MBB: University Athletic Association

gordonmann · January 08, 2006, 03:20:01 PM

Dunne comes down, drives to the lane and lays it in.

NYU calls time out.

CMU 87 NYU 85 under a minute left

Band's guitarist plays Slash's solo that leads off Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine. A song written by Axel Rose about his model girlfriend, who was the daughter of one of the Everly Brothers.

Full service organization here.

Ralph Turner · January 08, 2006, 03:21:43 PM

Keep it coming! (You have discovered my secret...in game summaries on football, men's and women's hoops since fall 2000!

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gordonmann · January 08, 2006, 03:21:48 PM

Violets inbound, down two.

DeCorso's three rolls in...and out. CMU grabs the board and McGee commits the foul going for the ball.

Gonzalez, for whom rumors of his departure were exaggerated, to the line. Less than 20 seconds left.

gordonmann · January 08, 2006, 03:22:55 PM

Gonzelez misses the first, but hits the second.

CMU up three.

Subs enter for NYU. Violets need a three. DeCorso tries one...and it's an airball.

Gonzalez grabs the board and is fouled with 5 seconds left.

hugenerd · January 08, 2006, 03:23:20 PM

Its a final:
CMU 89- 85 NYU

gordonmann · January 08, 2006, 03:23:53 PM

Gonzelez misses the first...but hits the second.

CMU 89 NYU 85...1.7 left.

NYU gonna need a "manhattan miracle" (viva Ray Martel)

TheFence · January 08, 2006, 03:24:08 PM

Great job Gordonmann. Are you taking donations...

gordonmann · January 08, 2006, 03:24:28 PM

Senor nerd is correct. CMU survives.

gordonmann · January 08, 2006, 03:26:16 PM

Fence:

Ha. Just visit D3hoops.com every now and then and we'll call it even.

Updated UAA standings: CMU 3-0...Case Western 1-0...Wash U 1-0...NYU 1-1...Rochester 1-2...Chicago 0-1...Emory 0-1...Brandeis 0-2

hugenerd · January 08, 2006, 03:32:20 PM

Wow, what a game. Two overtimes and CMU comes up big without two of their three leading scorers in the final overtime. CMU has now won 3 conference road games in a row, two of which are at historically very tough places to play (Rochester and NYU). NYU takes its first loss of the campaign.

CMU is starting to win these tough, close road games which is a good sign; last year 3 of their 4 conference losses were by 5 points or less and 2 of those were on the road (the final one being a game for the conference championship at Rochester). Looks like they have taken the conference by the horns, it will be interesting to see if they can keep it up.

Go Tartans!

David Collinge · January 08, 2006, 03:35:51 PM

Thanks, Gordon. Karma for you.

And a little smite of the cap to hugenerd, for committing one of my least-favorite PU acts: scooping the guy who's put in all the effort of updating the game. Did you think Gordon wasn't going to get around to telling us the final score?

hugenerd · January 08, 2006, 03:40:56 PM

I was listening the whole game as well and I have been following CMU for the whole season and I did posts doing the Rochester game, since he was doing it earlier I did not make any posts but I was so excited when they won I couldn't help myself. Sorry if I upsetted you for making a post but I was just being a fan. I don't go and bother you when you are following your team and I don't see why you would come and take away a karma point for me being happy about my teams victory. If you want to be childish that is your choice, if you would like you can take more karma away but karma is not the reason I am making posts.

Hail Carnegie · January 08, 2006, 06:30:44 PM

Great win for CMU, their experience is really paying off. This team stuck together the early years when things were tough and they're really reaping the rewards now. It'll be interesting to see if they can keep this intensity throughout the entire UAA schedule. The loss to Bluffton might have actually done them some good to get them refocused after the great Princeton game.

Also, shame on WRCT for broadcasting nothing instead of sending broadcasters out to cover this weekend's games.

hugenerd · January 08, 2006, 07:42:54 PM

I would also like to congratulate Clayton Barlow Wilcox on his 1000th career point, which he got in todays game vs. NYU.

Go Tartans!

bouttime · January 09, 2006, 09:31:05 AM

"A thought...Princeton is overrated. I saw Bluffton play a half this week against Manchester and they were decent, but not a world-beater. Bluffton beats CMU behind some great shooting and lots of foul shots. NYU has a relatively weak schedule and brought CMU to the brink."

This was posted as a replay to the Daily Dose on this past weekend. I think alot of people dont realize how tough a conference the UAA is. The amount of travel that teams are forced to do on a given weekend is 5 times the amount teams from other conferences have to do. For example, this weekend CMU left Pittsburgh Thurdsday afternoon and flew to Boston, played Brandeis Friday night. They then drove down to NYU on Saturday, played Sunday afternoon, then had to rush to the airport to catch their flight home to Pittsburgh.
I cant think of another conference that come close to that amount of travel. Most teams are going 2 or 3 hours tops for a road game let alone a 4 day trip. The Sunday afternoon games favor the home team because the visitors have been all over the country before coming to play. I think once people start to realize what the UAA does, the conference will get alot more respect.