WBB: Landmark Conference

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Will the final regional rankings come out one more time this Wednesday?I'm happy the Landmark has 3 teams in the tournament!

The men's were up right after the bracket show. We're not sure why the women's were slower. They were done on time, obviously.

[ronk]

 The Lady Royals' 1st round opponent Jersey City has good size. They have 2 single-digit home victories over TCNJ whom Scranton defeated 60-47. They also have 2 4-point losses on the road to Amherst and Tufts, though Tufts was missing their best player, Maggie Russell, an AAU teammate of Emma Duerr.

[Augie2020]

First off good luck to the Lady Royals and both Landmark teams tomorrow night.For the game tomorrow night against Jersey City,I have watched a couple of there games and they are a good team! So Lady Royals will have to bring their A game tomorrow night but back to Jersey City -They have a player named Rodriguez averaging 21 pts per game also a great foundation around her!What I found out about Rodriguez is- she loves to go to the left of the basket,so hopefully coach watched alot on this team.Like I said everyone is coming to play it is the NCAA tournament Baby.Let the fun begin and as always Go Lady Royals come out and support this great team community!

[NEPAFAN]

Preview/Article about Abby Anderson in the Scranton Times, for those not in the area you have to pay for the article.


Student Government handing out pom-poms prior to today's game, it is a start.

[ronk]

 Thanks - hope to talk with Abby and her parents tonite.

[saratoga]

Congrats to the Lady Royals on last evenings victory.
Looks like Babson can be a beast on the boards for second chance shots so the Lady Royals will need to do another great job with their interior defense & box out.
Babson had 11 offensive boards vs. Amherst which historically, allows some of the fewest per game.
PS.....
Make your layups, please. 

[Augie2020]

Congrats to the Coaching staff and Lady Royals on a great weekend tournament!Next up sweet 16 hopefully Scranton will host!I will second Nepafan on the Students not participating in this.If it be Ithace,Eau Claire the Students came out to support their team.Something is not right with the Students and University-I have never seen it like this(My vent for the day)But again Congrats Lady Royals on to the SWEET 16

[ronk]

 According to the bracketing, it seems((99.5%) that Hope will host and Scranton and NYU will have flights there. Scranton would have needed Hope to lose and Eau Claire to win in order to host(otherwise, Marietta since no flights would have been needed). It looks like Hope moved ahead of Scranton in the last week by virtue of their conference tourney title win over Trine being more impressive than Scranton's win over Catholic.
  Ladies played fairly well, repelling Babson's run in the beginning of 2nd half. Defense made enough steals, deflections, tie-ups, and blocks to make up for the offensive rebounds allowed.
Next up: NYU will be a challenge - complete team, offensively and defensively.

The 3 teams in Scranton's pod had no seniors so they'll likely be back in the running next year. Especially, New Jersey City who added 2 players at semester break and have 3 transfers from D2; I see the Coach continuing to add quality players(xfers and frosh) as people jump on their bandwagon.

[Augie2020]

Like the Bandwagon part(lol).As this season keeps moving along Scranton is the only one left in this region and I'm not talking NCAA regions.Clark Summit,Desales,Catholic,Etown,Salisbury Messiah,Gettysburg all had a great year and Congratulations to them all.One other thing Ronk you brought up about all 3 having no seniors.Well I know of one senior coming back!Last year should have never been played.Talking about Seniors damn Hope is loaded with seniors.

[saratoga]

Hope should absolutely be the hands down host.
Great arena, fantastic support...what's not to like?
I'm disgusted with Scranton's lack of student support last night...pathetic.
Sorry, if giving out pom poms is their version of strategic planning for increased student engagement, then no wonder we are where we are.
The Ladies have always packed the Long Center for playoffs & the NCAA's.
It is high time the athletic department, student government and student-athletes come together to look for solutions to the increased apathy toward attending these events.
If you won't address the problem, then don't put in to host any longer.
The Long Center was a shell of its former self at this time of year & these kids deserved far better.

[Roundball999]

Hope should absolutely be the hands down host.
Great arena, fantastic support...what's not to like?
I'm disgusted with Scranton's lack of student support last night...pathetic.
Sorry, if giving out pom poms is their version of strategic planning for increased student engagement, then no wonder we are where we are.
The Ladies have always packed the Long Center for playoffs & the NCAA's.
It is high time the athletic department, student government and student-athletes come together to look for solutions to the increased apathy toward attending these events.
If you won't address the problem, then don't put in to host any longer.
The Long Center was a shell of its former self at this time of year & these kids deserved far better.

Not sure if this came in to play for Scranton but some of the schools, not all,  were starting Spring Break this weekend.  I could see how that would impact student attendance, we all know how the campus empties at Spring Break time.

[saratoga]

Hi Roundball:
Unfortunately, the students & university can't use Spring Break as an excuse.
Scranton's starts at the end of classes next Friday.
It's been the same week the past 20 plus years.
However, even with the break starting next week, Scranton would usually host this next round & still pack the place one last time before they took off for Cancun, St. Croix or Miami.
These are unchartered waters that are becoming all too frequent & the issue first needs to be acknowledged and then addressed by the administration or things will not improve.

[ronk]

 I did see ~ 10 female students at the baseball game yesterday, probably friends of the players, and about the same number that were at the basketball game, if the cheerleaders are excluded.
I think one has to realize that the times have changed wrt to student support for athletics. I'd still put in to host for the future and not penalize the teams themselves.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The places that get big crowds around d3 do it with community support, not big student turnout. When students come, it's largely other student athletes. Schools with 10,000 students, like the WIAC, can sometimes draw, but it's not really a thing.  Marietta has one of the best game day atmospheres in d3, but their student section is like 5 rows on one half of one side of the court. You also see big turnouts in small towns with nothing else to do.

[Augie2020]

Perfect example athletes supporting athletes.Ronk couldn't make it this weekend but did the Men show up?