MBB: Landmark Conference

[Rofrog]

Nice article in the Scranton Times on the Royals hitting 1500.Wittenberg has 1773 wins leading all.

[ronk]

 As  the first half of conference action concludes tomorrow night, there is the possibility of the leader @ 6-1, 2nd 5-2, and 4 teams tied for 3rd @ 4-3; this will make for an interesting battle for the four postseason playoff spots.

Royals' commit Ryan Ems with 41 pts/17 rebs last night in a 10-pt victory.

[saratoga]

Enroll him for the second semester, we need a banger down low. 

[NEPAFAN]

would be nice to get a win tonight. please and thank you.

[Rofrog]

And they did Win(Scranton Men)!See one thing people dont understand is that Scranton has 3 Freshman starting I really believe Deverna,Mancuso are reining them in.Great choice by coach to have Deverna bringing the ball up late in the game.

[ronk]

 Good win coming back from the Drew runs at beginning of each half. Still some judgment/clock management/unwise fouls in final 6 mins to be learned; 1 such foul on a pass all the way out at at the sideline put Drew in the bonus; learning risk/reward is a work in progress.
  In 1st half, our post player commits his 2nd foul(unnecessary reach-in); soon thereafter he gets fouled, shoots the 1st, sees that he is going to be subbed out, so he seemingly(his form was completely unlike any of his normal FT procedure) misses the 2nd shot intentionally. Harry Dammer says that also on the videostream. Harry said that he was just kidding, but I don't think so.
So, the standings are like I proposed yesterday with the exception being that Goucher upset Catholic to make it a 3-way instead of 4-way tie for 3rd and, right now, Scranton would lose out on the tiebreaker as they did last year. They have a chance to nullify one part of that tiebreaker by defeating E-town @ home on Saturday. The excitement continues!!!

[NEPAFAN]

Riley Collins is a weapon. Played all 40 minutes. Thought the Royals were in trouble when Drew cam e out in the second half on a run.

[NEPAFAN]

Goucher beats Catholic! Paging DMAC!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Goucher beats Catholic! Paging DMAC!

It was actually a really fun game. I was genuinely surprised, because I expected a not-so-great game. Both teams played pretty well. CUA went on a 15-2 run (I think) in the first half that I thought was going to end things. Goucher replied with a 22-5 run! The second half was back and forth. But here are some incredible tidbits:

Got this tidbits from the cua/gou MBB game:

- First loss in the series for Catholic since Feb. 19, 2014.
- First home win in the series for Goucher since Feb. 22, 2003.
- Goucher snapped a 22 game conference losing streak.
- Before CUA's Andre Mitchell missed the front end of that one-and-one with 15 seconds left in regulation and Catholic leading 75-72, he had made 28 consecutive free throws over five games, including tonight. He has gone 35-of-38 from the free throw line over his last five games.
- Last time Goucher won at home in the series ... Mike Lonergan was head coach of CUA. It ended up being his final season AND his final away game.

Here is the play that tied it and forced it to overtime: https://twitter.com/GoucherSports/status/1088265985117835264

Seriously. Nice to see both teams play well and put a shot in the arm of the rivalry. Unofficially (because I haven't dived in deep as of yet), this was just the second or third time in the series history that both teams entered with below .500 records.

Both teams really played well. Not great, but well. Both teams were shooting neaer or above 50% for most of the game and turnovers existed, but not at ridiculous numbers like I saw with the Gophers against Moravian.

We will be back to your regularly scheduled programming soon enough.

[Rofrog]

Wow Catholic up 3 and he threw the ball right to the Goucher player.Congrats on hustling and Winning that game Goucher.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Wow Catholic up 3 and he threw the ball right to the Goucher player.Congrats on hustling and Winning that game Goucher.

Not sure he saw O'Farrell there. He was getting desperate with the five-second count nearing an end and NO timeouts (no one had TOs remaining). He looked like he tried to heave/aim the ball for his teammate. Should have chucked it and had his teammate give chase.

Anyway... hell of a shot from Farrell who hadn't played a lot of minutes and hadn't hit any shots.

[saratoga]

Good for the Goucher kids.

I know Scranton was out-hustled by them a few years back with a far more talented team & had a long ride home.

Regarding the Royals game....

Didn't witness the free throw in question but one thing I did see that is a real head scratcher is right before the half, Scranton is up 4 or 5, Mancuso has 2 fouls on him already & a Scranton player goes to the line with 1:20 on the clock.

We all know his propensity for, shall we say, overzealous play so rather than take him out and save him from who he is & what he does, Danzig leaves him in and by the 1:15 mark, he picks up his 3rd foul.

Totally avoidable by sitting him with a minute to play & the lead.

This also changed Drew's attack to start the second half as they went right after him every opportunity they had & it then makes him passive in the defensive scheme.

Not sure what the reasoning was to leave him in but it certainly wasn't based on logic.

[ronk]

 It'll be a bowling position night Wednesday with 1&2 playing each other along with T3 & T3, 5&6, and T7 & & T7.

[Rofrog]

 All I will say is this-That York win is making it look good for Scranton .When some said York isnt as good as in the past

[NEPAFAN]

All I will say is this-That York win is making it look good for Scranton .When some said York isnt as good as in the past

Yeah good win for York against CNU. All that doesn't matter if Scranton can't rattle off some more in conference wins.