Up 74-72 around 6:22 left

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Down 78-77. under 4 to play.

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Hofstra looks good. I don’t think our defense has dropped as much as it looks. I think they have strong inside and outside game . At least today they do .


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Lost the game in the last 3 minutes of gzme.

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Dukes did not look poised after the last media timeout. In what was a one possession game most of the game, they crumbled at the end.
Wasted a great 3pt shooting day by the team and Morse’s best shooting day of the year.

Final 87-80

Dang 13-26 from the threes and still lose.

Complimented the team on rebounds this year, but got crushed on the boards today.

Turnovers…

Sloppy and careless turnovers. Missed a few easy layups that turned into points for Hofstra. Why foul with 6 seconds left on the shot clock.

I think our rust really showed with the focus and decision making at the end when we needed to close out.

Wish I could have heard the coach post game, but I guess no radio broadcast.

We still are working with a lot of new faces and Young kids from last year. I don’t think that ending today is indicative of what we will get the rest of this year. With past teams I didn’t have that optimism in close games. This team has shown the ability before the layoff.


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(01-09-2022 06:00 PM)Dukester Wrote:  Dang 13-26 from the threes and still lose.

Complimented the team on rebounds this year, but got crushed on the boards today.

Turnovers…

This is why I like my glue guy Edwards. I think we needed more of his defense today. The Hofstra offensive board / easy put-backs were frustrating to watch.


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If we had the CAA tourney it would be a different situation.

Home conference losses are painful.

(01-09-2022 06:11 PM)Halz87 Wrote:  

(01-09-2022 06:00 PM)Dukester Wrote:  Dang 13-26 from the threes and still lose.

Complimented the team on rebounds this year, but got crushed on the boards today.

Turnovers…

This is why I like my glue guy Edwards. I think we needed more of his defense today. The Hofstra offensive board / easy put-backs were frustrating to watch.


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I did not realize nacho was hurt. He’s a solid defender.

Some pretty inexcusable mistakes down the stretch, painful way to get the first AUBC(with fans) loss. And man, don't know why I didn't realize that was nacho and not one of the freshmen in the boot.

(01-09-2022 06:09 PM)Halz87 Wrote:  I think our rust really showed with the focus and decision making at the end when we needed to close out.

Wish I could have heard the coach post game, but I guess no radio broadcast.

We still are working with a lot of new faces and Young kids from last year. I don’t think that ending today is indicative of what we will get the rest of this year. With past teams I didn’t have that optimism in close games. This team has shown the ability before the layoff.


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I listened to the post-game on WSVA while I was waiting for the traffic to clear from the parking deck. He said the fatigue actually showed up right at the beginning of the game and the team could not get over it. His biggest concern was the large number of turnovers.

It was a pretty interesting game. I had planned to only stay until half-time after the women's game but I stayed until the end. Back and forth game until JMU ran out of gas at the end.

#35 the skinny 6'10" center was exactly what I/we hoped Mensah would be at JMU

He is not dominate and is hardly noticeable while he stuffs the stat sheet while he killed us with 15 points and 15 rebounds (I think I heard this on the radio on the way out)

He must have had at least 6 assists too

It definitely didn't help that the team hadn't played a game for close to a month. Especially with a team this young and Coach By still building this program up, it was hard to be their best.
Despite that, I felt like they did well against one of the top teams in the CAA.
Absolutely hurts our postseason chances, but shouldn't be a "bad loss".
Still a lot of time left and I definitely expect this team to get much better.

The online audio situation is frustrating. I tried to tune in to the second half, but as was mentioned all the links weren't carrying the feed. I was optimistic that we seemed to have executed the contract for The Varsity Network App as the WBB online audio was streaming there earlier in the day, but an hour later the Men's game wasn't available on it. I'll ask Curt what the deal is.

I'm not buying the video from Flo (I can't watch the full games anyway), so when I get a few minutes to be able to try to tune in, if I can't get the published audio links to work then I'm not spending more time trying to find it. Can't wait to be on the ESPN platform when this won't be a problem anymore.

(01-10-2022 09:29 AM)JMad03 Wrote:  It definitely didn't help that the team hadn't played a game for close to a month. Especially with a team this young and Coach By still building this program up, it was hard to be their best.
Despite that, I felt like they did well against one of the top teams in the CAA.
Absolutely hurts our postseason chances, but shouldn't be a "bad loss".
Still a lot of time left and I definitely expect this team to get much better.

Not sure being young can be an excuse here. It was Molson who was making many of the errors towards the end of the game.

Hofstra is a good team, but what really bothered me was the lack of poise from our team in last few minutes. Team was out of control and was just rushing everything which I thought was disappointing.

(01-10-2022 09:29 AM)JMad03 Wrote:  It definitely didn't help that the team hadn't played a game for close to a month. Especially with a team this young and Coach By still building this program up, it was hard to be their best.
Despite that, I felt like they did well against one of the top teams in the CAA.
Absolutely hurts our postseason chances, but shouldn't be a "bad loss".
Still a lot of time left and I definitely expect this team to get much better.

I don't see this team as being young given the level of experience in the rotation:

Falden - 5th year
Molson - 5th year
Morse - 4th year
Hodge - 4th year
Sule - 4th year
Wooden - 3rd year
Amadi, Strickland, Edwards, Ihenacho - 2nd year
Savage, Stinson and McConnell - 1st year and expected to be redshirted

They haven't played together that long is what I think you might mean. Credit Hofstra's Speedy Claxton who seems to have done an outstanding job in his first year there as HC, although he was an assistant for many years. They have an established style that works well for their players and the all the pieces seem to fit.

JMU is largely a scrappy, defensive team that likes to play with pace and energy and is still finding its way offensively (although they shot well yesterday until the last three minutes or so). JMU could not stop shots at the basket yesterday and its lack of size continues to show up. I thought both teams look tired at the end of yesterday's game. Losing Ihenacho for any extended stretch is going to hurt, as he seems to do a nice job in running the team.

JMU has a solid record this year, but they seem to be overmatched in the talent department when they lose (see Florida tournament as an example). The fact that there's no CAA tournament at the end of the rainbow to compete for an NCAA berth is putting a lot of undue pressure perhaps on the results, at least from the fans' perspective. Given the team's analytical rating, an NIT or NCAA berth isn't in the cards this year, most likely. That was part of the price of transitioning to FBS football, of course.

As an aside on Hofstra, how did they lose to a terrible W&M team after nearly beating Houston on the road and beating Arkansas?

(01-10-2022 10:58 AM)Dukes84 Wrote:  

(01-10-2022 09:29 AM)JMad03 Wrote:  It definitely didn't help that the team hadn't played a game for close to a month. Especially with a team this young and Coach By still building this program up, it was hard to be their best.
Despite that, I felt like they did well against one of the top teams in the CAA.
Absolutely hurts our postseason chances, but shouldn't be a "bad loss".
Still a lot of time left and I definitely expect this team to get much better.

I don't see this team as being young given the level of experience in the rotation:

Falden - 5th year
Molson - 5th year
Morse - 4th year
Hodge - 4th year
Sule - 4th year
Wooden - 3rd year
Amadi, Strickland, Edwards, Ihenacho - 2nd year
Savage, Stinson and McConnell - 1st year and expected to be redshirted

They haven't played together that long is what I think you might mean. Credit Hofstra's Speedy Claxton who seems to have done an outstanding job in his first year there as HC, although he was an assistant for many years. They have an established style that works well for their players and the all the pieces seem to fit.

JMU is largely a scrappy, defensive team that likes to play with pace and energy and is still finding its way offensively (although they shot well yesterday until the last three minutes or so). JMU could not stop shots at the basket yesterday and its lack of size continues to show up. I thought both teams look tired at the end of yesterday's game. Losing Ihenacho for any extended stretch is going to hurt, as he seems to do a nice job in running the team.

JMU has a solid record this year, but they seem to be overmatched in the talent department when they lose (see Florida tournament as an example). The fact that there's no CAA tournament at the end of the rainbow to compete for an NCAA berth is putting a lot of undue pressure perhaps on the results, at least from the fans' perspective. Given the team's analytical rating, an NIT or NCAA berth isn't in the cards this year, most likely. That was part of the price of transitioning to FBS football, of course.

As an aside on Hofstra, how did they lose to a terrible W&M team after nearly beating Houston on the road and beating Arkansas?

Hard to win against anyone when you shoot 4-38 or something from 3 like they did against the Tribe. We would have won by 20 if they did that against us, but unfortunately they did not. Yesterday's game was very similar to last years games, but this time HU came out on top.

Talent level is fine. You don’t win games when you turn the ball over 19 times. Turnovers may have been an issue due to the month between games, but that’s just an excuse.