There are five teams with 8 road wins. W&M is one. The others are Vermont, San Diego State, Stephen F. Austin, and ....Hofstra. If Hofstra were to win this game then they would take the lead in road wins (or at least tie for the lead) ....on our home court!
Can't let that happen. Protect the Kap!!
Email just received:
Tribe fans,
Saturday is set to be a special day at Kaplan Arena! Due to an announcement on the court at halftime, the Person Room will be closed for the first 10 minutes of halftime. It will open with 5 minutes remaining on the clock in halftime and remain open into the second half.
We appreciate your support and look forward to having you join us this Saturday.
Go Tribe!
Does anyone know if the beer garden is going to be open before the game and how long before? Thinking of grabbing one before tip and heading to my seat.
(01-30-2020 11:43 PM)Zorch Wrote: [ -> ]There are five teams with 8 road wins. W&M is one. The others are Vermont, San Diego State, Stephen F. Austin, and ....Hofstra. If Hofstra were to win this game then they would take the lead in road wins (or at least tie for the lead) ....on our home court!
Can't let that happen. Protect the Kap!!
San Diego State is home, and Stephen F. Austin and Vermont are away. If Hofstra wins, there will be at most three teams leading with 9 away wins. Then Hofstra can't get more away wins while being home for two weeks. The CAA has six teams above .500 away and five teams with at least 5 away wins. Of the 343 teams not in the CAA, a majority are in conferences with no more than one team with at least 5 away wins.
As a Hofstra fan, should I expect to lose away after losing by 27 at home, or should I say that Hofstra has a better point differential in CAA games and is coming off a 23 point win at Elon where you won by 1? Knight and Van Vliet shot 14-18 at Hofstra and 7-23 last night. I hope they shoot the latter tomorrow.
https://static.caasports.com/custompages...m#team.ind has Hofstra's statistics. Hofstra leads the CAA in points per game and point differential per game, and that's while shooting field goals .0002 worse than their opponents. Hofstra is second in the CAA and 16th of 353 teams with a .774 free throw percentage, and they make 5.7 more free throws per game than their opponents. Hofstra leads the CAA in turnover differential, is second in steals per game, and is fourth in opponents' three-point field goal percentage where fourth is .005 worse than first. Hofstra's 15.0 fouls are significantly better than the NCAA average of 17.5, and Hofstra has only 1 foulout. Hofstra's weaknesses are being short as shown by not blocking shots (1.8 per game) and not using the bench much. The bench has 19.3 percent of Hofstra's minutes, 11.7 percent of Hofstra's points, and 15.1 percent of Hofstra's field goal attempts. Tareq Coburn's 10.7 points are 27th in the CAA, and that's the fewest among Hofstra's starters. He didn't score last night after scoring 24 last Saturday. Hofstra can win with one or two starters having bad games. Despite being short, Hofstra has three players with at least 5.4 rebounds and is +0.6 rebounds per game. Other than starting forward Isaac Kante and sub forward Kevin Schutte, neither of whom has attempted a three, you're unlikely to see any players who have under a third of their attempts be threes. Sixth man Omar Silverio has the highest percentage of attempts that are threes at 61.6 percent, which is lower than Scott, Ayesa, and Hermanovskis.
Hugely important game. Not just to keep the lead in the conference, but for tie breaker scenarios as the season carries on.
Hoping that the offense finds some rhythm. I love that we can win with defense, but I would prefer it if we didn’t have to do it too often.
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I’d like to see Knight assert himself in the first 10 minutes of this game. Too often, his first half seems to consist of a few outside shots and lots of passing around the perimeter. Then in the second half, he gets it down low and starts to dominate. Let’s do that from the start!
Need another Loewe shutdown of Buie.
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Hope Andy will step up to the level he played against Charleston. Another 8 shot blocks, please. He is capable of another level which only frees up Nate that much more. Go Tribe!
Both of our bigs destroyed Hofstra a month ago at their place. NK and AVV would have to get in foul trouble to keep this game close.
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(02-01-2020 09:58 AM)ColonelEbirt Wrote: [ -> ]I’d like to see Knight assert himself in the first 10 minutes of this game. Too often, his first half seems to consist of a few outside shots and lots of passing around the perimeter. Then in the second half, he gets it down low and starts to dominate. Let’s do that from the start!
Need another Loewe shutdown of Buie.
I agree with you about Knight but, frankly, I'd like to see
anyone on the team (the team itself!) assert themselves in the first ten minutes. We have had too many slow starts lately where the opponent jumps out to a 9-point lead before we even know what happened. It cost us losses against Drexel and Towson and almost cost us against Northeastern. Plus, there is really no excuse for it happening at home. I know there are set plays called after timeouts or for out-of-bounds plays (or game-winning plays with 6.7 seconds left) etc, so I don't know why we don't call some set plays to ensure that we score early and aren't in a cold spell to start the game. (If they already are calling such plays, then they were not effective in those games I mentioned).
(02-01-2020 10:28 AM)Tribal Wrote: [ -> ]Both of our bigs destroyed Hofstra a month ago at their place. NK and AVV would have to get in foul trouble to keep this game close.
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Agree we could blow out Hofstra but they are good so I expect a much closer game.
I'm not seeing Hofstra as a great team. Their three losses are to us, Delaware, and Charleston. They have two wins against teams in the conference above .500 (Towson and Drexel). The other five wins are over Elon (twice), Wilmington, JMU, and Northeastern. We can't let them in this game today.
Northeastern is 5-5 in the CAA, but leads the CAA in KenPom, and has a great point differential. Even if they're not the best or even in the top half, Northeastern shouldn't be lumped in with Elon, Wilmington, and JMU. Furthermore, teams will have more wins against teams with worse records because that's why the teams have worse records. Putting Northeastern in the good category and saying Hofstra has 3 wins over good teams and 4 wins over bad teams isn't imbalanced. After having played each team once, Hofstra had 3 wins in each category. Hofstra couldn't have beaten a good team twice because they haven't played a good team twice. Winning by 8 at Towson, losing by 2 at Charleston, and winning by 13 hosting Drexel are good factoring in the opponent and location. Losing to you by 27 and Delaware at home were bad, and only winning by 2 at UNCW looked bad at the time, but that was before they beat Northeastern and Charleston. Seeing how UNCW improved, I'd say that other than your head-to-head win, your two losses and win by 1 at Elon are in the worst four by either team along with Hofstra's loss hosting Delaware. You can say that winning and losing is all that matters, but if you're using everything possible to predict today's game, you have to agree that losing by 2 at Charleston is better than winning by 1 at Elon. Losing by 2 hosting Delaware is better than losing by 12 hosting Towson. Hofstra leads in point differential per game in all games and is third in CAA-only. They lead the CAA in points per game in all games and CAA-only. How can a team that ranks that well through this many games not be great? Hofstra doesn't shoot field goals great, but they lead the CAA in free throws made per game. Taking the five players with the most free throw attempts on each team, Hofstra's four guards are among the five highest percentages, with Hamilton being your only player shooting free throws better than any of them. Hofstra shoots and allows a .445 field goal percentage, and you shoot .050 better than your opponents. However, you attempt 83 fewer field goals than your opponents and 6 more free throws. Hofstra attempts 6 fewer field goals and 143 more free throws.
I expect you to win, but don't say it will be easy.
Today is definitely not going to be easy. I also don't want to play Northeastern after Murphy heals up and comes back. NE is not a bottom of the league team. Coen is a very good coach.
I'll be happy if Hofstra and NE are in the rear view mirror after today.
Crowd looks great on video. Hope it’s high energy at Kaplan!
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Shaky shooting to start (2-6). Andy has passed up two solid shots.
We can pick apart this defense. Get any shot we want. But again, our big guys start a combined 0-3. AVV doesn’t seem confident when he shoots. Gotta see a few go through. Then he’ll be fine.
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38% shooting early on isn't inspiring any great confidence. Need to get Miguel hot.
3 straight possessions with turnovers. Our best players need to step up and show some intensity. These slow first halves for Nate and Andy are getting old.
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5 TO's and 37% shooting is not a great combination. The Zone is bothering them so far.
Can't keep escaping teams playing subpar bball - need to fix it ASAP