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Fancy record. Lofty ranking. Big winning streak.

But, is this team for real? Is it a legitimate regional or national title contender?

Last night was a painful game to watch. For, say, 33 of the 40 minutes, IUP looked anything but a 25-2 team. The usual suspects came back -- circus passes, playing out of control, failed alley-oops, running out of bounds under the basket several times. Twenty turnovers on the night. Luckily, a real bad Clarion happened to be in town. These things could be lived with in early November. When they are still happening in late February, over and over ... a little alarming.

The PSAC West has masked many of these nights for IUP this year. They got by Mercyhurst while committing an ugly 25 turnovers. Clarion last night.

The lights are about to get a whole lot brighter -- and the competition a whole lot stiffer.

Malik Miller has really looked frazzled the past several games. Yes, he's a true freshman. But, they're going to need him down the stretch. He's in the rotation.

On the vast majority of nights since the Fairmont game (the 15 game winning streak), IUP has been its own biggest opponent (and enemy). The team hasn't been challenged much the past two months as evidenced by the slew of blowout victories. Hopefully, with Cal clinging to life, the Vulcans have a big (loud) crowd down there on Saturday. With the trip to West Virginia likely looming, this team could use the experience of playing in a hostile environment.

Maybe a game like last night was just a go-through-the-motions type of night. The scary thing heading in to March is that's it's been this same stuff all year. Lining up against Kutztown and Shippensburg or West Liberty and Fairmont State ... they aren't going to win by simply just having more talent. Twenty-some turnovers against those guys will get your uniforms turned in quickly.

If -- BIG IF -- they can finally clean up the sloppy stuff ... it could be a special March.

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IUP 74
Clarion 58

Final

Win No. 25 tonight tied the school record for most wins in regular season (1994 and 2010). A win at Cal Saturday would set a new school record.

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Very nice article from today's Indiana Gazette on seniors Brandon Spain and Devon Cottrell ...

https://www.indianagazette.com/news/...awks,25942822/

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Couple days old but a nice article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ...

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/c...s/201702170233

[Golden89]

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IUP has a 6-game lead in the West over Gannon (second place) with two games still to go. That has to be a West record if it holds up.

Well, Gannon has only one more opportunity to get a win. Or the way they are playing, help IUP extend its lead to 7.

Since crossover games only counted recently, the seven games is definitely a record. It's almost impossible to win by 7 games with the old 14 or 16 conference games.

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IUP has a 6-game lead in the West over Gannon (second place) with two games still to go. That has to be a West record if it holds up.

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IUP 67
Seton Hill 59

Final

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http://static.psacsports.org/customp...%20-%20Men.pdf

See 3.1.1. For three-way ties, the tie for the highest seed among the 3 or more teams will be done first, then revert to the start of the tiebreaker.

That still doesn't answer the question. Does the 2-0 team get the 2 seed from the head to head tie breaker? You could interpret it two ways by saying the 0-2 team is eliminated by the tie breaker. Therefore, record against cal breaks the next tie. Which could make iup cal game very important.

[Golden89]

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http://static.psacsports.org/customp...%20-%20Men.pdf

See 3.1.1. For three-way ties, the tie for the highest seed among the 3 or more teams will be done first, then revert to the start of the tiebreaker.

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That got tight there at the end for those only seeing the final score. Boro got it down to 5 points. Smith and Appleby hit two major treys. Big time shots.

Maura D'Anna exploded for 17 points off the bench on 8-9 shooting.

You're right ... very good performance.

How would a three way tie for second be determined. Iup is 2-0 against mercyhurst and 1-1 with boro. If Mercyhurst goes 1-1 with boro, would iup get the two seed. Or would Mercyhurst get the 4 and edinboro get the 2 because of a win against cal. I'm just not sure I'm interpreting the tie breaker correctly.

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Final

IUP 91
Edinboro 76

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Men

IUP 43
Boro 36
HALF

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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That got tight there at the end for those only seeing the final score. Boro got it down to 5 points. Smith and Appleby hit two major treys. Big time shots.

Maura D'Anna exploded for 17 points off the bench on 8-9 shooting.

You're right ... very good performance.

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Nice unselfish basketball.

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Women

IUP 79
Boro 61
Final