MBB: Centennial Conference

[Gabriel]

Onetin,

Remember 2008' the Bears ran the table so they must have beaten the Dips twice.

[Gabriel]

Onetin,

We think Early is a mugger not a muggee.  He plays hard but earns every foul he gets.  Last night was no exception---ask Jon Ward.  For perspective, Dips were in the bonus about 5 minutes into the game.

Despite the officiating----equally bad for both teams----a very entertaining game.  Bears had a chance to win but couldn't overcome Hayk and 23 turnovers.  Hayk was superb! 

Several good looking freshmen including Rogo & Figuera for the Dips and Draper & Wonderling for the Bears.  Look forward to the February game.

[Gabriel]

Onetin,

Stanton played on the 2003 Conference Championship team and graduated in 2004.  Bears won the conference in 2005 (McGarvey era), 2006 (Same), and 2008 (Shattuck era) so they must have defeated the Dips somewhere along the way.  Remember the old saying "What goes around comes around".

[Pat Coleman]

Onetin,

Remember 2008' the Bears ran the table so they must have beaten the Dips twice.

Correct:
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Ursinus/Men/2007-08/index

But none since.

[Gabriel]

i cant believe this year will be the tenth anniversary of the epic CC title game between F&M vs ursinus. 

that said, have the Bears even beaten F&M since Stanton left?

Pat, 

We know that.  This is what I am responding to.

[Pat Coleman]

I was confirming and providing a link to verify, plus the ability for people who would like to see other seasons to do so easily as well.

[jhu]

Big (at least as big as it can get a couple games into league sked) game today in Baltimore with Dickinson coming to JHU.  Haven't checked DC's stats, but the Devils look as good as their #2 preseason CC poll selection indicates.  JHU has played without Corbett all season and has a chance to be 5-1, 3-0 if it can pull out a win today.  Hopeful of him being back in January ... a nice midseason addition to a team to get its floor-leader back.
Solid senior class for JHU, but strong contributions from many of the SO and FR.  F&M the class until someone takes it from them (and rightfully so), but this JHU team could be dangerous by February.

[centfan]

dickinson /JHU ...i will go with dickinson. they seem to lack a shooter but have the better point guard and big, which should be enough to win the game. dickinson has good ball movement and simple sets with everyone on board. they overachieve every year due to sound fundamental play. JHU are good defenders but wixted is a handful...him and hayk are the "problem" bigs in the conference for other teams.

[jhu]

No doubt Wixted is a handful - for anyone.  A good test for JHU for sure.  Hop might not quite be ready to win a game like this - especially w/o Corbett, but they are playing with confidence and seem to be able to score inside and out.  Should be a good one.

[Reserved Seat]

F&M survives two hostile environments(Ursinus and McDaniel).  Ursinus not as bad--less student support.
McDaniel had their football team but they basically only knew two words---b***s*** and s***s.
Hayk put up big numbers along with some fancy passing.  Porter and Morgan played well, but the rest of the team struggled to score.  Too many turnovers.

[Gabriel]

Be aware fans.  Swarthmore is a load----not a gimme for any team, especially on their home court.  Ursinus barely survived on Saturday in overtime.  Really a good game.  The Bears, as they have been doing this year, fell behind by 10 points early in the game and had to claw back.  Only led at the end.  Swat is very disciplined on both ends of the court.  They play hard and shoot the ball very well.  Their weakness is a lack of offense from their post players.  I don't think Ursinus would have won that game if Gates had played more.  A mystery as to why he is not playing more and kind of sad too.  He does not seem to be injured----he scored 11 points in just 7 minutes of playing time.

[D.B. Cooper]

F&M will likely either lose at Translvania and/or at St. Mary's (if they get through both challenges this week unscathed), as they both seem likely candidates to exploit F&M sloppy plus at times turnover prone play. Anybody can lose on the road to most of the teams in the CC, Dips included. The games I would worry that are precarious are against Dickinson either home or way, as Devils seem to be quite strong. Also Dips could lose at the Mule Barn, Haverford and/or JHU easily.

I expect a bushwacking deep in Southern Maryland at St. Mary's as they usually play strong uptempo pressure hoops (should expose presumed weaknesses) and the trip/venue alone is worth 10-15 points for the home team. The Transylvanians could well show fangs, as I think the have the pedigree and talent to hurt the Dips, unless Hayk can go for 30-40 in both games or get needed help from any number of his Dip squad brothers it could be a Kentucky loss too.

[Swat Fan #1]

Gabriel et al, I will not say anything other than Will Gates is not hurt in any way. I will just leave it at that.

[ronk]

F&M will likely either lose at Translvania and/or at St. Mary's (if they get through both challenges this week unscathed), as they both seem likely candidates to exploit F&M sloppy plus at times turnover prone play. Anybody can lose on the road to most of the teams in the CC, Dips included. The games I would worry that are precarious are against Dickinson either home or way, as Devils seem to be quite strong. Also Dips could lose at the Mule Barn, Haverford and/or JHU easily.

I expect a bushwacking deep in Southern Maryland at St. Mary's as they usually play strong uptempo pressure hoops (should expose presumed weaknesses) and the trip/venue alone is worth 10-15 points for the home team. The Transylvanians could well show fangs, as I think the have the pedigree and talent to hurt the Dips, unless Hayk can go for 30-40 in both games or get needed help from any number of his Dip squad brothers it could be a Kentucky loss too.

  One of the St. Mary's bigs did not return this year, so they aren't as formidable as usual; still, it will take an effort to beat them down there.

[centfan]

 i am glad gates is not hurt. seems like the swat coach is a system guy and maybe feels gates doesn't run the system to his liking.