MBB: Landmark Conference

[saratoga]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
The Royals need a break to regroup.
Totally outplayed by Coach Van Zelst's kids, so the break is at a perfect time.
Can't lose when you don't play.
The season's young but things could go south in a hurry if...(fill in the blanks).

[NEPAFAN]

You think the team misses EJ? 

Royals were down 20-5 at one point.

[NEPAFAN]

Yeesh. About as bad a loss as I can remember. Winless program which will cease to exist in 3 months. Ranks up with 03 loss to Marywood.

Thought this was a Saratoga post at first glance

[Great Day to be a Royal]

Ha! Nope! Flashback, right?!

[ronk]

Yeesh. About as bad a loss as I can remember. Winless program which will cease to exist in 3 months. Ranks up with 03 loss to Marywood.

That was a miserable season which also included a home loss to Miseri when they & Marywood had only had a men's team for 10 years. The Royals had 2 returning starters from the team that had won twice in the NCAA tourney the year before but 1(Brian O'Donnell) broke his hand and missed the next 5 weeks of the season. The other(Ryan Rogan) transferred out 2 weeks later.
  Mason Thompson showed some offense in the 2nd half after fouling 3 times in 3 mins in the 1st half.
  Back door cuts killed them plus at least 3 inbound passes intercepted under their own basket.
  Hopefully, Will returns for the start of the conference season in 8 days.

[CardsFan]

Good bounce-back win for Catholic at home tonight 66-59 over Marymount. The Cards were down as many as 11 early in the second half, but from that point they played clean basketball (very few turnovers) and started passing more than dribbling.

Senior Jesse Hafemeister was good tonight, scoring 20. Over the weekend he really struggled shooting from the perimeter, including missing two good looks from three at the end of the Hood game that would have won it, but tonight he played mostly inside the arc and was much more efficient. Good performance from fellow senior Tommy Kelly as well, who scored almost all of his 13 points during the comeback.

Cards start Landmark play at home to Elizabethtown next Wednesday.

[saratoga]

Great Day:

Absolutely correct...another really, really bad loss.

Knocked off by a dead team walking.

Coaching is a lot like a Holiday party...

Don't arrive too early & never have to be reminded it's time to go. 

[NEPAFAN]

EJ is in the transfer portal.

Don't think there will be any reconcilation.

[Great Day to be a Royal]

Over under the 5 win 03-04 season...

[ronk]

Over - projecting 11 wins

[Great Day to be a Royal]

11 is going to be a stretch.

[lefty2]

Yeesh. About as bad a loss as I can remember. Winless program which will cease to exist in 3 months. Ranks up with 03 loss to Marywood.

That was a miserable season which also included a home loss to Miseri when they & Marywood had only had a men's team for 10 years. The Royals had 2 returning starters from the team that had won twice in the NCAA tourney the year before but 1(Brian O'Donnell) broke his hand and missed the next 5 weeks of the season. The other(Ryan Rogan) transferred out 2 weeks later.
  Mason Thompson showed some offense in the 2nd half after fouling 3 times in 3 mins in the 1st half.
  Back door cuts killed them plus at least 3 inbound passes intercepted under their own basket.
  Hopefully, Will returns for the start of the conference season in 8 days.

Misericordia's men's program started in the early 1980's.  Marywood's program came along in the mid-90's.

[saratoga]

Perhaps a little known fact of Miseri basketball...

Mike Dunleavey, current Governor of the great state of Alaska & graduate of Scranton Central High School, was a pretty darn good basketball player for the Cougars.

After graduating from Miseri, he headed northwest & the rest is history.

[ronk]

Perhaps a little known fact of Miseri basketball...

Mike Dunleavey, current Governor of the great state of Alaska & graduate of Scranton Central High School, was a pretty darn good basketball player for the Cougars.

After graduating from Miseri, he headed northwest & the rest is history.

I saw him listed as 1 of the distinguished Miseri alumni, but didn't know about his basketball or Scranton Central background.

[NEPAFAN]

I'll say 8 wins for our beloved Royals.

Happy turkey day everyone!!