After yesterday’s victory over Notre Dame the hype around the Monmouth Hawks has reached a fever pitch. King Rice’s team has already defeated both UCLA and Notre Dame this season, which no one can deny are two really impressive wins. Continue reading “Slowing Down The Monmouth Hype Train”
Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson was hardly surprised to see his group put together the kind of performance they did Tuesday night. Continue reading “Youth Strengthening Fairfield, Sydney Johnson”
HAMDEN, Conn. – New season, same old Quinnipiac.
The Bobcats crashed the offensive glass and attempted to pound North Carolina Central into submission. But, oh, that outside shooting, 309th nationally a year ago.
Wait, that’s a nine next to Quinnipiac’s made three-pointer number on the boxscore? Hmmm.
In fact, while the season is just four games old, the Bobcats are shooting a robust 38.5% from behind the arc (9-22 Tuesday) and a big reason why they’ve now won two straight after dropping two to start the season.
Continue reading “Three Thoughts: Quinnipiac 69, NC Central 59”
Plenty has happened in the season’s first 10 days and almost every MAAC team has a win in the early 2015-16 season. Continue reading “MAAC Weekly Roundup: Nov. 23”
The third time was the charm for Quinnipiac, as the Bobcats picked up their first victory of the season 62-56 over Holy Cross Sunday afternoon after faltering in their first two contests of the year. Continue reading “Three Thoughts: Quinnipiac 62, Holy Cross 56”
UNCASVILLE, Conn. – There’s no time for what could have beens for college basketball coaches and teams, but there has to be at least a moment or two where Chris Casey and Niagara fans wonder the last couple of seasons.
Part of that isn’t reasonable, but consider this partial list of players who started their careers at Niagara and are still eligible to be playing with them starting with Juan’ya Green and Ameen Tanksley, both at Hofstra, and both first-team preseason All-CAA picks for the Pride, who are also picked to win the conference. It wouldn’t be their first regular-season title, of course, Niagara won the MAAC regular season three years ago before Joe Mihalich left to go to Hofstra and took Green and Tanksley with him.
That team (which went 19-14, 13-5 in the MAAC) also included then-freshman T.J. Cline, who showed plenty of potential and has blossomed into a stud … at Richmond of the Atlantic-10, a big man who can hold his own inside and step out to hit shots as well. That doesn’t take into account, Tahjere McCall, who played decent minutes as a freshman and now starts at Tennessee State.
It was a welcome return to the Hynes Center for Iona Friday night, as A.J. English & Co. dismantled Delaware 92-77. Continue reading “Three Thoughts: Iona 92, Delaware 77”
SMITHFIELD, R.I. – Siena was perhaps the biggest disappointment in the MAAC last season. Coming off a CBI title in Jimmy Patsos’ first season in Albany/Loudonville, the Saints couldn’t get out of their own way, almost literally, in an 11-20 campaign.
Perhaps the biggest riddle was that the personnel wasn’t all that much different. Yet Siena mysteriously went from 78th nationally in defensive efficiency to a nightmarish 334th (there are only 351 Division I teams). What the heck happened?
Patsos and his team had six months to ponder that question and if Friday’s game against Radford is any indication, they have found some answers. The Saints opened the 2015-16 at Duke and Wisconsin, who only happened to play each other for the national title last April, so it was hard to get too much of a gauge off those contests.
Not even the debut of Gio McLean could lift Quinnipiac to their first win of the young season. Continue reading “Gio McLean’s Debut Not Enough To Get Quinnipiac Past Vermont”
It’s no easy task taking on the National Champions.
Continue reading “Fairfield Set For Another Carolina Test”
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