Iup basketball

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Joe's last trip to Erie he got blown out. IUP was whipped for 40 minutes in the PSAC Tournament's Round 2.

In fact, many say he intentionally had the score run up on him.

IUP is back to near-IUP levels. Joe's team is night and day better than a year ago.

It's probably safe to assume - regardless of the "next game" coach speak propaganda - this date has been circled for a long time.

Make no mistake, Joe's a road dog Saturday. The old 'Mill will be wound up. IUP continues to struggle with normal teams trap pressing them. Can they handle an expert-level press?

If you know that answer, you already know Saturday's outcome.

After that pounding a year ago, Joe said there would be other days ... and it wasn't going to be forgotten.

We'll find out Saturday.

[IUPalum]

Joe's last trip to Erie he got blown out. IUP was whipped for 40 minutes in the PSAC Tournament's Round 2.

In fact, many say he intentionally had the score run up on him.

IUP is back to near-IUP levels. Joe's team is night and day better than a year ago.

It's probably safe to assume - regardless of the "next game" coach speak propaganda - this date has been circled for a long time.

Make no mistake, Joe's a road dog Saturday. The old 'Mill will be wound up. IUP continues to struggle with normal teams trap pressing them. Can they handle an expert-level press?

If you know that answer, you already know Saturday's outcome.

After that pounding a year ago, Joe said there would be other days ... and it wasn't going to be forgotten.

We'll find out Saturday.

IUP gets bullied once again tomorrow!

The IUP bench hasn't proved they can play against average teams none the less the Big Dawg Gannon.

Ky is a very good PG but his lack of size will hinder him tomorrow just like last year.

How close this game is will depend a lot on the officiating crew. If you get the crews that let the players beat on each other then IUP is screwed. If they get a crew that calls the off ball clutching and grabbing then IUP can compete and maybe steal this game. IUP has talent but over all this team isn't tough! They better toughen up.

[Ship69]

IUP gets bullied once again tomorrow!

The IUP bench hasn't proved they can play against average teams none the less the Big Dawg Gannon.

Ky is a very good PG but his lack of size will hinder him tomorrow just like last year.

How close this game is will depend a lot on the officiating crew. If you get the crews that let the players beat on each other then IUP is screwed. If they get a crew that calls the off ball clutching and grabbing then IUP can compete and maybe steal this game. IUP has talent but over all this team isn't tough! They better toughen up.

If you get the crew Ship had up there, you might be in trouble. I think the Raiders had a total of 8 FT attempts that game.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

IUP gets bullied once again tomorrow!

The IUP bench hasn't proved they can play against average teams none the less the Big Dawg Gannon.

Ky is a very good PG but his lack of size will hinder him tomorrow just like last year.

How close this game is will depend a lot on the officiating crew. If you get the crews that let the players beat on each other then IUP is screwed. If they get a crew that calls the off ball clutching and grabbing then IUP can compete and maybe steal this game. IUP has talent but over all this team isn't tough! They better toughen up.

I'd set the line around Gannon -7.5 in the Men's game.

IUP just struggles in some areas you can't struggle against that system.

Hope I'm wrong but I think that's a pretty accurate betting line.

[IUPalum]

I'd set the line around Gannon -7.5 in the Men's game.

IUP just struggles in some areas you can't struggle against that system.

Hope I'm wrong but I think that's a pretty accurate betting line.

IUP can be top level skilled but to win this game you have to have a level of toughness to go with that skill. That's how you take out a bully.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

IUP can be top level skilled but to win this game you have to have a level of toughness to go with that skill. That's how you take out a bully.

My educated guess is Joe's inbound will be the same - custom-designed to 'get' trapped all day.

His own 1-2-2 press will be ineffective.

Now, they do have a player (redshirted) who has played two years in the trap system. Here's to praying he showed Joe how to better handle it.

His slow approach in the last 7 games (0-7) hasn't worked.

It won't today, either.

The crew is huge. The trapping team loves to grab, hold and hook. If they call all that stuff, IUP has a shot.

[Chuck Norris]

No score graphic or announcer. Good luck if you didn’t tune in at the very start. Or if you’re bad at math.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

No score graphic or announcer. Good luck if you didn’t tune in at the very start. Or if you’re bad at math.

Joe looks lost as usual against this system.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

This may get ugly

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Love a broadcast with no announcers, no score and awful camera work.

Really great to watch

[IUPbigINDIANS]

It took a half but the broadcast is fixed.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Good Lord


Unless Joe changes he'll get blown out every game against them until he retires.

This is just awful.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

There's no point in analyzing that debacle.

But, last year fans at least expected it.

Today was probably the most disappointing performance by an IUP team in at least 30 years.

A coach cannot talk about learning from it when the exact same thing happened 10 months ago. Nothing was learned from it.

Gannon was without a starter today, too.

IUP can't play them slow. That's now (8) straight losses against up-tempo teams. Just about all of them have come by double digits margins. The last two have been 30-ish burgers.

Today would have been worse had Gannon not called off the dogs the last 3-4 minutes.

IUP was beat and bullied under the basket today in a manner I've never seen. Check out the box score. Making matters worse, Bautista Rodriguez went down with what appeared to be a knee injury. It was wrapped after the game and he was hobbling pretty good while walking.

If something doesn't change, stylistically and strategically, we're just going to see this same movie - yet again - when they play in late February.

This is a dark day for the program. I sure hope the team bounces back.

[EyeoftheHawk]

IUP will have a good record at the end of the year, but will have no chance of pushing the top teams. They still don’t have an impactful inside presence and haven’t had one since Tomiwa Sulaiman was on campus. Ethan Porterfield was a scoring presence, but not the type of physical player I’m talking about. IUP also lacks quality depth. They don’t have the ingredients to make any type of meaningful run and it shows against good teams. I’ll let others offer commentary on the coaching.

[gman16506]

IUP will have a good record at the end of the year, but will have no chance of pushing the top teams. They still don’t have an impactful inside presence and haven’t had one since Tomiwa Sulaiman was on campus. Ethan Porterfield was a scoring presence, but not the type of physical player I’m talking about. IUP also lacks quality depth. They don’t have the ingredients to make any type of meaningful run and it shows against good teams. I’ll let others offer commentary on the coaching.

Good points! Gannon outrebounded IUP by 12 and it didn't seem that close. IUP didn't seem to have an answer for Idiaru who may be a bigger factor in Gannon's season than I ever thought. And a question to the IUP fan base.......does Merraro try to do too much himself against the press? Seems to me he attempts to go one-on-one too much against the trap-press and gets hung up by the double.