MBB: Centennial Conference

[Gabriel]

McBuckets, Second technical for grabbing a Bear around the neck and shoulders and twisting. Kid has temper problems.

[Stretch4]

Great start to the season for Ursinus.  Their shooting has been absolutely incredible through 4 games.  Obviously not going to sustain a 54% team FG % for an entire season, but this is indicative of the offensive firepower this team has.  Big OT win over a very good Widener team (who was without their starting PG who actually injured himself celebrating his game-winning shot against Swat). The technical and ejection of the Widener player was 100% warranted, but how about the awful goal tending call against Ursinus less than a minute earlier?

Gettysburg off to a bit of a slow start but has a great opportunity tonight vs Hopkins. Mules fans have to be thrilled with their start to the season. In the interest of seeing someone other than Swat and JHU on top, hoping Ursinus, Muhlenberg and maybe Gettysburg can challenge the top dogs.

By the way, Ursinus and Centennial Conference fans already knew how good Ryan Hughes is.  Glad to see he is finally getting some national recognition as honestly he is as good as any of the players on the pre-season All American teams. 

[Gabriel]

Stretch4, Totally agree with your post.  Ryan Hughes is a totally selfless player and a class act.  The goal tending call in the Widener game wae ridiculous, Grubbs was 5 feet from the basket.
Go Bears!

[jmcozenlaw]

Prayers to Jessie Krasna (Pennsbury HS / Ursinus), his two young sons and the rest of his family and Jennifer's family. Jessie lost his wife a couple of days ago after she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Jennifer Krasna was just 30 years old. Jennifer was an amazing wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend, as well as amazing elementary school teacher. Jessie is a wonderful elementary school teacher as well as being the head boys basketball coach at Council Rock North.

Please keep the family in your prayers. May God Bless them and take wonderful care of Jennifer as she is certainly with Him in heaven.

[D.B. Cooper]

Hello. Does the D3Hoops Las Vegas Event have a Broadcast or Statcast?
League looks tough up and down the rankings of CC this year. It looks like JHU, SWAT, MUHLS & perhaps URSINUS look to be the main ones to worry about.
Dips have 2 talented strong teams from last year's NCAA field to play out west, Dubuque & U Wisc. Platteville (rematch of 1991 National title game). Xmas want list for F&M would be an actual PG someone like Georgio Milligan would suffice and getting off the bottom 4 of D3 FT% shooting list. Additionally, they'll need some injured players to get healthy. Good luck to all the teams & players.

[Pat Coleman]

Yes, we will have both! Gordon Mann, Dave McHugh, me, Ira Thor calling the games.

[D.B. Cooper]

Thank you, Pat, that's nice to know.

[D3Parent1]

Huge huge wins for F&M in Vegas.   Congratulations to the team and to the coaches.   I am sure that the Midwest powers that be had this pegged for 2 losses for F&M.   

[D.B. Cooper]

Nice trip to LV for Dips. I thought they might be able to play with Pioneers of Platteville but was surprised by how they came back vs Dubuque. What awaits are tough conference games. 1st going to Allentown where muhls are always tough & this seems to be their best team in many years. SWAT is next in Mayser and they have been tough on current coach by pressing Dips out of game in 1st 10 minutes over and over. I hope they are well prepped. It will be a tough task on the point forward.

[D.B. Cooper]

Interesting, exciting early tilt at Allentown. Dips controlled 1st 60% of game fending off each others charges. Then mules Put on extended stretch of 2 players doing the scoring and not missing baskets until they seemed to have control of game. Point guard for MC reminded me of JHUs Conner Delany who starred for 4 years. Getting streaking layups that were challenged. Then I had to leave and found out Dips came back and won somehow.

[D3Parent1]

Hopefully the improvement by The Dips along with a strong Mules team is the arrival of more strength in the whole CC.  The past few years has been to much SWAT and JHU.  I think the stronger conference play can only help all the programs.  The Dips seem to be playing great team ball with different players making significant contributions each game.   The "new" coach finally has "his guys" playing in their 2nd and 3rd seasons.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Freshman, Dylan Cormac scored a bunch of points the first two games and then has presumably been hurt since.  He got two minutes today.  If they add another scorer to this mix, they're going to be really tough for anyone to beat.

[D.B. Cooper]

I wonder if CC revoted order of predicted finish if F&M would be picked higher then 8th this time?
If dips would've shot better than 16/35 at FT line they probably win. However one play sticks out, late in Reg or 1st OT Dip guard tipped the ball away from one of league all conference players in red on offense & rather than go for looseball he took his forearm and whacked jaw/neck area hard instead. Odder yet it was called a player control foul, no shots awarded. I believe it should have been called a technical foul with player ejection. Marring what was generally a back & forth amazing struggle.

[McBuckets]

Team misses 19 free throws on their home court then complains about a call?

19.

And you want a revote on the pre-season poll?

[D.B. Cooper]

That was a shallow attempt to attack me, rather it seems like dips were not highly regarded before games were played, not about retaking a preseason poll. Perhaps you may have not looked at the video which is available with about 8 minutes left in regulation while dismissing me as griping about one call. It appeared like an attempt to inflict a potentially serious harm to a defender who had made a good play, the kind reaction that may merit ejection. Plus I said that missing many FTs gave game away.