Men's Basketball 24-25

[ugarte]

wheels falling off. they keep whistling cornell for offensive fouls and Siena just can't miss. Siena is in the double bonus already. 11 point game at the 12 minute TO. blech

stabilized a bit and the deficit is down to 5 at the 8 minute TO.

still down 5 at the 4 minute TO. Siena is shooting so well from deep but Cornell is forcing tougher shots. All of the offense is coming from Williams and Ragland.

[ugarte]

wheels falling off. they keep whistling cornell for offensive fouls and Siena just can't miss. Siena is in the double bonus already. 11 point game at the 12 minute TO. blech

stabilized a bit and the deficit is down to 5 at the 8 minute TO.

still down 5 at the 4 minute TO. Siena is shooting so well from deep but Cornell is forcing tougher shots. All of the offense is coming from Williams and Ragland.

down 3 with 16.2 seconds left.  feigen just missed a layup on a great backdoor cut and the ref swallowed his whistle for the forest time all night. noard 1 for 2 to cut it to 2, Siena to the line with 13.9...

[ugarte]

wheels falling off. they keep whistling cornell for offensive fouls and Siena just can't miss. Siena is in the double bonus already. 11 point game at the 12 minute TO. blech

stabilized a bit and the deficit is down to 5 at the 8 minute TO.

still down 5 at the 4 minute TO. Siena is shooting so well from deep but Cornell is forcing tougher shots. All of the offense is coming from Williams and Ragland.

down 3 with 16.2 seconds left.  feigen just missed a layup on a great backdoor cut and the ref swallowed his whistle for the forest time all night. noard 1 for 2 to cut it to 2, Siena to the line with 13.9...

Siena hits both. beccles misses the layup and Cornell fouls again. this one is over.

[chimpfood]

Awful performance, never even got a lead vs Siena at home. We did well at finding cutters for easy lays but just didn't shoot threes for some reason and played bad defense. The Ivy League games are all that matter anyway but it's hard not to be pissed off after sitting in Newman for two hours to watch them get handled by Siena and have the Siena fans be even louder than our own.

[upprdeck]

so many unforced turnovers that add up to bad possessions.

then miss th FT and the layup at the end that could have created some hope

the fouls added up as well

[ugarte]

there were some moments but siena isn't good enough to have given us fits like this. they were guarding deep and we weren't rotating the ball fast enough to find open looks given their overcommitment. still, the team feels surprisingly close to cohesive somehow. none of it seems unfixable.

[rss77]

Just could not make adjustments to counter the man to man and open up the 3 point shooting.  Our defense had a hard time getting stops too.  Too many offensive fouls also.

[Al DeFlorio]

8 Siena steals, 2 for Cornell

[mountainred]

Awful performance, never even got a lead vs Siena at home. We did well at finding cutters for easy lays but just didn't shoot threes for some reason and played bad defense. The Ivy League games are all that matter anyway but it's hard not to be pissed off after sitting in Newman for two hours to watch them get handled by Siena and have the Siena fans be even louder than our own.

Only 12 three point shots attempted; fewest since before the pandemic and the current offensive style.  Give Siena some credit for doing a good job of taking away the threeball, but the BR never looked in rhythm.

Restart after the glorified scrimmage for league slate.  8-6 should get us into the ILT, it's almost always enough to finish top 4.  To do that:

1-3 versus the favorites Yale and Princeton
2-2 versus our competition for the ILT Brown and Columbia
5-1 versus the rest of the league Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth.

[arugula]

Awful performance, never even got a lead vs Siena at home. We did well at finding cutters for easy lays but just didn't shoot threes for some reason and played bad defense. The Ivy League games are all that matter anyway but it's hard not to be pissed off after sitting in Newman for two hours to watch them get handled by Siena and have the Siena fans be even louder than our own.

Only 12 three point shots attempted; fewest since before the pandemic and the current offensive style.  Give Siena some credit for doing a good job of taking away the threeball, but the BR never looked in rhythm.

Restart after the glorified scrimmage for league slate.  8-6 should get us into the ILT, it's almost always enough to finish top 4.  To do that:

1-3 versus the favorites Yale and Princeton
2-2 versus our competition for the ILT Brown and Columbia
5-1 versus the rest of the league Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth.

Wild to see Harvard and Penn at the bottom. Feel for Donohue. Not for Amaker.

[mountainred]

Wild to see Harvard and Penn at the bottom. Feel for Donohue. Not for Amaker.

My thoughts exactly!

[arugula]

Harvard was losing to DIII Bowdoin by 9, 9!, at the half before winning by 6.  Is Harvard actually this bad?

[rss77]

Weird game yesterday where a player for Penn State Schuylkill punched one of the refs in the shoulder during a break and got the ejection.  3 straight home losses before taking this one against a Division II USCAA team (USCAA equivalent of NCAA Division III).  Would like to see Cornell players react better to "press out" man to man than they did against Siena.  Credit Gerry McNamara (Siena Coach) with a good game plan to take away Cornell's 3 point shooting which Ivy teams will probably try to emulate.

[chimpfood]

Pretty massive game today, starting 1-0 in the Ivy League always feels important, especially away against a good team like Columbia (though they don't scare me as much as a team with their record normally would).

[chimpfood]

13-4 early, great start and they've gotten nothing from de la Rosa