Iup basketball

[Ship69]

The team is very resilient for sure. Where ever they end up at the end of the season, they will have made it by being so tough, both mentally and physically. Some good luck, and they might get pretty far. I'm still a bit disappointed for what might have been with healthy Shawndale and Demo, but the current team is pretty good. But luck hsn't been an IUP thing much the last few years.

I think multiple teams in the PSAC are wondering what might have been this season. Certainly IUP probably had biggest loss with Jones, a genuine Player of the Year candidate.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

The team is very resilient for sure. Where ever they end up at the end of the season, they will have made it by being so tough, both mentally and physically. Some good luck, and they might get pretty far. I'm still a bit disappointed for what might have been with healthy Shawndale and Demo, but the current team is pretty good. But luck hsn't been an IUP thing much the last few years.

That was the second time they got down big on the road and came back to win. They were down 18 at Cal and 14 or 16 yesterday.

At Cal, they cut the lead in half by the break and yesterday actually took a 1 point lead at the intermission.

I remember thinking yesterday they just had to survive the blitz because nobody can stay that hot for that long.

But, yesterday is over. A very tough week is looming ... SRU, Cal and a Saturday trip to Gannon.

Whatever version of that spaced-out Gannon team we saw get hammered at the KCAC won't be the same team they see up there this weekend.

And, yes, they need Demo back ASAP. Even 8 mpg will help.

Radford returned yesterday but didn't play.

[Scrub]

Odd it happens every trip there. Literally. Even more odd it happens on a big IUP run. Yearly.

I said before the game you are playing a hyped up team, a hyped up crowd and the scorers' table. They tried.

At first, I kept thinking that your commentary about the scorer's table might have been slightly exaggerated. What self-respecting college scorer's table doesn't do the job professionally, right? But I saw a prime example in the WLU women's game yesterday in fact. At one point, a WLU player was fouled, and the announcing crew correctly indicated that the foul put WLU in the bonus (which is an automatic two shots in the women's game). But the referees didn't realize the foul count and gave WLU the ball out of bounds (shame on whomever was holding the clipboard on the WLU bench for not noticing either, to be fair). The ball was inbounded and tipped right back out of bounds. Only then did the scorer's table signal to the referees that WLU was in the bonus, but the referees determined that since a play had taken place in the intervening moments, it was not possible to go back and shoot the free throws.

I've worked the scorer's table at my kid's middle school games. There's no way you don't know the foul count at the scorer's table. That's one of the things we're constantly checking at the dang middle school scorer's table--how does a college scorer not know. WLU got some poetic justice, though, when a really suspect foul call with 1 second on the clock sent a WLU player to the line for two free throws--she canned them both and WLU won by 1 point. The two free throws the scorer's table denied them ended up being the difference in the end when the refs made a terrible end-of-game call. Poetic justice indeed. But I don't think I've ever seen a situation where the scorer's table actively denied a visiting team a shot at 2 points.

Maybe you're not exaggerating after all about having to battle the scorers as well as The Rock when you head to Morrow!

[ironmaniup]

The team is very resilient for sure. Where ever they end up at the end of the season, they will have made it by being so tough, both mentally and physically. Some good luck, and they might get pretty far. I'm still a bit disappointed for what might have been with healthy Shawndale and Demo, but the current team is pretty good. But luck hsn't been an IUP thing much the last few years.

[EyeoftheHawk]

IUP gave up 15 treys today. That doesn't happen often. That needs fixed before Monday.

Of course, not sure SRU hits 15 of 36 on the road.


Talk about rising up ... that same Rock team lost at Clarion 72 hours ago.

[hawks16]

Armoni plays the game like everyone else is in slow motion. His body control is impressive on those hard drives. Kudos to those IUP football players sitting in the enemy student section. I enjoyed that at one point, an SRU assistant (or injured player) yelled over to someone to get the crowd hyped...it didn't work.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

F**k Slimey Pebble!!!

Lol

[IUPNation]

F**k Slimey Pebble!!!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

How many Slippery Rock people does it take to get the clock right?

That 'glitch' bailed them out. IUP was about to pull away. They were up 7-8 points when that mysteriously malfunctioned. And, SRU was sucking major wind. IUP was the much better physically conditioned team. That turned in to a 5 minute timeout.

SRU caught its breath and regrouped. They were a boxer saved by the bell.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Watched most of the second half of the IUP-Rock game. That turned out to be competitive and mostly fun to watch. The ESU-Millersville game was something of a disappointment.

The ending was almost identical to a game up there 3-4 years ago. That night it was Anthony Glover hitting the trey in the final seconds (just from the other wing).

Watching Armoni and Frankie Hughes battle all day was incredible.

I was impressed with SRU. They battled and hit massive shots all day..

I know they haven't looked like that consistently all year.. But, they were on today.

[Ship69]

Watched most of the second half of the IUP-Rock game. That turned out to be competitive and mostly fun to watch. The ESU-Millersville game was something of a disappointment.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

IUP gave up 15 treys today. That doesn't happen often. That needs fixed before Monday.

Of course, not sure SRU hits 15 of 36 on the road.


Talk about rising up ... that same Rock team lost at Clarion 72 hours ago.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

How many Slippery Rock people does it take to get the clock right?

Odd it happens every trip there. Literally. Even more odd it happens on a big IUP run. Yearly.

I said before the game you are playing a hyped up team, a hyped up crowd and the scorers' table. They tried.

[hawks16]

How many Slippery Rock people does it take to get the clock right?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Sulaiman is nearing going all Ron Artest from the Malice at the Palace. Gotta get him to relax a bit and zone out the chatter.