WTH????

Press was a three quarter sham -- did nothing. They started getting back in the game when they ditched the press and went to a zone.

Keep in mind we’re the BEST fans in the MAC! I often wonder IF these athletic programs are for the benefit and entertainment of the student body and the student body by their absence seems to be shouting No Thanks, why expend all the money it takes to provide said “benefit”? Don’t mean to go all Vedder but ............... Just sayin.

I’m always amused that our hoops zealots willl excuse losses to .250 or .200 teams due to key injuries or bad matchups and yet they rail on gridiron losses to conference foes with near or over .500 records due to in conference foes which happen the have higher SOS. No double standards at all, and not to mention comparisons of attendance figures for weeknight games. Look away, nothing to see here.

With all the injuries the team has fought hard in close games. This team will be fine. There is a lot to really like in this team. I see a team that doesn't pack it in or panic down late. They got lots of shooters that can knock down big shots. No question Block and Dartis got some daggers left in them for the MAC tournament. Those guys are showing the ability to knock down some shots late in games. They get Carter back and those shots will be even more wide open. Those teams really going to double Carter and let Block and Dartis bomb away. Laster and Kirk will slice and dice them attacking the rim. Bobcats will have a real nice 8-9 man rotation once Carter and Mickle return to health. Taylor and Gollon have improved a lot this year. They will be far better after getting extra playing time. Kirk and Butler already proving they are going to be very good players.

We need to look at some zone defenses, we had trouble stopping the dribble drive last year. Great effort though only going 7 deep.

I completely agree with this. If Mickle alone plays last night we win that game. We just had nobody to rebound and defend the lane other than Doug, which isn't anyone's fault. I just hope that we can get 3 of the 4 bigs back by MAC play. This team is scary right now with 7 guys (6 of which are under 6-8). Just imagine us with 4 guys who are 6-7 or taller back!

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Saul mentioned, according to Ohiocatfan, that Carter could play as early as Friday if x-rays show sufficient healing. However he was still wearing a boot so that's hard to believe but who knows? Good news is boot now off for BVP. Gareri lost his a while back.

This reasoning is highly specious, probably explaining why no one has bothered to respond to your obvious trolling attempt.

Iona is a quality mid-major program, having been to the post-season six consecutive years (4 NCAA, 2 NIT). Moreover, a basketball team's record six games into a 30-game season is largely meaningless in assessing how good the team may be, without any greater context.

I'm not sure what you mean by the following phrase, as it is grammatically incorrect and presently incoherent: "losses to conference foes with near or over .500 records due to in conference foes which happen the have higher SOS"

In any event, as noted above, the comparison you are trying to make it is meaningless as there is no reason to believe that Iona will be at or around .500 in the second half of the season, thus rendering any parallel to the Akron or Buffalo gridiron losses incongruous.

Finally, the injury comparison is also entirely ill-fitting. Injuries are a natural part of the game of football. Nearly every team in the country loses a few starters (and sometimes quite a few more) throughout the course of the season, making depth a necessary part of a winning program.

Injuries of any considerable length in basketball are much less common, while having to play 3 straight games with 4/5th of your front court rotation in street clothes is basically unheard of. There is nothing anyone could do to prepare for that.

The injuries the hoops team is battling through right now would be the equivalent of having every d-lineman on the football roster but two or three sidelined for multiple games. Under those circumstances, I think it would be unfair to criticize the football team for losing to mediocre competition.

But that, of course, is not the situation the football team is facing, or has ever faced. The football team's injuries are, generally speaking, within the range of normal for the sport, and thus do not provide much of an excuse. The basketball team's current injury totals are anything but normal, and make the team's recent performance not just understandable, but pretty incredible.

Their FT's H2 did not come from penetration dishes out - came from drawing contact. We need to do that better - get to the line from drawing contact.. BIGZ or not a BIGZ

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If you're a student passing by The Convo, you couldn't even tell there was a damn game. It was VERY dark around the building, signage on what gates to go to were barely visible. If you didn't check the schedule, from the outside of the building you would have never known. So we can't light up the building to let people know there's a game, but we can have 45 security officers inside protecting us from bad guys - that probably don't even know it's a basketball arena at night because it's so dark. It's time for the team of people responsible for running game day inside and out of the building to assess and improve their respective games.