MBB: Landmark Conference

[saratoga]

NEPA:
Regarding your question of knowing about the 8-0 record....
Answer...Yes.
Until this year, I've seen just about every one of them.
Did you know that once lowly Marywood has also gone 2-0 the past 2 years?
Too bad Scranton has refused to play Marywood since their 3 point buzzer beater of the Royals about 8 years ago.

[NEPAFAN]

NEPA:
Regarding your question of knowing about the 8-0 record....
Answer...Yes.
Until this year, I've seen just about every one of them.
Did you know that once lowly Marywood has also gone 2-0 the past 2 years?
Too bad Scranton has refused to play Marywood since their 3 point buzzer beater of the Royals about 8 years ago.

Yes they must be afraid of Marywood. 

I know Marywood went 2-0 this year, not sure their record last year.

My point, things could be worse, we could always be fans of Kings or Wilkes.

[saratoga]

Considering some of the clunkers Scranton schedules from clunker conferences...there is no reason not to play another DIII school in the same city separated by about 4 miles.
I mean it's not even "cross town", more like cross 1/3 town.
Unless of course they are still.........

[NEPAFAN]

Considering some of the clunkers Scranton schedules from clunker conferences...there is no reason not to play another DIII school in the same city separated by about 4 miles.
I mean it's not even "cross town", more like cross 1/3 town.
Unless of course they are still.........

Yeah and let's get Johnson School of Technology on the schedule too.

[saratoga]

Don't give him any ideas.   

[NEPAFAN]

Scranton survives another conference game, 70-68 in Sellingsgrove.


Whew.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Catholic survives against Goucher as well... 77-56

[saratoga]

d-mac was right.
Up for Amherst, then blown out.
Although not Scranton (they don't believe in blow outs), but it was one of their top rivals from many years together.
If there was no juice left for Catholic, is the rest of the season getting packed in?

[saratoga]

By the way NEPA:
Not sure Scranton won this game as much as the Crusaders lost it.
I mean Scranton goes the final 3 plus minutes without scoring, up 5 & yet Susquehanna only manages 3 points in that span.
I think Scranton had just about everything...missed front ends of one & ones, turnovers, shot clock violations, airballs...you name it.
In over 3 minutes not one good shot at the hoop. Nobody stepping up saying give me the ball.
On the other end, the kid from Susquehanna should have tied the game with his layup...just flat out missed it.
Teams are simply driving by Scranton's guards and getting in the lane for layups, easy jumpers & reach in fouls.
The defense simply has to improve.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

d-mac was right.
Up for Amherst, then blown out.
Although not Scranton (they don't believe in blow outs), but it was one of their top rivals from many years together.
If there was no juice left for Catholic, is the rest of the season getting packed in?

No... they had juice against Juniata and came back in that one. I think they have it... the honest problem is I don't think this group cares that Catholic is a rival... if they could understand that and start treating the game accordingly... it would be different. I think they still have juice and we will see it again... they just can't put back-to-back games together, sadly. They have Scranton ahead... might not be up for that either... but I suspect they have some more wins in them even an upset later in the year.

[CardsFan]

I'm not sure CUA-Goucher can be seen as a rivalry these days. There are certainly no traces of any old CAC animus and none of the current CUA players have any idea of the old games. They certainly don't get up to play Goucher any more than the other teams in the league.

I left the game the other night confused by Goucher. They seem lost offensively and defensively. They have this big kid, Outing, who was consistently in excellent post position all night and the guards would only give him the slightest of looks every possession and never give him the ball, as they were content to keep shooting from deep all game.

I look at Alex Noble from Goucher as a good metaphor for their team. Some nights capable of great play and other nights capable of playing 12 minutes and contributing nothing more than a single assist.

[saratoga]

The Royals lose to a team with 3 wins all season & just got blown out at home by 30 points to St. John Fisher last week.
Another game where they don't play 40 minutes...blowing a 13 point lead with about 10 to play & then, as they have for years, forget to play perimeter D & get burned.....yet again, by a 3 at the buzzer.
Deja vu' all over again, Groundhog day, whatever....some things never change.
Nice to see Brian Farrell, who's never really been given any pt, come off the bench in his first real action in 3 years and play such a well rounded game.
Geez, what a concept, give some kids a chance & they actually get it done when you finally play them.
If....and that is a very big IF, the Royals somehow manage to win the Landmark, I see absolutely no reason to believe this season will end any differently than all the others.
Hello/Goodbye.

[NEPAFAN]

Toga,

Which team were you rooting for?

[saratoga]

NEPA:
The team that wears the ugliest home uniforms in the world.
This includes the current Russian, Cuban, Salvadorian, Latvian & Kazakstan National teams.
Kind of a combination of suburban hood meets 8th grade dirty practice jerseys. 

[ronk]

 Showdown Saturday in the Landmark, predicting lowest total margin of victory for a slate of league games:

Scranton @ Catholic
MMA @ Juniata
Drew @ Susque
E-town @ Goucher