholic not being in the conference tournament this year, I like what I see in their team for the next few seasons. They will lose Darrell Carroll and Andy Roell... but the youth on this team are going to make a big difference.
I could see Shawn Holmes at the point with Derek Puhalski a solid back-up or starter himself. Billy Donovan at the other guard with Nate Koenig (injury, right?) also good in that role. Steve Limberiou on the wing along with Nelson Mendez will cause plenty of match-up problems. You then have Chris Kearney and Jared Prince in the four slot. And then I think you start Pete Schramm in the middle, but can supplement well with Matt Stone (he has a lot of potential) and Nate Lorence.
They seem to play well together and have threats from many different points on the floor. Donovan can even slide to the point if CUA wants to get a bigger look - he can handle and you can't step off of him because he will hurt you from 15 feet or so. Limberiou has a great stroke from outside and get step into the mid-post area and is quick enough to create opportunities there. Mendez needs to find where his shot will be the best, but he is quick and will be tough of the first step or dribble. Schramm played a great game last night on both ends of the court and can dominate on the boards, which is key for the Cards.
Of course, defense is very good. Saw a lot of 2-3 last night, no surprise there, but they executed very well. I actually saw a lot of zone yesterday as I called two games at McDaniel in the Centennial as well, and in those three games I saw quite a bit of well executed, well coordinated zone defenses with Catholic providing it's usual solid best (though, against an offense that basically had checked out of the game).

Here we .....

[NEPAFAN]

Scranton up at the half and Juniata up 5 with about 11 minutes left.

[cold_case]

Players from Emmaus and Parkland were there. At least that's what thier jackets said...

[ronk]

Players from Emmaus and Parkland were there. At least that's what thier jackets said...

They're fans of Moravian.

[cold_case]

Players from Emmaus and Parkland were there. At least that's what thier jackets said...

They're fans of Moravian.

LOL, trust me, no. One lives two blocks from me.

[NEPAFAN]

Like the video and radio being synced up for the game. DJ Strayhorn and Cullinan are nice players.


Swaback is hurt, which seems to be a trend for the Royals. Injuries at the end of the year, I remember on year Paul Hawk got hurt before their NCAA tourny game, and there is another injury that is escaping me.

[BCannon]

Biagioli ?

[cold_case]

Biagioli ?

Yes, what can I do for you? 

[NEPAFAN]

Biagioli ?

Might have been....I was thinking Juniata's victory might have brought you out of the woodwork!

[cold_case]

As posted on the womens board:

I understand Scranton showed mucho class yesterday. It was learned that the Catholic gals requested a shoot-around at Scranton's gym early in the day but Scranton said NO!
CUA eventually called King's who said "come on down," so they had their shoot-around in Wilkes-Barre.
Stay classy, Scranton!

[BCannon]

Biagioli ?

Might have been....I was thinking Juniata's victory might have brought you out of the woodwork!

I have continued to follow just wasn't much conversation that I could comment on.

[Pat Coleman]

As posted on the womens board:

I understand Scranton showed mucho class yesterday. It was learned that the Catholic gals requested a shoot-around at Scranton's gym early in the day but Scranton said NO!
CUA eventually called King's who said "come on down," so they had their shoot-around in Wilkes-Barre.
Stay classy, Scranton!

Since this is the conference tournament, the Landmark should just have a rule about it one way or the other and make the request a non-issue.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Thus a problem with the conference... no one puts their foot down and decrees these types of things... maybe the new commissioner will make these types of decisions... there is too much of this kind of stuff going on in all areas.