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Everybody should get a little perspective on that time. Go run a lap on your local track w/ no hurdles. Stop when your watch hits 56.69 seconds. This is an amazing time. That time would have put her 6th at the NCAA Championships last year (.01 from 5th).

 

 

 

 

New life of college basketball unfortunately. Read there's already more than 700 DI transfer this year alone. Looks to break last year's record.

 

Return the core of Cremo, Andrews, Nichols, Ennema, Stire, Rowley and Charles, if healthy.

 

We certainly should be able to offer the opportunity for playing time! With an increasing number of grad transfers..I wonder if that's a route the staff is interested in.

 

 

I'll wait and see how this shakes out but I'm not sure how Andrews, Nichols and Charles are considered core at this point. How many minutes per game have they played. And of those minutes were any of them meaningful?

 

Charles would have been our first big off the bench ahead of Peters and Enemma had he not had his ailment. Dude was borderline as good as Rowley, IMO. Both Andrew and Nichols played in spot minutes and didn't get their doors blown off...both look more than capable and will now have a LOT more playing time since Evan/Ray and Peter are gone.

 

 

I like the potential just wasn't ready to include them in the core. They played a combined 364 minutes in 33 games, much of it in mop up time (including 51 against DIII comp). They played 0 minutes in our big win vs. Stony Brook and 2 minutes in our loss to Hartford. Again I think there is some potential but I would think if coach had a lot of confidence they would have played some minutes in the big games. My analysis is a bit unfair given the health issue for Charles but you get the point.

 

 

They had three seniors and the ROY playing in those big games. Hard to find time for two other guards even if Brown had confidence in them.

 

This next part is just pure speculation on my part but it seems if Brown doesn't think a kid can play or works in his program they "transfer" the next season. I am not saying he pushes anyone out the door but maybe during the exit interview at the end of the season he makes it clear that they will not get more playing time the following year. This leads to their transfer. I think if he didn't have confidence in Nichols and Andrews they wouldn't be here. I may be way off base and they will bring in kids who will get those minutes next year and Nichols and Andrews will just be backups and play only a few minutes.

 

Again, that previous paragraph was pure speculation and I have no clue what actually goes on. I wish I did though.

 

I think you're correct (and not just Brown of course) that coaches push/nudge/advise kids to find other options. Now I'll speculate: Can he take any different approach w/ Nichols and Andrews. It's not like we have other options at this point. If he pushes them out the door how many players do we even have?

Again I think there is some potential there but if they are the answer I think they would have found their way on the floor a bit more even with those guys in front of them. Let's face it Peter was not good in a lot of games this year.

 

 

New life of college basketball unfortunately. Read there's already more than 700 DI transfer this year alone. Looks to break last year's record.

 

Return the core of Cremo, Andrews, Nichols, Ennema, Stire, Rowley and Charles, if healthy.

 

We certainly should be able to offer the opportunity for playing time! With an increasing number of grad transfers..I wonder if that's a route the staff is interested in.

 

 

I'll wait and see how this shakes out but I'm not sure how Andrews, Nichols and Charles are considered core at this point. How many minutes per game have they played. And of those minutes were any of them meaningful?

 

Charles would have been our first big off the bench ahead of Peters and Enemma had he not had his ailment. Dude was borderline as good as Rowley, IMO. Both Andrew and Nichols played in spot minutes and didn't get their doors blown off...both look more than capable and will now have a LOT more playing time since Evan/Ray and Peter are gone.

 

I like the potential just wasn't ready to include them in the core. They played a combined 364 minutes in 33 games, much of it in mop up time (including 51 against DIII comp). They played 0 minutes in our big win vs. Stony Brook and 2 minutes in our loss to Hartford. Again I think there is some potential but I would think if coach had a lot of confidence they would have played some minutes in the big games. My analysis is a bit unfair given the health issue for Charles but you get the point.

New life of college basketball unfortunately. Read there's already more than 700 DI transfer this year alone. Looks to break last year's record.

 

Return the core of Cremo, Andrews, Nichols, Ennema, Stire, Rowley and Charles, if healthy.

 

We certainly should be able to offer the opportunity for playing time! With an increasing number of grad transfers..I wonder if that's a route the staff is interested in.

I'll wait and see how this shakes out but I'm not sure how Andrews, Nichols and Charles are considered core at this point. How many minutes per game have they played. And of those minutes were any of them meaningful?

Because I can:

Albany beat Yale.

Yale beat Baylor.

Baylor beat Oklahoma St.

Oklahoma St. beat Kansas.

We should be a 1 seed.

Any news on ticket sales?

For what it's worth I was told "slow".

Jamar, Hooley, Jamar, and Hooley. For the D-1 Era. We're too young to have 4 at this point in my opinion.

Award or no award (hopefully he gets it) I'll take Cremo over Duncan any day of the week.

Congrats to the team and Coach Vives and his staff. Just amazing.

Nice bit of ESPN run for UA and the Dallas this morning.

What a great game. An important win in front of that crowd. I'm hopeful wins that like that with that kind of energy in the building will build that fan base, specifically the students.

Great game plan and incredible team effort. I know a handful of his points came down the stretch from the line but Cremo w/ 16 points in 14 minutes. Solid. Hooley a double double.

Just a lot of fun.

One more for Rich Peters. Rich has had some rough ones lately but I'm not sure how he isn't viewed as more than effective yesterday. 22 minutes, 8 pts, 7 RBs, 1 TO, on 4-4 shooting.

 

Take it to the basket. I just don't understand that one. And that could cost us the 2 seed.

No it didn't... Still in 2nd as we have the tie braker

 

Note "could".

Take it to the basket. I just don't understand that one. And that could cost us the 2 seed.

We have life.

Cremo takes one crazy shot and Brown grabs Hooley. Not sure I understand. Let's hope Hooley finds something.

Big Rich isn't the player we hoped but have you watched our other big men today? They play much smaller than they are - all the blocked shots ODay had and NH is doing the same. Rich is very valuable

I agree. On the offensive end our bigs are challenged.

These Hooley nights are tough to overcome. 1-8 from the floor.

No other options w/ Stire in foul trouble. He is tough to watch at this point.

I've got 2 Xtra tix for this weekends big game. Message me if interested.

Didn't watch the game.

 

Statistically speaking, team-wise, we had a pretty good game. Only thing that was bad was the 19 TO's. The %'s were all pretty decent.

 

Our D wasn't great to let up 44 points in a half...but a win is a win.

 

UA FT 20-24, UMBC 19-23. UMBC had one more foul (19).

 

It should be noted that 8 of our FT's came in the last 24 seconds. They had a pretty good edge going into that stretch. On that note, their announcer has never seen a UMBC player commit a foul.

The online video and audio from the aefeed have been out of sync for me. Just curious if it was my laptop or the feed is bad.

 

Not a huge deal. Pretty decent first half after a slow start. Let's see if the can keep the energy up and put the game away or if they will again be slow and allow Hartford to stay in the game.

It's off. Audio is behind.

A few observations:

1. We had 3 guys play 35+ minutes while they had one w/ greater than 30. I do believe we got tired. Not sure why the rotation got so short. I'm sure it was defensive lapses but I doubt Mike, Evan, and Peter didn't have any. I saw a lot of easy buckets.
2. You can point to a lot of turns in a tight game like that but that 5-0 run to end the half was it for me. We had the ball and a 10 point lead w/ less than a minute left in the half. From there 2 TO's, no shots, and gave up 5 points.
3. The question was asked how did Ray Sanders look. Not good. A step slow for sure. And the stats were ugly. 17 minutes, 5 TO's, 5 fouls, and 4 points. Not a healthy Ray Sanders stat line.
4. Defense was not good (understatement), but we also just stopped scoring. 30 points in a half isn't awful but against that team it is. 7 points in the first 7 minutes of the second half? Against a team that gave up 48 in the first half.

On to the next game.

Curious as to what Cremo did wrong. Until the very end he wasn't in there for a long time.

Rather than shooting in warmups for the second half maybe a little defensive work.

Actually I like that Brown is letting us out run them. Absent the let down in the last minute we had a nice lead.