Iup basketball

[IUPalum]

No time to dwell on the negative with GU coming to town tomorrow. It will be telling how they respond after a loss like that. The game of the night will probably be the opener anyhow…

Gannon by 30+ in the men's game.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Judging by recent results, IUP appears to be regressing. Is that what you're seeing?

Put it this way ... the two worst teams in the West right now are coached by Joe and Danny.

Who'd have ever seen that coming.

Both are dealing with a lot of problems. Nonetheless.

[Ship69]

These are real stats from yesterday:


* Edinboro won the rebounding (by a FREAKING whopping) 41-21. I'm not checking, but I would venture to guess no team at IUP in at least 40 years has been out-rebounded by 20.

* IUP's strategy to guard the 3PT line was to just have no defender within 9' of any shooter. The Scots ripped them for 13 treys (13-24). No worries. When they did miss, they just obviously got the rebound.

* Steve Kelly (Clarion), Michael Dunn (Shippensburg) and Cenker Evran (Gannon) blasted IUP for a combined 58 points. Kelly couldn't miss, and IUP chose to not really guard him. Interesting strategy.

* IUP grabbed (4) offensive rebounds - the entire game.

* The Hawks shot a dismal 29.63% in the first half

* Luke Triggs (3), Alfonso Pickens (2) and Ian Herring (1) combined to score (6 points).

* Sarp Furtun had the emptiest stat line a guard can accumulate in (30) minutes - 5 points, 2 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals.

* IUP was down by an unimaginable 27 points in the second half. To its credit, IUP did cut the lead down to 12.

* In a game IUP was physically mauled, Triggs (their most physical player) played just (5) minutes.

* IUP got back in the game (phrase used loosely) by pressing the entire second half. IUP's standard defense was completely destroyed in the first 20 minutes.



They got jumped yesterday. Edinboro had way more intensity to start the game. Joe's two most intense players are in track suits. One of these remaining players has to bring some fire. Rebuilding or not, that was embarrassing for the program yesterday.

I'm not taking anything away from Edinboro. The Scots kicked their as$.

What I'm getting at is there were stretches yesterday when the effort from IUP didn't look too hot. That's alarming. The rebounding numbers speak volumes.

Judging by recent results, IUP appears to be regressing. Is that what you're seeing?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

No time to dwell on the negative with GU coming to town tomorrow. It will be telling how they respond after a loss like that. The game of the night will probably be the opener anyhow…

I will be shocked if IUP stays within 30 tomorrow in the men's game.

[JJ Jumper]

No time to dwell on the negative with GU coming to town tomorrow. It will be telling how they respond after a loss like that. The game of the night will probably be the opener anyhow…

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Joe should be embarrassed. Joe has now hit Tort level.

These are real stats from yesterday:


* Edinboro won the rebounding (by a FREAKING whopping) 41-21. I'm not checking, but I would venture to guess no team at IUP in at least 40 years has been out-rebounded by 20.

* IUP's strategy to guard the 3PT line was to just have no defender within 9' of any shooter. The Scots ripped them for 13 treys (13-24). No worries. When they did miss, they just obviously got the rebound.

* Steve Kelly (Clarion), Michael Dunn (Shippensburg) and Cenker Evran (Gannon) blasted IUP for a combined 58 points. Kelly couldn't miss, and IUP chose to not really guard him. Interesting strategy.

* IUP grabbed (4) offensive rebounds - the entire game.

* The Hawks shot a dismal 29.63% in the first half

* Luke Triggs (3), Alfonso Pickens (2) and Ian Herring (1) combined to score (6 points).

* Sarp Furtun had the emptiest stat line a guard can accumulate in (30) minutes - 5 points, 2 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals.

* IUP was down by an unimaginable 27 points in the second half. To its credit, IUP did cut the lead down to 12.

* In a game IUP was physically mauled, Triggs (their most physical player) played just (5) minutes.

* IUP got back in the game (phrase used loosely) by pressing the entire second half. IUP's standard defense was completely destroyed in the first 20 minutes.



They got jumped yesterday. Edinboro had way more intensity to start the game. Joe's two most intense players are in track suits. One of these remaining players has to bring some fire. Rebuilding or not, that was embarrassing for the program yesterday.

I'm not taking anything away from Edinboro. The Scots kicked their as$.

What I'm getting at is there were stretches yesterday when the effort from IUP didn't look too hot. That's alarming. The rebounding numbers speak volumes.

[IUPalum]

Joe Lombardi meet Rock Bottom

Joe should be embarrassed. Joe has now hit Tort level.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Sarp was destroyed today. How is he playing over Herring?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

All the PSAC transfers Joe didn't want just beat the hell out of him. Gotta love the irony.

[JJ Jumper]

Yikes - making Edinboro look like all stars!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Joe Lombardi meet Rock Bottom

[JJ Jumper]

Impressed with Boro’s physicality and effort… and IUP is shooting under 30%

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Joe needs some toughness. They are getting embarrassed.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Joe's probably a road dog at McComb today for the first time in 30 years (maybe longer).

The Scots have a pretty deceiving record. Lots of close losses to good teams.

If I was setting the line today I'd probably go Edinboro -3.5 (men's).

The women's game, as usual, will be a war.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Anybody know if they made the trip to Edinboro yesterday? I see the game isn't PPD (yet).


Travel this morning (for this lovely 3 p.m. game) will be dicey at best.