MBB: Landmark Conference

ronk · December 16, 2007, 09:37:10 PM

With regard to the Radisson, I would think the Royals being in Pool B these 2 years would want to play strong teams, raising their strength of schedule like inviting one of the good Ohio schools, a good ODAC school, and one of the eastern UAA schools. Lancaster Bible and Wesley aren't going to help come selection time and we've just finished playing Lycoming twice a year. Let's improve the team by upgrading, not downgrading.

saratoga · December 16, 2007, 09:43:52 PM

Exactly my point. The past few tournaments the Royals have held have been, shall we say...heavy on the lackluster side.

NEPAFAN · December 16, 2007, 09:46:41 PM

Thanks for the info on Hartwick. Please don't bring up the bad memories of the Moravian game.

The Scranton-Hartwick game is now a Businessman's Special as a result of the wintry weather. Tip off at 3pm on Tuesday at the Long Center.

saratoga · December 16, 2007, 10:05:40 PM

What is up with this 3:00 start on Tuesday? I fully understand Hartwick may have problems heading down from Upstate New York tomorrow & moving the game to Tuesday is a good move for basic safety...but, 3:00? This will now have the atmosphere of an inter-squad scrimmage.

NEPAFAN · December 20, 2007, 01:11:04 PM

Scranton beats Hartwick by 14 and Arnold drops 30.

Paid attendance? 200. More like 20 if I had to guess.

How many days till the Radisson?

cuabigdog · December 20, 2007, 03:39:32 PM

Here's Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season !!! may the new year be filled with love , peace, and good health thru out ... also some really good basketball..

HAPPY HOLIDAY'S !!!!!!!

GO CARDS

NEPAFAN · January 07, 2008, 09:51:30 AM

Scranton goes down to Lycoming in the Championship of the Radisson.

"I was proud of the effort. We put ourselves in a position to win, doing it without one of our all-conference players," Danzig said. "In the long run, we're going to be better off for this. Now guys know we can play without him. Other guys got a chance to play and that will make them better, too."

Proud of the effort? Missing 11 of your first 13 shots is a good effort? Royal's didn't start playing until 5 minutes left in the first half.

cold_case · January 07, 2008, 11:05:15 AM

I guess it's true what they say that some coaches are great recruiters and others are great with x's and o's.
Understand where I'm coming from?

Dave 'd-mac' McHugh · January 07, 2008, 11:22:40 AM

The first weekend of conference action is upcoming. Anyone wondering how their team will do with back-to-back games?

I saw Goucher play back-to-back games last week against two non-conference opponents. Honestly, very smart scheduling my Coach Trevino to get his team used to playing on back-to-back nights before conference action starts. However, the team seemed to struggle in the second game and weren't ready. That could be devestating when it comes to conference play.

The team that can put together more weekend sweeps than splits will have the early edge in this conference.

CardinalRed · January 07, 2008, 05:50:37 PM

Catholic played back-to-back for the fourth time this season this past weekend. I think Coach Howes planned this for a reason. Coincidently they are 4-4 having split in all four tournaments. I think it will depend on which team you play on which night. Sometimes they look strong, and sometimes they look shaky. I think this will happen for most teams in the conference. This will make for some REALLY good games and some REALLY bad games considering two teams might both show up on an off night.

NEPAFAN · January 08, 2008, 09:22:37 AM

Quote from: cold_case on January 07, 2008, 11:05:15 AM
I guess it's true what they say that some coaches are great recruiters and others are great with x's and o's.
Understand where I'm coming from?

How about motivaters???

naismith · January 09, 2008, 05:39:30 PM

nepa, cc

don't tell me you don't miss us Freedom Fighters?
seems postitis has set in on this thread....

CC, did u get to Wilkes-Kings?
Real nice game and CJ was on his best behavior.

Think he might have matured a bit??

Naismith

cold_case · January 10, 2008, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: naismith on January 09, 2008, 05:39:30 PM
don't tell me you don't miss us Freedom Fighters?
seems postitis has set in on this thread....

Are you hinting this bored is dead?

NEPAFAN · January 11, 2008, 09:27:51 AM

Quote from: cold_case on January 10, 2008, 07:09:20 PM
Quote from: naismith on January 09, 2008, 05:39:30 PM
don't tell me you don't miss us Freedom Fighters?
seems postitis has set in on this thread....

Are you hinting this bored is dead?

Just a bit.

Matt Letourneau · January 11, 2008, 10:57:10 AM

Well, if for no other reason than to get things going a little, I'll say that Catholic was missing Nick Oliverio, its starting shooting guard who was the only real scorer carried over from last year for this past weekend's games. He'll be back soon, though.

My assessment is still the same--they're talented, they've got some great players, but they're very, very young. The way to look at it is to evaluate freshman play after each game. Win or lose, would take Catholic's freshman players or their opponents? And there aren't too many freshman I've seen so far that I'd take over most of the group that Catholic has. They're getting around 48 ppg from freshman.

I'm most excited about Chris McGrew--I think he'll be an absolutely dominant center in this conference and level. He's 6'8 with a good jump shot and makes his free throws. His away from the basket game is probably ahead of his inside game at this point but he's still a dominant rebounder. When he's on the court, the offense flows much better.