The Big 5 College Basketball Thread

pjhawks

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Owls pulled out a nice win at St. Louis last night. Wyatt had an insane stretch of 3-pointers (he actually threw one in almost from half court after Dunph finally called a timeout ). And Moore iced the game with a monster last 3 minutes. Road wins are always tough, and this was SLU's first home loss of the season.

got to see most of the 2nd half after returning home from the hawks-fordham game (typical boring fordham game.) great win for Temple. 0-2 in league would have been tough start. wyatt is playing at an all-league level.

Johnny Abruzzo

pjhawks wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Owls pulled out a nice win at St. Louis last night. Wyatt had an insane stretch of 3-pointers (he actually threw one in almost from half court after Dunph finally called a timeout ). And Moore iced the game with a monster last 3 minutes. Road wins are always tough, and this was SLU's first home loss of the season.

got to see most of the 2nd half after returning home from the hawks-fordham game (typical boring fordham game.) great win for Temple. 0-2 in league would have been tough start. wyatt is playing at an all-league level.

Fordham is the team I usually give (along with St. Bonav) as why it sucks to play in the A-10. Nobody wants to pay $$$ to go see Fordham. My buddy has a coworker who went to St. Bonav and always comes to the games when they play at Temple, and is always talking about their losing streak at Temple which dates to the 30s or something. "The streak ends tonight!"

Ayedavanita

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Ayedavanita wrote:

Here's for our haters and our win tonight

Hey, va fancul and scram. You're 0-1 vs. the Big 5 this year, so shove it.

Shove what? Another WIN down the throat of Duke haters? Hahahahahaaa!!!

pjhawks

not a good weekend for the Big 5 A10 teams. all lost. hawks season turning to the downside. 2 weeks ago i thought we were on way to an at-large birth, now will be lucky to be in top half of A10. 2-2 in the league with at Xavier, non-leauge Penn saturday night, then Datyon, at Temple and at Richmond. Next 4 league games are absolutely best 2-2. not a good scenario.

JK_Livin

Tough loss for the Explorers at Dayton. They never had the lead. Down by as many as 12 in 2nd half but had a chance to tie the game with under 20 seconds left. So at least they fought back. Big game v. Temple on Wednesday.

pjhawks

big night for Philly A10 schools.

Hawks at Xavier. 5.5 to 6.5 point dogs tonight. Got a good feeling the Hawks hang but see them coming up short.

LaSalle at Temple as well. Big game for Temple as they sit at 1-2 in the league. Also see if LaSalle is a legitimate contender. Not sure how to feel about this one. can see it going either way. should be a hell of a game though.

Johnny Abruzzo

pjhawks wrote:

big night for Philly A10 schools.

Hawks at Xavier. 5.5 to 6.5 point dogs tonight. Got a good feeling the Hawks hang but see them coming up short.

LaSalle at Temple as well. Big game for Temple as they sit at 1-2 in the league. Also see if LaSalle is a legitimate contender. Not sure how to feel about this one. can see it going either way. should be a hell of a game though.

Yeah, big week for Temple with Lasalle tonight and Maryland on Saturday. Hey fraud police - I invited a friend who's coming up from DC on Sat to the Md game - and he's a Md grad.

JK_Livin

I want streamers back :!:

pjhawks

JK_Livin wrote:

I want streamers back :!:

yes those were awesome back in the day. they put a stop to it because it stopped the game...now we stop the game every 5 minutes to review elbows, the clock, wipe a miniscule speck of blood off a uniform, and have a 5-year old try and mop up sweat off the floor leading to a player or ref taking over because said 5-year has no idea what he is doing...but i digress

The Juggler

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

big night for Philly A10 schools.

Hawks at Xavier. 5.5 to 6.5 point dogs tonight. Got a good feeling the Hawks hang but see them coming up short.

LaSalle at Temple as well. Big game for Temple as they sit at 1-2 in the league. Also see if LaSalle is a legitimate contender. Not sure how to feel about this one. can see it going either way. should be a hell of a game though.

Yeah, big week for Temple with Lasalle tonight and Maryland on Saturday. Hey fraud police - I invited a friend who's coming up from DC on Sat to the Md game - and he's a Md grad.

...how's that fraudulent?

The Juggler

it's the jayvaughn pinkston coming out party on the main line tonight

bout time!

pjhawks

The Juggler wrote:

it's the jayvaughn pinkston coming out party on the main line tonight

bout time!

just don't lock him in a closet

hawks got beatdown in 2nd half at X but A10 leading scorer Tay Jones sat out with bad ankle. team is regressing. need to step it up. Penn saturday night at the Palestra then Dayton at home before at Temple so next 2 A10 games don't get any easier.

Johnny Abruzzo

Tough win over Lasalle. Probably the big difference was Temple hit their free throws and Lasalle was terrible on the line. Jefferson (wait - Hollis-Jefferson - forgot he got married) hit a big basket to put it away with about 30 seconds to go.

Every game is a struggle for this team...

JK_Livin

LaSalle needs to win some of these close games vs. good teams. The problem is our coach doesn't excel in close game situations.

Johnny Abruzzo

JK_Livin wrote:

LaSalle needs to win some of these close games vs. good teams. The problem is our coach doesn't excel in close game situations.

Also your big guys were fouling out or playing with 4. Explorers made a nice run though after being down 7 or 8 much of the 2nd half. Lasalle fans had a presence too. It was a good night, especially since it ended well.

Johnny Abruzzo

Cool weekend for Big 5.

Owls with a nice win over Maryland to sweep the ACC for the year. Fernandez found his shot again, and Eric came back, so maybe this team can make a run after all. A-10 is really tough this year.

Penn beat St. Joe's - didn't see it, but that's awesome.

Nova beat St. Johns. I saw St. Johns a couple years ago and they were a bunch of thugs, so I'm glad they lost.

pjhawks

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Cool weekend for Big 5.

Owls with a nice win over Maryland to sweep the ACC for the year. Fernandez found his shot again, and Eric came back, so maybe this team can make a run after all. A-10 is really tough this year.

Penn beat St. Joe's - didn't see it, but that's awesome.

Nova beat St. Johns. I saw St. Johns a couple years ago and they were a bunch of thugs, so I'm glad they lost.

Johnny, Hawks were flat out awful for 30 minutes against Penn. Down 23 in the 2nd half. Penn got any shot they wanted against Hawks for 1st 30 mintues. Hawks pressed and made a huge run and cut it to 4 with 4 minutes to go but never got it closer until the last seconds. I am stunned how this team has fallen apart. Tay Jones is battling an ankle injury but this is nowhere near the team they were in early December. No energy, awful defense, lousy offense. Just in a deep funk and i'm not sure they are coming out of it. what looked like a team that could make a run at an at-large birth 3 weeks ago has turned into a team that might be lucky to get even into the NIT. turning into a disaster of a season. good news is the next two are only Dayton at home wednesday and down to North Broad on saturday afternoon. the natives are getting restless with Martelli as well.

and that new scoreboard/replay board at the Palestra is awesome. reminds me of citizens bank park.

JK_Livin

A good night for 4 out of 5 teams. Nice win for St. Joes. My Explorers matched last year's win total and Ramon Galloway went off. Kudos to TU and Drexel as well.

Johnny Abruzzo

pjhawks wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Cool weekend for Big 5.

Owls with a nice win over Maryland to sweep the ACC for the year. Fernandez found his shot again, and Eric came back, so maybe this team can make a run after all. A-10 is really tough this year.

Penn beat St. Joe's - didn't see it, but that's awesome.

Nova beat St. Johns. I saw St. Johns a couple years ago and they were a bunch of thugs, so I'm glad they lost.

Johnny, Hawks were flat out awful for 30 minutes against Penn. Down 23 in the 2nd half. Penn got any shot they wanted against Hawks for 1st 30 mintues. Hawks pressed and made a huge run and cut it to 4 with 4 minutes to go but never got it closer until the last seconds. I am stunned how this team has fallen apart. Tay Jones is battling an ankle injury but this is nowhere near the team they were in early December. No energy, awful defense, lousy offense. Just in a deep funk and i'm not sure they are coming out of it. what looked like a team that could make a run at an at-large birth 3 weeks ago has turned into a team that might be lucky to get even into the NIT. turning into a disaster of a season. good news is the next two are only Dayton at home wednesday and down to North Broad on saturday afternoon. the natives are getting restless with Martelli as well.

and that new scoreboard/replay board at the Palestra is awesome. reminds me of citizens bank park.

The Hawks downfall has coincided with the story of Martelli not letting that guy play at UAB I think? :? Karma?

We are always bitching about the antiquated scoreboard at the Apollo. Looking forward to Saturday afternoon.

Owls with a blowout win at Charlotte last night - not too many of those this year. I think Eric had 9 boards, so that's a GREAT sign. If he stays healthy and regains his form this team could make a deep run.

The Juggler

JK_Livin wrote:

A good night for 4 out of 5 teams. Nice win for St. Joes. My Explorers matched last year's win total and Ramon Galloway went off. Kudos to TU and Drexel as well.

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