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Hack fest according to these refs now. ugh
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Re: Iup basketball
This crew gonna have all starters both teams fouled out by halftime
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Lombardi is destroying these officials... the contact against IUP and no calls is crazy awful!!!
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Quick glance at Kutztown:
Record: 4-2
Wins: West Liberty, Cheyney, U-Sciences, Jefferson
Losses: West Virginia Wesleyan, Lincoln (Pa)
Scoring: 85.7 ppg
Defending: 77.2 ppg
FG%: 51%
FT%: 67%
3PT%: 37%
Rebounds: 38 per game (opponents 34 per game)
Notes:
* Turnover-prone at times ... two games so far with 20+
* Anthony Lee is the star ... playing 39.5 mpg, scoring 26 ppg
* Moe Williams (6'7", 205 lbs) is their top post player (11.8 ppg, 9.2 rpg)
* Lee and Williams only two players averaging double figures
* Rotation is not deep ... 6 guys getting vast majority of minutes
* Similar, but slightly smaller in size to Bowie State
* Kutztown will fire a ton of treys up every game
* Results so far have been sporadic
No big scouting report here. No surprises of what is coming. This is like playing Concord and Tommy Bolte. Joe typically goes with the 'shut down the rest of the team' approach. Keep Lee around his average and hammer the other guys.
IUP has won the past two meetings in the series but did lose a nail-biter in its last trip to Kutztown three years ago.
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Good thoughts.
If you divide up the schedule in sections ... with the first one being completed, it's a great start.
The next 10 games are brutal for IUP (with 6 of them being on the road):
at Kutztown
at Millersville (better than many think)
Shippensburg
at Fairmont State
West Chester
____ XMAS____
Gannon
UPJ
at Mercyhurst
at Slippery Rock
at East Stroudsburg
I'd be pretty ecstatic coming out of this 10-game set at 8-2 ... thrilled at 9-1. There's some real battles ahead in the near future. One nice thing is they get to go to FSU, Rock and ESU while students are gone ... offsets that home court advantage a bit. Playing at SRU over break is a huge advantage. They pack Morrow for IUP when they play during the semester.
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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostLast year's team would have been 4-2 right now instead of 6-0.
These (big four) East crossover games and the trip to Fairmont State are going to be highly difficult. Getting Ship, WCU, Kutztown and ESU in the same season is tough. At least two of them are in Indiana.
Let's not get too far ahead. There are some faults showing to this point.
My big concern is this team getting sucked in to a West slop fest. It isn't built to bang.
Last year they were arrogant talkers. This group is confident players. Major difference. Great start. No doubt. But, yes, the roster is just way better. They are deep and will keep getting deeper.
They have 8 players who can all score. The 9th will soon be Danscecs as Joe gets more confidence in him. He's the floor spreader. Great deep shot. Hard group to defend for 40 minutes. They also can crank the D like no Joe team since DeVante's group.
In the East, Ship is undersized and, in my opinion, a bit overrated despite really good coaching. Ship has beaten "tomato cans" to this point and I don't think Ship is built for the long haul. The other contenders in the East - E Stroud, W Chester and Kutztown - are all capable but I don't see those teams getting much better over the course of the season.
The PSAC is clearly IUP's to lose.
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Originally posted by IUP CRIMSON HAWKS View PostThere is something really different about how Irish Tom recruits compared to the other IUP WBB coaches when I used to sit in the bleachers and watch their teams play. I probably subscribed to the Jeff Dow recruiting the most with a few of the classes he got such as 2009 and 2011. But they all had their gems.
I guess it's hard to argue with Irish Tom, what's his record----something like 120-34? He has done well.
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Tom keeps finding gems. No doubt. He's done about 90 percent high school classes and the occasional 'right fit' transfer.
The women's game, for a variety of reasons, has a tremendously better player retention rate. He redshirts many of these girls and keeps the depth at a high level. Tom's teams are incredibly fundamentally sound.
Last year was really the first year I started to really enjoy watching the women's game. Joe's team was hard to watch at times last year. LOL.
Jury is still out on this season. The ladies have played a glorified high school schedule to this point. Things get real here in a couple weeks. But, they are deep with upperclassmen and have a loaded freshmen class sitting on the bench. Appleby is a legit first team All-America player.
I really hope they do get at least one test prior to the Cal/Boro games.
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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostTom has two officially signed new recruits for next year's class.
Josie Smith, a 6'1" forward from New Albany High School (New Albany, OH), and Maria Cerro, a 5'6" guard from Bethel Park High School.
The IUP ladies moved up to No. 3 in yesterday's national poll.
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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostTom has two officially signed new recruits for next year's class.
Josie Smith, a 6'1" forward from New Albany High School (New Albany, OH), and Maria Cerro, a 5'6" guard from Bethel Park High School.
The IUP ladies moved up to No. 3 in yesterday's national poll.
I guess it's hard to argue with Irish Tom, what's his record----something like 120-34? He has done well.
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Tom has two officially signed new recruits for next year's class.
Josie Smith, a 6'1" forward from New Albany High School (New Albany, OH), and Maria Cerro, a 5'6" guard from Bethel Park High School.
The IUP ladies moved up to No. 3 in yesterday's national poll.
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[QUOTE I also noticed in the local edition that this is a very senior/upperclassmen laden team. These guys should have some unit cohesion and battle scars together by now. Maybe it does bode well.
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This has been the target year for awhile now. They built up for this season. Cobo and Malik Miller are legitimate stars.
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