Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson always knew there was something special about Marcus Gilbert.
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Marcus Gilbert Developing Into Star At Fairfield
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MAAC Stock Watch: Dec. 8
This week’s MAAC Stock Watch was delayed slightly thanks to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference coaches conference call. Canisius and Fairfield share the top spot in the conference through the first weekend of MAAC play, just as everyone expected. Niagara’s reign over the top spot lasted fewer than two games and Quinnipiac shares the conference basement with Saint Peter’s. Here’s more on who’s up, who’s down after the conference’s first weekend.
Choice To Defend Dooms Quinnipiac Late
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Three Thoughts: Fairfield 56, Quinnipiac 52 (OT) (Fairfield edition)
Monday was indeed very blue for Fairfield, who lost a big lead at home to Bucknell and lost brutally in overtime. At that time, they were 2-5, losers of five of six, and were staring at Manhattan and Quinnipiac to open the MAAC season, surely with visions of last season’s 7-25 (and 4-16 in MAAC play) record dancing in their heads.
Tuesday was gray and Wednesday, too, as Fairfield struggled to make things right in practice. But by the second half on Friday, Fairfield fans were able to be in love with their team as they handled Manhattan fairly easily in the MAAC opener. By Sunday, the Stags were atop the conference as again they went to overtime, but this time put the brutal loss on Quinnipiac, 56-52, even after the three big men that play the most minutes for them had all fouled out.
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Manhattan Stumbles Again At Fairfield
At the very least, Friday night probably spells the end for Steve Masiello’s red suit jacket.
The normally impeccably dressed Masiello will seemingly try anything these days to change his team’s luck, especially after losing on a 75-foot shot last week at George Mason, even donning a checkered red suit jacket that he previously wore at the Hall of Fame Tip-Off dinner two weeks ago.
But in the MAAC opener, it was previously offensively challenged Fairfield that exploded in the second half and left the Jaspers at 1-5 (and more importantly 0-1 in the MAAC) with a surprisingly comfortably 67-54 win at Webster Bank Arena.
Three Thoughts: Bucknell 72, Fairfield 66 (OT)
If Fairfield wasn’t coming off a 7-25 season littered with many games similar to Monday, coach Sydney Johnson probably wouldn’t have been so disturbed, and could dismiss the Stags’ collapse against Bucknell in a 72-66 overtime loss Monday as an aberration, But the normally mild-mannered Johnson (now in his fourth year at Fairfield) held his team for a good 20 minutes in the locker room after the contest to try to figure out how to finish teams off. With MAAC play opening Friday and Manhattan and Quinnipiac looming as its first two opponents, the time for experimenting is just about over and Johnson’s mixtures just haven’t produced a finished product thus far.
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Fairfield Finding Options to Surround Marcus Gilbert
Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson quickly remade the Stags roster with plenty of additions over this offseason, but one junior college transfer has been especially surprising. Continue reading “Fairfield Finding Options to Surround Marcus Gilbert”
Fairfield Stags Solidifying Core for Next Season
The Stags were the 31st youngest team in all of college basketball this season and, at plenty of times, their inexperience showed.
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Quinnipiac 80, Fairfield 72
It was more of a tightrope walk than a basketball game, and Quinnipiac was walking with no safety net. There was no room for error. Playing with a lineup of just seven players, any foul trouble could spell disaster.
Fortunately, Quinnipiac was able to force the early foul trouble squarely on Fairfield’s shoulders and pull away to an 80-72 victory Thursday night at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. Continue reading “Quinnipiac 80, Fairfield 72”
Fairfield’s Sydney Johnson on “The Derek Needham Effect”
While the Fairfield Stags have one of the youngest rosters in the MAAC, head coach Sydney Johnson can’t help but realize the regression from last season’s senior-laden group to this season’s group of young players.
The third-year head coach said that on some level they haven’t been able to replace their face of the program from last season, Derek Needham, who led the program and scored a total of 1,875 points in his career. Continue reading “Fairfield’s Sydney Johnson on “The Derek Needham Effect””
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