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March 2010
We got one commitment. I am not all that excited. He was a late commital, which almost always means a PG who is missing a tool or two. I won't know for a while since he was a sight unseen guy. We win the game at home vs. Harvard, 90-78. We pulled away about five minutes in and never looked back. This guaruntees a .500 season for us. Code:
Fernand Bonenfant goes off for 29 points. Code:
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We drop our final game, 71-58, at home. We got killed on the glass and played with a lot of our key guys in foul trouble. Code:
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Xavier hit a buzzer beating three to beat us. Oklahoma kills Temple in the title game, 80-56. Our March scholly offer was declined. I offer it to the last guy on my call list. Code:
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01-17-2005, 08:23 PM
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Here are my graduating seniors. I'll really miss these guys. All of them have really done work for us.
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01-18-2005, 10:58 AM
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2010-2011 Season
We get that French PG with no athletic ability before closing the year.
Our recruiting class was ranked #69. In a case of the rich getting richer, National Champ Oklahoma had the #1 class. Here are the national champs since I started this dynasty. Code:
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01-18-2005, 11:00 AM
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I ask the board to improve the training facilities again.
Our team prestige is up to 29. Both Old Dominion and Northern Illinois offer me jobs. I can only take Atlantic area jobs, though. My staff is left alone again. Maybe, I should take the hint. My facility upgrade request was approved. We only have one scholly to give out this year. I'm looking to make a splash with my concentrated money. The #46 prospect in the country has average interest in me. I offer the scholly-- sight unseen-- in the first month. He is a SF. Here's his card after I visited him: Code:
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Martin signs before training camp. So I'm done with recruiting for the year. He should eat the Ivy league alive on the offensive end for a few years. |
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01-18-2005, 11:06 AM
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We get eaten alive at St. Bonaventure in our opener, 99-70. We kept it tight for a while. But I think our pace was set too high. There were too many bad shots right before the half.
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We then piss away a victory at home vs. Rhode Island. What a dissapointment. We were up by five with two minutes to play and their best player had just fouled out. Then, we started fouling like crazy and that was all she wrote. Code:
It also didn't help that I lost three players due to injury. Speaking of which, here are this years guys: My starting center is Xavier Hawley. He is a very good inside scorer and kills on the offensive glass. Code:
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01-18-2005, 11:08 AM
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We go on stinking up the joint for the rest of the month.
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01-18-2005, 11:09 AM
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December 2010
Of course we follow that up with a six game winning streak. Go figure. Code:
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01-18-2005, 11:11 AM
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January 2011
I decide to put Calvin Mcmahan in as the starting PG. I'm tired of Jones' turnovers. We start out the month with an 80-74 win at UKMC (wherever that is). Gleb Irbe picks up PotG. He has 16 points, 9 boards, and 3 steals. Xavier Hawley could've gotten it with 20 and 8 boards. All five starters were in double figures. Code:
We start our conference schedule at home vs. Cornell. We need to get off to a good start. Midway through the first half we are up 8-5. It's been an ugly game. It's not much better by half time. We go into the break down 26-23. We fall further behind in the 2nd. But we pull ahead around the five minute mark. We keep the magin at about five until it's fouling time. My point guards hit their free throws and we triumph 63-57. Code:
Gleb Irbe is PotG with 18 points and 4 steals. Xavier Hawley added 20 points and 13 rebounds. Gianpolo Luchi chips in with 13 and 12. We had four starters in double figures. Code:
Our next game is on the road at Princeton. We go back and forth for a few minutes. But the we have an offensive expolsion. There's a series where we go down and drian three pointers three straight times after getting defensive stops. We go into the half up 51-26. We wind up winning by the final count of 88-73. Calvin McMahan gets player of the game honors. Code:
We're not playing that well in the second half. But we are beating them to all the rebounds and that's giving us our margin. We're up 68-60 with 4:03 left. We get to free throw time and salt it away, 75-70. Code:
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01-18-2005, 11:13 AM
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February 2011
Cal State Northridge comes to town-- interrupting our conference schedule. My guys don't seem ready for a real team. We're down 40-30 at halftime. At 11:42 in the second we pass them, 48-47. The defense has been tight and we're putting a lot of offensive pressure on them. We force them to call a timeout when we go up 55-49. Here's hoping we can sustain it. We've got really good ball movement today. Calvin Mcmahan has four assists, as do Chris Dombrowski and Gleb Irbe (actually five for both of them). We win this one 73-61. Calvin Mcmahan is PotG. He has 12 points, 4 assists, 2 boards, 2 steals, and was 5-7 from the floor (2-3 from three). Code:
We come out smoking and go up 7-0-- forcing Brown to take a timeout early. We are up 14-2-- with Gianpolo Luchi trying to put the finishing touch on a three-point play as I type this. Brown is in the penalty with 13:16 left in the first. We're up 20-6. We close the half up 43-26. Xavier Hawley leads all scorers with 17. He also has 4 boards and 3 assists. He hasn't turned the ball over yet. Augustin Torres is the only guy on the squad with as many as 2 fouls. We're shooting .630 from the floor and we have the rebound advantage 26-14. We go on to an 80-56 victory. I'ts nice to get a blowout win vs. Our rivel for the league lead on their floor. Hawley gets player of the game. He has 21 points, 8 boards, and four assists. He leads the team in all three categories. We didn't have an answer for Rufus Watson from Brown, though. He had 21 and may take first team honors this year away from Gleb Irbe. Code:
We start the second half with a 6-0 run also. We're up 40-25 with 15:45 remaining. We pretty much stay on a roll from there. We triumph 79-51. Xavier Hawley is Player of the Game again. He has sixteen and nine. Lamar Murdoch also did great work off the bench. Irbe was in foul trouble all game and didn't contribute much. Ignace Deliot,too, found a way to help out. He had ten points in five minutes of playing time. I noticed the other day that Deliot has never started for us. If we clinch before the last game, I'll definitely start him in one before the end of the season. Code:
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Brown and Rufus Watson come right back. He hits two shots on their run to tie it at eight and force us to use a 'T'. We go up by one on a Xavier Hawley free throw and then it's back and forth with nothing. The players are going to Irbe, though. On our next position he misses a shot. But we hit the offensive glass and work it back around to him. He hits for a traditional three-point play after taking it inside. The foul is on Rufus Watson. Take it in to him more often, Gleb. Both Watson and Irbe go cold for a stretch. But our other players outplay theirs a little. We're up 18-15 with 12:53 in the half. Here are their player cards: Code:
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With mostly backups in right now, it's Thomas Nelson who is providing our punch. He's scored our last four points. We lead by one, 32-31. A terrible sequence follows this as we commit a reach-in for our tenth foul. The point guard, John Nutter-- who has hurt us in this one-- misses both shots but gets his own rebound. They work the ball around for a while and he finally nails a three to put them up by two, 34-32. Calvin McMahan scores the next four points in the game. We go back into the lead, 36-34. After a back-and forth that ties up the score, Irbe comes back in and finds Chris Dombroski open for three, 39-36. We maintain that margin going into halftime, 43-40. For us, Xavier Hawley has eight points and seven boards. Gleb Irbe has seven and two assists. For them, Eric Rowden, their PF, and David Osborne, their C, each have eight points. The overall stats are about even. We're up 48-42 with 17:24 left. But it's still back and forth. the news of note is that on our last offense trip we induced Rowden's third foul. Rufus Watson follows with his third on our next possession. We've got three of our own guys with two, Mcmahan, Irbe, and Nelson. Xavier Hawley goes inside and scores while inducing Rowden's fourth. Hawley misses the three-point play, however. It's 50-42. Let's hope this is our run. Hawley comes back down after a Brown turnover and takes it inside for another two, 52-42. Brown stops the action to think it over and Hawley staels an entry pass after they come out of the break. He works it through Gleb Irbe to Augustin Torres in the corner for two. A Watson three cuts into our role and makes the score 56-47, with 12:33 left. We keep it rolling for a minute. but they start sharpshooting from the outside and force us talk it over. They've closed to 68-59, after we were up by as many as 14. We go back to Hawley out of the break. They haven't figured out an answer for him. He's up to 20 and 10 already. After a little more up and down, Hawley takes back inside vs. Erick Rowden, who is back in with only 4:08 left. A couple moves and Rowden hacks him on the shot for his fifth and is out of the game. We get into free throw time with the same margin and it's time to put it away. We win 82-69. Xavier Hawley is, again, Player of the Game. I have to believe that-- baring injury-- he's all but locked up Conference Player of the year. Today he had 23 and ten, with three assists and a steal agaist one foul and two turnovers in thirty-five minutes of play. Watson gets the bare nod over Irbe in this one, probably. Watson: 17 points (7-16, 3-8 3Ps, 0-1 FT), 1 rebound, and 3 steals against three fouls and four turnovers. Irbe: 9 points (4-11, 0-1 3PS, 1-1 FT), 6 rebounds (2 Off), 5 assists, and 4 steals againts 3 fouls and 1 turnover. Actually, on second thought, I'll give the nod to Irbe-- especially since we won. Code:
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Other than Harvard, though, there isn't a winning team left on our schedule. I hope to reach twenty wins. Of course, if we do, then the conference'll be sewn up as well. Code:
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01-18-2005, 11:19 AM
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In our next game at Towson, we get out to a early seven point lead despite not playing particularly well. But by the 7:39 mark they force us to call our first 'T' when they go on a run that puts them up 25-23.
We get to haltime down, 41-39. We actually ahd to put on a little burst to close to that score. they went up by five earlier in the half. We are getting very little from our bigs in this one. We continue the back-and-forth play into the second half. We go ahead 49-47 at the 14:42 mark. They force a timeout at 10:39 with a run that puts them up, 61-55. We're just playing like garbage. We need to come out of this break with a bucket. We've got all of our starters back in and they've only got two of theirs on the floor. We miss some shots but hit the offensive glass. But finally the possesion goes for naught. We're down 68-64 with seven minutes left. We just haven't played as badly as they have for the last two minutes or so to close the gap a little. We force a timeout-- under two minutes-- when we get the game back to thre, 80-77. they had gotten it up to eight. We then get a big stop. But they get one when we go the other way. A couple of steals by Irbe and Luchi and some finishes and we are buck up by one 81-80. We continue ripping them on the next defensive series. After some good ball movement, we go up 83-80, with only eighteen seconds left to play. Towson calls a timeout. I put in all my good perimeter defenders. But their point guard throws away a pass immediately. I take the oportunity to switch in my good free throw shooters. Calvin McMahan is fouled immediately. He hits the fron tend of the one-and-ne to give us afour-point margin. Towson then calls another timeout. There are eight seconds left. Hawley then does something stupid by fouling them on the inbounds pass to foul out of the game and put them on the line for a one-and-one with five seconds left. Their man misses the first shot and Calvin Mcmahan gets the board to seal the victory and PotG. He had twenty points and eight assists. Luchi added in 19 and nine rebounds. Code:
Hawley picks up two quick fouls to start off the game at Cornell. We're paying the price for all those early home games in the conference schedule. This is the secod in a stretch of five straight road games. Cornell starts the game with a 6-0 run-- forcing us to call a timeout. We cant buy a bucket. It's 9-0 with 13:12 left in the half. We finally get on the board at 12:30. It's 9-2 after an Irbe steal leads to a 3-on-2 break and a layup from Chris Dombrowski. We start to heat up a little after that. We close to 11-7 by 11:14. Two Thomas Nelsen free throws tie the game at 11 at 9:52. They also cause a break in the action as Cornell uses the pause button. They force us to use a 'T' of our own after they come out of theirs with a 13-4 run. We can't seem to impose our will inside and we aren't pressuring their ball handlers as we usually do. At halftime, the score is 34-29, Cornell. Luchi and Irbe are scoreless. And four of Hawleys six were gotten at the charity stripe. No one's hitting from the floor. We come out a little better. We tie it at 36 by the 16:46 mark. We're more talented than they are. But we are playing stupid. And some of our guys are really cold today. We have some trouble after that though. They go on a 6-0 run that sees Hawley and Nelsen both pick up number four. We're down 42-36 with 14:21 to play. We get to 3:10 down one after a stop, 56-55. Dombrowski gets a tip to tie it up at 57. There are two minutes left. We need to get a stop and actually go up this tme. Of course we foul them on the other end instead. Both teams are in the bonus. Dombrowksi gets the two back on the other end and has a chance for a three point play to give us a slim lead. He hits-- 60-59. He has fifteen-- to lead all scorers. Luchi steals the ball on the next possesion and they foul Calvin McMahan to put him on the line for two with :26 left. He only hits the front end. We've got no timeouts left. So we need a stop here-- and definitely no threes. Dombrowski fouls their small forward with 2 seconds left. Code:
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Our next game is at 6-16 Yale. These are the games one has to watch out for. We should blow their doors off on paper. But Hawley has been in a funk for the last couple. That's made our last ones tight affairs. We get out to a seven point lead, 7-0, after two and change have been played. That forces their hand with the timeout. At 12:15, it's 26-7 after Ignace Deliot hits a three. We're rollin'. We lead 53-29 at the intermission. Everyone's doing damage. Can we score 100? Our pace slows down considerably-- although we're still blowing them out. At 11:49, it's 67-45. Chris Dombrowski is the only starter not in double figures yet. We don't reach 100. The final score is 91-52. Gianpolo Luchi is the player of the game. He had 24 on 8-10 from the field and 8-9 from the free throw line. Hawley chipped in with 14 and 14, including seven on the offensive glass! In one bright spot for Yale, their backup center, Avery Toro, was their only player to reach double figures and he added six blocks. Code:
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01-18-2005, 11:22 AM
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We win the game at Harvard and then drop the game at home vs. Dartmouth-- ruining our perfect conference record and possible decent seed in the tourney. Code:
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Well, we're not out west, at least. Howard wound up a fifteen seed at 20-12. I guess that's about the range of team that they'll have us with. We're not going to the Midwest either. This is looking better and better for us. I'd like to win a game in the FBCA. This might be my last year at Columbia. I guess we'll be in the East region. We weren't sent down south, either. We get the #12 in the East. Our opening round game'll be against Seton Hall. Code:
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I didn't notice any ranked teams losing on opening Thursday. So I'm getting worried about how likely big upsets are. We play on Friday. Seton Hall is the #19 team in the country. We get on the board first after Calvin Mcmahan hits a jumper. We lost the jump ball. But they missed a quick three. They answer quickly to tie it at two. On the way back McMahan hits Luchi cutting to the hoop and Gianpolo jams it to put us back up. They answer right away again. It's going at a high pace. Only 44 seconds have gone by. On our next trip Mcmahan gets fouled by their point, Mckinley Graham, as he cuts inside. Graham picks up a tech arguing about it with the refs. Calvin hits both Technical free throws. But we can't close on the ensuing possession. We go back and forth unsuccessfully for a few trips until they hit a three to take a one point lead. The defense settle a little after that. It takes us a few trips to get the basket that puts us back up by one, 8-7. Another minute goes by before we are able to tack on another one, 10-7. They tie it on the next trip with a three. It goes pretty much back and forth with us getting the better of the action. At the ten-minute mark, we lead 21-17. The shot that put us up by four, a Nelsen jumper from the key off of a feed from Irbe, forces the Seton Hall coach to call the games first timeout. They of course answer with a three out of the break, 21-20. ther off guard, Fredric Gurney, broke free from a trap and dribbled all over the court before knocking it down. Right now, Irbe is my only starter that's on the floor. They've got three. We controlled the game when the situation was reversed. After about a minute of futility, Irbe hits a tre to put us back up by four. Mcmahan comes in on the next stoppage-- because of a Dee Gurola reach in that evens the teams at five team fouls-- and promptly jumps the passing lane to rip one for a breakaway layup in the other direction. We push Seton Hall into the penalty when Thomas Nelsen draws a hack on an inside move with seven minutes and fourteen seconds left. He goes one for two to put us ahead by four again. They come down and close to 26-25 on an in-out-in bouncer of a three. After a few futile trips by both teams, Nelsen works his way back to the line on another inside move. This time he hits both. They score four unanswered to tie it up on the next few turns on the court. They take the lead, 31-29, at 3:22. I decide to use a timeout to get my guys in. I want to close with a surge. Calvin Mcmahan immediately drwas a shooting foul. That means that we'll be shooting the bonus on any more this half. He hits both to tie the game at 31. They get the next basket though. We are also terrible the next couple of trips. Then they make what seems like ten passes before Mckinley Graham hits a three. That shot puts them ahead, 36-31. But he gets whistled for taunting afterwards. That leads to an ejection. Unfortunately, Mcmahan misses both technical shots. They score two more unanswered to put them nine ahead, 40-31. that forces me to take another timeout. The half ends with the score 42-33. Our problem is that we can't hit the broadside of the barn. Also, they are used to dealing with players of our caliber. We are used to playing teams that can't handle our inside scoring. It seems like they've already swatted five of our shots (actually, checking the stats, it's six). Our FG% is 30.8-- theirs: 45.9. We close to within five by 14:38, 50-45. But it seems that we're firing on all cylinders just to stay in the gym with them. We've closed a couple of times just to have them nail a three to put them back up. Gleb Irbe makes me eat my words by stealing a pass on the next possession and taking it the other way for a layup. That forces a Seton Hall timeout. They of course score on the next trip, 52-47. We fail to answer and then they hit another three, 55-47. Another turnover by us and another three makes it 58-47. Then another 'T' by us. At 10:37 it's 68-53. They are blowing us off the court. the timeouts ain't slowing their momentum at all. It's almost over. We need to get it under ten within the next two minutes to have a chance. By 7:50, it's over at 80-53-- Seton Hall. It winds up 86-64. I'm proud of my guys for sticking with them so long. They really had us outclassed. We don't have the long distance shooters to come back from big defecits late. Code:
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01-18-2005, 11:23 AM
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01-18-2005, 11:24 AM
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01-18-2005, 11:25 AM
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01-18-2005, 11:26 AM
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01-18-2005, 11:28 AM
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Here is my one graduating senior:
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