MBB: Centennial Conference

[mulefreak02]

eat me everyone else!

wow, dipphan, get a life! i hope your overrated, overhyped and soon to be 19-2 f&m diplomats are ready for a smack down on saturday in a-town. malique and austin will shoot the lights out on your guards, and liddic is ready for a prime time performance. UC hooligan, I'll be there in my regular seat. too bad about the divorce case, and too bad your bears couldn't pull the upset tonight. i guess that leaves it up to us mules, but we've knocked off much better f&m teams before.

[dipphan]

Not sure i can go to mule town to see georgio continue his dominance!  enjoy the show mulefreak.  glad to see Gabriel went into hiding just like his team did in the second half.  as far as these f and m haters glad to see you watched the game Wednesday excellent analysis uc.  stick to law!   

good road win for f andm .  looking forward to the cc tourney in lancaster and the march to Salem.  should be a lock!

[r.w. mcnickels]

good road win for f andm .  looking forward to the cc tourney in lancaster and the march to Salem.  should be a lock!

Nothing is a lock in this conference, dipphan. A couple of losses and the Dips could easily be sent on another odyssey to a remote location in NCAAs. It's still way too early.

Gabriel (or anyone else from Ursinus) - when the Bears and Dips played in December, Ursinus had a freshman who started at either shooting guard or small forward. He looked like he had potential. What happened to him?

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Remember... couple of bad losses and that is exactly what happened to F&M last year... Cabrini could be the way to Salem if the Cavs keep playing well... and F&M could easily be shipped into other regions (see where SMC went last season for the second weekend).

Don't count your chickens...

[Gabriel]

good road win for f andm .  looking forward to the cc tourney in lancaster and the march to Salem.  should be a lock!

Nothing is a lock in this conference, dipphan. A couple of losses and the Dips could easily be sent on another odyssey to a remote location in NCAAs. It's still way too early.

Gabriel (or anyone else from Ursinus) - when the Bears and Dips played in December, Ursinus had a freshman who started at either shooting guard or small forward. He looked like he had potential. What happened to him?

r.w.

You're thinking about Phil Walker---a superb athlete also recruited by F&M.  He is no longer on the BB team for whatever reason.  No one talks about it.  Apparently on the track team now.

[UCHooligan98]

Remember... couple of bad losses and that is exactly what happened to F&M last year... Cabrini could be the way to Salem if the Cavs keep playing well... and F&M could easily be shipped into other regions (see where SMC went last season for the second weekend).

Don't count your chickens...

Exactly!  F&M still has three tough road games left in conference.  no way they sweep those three.  And we havent even seen a single regional ranking!  who knows, maybe F&m is 4th or lower. 

That said, from what ive seen cabrini probably doesnt want anything to do with a team like F&M.  A team like Cabrini wants to run the floor and play fast.  F&M wont let you do that.  It remains to be seen if Cabrini can win one of those ugly games that gets mired in the muck (like last nights FM/Bears game).  In my mind, F&M's best case scenario is a mid-atlantic heavy region with weaker east/atlantic teams where they are on opposite sides with Cabrini.  Worst case, theyre shipped back to an ODAC heavy region where theyll be one-and-done. 

[Reserved Seat]

When's the last time F&M was one and done?

[UCHooligan98]

When's the last time F&M was one and done?

i could be wrong, but didnt they win one game, then they were done just last year?  My point was that F&M seems to have struggled with physical ODAC teams in recent years (just looking at past schedules).  Playing a Cabrini favors the Dips because they might not be ready for the a physical game, and F&M will be sure to lull ya to sleep

[r.w. mcnickels]

i could be wrong, but didnt they win one game, then they were done just last year?  My point was that F&M seems to have struggled with physical ODAC teams in recent years (just looking at past schedules).  Playing a Cabrini favors the Dips because they might not be ready for the a physical game, and F&M will be sure to lull ya to sleep

They were knocked out by ODAC teams the last two years, by Randolph-Macon in the Elite Eight in 2010 and at Virginia Wesleyan in the second round last year. F&M did beat a very good ODAC team in the second round in 2004, Hampden-Sydney, which I believe had been ranked No. 1 earlier that season.

[UCHooligan98]

i could be wrong, but didnt they win one game, then they were done just last year?  My point was that F&M seems to have struggled with physical ODAC teams in recent years (just looking at past schedules).  Playing a Cabrini favors the Dips because they might not be ready for the a physical game, and F&M will be sure to lull ya to sleep

They were knocked out by ODAC teams the last two years, by Randolph-Macon in the Elite Eight in 2010 and at Virginia Wesleyan in the second round last year. F&M did beat a very good ODAC team in the second round in 2004, Hampden-Sydney, which I believe had been ranked No. 1 earlier that season.

Forgive me if i'm wrong RW, but didnt F&M's 09 season also end with a loss to Guilford, yet another ODAC team? 

[Pat Coleman]

hey pat, do you expect anything better from an F&M fan?

I am sure there are many classy F&M fans. Wish more of them would show their faces here, though, and drown out the noise from the vocal minority.

[r.w. mcnickels]

i could be wrong, but didnt they win one game, then they were done just last year?  My point was that F&M seems to have struggled with physical ODAC teams in recent years (just looking at past schedules).  Playing a Cabrini favors the Dips because they might not be ready for the a physical game, and F&M will be sure to lull ya to sleep

They were knocked out by ODAC teams the last two years, by Randolph-Macon in the Elite Eight in 2010 and at Virginia Wesleyan in the second round last year. F&M did beat a very good ODAC team in the second round in 2004, Hampden-Sydney, which I believe had been ranked No. 1 earlier that season.

Forgive me if i'm wrong RW, but didnt F&M's 09 season also end with a loss to Guilford, yet another ODAC team?

UC Hooligan, F&M's '09 season effectively ended with a Final Four semifinal loss to Richard Stockton. The Dips then lost the consolation game to Guilford in what amounted to an exhibition game. Thankfully the NCAA has since gotten rid of that game, because as I'm sure you're aware as an Ursinus fan, the players (and many fans) simply don't want to be there.

[pizzashop]

When you say one and done, do you mean play one and done, or win one then done?

F&M has advanced beyond the first round in each of their dozen NCAA appearances since 1990. That is the only time in 22 appearances F&M has not advanced beyond the first round. Glenn Robinson's teams have gone 40-26 (consolation games creating the two loss years) in NCAA play.

[UCHooligan98]

i could be wrong, but didnt they win one game, then they were done just last year?  My point was that F&M seems to have struggled with physical ODAC teams in recent years (just looking at past schedules).  Playing a Cabrini favors the Dips because they might not be ready for the a physical game, and F&M will be sure to lull ya to sleep

They were knocked out by ODAC teams the last two years, by Randolph-Macon in the Elite Eight in 2010 and at Virginia Wesleyan in the second round last year. F&M did beat a very good ODAC team in the second round in 2004, Hampden-Sydney, which I believe had been ranked No. 1 earlier that season.

Forgive me if i'm wrong RW, but didnt F&M's 09 season also end with a loss to Guilford, yet another ODAC team?

UC Hooligan, F&M's '09 season effectively ended with a Final Four semifinal loss to Richard Stockton. The Dips then lost the consolation game to Guilford in what amounted to an exhibition game. Thankfully the NCAA has since gotten rid of that game, because as I'm sure you're aware as an Ursinus fan, the players (and many fans) simply don't want to be there.

RW, my point still stands.  They struggle when confronted with a team as physical as them and have been beaten by an ODAC team 3 years running.  Call it an exhibition, but i'm sure the players didnt treat it as an exhibition. 

[UCHooligan98]

eat me everyone else!

wow, dipphan, get a life! i hope your overrated, overhyped and soon to be 19-2 f&m diplomats are ready for a smack down on saturday in a-town. malique and austin will shoot the lights out on your guards, and liddic is ready for a prime time performance. UC hooligan, I'll be there in my regular seat. too bad about the divorce case, and too bad your bears couldn't pull the upset tonight. i guess that leaves it up to us mules, but we've knocked off much better f&m teams before.

thanks Mule, i'll look for you hopefully around 15 minutes before game time.  Yeah, this case has me burned out today.  I have to remember that i get paid the big bucks because i'm smarter than my clients, so i cannot hold it against them when they act so darn stupid.  its just frustrating.