MBB: Landmark Conference

[ronk]

 E-town wins @ MMA tonight; I don't think MMA's 6 losses now will be good enough to make the playoffs.
Drew loses out of conference to Widener.

[NEPAFAN]

So after losing 3 of 4 and getting down big early does Danzig make a change in the starting line up? We shall see...

[ronk]

 We had them all the way.

[San Juan]

Nepafan my point all season.Ethan needs to sit bottom line.

[ronk]

So after losing 3 of 4 and getting down big early does Danzig make a change in the starting line up? We shall see...

Change of strategy: went from up 15(33-18) to down 11(61-50); Chris McCullough did get considerable playing time(25 mins) and produced, so look for more PT in the future.
Scranton's playoff chances would have benefitted by a Catholic win over Juniata since Catholic has 6/8 remaining games @ home, but not to be.

[CardsFan]

Juniata deserving winners tonight over CUA 79-67. Flat performance from the Cards from the very beginning.

The refusal of the coaches to consistently play man-to-man defense is becoming laughable. They just sit in their zone and get picked apart. If the goal is to stop opponents' dribble penetration then they need to go back and watch the tape. This has been a consistent theme all season long. Play a soft zone that doesn't really stop opponents from getting easy baskets and just keep playing more zone. CUA lacks the proper size or length to play zone effectively. If CUA plays zone because Howes doesn't trust his players to defend individually then that's his problem for having a team full of players who can't or won't defend. This zone just allows certain players who are poor individual defenders to hide. Juniata made 63% of their two-pointers tonight.

A big part of this teams' success last season was getting easy points from the FT line. They've abandoned that strategy. Now CUA has become an almost exclusively jump-shooting team. Jay Howard is the only player who gets to the line consistently. At the end of last season, this team was clicking because it had two players who could post up consistently and get easy baskets. This season Howard has been left on his own inside because our other nominal forward just shoots threes.

This is a bit ranty but it's the same basic mistakes over and over and over again. It's now a three-year trend where the defense has been anywhere from slightly above average to porous.

[saratoga]

Look for more playing time for McCullough?
Why?
What he did tonight means nothing in Carl's World...
If it did, a certain someone wouldn't get 35 minutes per night.
Embarrassing at this point with his refusal to get other kids p/t.

[NEPAFAN]

Look for more playing time for McCullough?
Why?
What he did tonight means nothing in Carl's World...
If it did, a certain someone wouldn't get 35 minutes per night.
Embarrassing at this point with his refusal to get other kids p/t.

Saratoga please report to the Long Center, they are revoking your parking pass and club level privileges. Same players looked flat yesterday, lazy passes, Turnovers, Missed Layups....

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Games starting to get postponed.

Drew at Goucher postponed to 3 & 5 on Sunday - to be honest, I think they are dreaming if they think Drew will get through Jersey to Baltimore on Sunday in time for a game. Blizzard Warning for Baltimore runs until Sunday morning at 6am.

Others in the region and conference to come or already have happened.

[CardsFan]

CUA has postponed their game on Saturday against MMA. I believe the make-up date is Feb. 21. Interesting way to end the season. Scranton at home on the 20th and then MMA on the 21st. Too bad CUA already had their "bye."

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

That's going to be because of MMA - so many restrictions with their class schedules and such... thus why scheduling in this conference has been a challenge for a very long time.

[ronk]

CUA has postponed their game on Saturday against MMA. I believe the make-up date is Feb. 21. Interesting way to end the season. Scranton at home on the 20th and then MMA on the 21st. Too bad CUA already had their "bye."

The date makes sense-MMA is at Goucher on the 20th. They go back-to-back like a couple of years ago.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Yep - for MMA it is a very easy thing to do... and ironically will finish their basketball schedule with the item they didn't like the most and partly why they are leaving the conference... back-to-back weekend games at their furthest opponent: Goucher and Catholic. Can't make this stuff up.

[NEPAFAN]

Yep - for MMA it is a very easy thing to do... and ironically will finish their basketball schedule with the item they didn't like the most and partly why they are leaving the conference... back-to-back weekend games at their furthest opponent: Goucher and Catholic. Can't make this stuff up.

Didn't they think about that before the joined the conference? Any rumblings on replacing them or is the conference going to stand pat for awhile?

[ronk]

Yep - for MMA it is a very easy thing to do... and ironically will finish their basketball schedule with the item they didn't like the most and partly why they are leaving the conference... back-to-back weekend games at their furthest opponent: Goucher and Catholic. Can't make this stuff up.

Didn't they think about that before the joined the conference? Any rumblings on replacing them or is the conference going to stand pat for awhile?

I was surprised that they went to 9 2 years ago; maybe MMA told them they wanted to leave so they invited E-town in the interim; 8 is ideal and more compact for travel with E-town in the middle.