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Thursday News:

January 24, 2008 at 10:00 am
Filed under Basketball, Denver, Northwestern, Princeton, Today's News

Michigan State vs. Northwestern - 9:00 pm ET - ESPN2
Denver vs. Florida Atlantic - 7:30 pm ET

Northwestern hosts #10 Michigan State this evening.

USA Today has a piece on Wildcat Kevin Coble and his mother.

Bill Carmody looks to the future.

Denver is searching for that elusive road win at Florida Atlantic.

Craig Robinson's success at Brown is profiled in the New York Times.

Around the Ivy League: Dartmouth (8-8) concluded non-conference play with a decisive 86-62 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore. Fran Dunphy picked up his first win over his former team as Temple dusted off Penn (5-12) 80-64 in Big Five play.

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Stephen Schreiber said,

January 24, 2008 @ 10:18 am

The New York Times sports section today has a nice article about Brown and Craig.

Jon Solomon said,

January 24, 2008 @ 10:31 am

Stephen,

I've added the link. Thank you.

Huge gaffe in the piece worth pointing out.

The Cornell player that is the focus of the final paragraph quit the team five+ days ago!

Jon

steve silverman said,

January 24, 2008 @ 12:18 pm

Penn's loss last night gives it 12 for the season, the same number as Princeton. Though Penn has won more games (5 compared to PU's 2), the Quaker's strength of schedule is rated far worse than Princeton's by the RPI. Thus, as bad as Princeton's year has been, this appears to be a nearly equally bad year for Penn. Just look at some of their losses: Howard by 15, Florida Gulf Coast by 30, and Loyola, MD by 21. I haven't heard any commentary about this. What's going on within that program? I understand that every program needs to rebuild from time to time, but it's probably been decades since the Quakers have had a year like this. I guess misery loves company. Also, as bad as our year has been, we might be able to at least score a victory (or two!) against Penn this year. --Steve

Jon Solomon said,

January 24, 2008 @ 12:38 pm

Penn graduated three important seniors and has had some key injuries this year to players that were expected to make contributions.

Throw in the fact that they can't shoot (#332 in the nation in three point %), turn the ball over in bunches (#311 here) and have allowed opponents lots of open looks from the perimeter (#321 in opponent's three point %) and it isn't pretty.

There's also similar to Princeton in many of these categories (though the Tigers defend the arc better and defend the interior far worse).

Check out some of these numbers:
http://www.kenpom.com/sr.php?team=Pennsylvania&y=2008

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