There’s just a month left in the regular season and it should be the time for coaches to be implementing specific game plans for must wins games, but on Saturday at Rose Hill in a must-win game against Charlotte, Fordham head coach Tom Pecora found himself coaching effort.
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After beating George Washington on Saturday Fordham now has two victories in the Atlantic 10, but the Rams will face probably their toughest challenge of the season tonight when they take on Temple in Philadelphia. The Owls are a decisive favorite and have already beaten Duke, Wichita State and St. Louis this season. Josh Verlin of Philahoops and I exchanged Q&A’s. Get to know Temple a bit better.
The boys over at Ballin’ Is a Habit went over 2,500 miles to watch college basketball. I commend them on this incredible journey. Thankfully though I live in New York City, most definitely one of if not the greatest city in the world. It’s also so incredibly densely populated that there are always college basketball games happening during the season. Saturday I’m going to attempt to take advantage of what the city has to offer and attend three games in one day.
January 28, 2012 1:00 pm
Rose Hill Gym
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Nowadays when I attend a college basketball game it’s usually with a seat on press row. At arenas like Rose Hill, Draddy, Levien and Hynes the seats are typically great, even for writers like myself. But it’s interesting, because my blogging career actually started out as a photographer.
Yup, my first press pass in Chicago, when I started blogging independently was a photo credential at Northwestern University. I posted 20-plus galleries of game photos that first season of Chicago College Basketball – from NU, Loyola (IL), UIC and Chicago State.
What I learned that season is that the experience from behind the camera is very different from the one on press row.
And things started happening. Fordham, which had lost its last two Atlantic 10 games by more than 40 points, started out playing tenacious defense. The Rams shut down George Washington’s Tony Taylor for the first 20 minutes and hit the glass hard. By halftime I had a couple photos I liked and Fordham had a seven-point lead and just one fewer rebound than the Colonials had points.
Once I got there I figured out I had definitely made the right decision. The extra light from those beautiful windows allowed me to pull out the 70-200 lens in my bag and really get up close and personal. That’s how you get the good photos. I didn’t have to wait for the action to come to me, I could go to it.
at FORDHAM 63, GEORGE WASHINGTON 58
01/28/2012
GEORGE WASHINGTON 8-13 (3-4)– T. Taylor 5-14 5-7 17; N. Mikic 4-10 0-0 12; D. Smith 3-9 3-3 9; L. Kromah 4-8 2-2 13; B. Bynes 1-9 0-0 2; J. Edwards 1-1 0-0 2; A. Ware 1-4 1-2 3; J. Kopriva 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 19-57 11-14 58.
FORDHAM 9-11 (2-5)– B. Frazier 5-13 6-6 20; D. McMillan 4-7 0-3 9; M. Dominique 2-3 2-5 6; K. Bristol 5-6 0-0 10; B. Smith 1-9 0-0 2; C. Gaston 5-7 6-6 16; A. Estwick 0-1 0-0 0; L. Samuell 0-0 0-0 0; R. Canty 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 22-47 14-20 63.
Three-point goals: GW 9-20 (T. Taylor 2-6; B. Bynes 0-2; L. Kromah 3-4; N. Mikic 4-8), FORD 5-14 (A. Estwick 0-1; B. Frazier 4-7; D. McMillan 1-2; B. Smith 0-4); Rebounds: GW 22 (N. Mikic 7), FORD 37 (K. Bristol 8); Assists: GW 13 (T. Taylor 7), FORD 14 (D. McMillan 6); Total Fouls — GW 18, FORD 14; Fouled Out: GW-None; FORD-K. Bristol.
Fordham pulled out a 63-58 win over George Washington on Saturday afternoon at Rose Hill Gym. Here are some photos from the victory.
After two 40-point losses on the road, Fordham needed some good news. The Rams got it with a 63-58 win over George Washington at Rose Hill Gym on Saturday afternoon. With the win Fordham improved to 9-11 overall and 2-5 in the Atlantic 10.
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Whether its the fact that Atlantic 10 teams have seen this before, the schedule has been difficult, the legs are giving out or something else altogether entirely this much is clear – Devon McMillan, Bryan Smith and Branden Frazier are struggling shooting the ball in conference play. After Wednesday night’s 102-58 loss to Richmond the three of them have combined to shoot over 50% just once in conference play (McMillan was 4-7 against Rhode Island).
When Fordham takes on St. Joseph’s tonight in Philadelphia the Rams need to concentrate on playing a strong for all 40 minutes. While Tom Pecora’s team has been competitive in the majority of its games this season, Fordham has let games get away due to big runs at inopportune times. In most of the losses (with the exception of Syracuse), there’s a definable moment at which the young Rams dug themselves into a hole they’d struggle the rest of the game to get out.
This week’s Saturday Game of the Week takes us to Rose Hill where Fordham has had a lot of success lately. The Rams have won three straight home games against Texas State, Georgia Tech and Harvard. While they lost a tough one at Massachusetts on Thursday, it served as reminder to the Atlantic 10 that Tom Pecora’s squad should be competitive in the conference this season, even if they are really young. Competitive is nice, but wins are better and that’s the opportunity that the reeling Musketeers coming to Rose Hill presents. If Fordham can pull off the upset (and to be clear, it would certainly still be an upset) the Rams will have another quality win under their belt, and maybe have another New York Times feature on the way.
The Atlantic 10 has a lot of good teams in it. In fact, half the league (7 teams) are ranked in the top 100 of Ken Pomeroy’s ratings. They range from St. Louis at #13 to St. Bonaventure at #86. This means that the 16-game league schedule will be a particularly grueling gauntlet for most teams. Here’s the thing though, a 16-game league schedule with 14 teams means that someone is going to get some breaks. It just so happens that St. Louis is one of those teams.
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