I didn’t see the SportsCenter bit on Saturday that poked fun at Towson for its 40th straight loss. I can say with total honesty that the time duration it has been since I watched 15 straight minutes of SportsCenter can be measured in years, not weeks or months. It’s unwatchable. But the fact that they would [...]
Every now and then we stumble into fans that are our kind of folks. A good friend emailed me yesterday about someone on the Drexel part of the CAAZone message board. This guy clearly enjoys the CAA in the same manner in which we enjoy it. Yesterday, prior to Drexel’s game in Williamsburg, he wrote: I find [...]
When the final buzzer sounds in Fairfax tonight, we’ll be halfway through the regular season. Hard to believe. In my mind tonight’s games are also the biggest challenge in the five-in-11 grind. Everyone will be fatigued by Wednesday, the fourth game in the stretch. Every coach will have the same message: fight through being tired. [...]
Back in October, at the CAAs annual media day gabfest and social brunch, Blaine Taylor made waves–or not, depending on your read of the following quote, provided courtest of VCUs student newspaper the Commonwealth Times–when he declared: “You can’t value yourself based on the tournament…the tournament can make rock stars out of average people … [...]
A double-dipper is doable tomorrow. Lunch and a little shopping in Williamsburg in advance of the 2pm WM/UNCW game, then back to Richmond for the night’s festivities of ODU and VCU. Any chance the CAA will go to a 28-game regular season? *** UNCW (3-4) at William & Mary (2-5): The Pugs slog back to [...]
Four minutes into last night’s summa cum rock fight between VCU and W&M–won by VCU in overtime–the score was Juvonte Reddic 11, William & Mary 2. Reddic hit foul line jumpers, jump hooks, and took a steal the length of the floor for a dunk. It was an awesome display–94 feet of basketball skill. It looked for [...]
We have to start with the standings: Mason: 6-1 Old Dominion: 6-1 Georgia State: 5-2 Drexel: 5-2 Northeastern: 5-2 VCU: 4-2 Delaware: 3-4 UNCW: 3-4 William & Mary: 2-4 James Madison: 2-5 Hofstra: 0-7 Towson: 0-7 The separation implication of tonight’s game is obvious: if VCU can beat W&M at home, we have four 5-2 [...]
Depending upon how you choose to do the math, today begins the dreaded four-in-eight stretch for CAA teams. Or five-in-11. For the uninitiated, because during his reign in the 1500s Pope Gregory XIII was unable to foresee Tom Yeager’s plan to expand the CAA to 12 teams–nor anticipate the scourge that is ESPNs Bracketbusters–our calendar [...]
A few links, stats, and notes to tide you over for a smidge…lots later that can’t yet make it out of the hopper… Georgia State giving back to its community in a flat-out awesome way. Mark Selig offers insight into Matt Brady’s struggles during a tough year, by Matt Brady. Brian Mull debuts another weekly [...]
The coaches go today at 10am–we’ll back back later today with quotes of interest. Until then, enjoy 2,300 weekend words. *** Defense is a matter of concentration and buying in to the system. What’s more, defense is also–cliche alert!–a matter of effort. As Monte Ross once said, there isn’t a player or coach in the [...]
