Iup basketball

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Since the start of last year, IUP is 48-5.

Three of those five losses are to Mercyhurst.

[IUPalum]

Incredibly glad I donate to a fully-funded program which routinely has a 6-man rotation by Feb. 1 of just about every season -- which, of course, includes walk-ons. It's ironic it's Groundhog's Day weekend. That's Joe Lombardi's program. Every year is the same. But, at least we have those redshirts ready for the future. Or, at least until they transfer this off-season.

INCREDIBLE effort by the PLAYERS today in the second half. It's not easy to be forced to play IRONMAN basketball. It's not easy to have guards play power forward. It was a great comeback. I'm sure Ousmane Diop enjoyed it from back in Indiana. Shawn Ulrich never took his warm-up jersey off. Dylan Benton played a career-high in minutes. And, of course, IUP couldn't buy a rebound for its life. But, at least we have those redshirts for the future. We don't need them right now. We didn't need them when Tommy Demo went down. Nor when Chucky went town.

IUPAlum said he's seen this movie before. I have, too. The ending sucks. It's always the same.

Chucky Humphries' left hand can't heal fast enough. A season depends on it. There is not help on the way -- even if it is available.


IUP got bailed out today. Gannon and ESU knocked off UPJ and Shippensburg. It takes some of the sting away. Some.

Lombardi kept his 6-man rotation in a press for the entire second half. It produced one turnover -- and wore the crap out of his own team.

Enjoy your dinner tonight, Gary. You earned it today.

I'm going to battle you on the press thing. The 1-2-2 press has more than one purpose. Joe wasn't using it to create turnovers today. If they did then good but that wasn't the purpose. The purpose today was to speed the game up a bit and take Hurst out of their half court offense. Gary loves calling a ton a plays out but the second half he couldn't due to IUP pressing. The other thing, IUP should've got 2 separate 5 second calls when they went man press on the in bounds but the refs had their heads up their butts. I thought Carlo and Baldy were god awful today. They bailed Hurst out on quite a few occasions. It still doesn't take away the fact Joe played Hurst tempo the first half and put them in a hole.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Incredibly glad I donate to a fully-funded program which routinely has a 6-man rotation by Feb. 1 of just about every season -- which, of course, includes walk-ons. It's ironic it's Groundhog's Day weekend. That's Joe Lombardi's program. Every year is the same. But, at least we have those redshirts ready for the future. Or, at least until they transfer this off-season.

INCREDIBLE effort by the PLAYERS today in the second half. It's not easy to be forced to play IRONMAN basketball. It's not easy to have guards play power forward. It was a great comeback. I'm sure Ousmane Diop enjoyed it from back in Indiana. Shawn Ulrich never took his warm-up jersey off. Dylan Benton played a career-high in minutes. And, of course, IUP couldn't buy a rebound for its life. But, at least we have those redshirts for the future. We don't need them right now. We didn't need them when Tommy Demo went down. Nor when Chucky went town.

IUPAlum said he's seen this movie before. I have, too. The ending sucks. It's always the same.

Chucky Humphries' left hand can't heal fast enough. A season depends on it. There is not help on the way -- even if it is available.


IUP got bailed out today. Gannon and ESU knocked off UPJ and Shippensburg. It takes some of the sting away. Some.

Lombardi kept his 6-man rotation in a press for the entire second half. It produced one turnover -- and wore the crap out of his own team.

Enjoy your dinner tonight, Gary. You earned it today.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

I think we must have been saving those timeouts for something. Maybe next year? Lol. Joe stunk as bad as the team.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

What an embarrassing effort from IUP.


Joe's going to get blown out of the building.


Pathetic effort.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

These next two games lacking Chucky are going to be tough! Mercyhurst looks like they are starting to gel and hopefully Joe speeds up the physical Rock team. They get past those two and then it's pretty favorable up till the UPJ game.

Gary Manchel's teams are always tougher the second time. Like him or not, he is a very good X'S and O's coach and his teams are always exceptionally well prepared. I'm interested to see what adjustments he makes. Luckily, there's only so much you can adjust against Joe's guards. Based on IUP's limitations right now -- and the fact he's obviously seen the Clarion game film -- I'd assume they go right after Ethan Porterfield. If they get him him foul trouble early it will be a very tough game for IUP. Chucky really stole the show in the first Mercyhurst game with 3 steals, 3 blocks, 7 points and 11 boards. He will certainly be missed.

They are going to need a solid game out of Shawn Ulrich tomorrow. Ideally, Ethan stays clean and Ulrich will get 10-12 minutes. Those need to be productive minutes. He's talented ... just needs to put it all together -- play physical, grab boards and cash in on what comes to him. If you get in to a Clarion situation and Ulrich and Dylan Benton have to play big minutes tomorrow ... it could be a tough one.


If I was Joe I might even throw a few curveballs at Mercyhurst, lineup-wise. IUP won the first meeting 71-56 despite missing 11 FTs. They've been red hot at the line as of late. I fully suspect this will still be a game with 2-3 minutes to go.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Here's the image from the IUP Athletics story on the game. Either its an old pic or as you say taken from late in the game when the seats emptied.

Oh yeah ... that was DEFINITELY near the end. IUP electronically scans every ticket as you enter.

Yet another advantage of having more redshirts and injured players than bench players ... you get to have your superstar still in a meaningless game while up 30-some with 4 minutes to play. I get so nervous when they have to leave those guys in during garbage time.

[Fightingscot82]

Here's the image from the IUP Athletics story on the game. Either its an old pic or as you say taken from late in the game when the seats emptied.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Has anyone heard for sure that Chucky will be out for the SRU game next saturday ?

He will be evaluated next week. I'll be shocked if he doesn't play against SRU.

[ironmaniup]

These next two games lacking Chucky are going to be tough! Mercyhurst looks like they are starting to gel and hopefully Joe speeds up the physical Rock team. They get past those two and then it's pretty favorable up till the UPJ game.

Has anyone heard for sure that Chucky will be out for the SRU game next saturday ?

[IUPalum]

These next two games lacking Chucky are going to be tough! Mercyhurst looks like they are starting to gel and hopefully Joe speeds up the physical Rock team. They get past those two and then it's pretty favorable up till the UPJ game.

[Golden89]

I'm not sure how it wouldn't. By the way you explain it at least. You are theoretically always going to be putting 2 teams back on the road to play a game. What if the 1 and 2 seeds aren't close? IUP, Ship, and WLU are all in the mix to potentially host. All are fairly close.

What if, hypothetically, Gannon was the top seed in the men's and women's bracket and hosted. For a lack of confusion, we'll only run with the men's side and say that Fayetteville State was the 2 seed... 2-7 and 3-6 go to North Carolina while 1-8 and 4-5 go to Erie. You put 6 teams on the road to begin with. So that's 6 instead of 7 teams traveling. I can get with that. But then, let's say that the fourth seed, East Stroudsburg, comes out of the 2nd round and has to play Gannon in the regional final. I'm not sure how travel costs were reduced in that scenario.

East Stroud, a team from northeast PA, would drive to North Carolina for two games. After that, they would then spend another full day on a bus driving to the northwest corner of the state. That makes absolutely zero sense to me.

You did yeoman's work during football season evaluating travel items as it pertains to mileage, flights, etc. I'm not concerned about that. I'm looking at it from the standpoint of efficiencies of travel. The travel plan that I just laid out should never have to happen. This opens the door for that to happen. I just don't agree.

If a university has the infrastructure, facilities, and accommodations to host both, they should host both. I don't know how everything gets split financially, but I feel like that impacts the amount of revenue a school could generate from the event.

Speaking of split regionals, the 2010 women's regional was split for some reason (prescribed at start of the year, not Gannon's choice). Top seeded Gannon hosted the 1-8/4-5 games and second-seeded Cal hosted 2-7/3-6 with the top remaining seed hosting the final. Third-seeded Millersville upset Cal, but Gannon beat fourth-seeded Seton Hill. If SH upset Gannon, both Millersville & Gannon (along with game & NCAA officials) would have to hightail it to the other end of the state and Millersville would have to prepare the facilities and assemble a game staff to host an NCAA regional final on less than 48 hours notice. The split hosting was never done since.

[IUP24]

I'm excited to head back next weekend for the SRU game. I'm hoping for a big number.

[EyeoftheHawk]

I was at the game. I wouldn't have guessed the 3,012 but it was pretty full. I'd have guessed 2,500 to 2,700 for sure. What can be deceiving is most of the crowd sits across from the teams and in the horseshoe curve. The students all get crammed in across from the IUP bench. The side which appears in most photos is the benches side which is almost always the less populated side (kind of the unoffical senior citizen side).

The ladies also had a big crowd last night. It emptied out with about 10-11 minutes left in the men's game as it was well over. So, if they were late game photos then it would have looked much lighter.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Photos IUP posted from the last game sure as heck don't look like 3,000. Was anybody there and can confirm? Maybe its an old pic.

I was at the game. I wouldn't have guessed the 3,012 but it was pretty full. I'd have guessed 2,500 to 2,700 for sure. What can be deceiving is most of the crowd sits across from the teams and in the horseshoe curve. The students all get crammed in across from the IUP bench. The side which appears in most photos is the benches side which is almost always the less populated side (kind of the unoffical senior citizen side).

The ladies also had a big crowd last night. It emptied out with about 10-11 minutes left in the men's game as it was well over. So, if they were late game photos then it would have looked much lighter.