Men’s Basketball 23-24

[mountainred]

Great win overall, fordham is a good team. Gotta work on free throws and closing out games but I'll take that result any day.

Absolutely.  Don't forget, the Rams were favored.  Even though the Big Red had a 27 point lead at one point (if you watched the broadcast, you may not have known that, I'm not sure it ever came up.)

Also have to work on handling pressure and boxing out.  Fordham had 9 offensive rebounds in the second half, felt like more, and forced 12 turnovers in the half.

[Mr. Niss]

The Almanac had Fordham #8 and George Mason #12 in their pre-season rankings.  Cornell will be much better than the two teams Mason has played so far.  2-0 on this swing is not nuts.

[ugarte]

Manon has to stop getting cheap hand check fouls. It keeps him off the court and he's easily our most dangerous player.

Our point guards have to keep their heads up during the press. Multiple times Boothby leaked into the frontcourt unguarded but nobody was looking. tbh i don't think they really trust boothby much anymore. they certainly didn't try to get him the ball at all.

negatives aside, that first half was fantastic. naz looked good, noard fights for boards and hits his looks, okereke and nix made some nice plays and gray has real grit.

ragland, man. no touch under the rim and rebounds slip through his hands like he is eating buttered popcorn on the bench.

[billhoward]

Looks as if Syracuse won't be hosting future NCAA tournament basketball games on account of not enough hotel rooms. The on-campus Sheraton and its 235 rooms will be converted to dormitories. This per a brief local story, which says the Sheraton comprises 10% of the local hotel rooms. The Sheraton for tournaments past had been used as housing for out-of-town media. It appears to apply to possible future tournaments beyond 2024. The 2024 regional sites are already chosen and public. (The finals sites are chosen all the way out to 2030.)

It was super nice that the 2010 round of sixteen and Cornell's participation wound up in the then-Carrier Dome.

https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/syracuse-ineligible-to-host-ncaa-tournament-after-loss-of-sheratons-hotel-rooms/

[upprdeck]

There is a plan for another hotel but it will leave a hole for a few years until that gets done.

[chimpfood]

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

[dbilmes]

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

According to Wikipedia, the Palestra is "often called the Cathedral of College Basketball." I doubt anyone has ever used those words to describe Newman Arena.

[ugarte]

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

i think some coaches follow the Dean Smith model and give their seniors a homecoming game and i wouldn't be surprised if both teams had a philly kid. we have two seniors from brooklyn (Gray and Ervin) and two from commuter new jersey (Manon and Hansen) which would account for the Fordham game and two from Plano (Boothby and Williams) which maybe should have been SMU or Dallas Baptist but a two hour drive to Waco to see your kid get blown out by Baylor isn't the worst way to spend a day. We don't always do it though, so it might be a coincidence.

When I was an undergrad, Binghamton's own King Rice was at UNC and I don't think Binghamton was D-I at the time. Unfortuantely, the game was scheduled for winter break. I didn't remember this but after playing them at Newman in 1991, we played them in Chapel Hill the next two seasons.

[Weder]

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools' home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

[ugarte]

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools' home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

I thought Villanova quit the Big 5

[Weder]

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools' home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

I thought Villanova quit the Big 5

Nope, and they let Drexel in so now there are six teams in the Bjg 5.

[Trotsky]

The Palestra is a remarkable place for basketball history.  I would compare it to Matthews Arena.

[ugarte]

The Palestra is a remarkable place for basketball history.  I would compare it to Matthews Arena.

They held the EIWA wrestling tournament there last year. Very cool. Different than Rose Hill at Fordham but they share genes.

[Al DeFlorio]

The Palestra is a remarkable place for basketball history.  I would compare it to Matthews Arena.

Went to Matthews Saturday night.  The wall at the west end is being held up by a forest of girders propped against the outside of the wall.  Fans not allowed to sit in the balcony sections against that wall.  Not a good sign.

[nshapiro]

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools' home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

I thought Villanova quit the Big 5

Nope, and they let Drexel in so now there are six teams in the Bjg 5.

I think Villanova no longer commits to playing all four other teams in the Big 5, claiming it took up too many NC slots on the schedule